betsi
betsi
A database for soil invertebrate biological and ecological traits
Literature trait data and experimental trait data by parcel

Trait data request:

Select at least one taxon and only one trait/preference and to run a request

Taxonomy choice

Select among the most requested taxonomic groups:
Araneae (Class, Arachnida)
Collembola (Order, Collembola)
Chilopods (Class, Chilopoda)
Diplopods (Class, Diplopoda)
Earthworms (Subclass, Diplotesticulata)
Ground beetle (Family, Carabidae)
Isopods (Order, Isopoda)
AND/OR
Start to enter the first letters of the taxon for which you need traits* (Latin name of either phylum, class, family, genus or species) and select it in the drop-down menu. If you want to request additional taxa, please space them with a semicolon (";").
* Be careful : only valid latin names could lead to matches in the database. For instance, Camponotus ligniperdusis not valid conversely to Camponotus (Camponotus) ligniperdus (Latreille, 1802). Please avoid copy/paste and take care to brackets. If the requested taxa don’t appear in the drop-down menu, it means that it doesn't exist in BETSI. Please to contact the administrator to remedy it.

Functional traits

Textual traits
Numerical traits
Phenological traits