Toward a global platform for linking soil biodiversity data

1 Terrestrial Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, Netherlands, 2 German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 3 Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 Institute of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, 5 Joint Research Center—EU, Ispra, Italy, 6 The Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA, 7 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, 8 Department of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Halle/Salle, Germany, 9 Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada, 10 Plant Ecology, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 11 Berlin-Brandenburg Institute of Advanced Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany, 12 Senckenberg Museum of Natural History, Görlitz, Germany, 13 J.F. Blumenbach Institute for Zoology and Anthropology, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany, 14 Agriculture and Agri-food Canada, Eastern Corn and Oilseed Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada, 15 Faculty of Life Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK, 16 Laboratory of Nematology, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, 17 School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA