Earthworms are one of the most important components of temperate ecosystems and groups of soil animals globally, but data on their distribution around the world are still incomplete and uneven. Northern Eurasia is a region for which available data on earthworm distribution is extremely poor. At the same time, generations of Soviet and Russian researchers have performed extensive research and accumulated a large amount of data on the distribution of earthworms in this vast region. Most of this information was published in Russian, not digitised and, therefore, hardly accessible to researchers. Our dataset fills this gap and provides occurrence data extracted from 159 literature sources in Russian published between 1868 and 2022. The dataset contains 5,304 occurrences of 109 species and 14 subspecies. The collected data cover the territory of 27 countries. The dataset extends the data available through GBIF.org on earthworm distribution in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. For Transcaucasia and Central Asia countries, our resource has become the main GBIF source on earthworm diversity distribution. On a global scale, our dataset contributes to filling gaps in biodiversity, which facilitates more accurate estimates of the response of biodiversity to global climate change as well as the spreading of invasive species.

Maxim Shashkov

Natalya Ivanova

Sergey Ermolov

Biodiversity Data Journal

BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL (BDJ) 是一个社区同行评审、开放获取的综合在线平台，旨在加速任何类型的生物多样性相关数据的发布、传播和共享。文章的所有结构元素——文本、形态描述、事件、数据表等——将根据 PENSOFT PUBLISHERS 的数据发布政策和指南作为 DATA 处理和存储。该期刊将发表生物多样性科学论文，其中包含来自世界任何地方的任何地质时代的任何分类单元的分类学、植物区系/动物学、形态学、基因组学、系统发育学、生态学或环境数据，手稿大小没有上限或下限。

The Biodiversity Data Journal (BDJ) is a community-driven, peer-reviewed, open-access online platform designed to accelerate the publication, dissemination, and sharing of all types of biodiversity-related data. All structural elements of the articles—such as text, morphological descriptions, events, and data tables—will be processed and stored according to the data publication policies and guidelines of PENSOFT PUBLISHERS. This journal will publish papers in the field of biodiversity science, encompassing taxonomic, floristic/faunistic, morphological, genomic, phylogenetic, ecological, or environmental data from any taxonomic unit across the globe and from any geological era, with no restrictions on manuscript length.

《Biodiversity Data Journal》（BDJ）是一个社区同行评审、开放获取的在线平台，旨在加速各类生物多样性相关数据的发布、传播和共享。期刊中的所有结构元素，包括文本、形态描述、事件、数据表等，均将根据PENSOFT PUBLISHERS的数据发布政策和指南进行处理和存储。该期刊将发表生物多样性科学领域的论文，涵盖来自世界各地、任何地质时代的分类单元，包括分类学、植物区系/动物学、形态学、基因组学、系统发育学、生态学或环境数据，且手稿的大小没有限制。

Category	Quartile
环境科学与生态学	4
环境科学与生态学, 生物多样性保护	4

Earthworm occurrence dataset extracted from Russian-language literature

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