Biological and Ecological functional Traits of Soil Invertebrates to link species assemblages to enviroment factors.
Informations
- Funding country
France- Acronym
- BETSI
- URL
- -
- Start date
- 2/1/2011
- End date
- 5/1/2014
- Budget
- -
Fundings
| Name | Role | Start | End | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FRB - CEntre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité (CESAB) - Appel à projects 2010 | Grant | - | - | - |
Abstract
Functional traits of organisms are central to understanding their biological and ecological requirement in the environments in which they live. Soil invertebrates strongly involved in soil functioning and thus the provision of ecosystem services. The BETSI project aims at synthesizing and organizing information on biological and ecological functional traits of soil invertebrates. The originality of this project lies in the creation of a consortium of partners covering a wide spectrum of organisms from soil macro- and mesofauna and thus a wide spectrum of biological strategies. The approach will be (i) to define the ontology of the studied traits, (ii) to collect information and organize them into a multi-trait multi-species database, (iii) to harmonize their encoding format to facilitate statistical data analyses. The database obtained will allow to understand the basic biology and ecological response of soil invertebrates in different environmental filters acting on several scales. The existence of such a database is a prerequisite to developments of (i) concepts related to community assembly and (ii) specific biomonitoring tools for 'soil' systems.