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The full spectrum
of soil life.
GloSED is the first dataset to map the entire soil eukaryome—from fungi and protists to plants and animals—across 4,000+ standardised sites worldwide.
4,000+
Sampling Sites
1M+
OTUs
120+
Countries
100%
Standardised
Revealing the
Dark Taxa
Standard metabarcoding misses what it doesn't know. GloSED uses long-read sequencing (PacBio) and an expert-curated dark taxa framework to illuminate lineages that short reads discard.
- Full-length ITS and 18S-V9 coverage
- Expert-curated dark taxa
- Cross-linked with GBIF & UNITE
Unclassified Lineages
33%
of fungal OTUs belong to
non-Dikarya groups
A truly global baseline.
From the Amazon to the Arctic, we sampled 351 terrestrial ecoregions using identical protocols.
Purple points mark sampling sites. Colored regions indicate terrestrial ecoregions following Dinerstein et al. 2017 (DOI:10.1093/biosci/bix014), ecoregions within the same biome share color hues.