Mikk Espenberg

Abstract Soil eukaryotes, including fungi, protists, plants, and animals, are central to biosphere functioning and resilience. The Global Standardised Soil Eukaryome Dataset (GloSED) is the first dataset encompassing the entire spectrum of soil eukaryotes, covering 4,063 sampling sites in 121 countries on all continents, revealing nearly one million operational taxonomic units. All samples were collected and analysed using a standardised protocol minimizing technical biases.

Contents Summary 1 I. Introduction 1 II. State of the art 2 III. Processes 2 IV. Perspectives for peatland development and research needs 6 V. Conclusions 6 Acknowledgements 6 References 7 I. Introduction Peatlands cover only c. 3% of Earth's land but store up to one-third (600–650 petagrams; Pg) of the terrestrial organic carbon (C; Dargie et al., 2017) and up to 10% of the global terrestrial nitrogen (N; Leifeld & Menichetti, 2018). Most peatlands are in boreal and arctic zones, while c.

Citation: Espenberg M, Truu M, Truu J, Maddison M, Nõlvak H, Järveoja J, et al. (2016) Impact of Reed Canary Grass Cultivation and Mineral Fertilisation on the Microbial Abundance and Genetic Potential for Methane Production in Residual Peat of an Abandoned Peat Extraction Area. PLoS ONE 11(9): e0163864. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163864 Copyright: © 2016 Espenberg et al.