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
Altitudinal_zone_preference
Antenna_categorical_length
Antipredator_behaviour
Body_shape
Calcareous_preferences
Circadian_activity_rhythm
Collembola_maxnumber_visualorgan_class
Diet
Earthworm_flattening_position
Ecomorphosis
Foraging
Furcula_length
Habitat
Humidity_preference
Humus_form
Integument
Mating_strategy
Microhabitat
Morren_gland_diverticules
Motion_strategies
Mouthpart_type
Overwintering_life_cycle_stadium
Overwintering_strategy
Parental_care
Postantennal_organ
Reproduction_type
Respiratory_organ_type
Scales
Soil_pH_range
Soil_texture
Trichobotria
Typhlosole_type
Wing_development
Numerical traits
Altitudinal_distribution Antenna_length Antenna_surface Body_density Body_diameter
Body_length Body_volume Body_width Burrow_continuity Burrow_diameter
Burrow_number Burrow_volume Carbon Carbonates Circular_muscle_thickness
Clutch_size Cn_ratio Costal_radial_nervure_angle Costal_wing_nervure_length Crop_mass
Crop_mass_ratio Crop_segment_ratio Crop_volume Dejection_CNP_change Dejection_ash_change
Dejection_belowground Dry_body_weight Egg_dry_mass Egg_volume Eye_diameter
Female_body_diameter Female_body_length Female_body_width Female_dry_body_weight Female_fresh_body_weight
Fresh_body_weight Gizzard_extension Gizzard_mass_ratio Gizzard_number Gizzard_segment_ratio
Gizzard_volume Hind_wing_length Leg_length Longitudinal_muscle_thickness Male_body_diameter
Male_body_length Male_body_width Male_dry_body_weight Male_fresh_body_weight Mandible_height
Mandible_length Mandible_width Max_number_of_visual_organs Maximum_depth_of_the_pronotum Maximum_width_of_the_elytra
Maximum_width_of_the_head Maximum_width_of_the_pronotum Median_nervure_length Metafemora_maximum_length Metafemora_maximum_width
Metarsi_maximum_length Metatibia_maximum_length Morren_gland_mass Morren_gland_mass_ratio Morren_gland_segment_ratio
Mouth_aera Nitrogen Organic_carbon Pronotum_length Protection
Radial_wing_nervure_length Saltatory_apparatus_length Soil_Cd Soil_Cu Soil_Pb
Soil_Zn Soil_ph_distribution Trochanter_maximum_length Vertical_position Wing_surface
Phenological traits
Adult_activity Adult_emergence Voltinism Breeding Swarming