Putting soil invertebrate diversity on the map

Ecologists have had a very good foundational knowledge of the global distribution of plants and aboveground animals for many decades. But despite the immense diversity of soil organisms, our knowledge of the global distribution, drivers and threats to soil biodiversity is very limited. In this issue of Molecular Ecology , Bastida et al. (2020) produce the first global maps of soil invertebrate diversity that have been sampled at 83 locations,...