Spotlight on the unseen majority – the way to open community-driven publishing for global soil biodiversity

Abstract: Soil biodiversity does not only represent a major share of the total Earth’s biodiversity, but has also major importance for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. This realization has triggered an unprecedented scientific, public, and political interest in the distribution, drivers, trends, and conservation measures of soil biodiversity. Here, we outline the role of the journal Soil Organisms in this rapidly developing field and our planned approaches to address the most pressing scientific and societal issues related to soil biodiversity. In the last couple of years, Soil Organisms has played a pioneering role in the movement to mobilize soil biodiversity and function data, with the goal to become the hub for unbiased soil biodiversity knowledge publishing. We plan to follow this successful route and introduce new approaches, such as requiring authors to share their raw data and statistical code along with the results to ensure reproducibility, we will accept submissions of m.... https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/358

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Spotlight on the unseen majority – the way to open community-driven publishing for global soil biodiversity ; volume:95 ; number:3 ; year:2023 ; Soil organisms ; 95, Heft 3 (2023)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Eisenhauer, Nico ; Xylander, Willi E. R. ; Potapov, Anton

Further information

• DOI: 10.25674/so95iss3id358
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023120121130759009816
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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