Repository details
Edaphobase
Name of repository
Edaphobase
Repository URL
Subject(s)
Description
Edaphobase is a non-commercial data infrastructure developed and hosted by the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz in Germany, combining data from heterogeneous sources on soil animals, their distribution and habitat parameters of their sites of occurrence and making this data available to the public in open access.
Edaphobase currently includes data on Nematoda, Collembola, Oribatida, Gamasina, Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Isopoda, Enchytraeidae, and Lumbricidae. Edaphobase lives from the cooperation with numerous soil zoologists who upload their data to the database and thus make them available for overarching analyses and insight. The database currently focusses on Europe-wide soil-biodiversity data, but includes data from around the globe.
Edaphobase is strongly geared towards common data re-use and provision of data and online analysis tools. It follows the FAIR principles and can offer DOIs for submitted data sets. The data warehouse is publically available (open access) via a web-based browser portal, the Edaphobase data-query portal.
All data (provided it is not anonymized or in an embargo period) can be queried and collated via multiple filters and be downloaded by registered users. Simple queries are possible as well as more sophisticated analyses of different data groups. Specific applications include, e.g., mapping taxa’s distributions, the elucidation of species-specific habitat preferences (niche space), or environmental correlations with population densities.
Edaphobase is a data provider to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
Contact(s)
- administrative: info@edaphobase.org
- support: developers@edaphobase.org
Keyword(s)
Repository size
500.000 data records
Repository type(s)
- disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
Research data repository language(s)
- English
- German
Data and/or service provider
- dataProvider
Institutions (1)
Additional name(s)
- Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung
Country
Type(s) of responsibility
- funding
- general
- technical
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
2009-11-01
Funding (2)
Funder name
BMBF
CrossrefFunderID
501100002347
Grant
01LI0901A
Grant
01LI1301A
Funder name
EU-COST
CrossrefFunderID
501100000921
Grant
CA18237
Policies (1)
Policy Name
Database access
Type of access to research data repository
open
Database licenses (1)
Database License
Data access (1)
Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
- registration
Data licenses (1)
DataLicense
Data upload (1)
Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
- registration
Data upload license (1)
Data upload license name
Persistent identifier system(s)
- DOI
Name of the repository software
- other
Versioning
no
Data citation guideline
Author identifier system(s)
- ORCID
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes
Application programming interfaces (1)
Metadata standards (3)
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Metadata standard
Remarks
Remarks
PIDs are optional
Entry date
2025-11-28
Last update
2025-11-30
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