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We thank all contributors to the macrofauna database, especially E. Lapied, G. Brown and C. Fragoso. We thank M. Cabeza for helpful suggestions on an earlier version of this manuscript. We acknowledge support by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig (funded by the German Research Foundation, FZT 118), the European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant 677232, ECOWORM), the Academy of Finland (285882), and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (postdoctoral fellowship to E.K.C.). C.A.G. is supported by the EU Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement no. 641762-ECOPOTENTIAL.
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Cameron, E.K., Martins, I.S., Lavelle, P. et al. Global gaps in soil biodiversity data. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 1042–1043 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0573-8
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