Welcome to ARIADNE version 4.0



Welcome to the shARed mInotAur Database exploratioN Environment, or in short ARIADNE.


This application was developed as part of the actions of MINOTAUR project, under the EJP Soil program. The objective of ARIADNE is to provide an easy to use user interface for the exploration of Europena soil biodiversity data that were collected and harmonized during the MINOTAUR project




There are two main modules in ARIADNE: The Overview and the Analysis.

The Overview module is used to filter the database records on the basis of different metadata (i.e. land use, management, country, and biota group) and to visualize the number of selected records, their geographical distribution, and their distribution per Member State. Records that are filtered in the Overview module, are used to display analysis in the Analysis module

The Analysis module is used to show the actual analysis on the selected records. Here analysis are organized based on different indices and on different level of soil biota

Sample selection

All samples
All samples

Adjust map visualization range

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Bacteria (Metabarcoding)

Chao1
Land use

Fungi (Metabarcoding)

Chao1
Land use

Microfauna (Nematodes)

CI index
Land use

Mesofauna (Microarthropods)

QBS-ar
Land use

Macrofauna (Earthworms)

Land use