COI metabarcoding of soil arthropod communities across land-use types in Switzerland
This study characterizes soil arthropod communities collected across long-term monitoring sites, representing arable land, permanent grassland, and forest ecosystems. Soil arthropods were extracted from intact soil cores using MacFadyen extractors and analysed using COI-based DNA metabarcoding. The dataset provides a comprehensive resource to investigate soil arthropod diversity and community composition across contrasting land-use types and environmental conditions in Switzerland, and enables the exploration of cryptic and previously unrecognized diversity within soil arthropod communities.
This study characterizes soil arthropod communities collected across long-term monitoring sites, representing arable land, permanent grassland, and forest ecosystems. Soil arthropods were extracted from intact soil cores using MacFadyen extractors and analysed using COI-based DNA metabarcoding. The dataset provides a comprehensive resource to investigate soil arthropod diversity and community composition across contrasting land-use types and environmental conditions in Switzerland, and enables the exploration of cryptic and previously unrecognized diversity within soil arthropod communities.