Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated climate data represents long-term average thermal conditions at coarse spatial resolutions only. Hence, many climate-forcing factors that operate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions are overlooked. This is particularly important in relation to effects of observation height (e.g. vegetation, snow and soil characteristics) and in habitats varying in their exposure to radiation, moisture and wind (e.g. topography, radiative forcing or cold-air pooling). Since organisms living close to the ground relate more strongly to these microclimatic conditions than to free-air temperatures, microclimatic ground and near-surface data are needed to provide realistic forecasts of the fate of such organisms under anthropogenic climate change, as well as of the functioning of the ecosystems they live in. To fill this critical gap, we highlight a call for temperature time series submissions to SoilTemp, a geospatial database initiative compiling soil and near-surface temperature data from all over the world. Currently, this database contains time series from 7,538 temperature sensors from 51 countries across all key biomes. The database will pave the way toward an improved global understanding of microclimate and bridge the gap between the available climate data and the climate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions relevant to most organisms and ecosystem processes.

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A N Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Russia

Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam Germany

ARAID Research and Development Zaragoza Spain

Asian School of Environment Nanyang Technological University Singapore Singapore

Australian Museum Sydney NSW Australia

Bioclimatology University of Goettingen Göttingen Germany

Biodiversity and Landscape TERRA Research Centre University of Liège Gembloux Agro Bio Tech Gembloux Belgium

Biological and Environmental Sciences Faculty of Natural Sciences University of Stirling Stirling UK

Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions School of Biological Sciences University of Wollongong Wollongong NSW Australia

Centre for Sustainable Ecosystem Solutions School of Earth Atmospheric and Life Sciences University of Wollongong Wollongong NSW Australia

Chair of Soil Science and Geomorphology Department of Geosciences University of Tuebingen Tuebingen Germany

CIRAD UMR Eco and Sols Dakar Senegal

Climate Change Unit Environmental Protection Agency of Aosta Valley Aosta Italy

Climate Impacts Research Centre Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Umeå University Abisko Sweden

CNR Institute for Mediterranean Agricultural and Forest Systems Ercolano Italy

County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland Gothenburg Sweden

Dartmouth College Hanover NH USA

Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences Qatar University Doha Qatar

Department of Biological Sciences and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research University of Bergen Bergen Norway

Department of Biological Sciences and the Environmental Change Initiative University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN USA

Department of Biological Sciences University of Notre Dame Notre Dame IN USA

Department of Biology and Ecology Center Utah State University Logan UT USA

Department of Biology Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway

Department of Bioscience and Arctic Research Centre Rønde Denmark

Department of Botany University of Granada Granada Spain

Department of Chemistry Life Sciences and Environmental Sustainability University of Parma Parma Italy

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences Leuven Belgium

Department of Earth Sciences University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden

Department of Ecology Environment and Plant Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden

Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management University of California Berkeley Berkeley CA USA

Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland

Department of Forest Botany Dendrology and Geobiocoenology Mendel University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Forestry and NR H N B Garhwal University Srinagar Garhwal India

Department of Geo information in Environmental Management Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania Chania Greece

Department of Geography and Earth Sciences Aberystwyth University Wales UK

Department of Geography Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic

Department of Geography York St John University York UK

Department of Geology Geography and Environment University of Alcalá Madrid Spain

Department of Geosciences and Geography University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland

Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Montana State University Bozeman MT USA

Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London Ascot UK

Department of Natural History NTNU University Museum Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim Norway

Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science Lund University Lund Sweden

Department of Science and High Technology Insubria University Como Italy

Department of Theoretical and Applied Sciences Insubria University Varese Italy

Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation University of Florida Gainesville FL USA

Eco and Sols Univ Montpellier CIRAD INRAE IRD Institut Agro Montpellier France

Ecological Plant Geography Faculty of Geography University of Marburg Marburg Germany

Environment and Sustainability Institute University of Exeter Penryn UK

Environmental Science Center Qatar University Doha Qatar

EnvixLab Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio Università degli Studi del Molise Termoli Italy

Experimental Plant Ecology Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology University of Greifswald Greifswald Germany

Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales Universidad Nacional de Cuyo Cuyo Argentina

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Ordu University Ordu Turkey

Faculty of Biology University of Duisburg Essen Essen Germany

Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Technical University in Zvolen Zvolen Slovakia

Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Prague 6 Suchdol Czech Republic

Faculty of Forestry Technical University in Zvolen Zvolen Slovakia

Faculty of Science Department of Botany University of South Bohemia České Budějovice Czech Republic

Finnish Meteorological Institute Helsinki Finland

Forest and Nature Lab Department of Environment Ghent University Melle Gontrode Belgium

Geography Department Humboldt Universität zu Berlin Berlin Germany

Georgian Institute of Public Affairs Tbilisi Georgia

German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research Halle Jena Leipzig Leipzig Germany

GLORIA Coordination Institute for Interdisciplinary Mountain Research Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna Austria

Gothenburg Global Biodiversity Centre Gothenburg Sweden

Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences Osaka Prefecture University Osaka Japan

Grupo de Ecología de Invasiones INIBIOMA CONICET Universidad Nacional del Comahue Bariloche Argentina

Grupo de Ecología de Poblaciones de Insectos IFAB Bariloche Argentina

Institute of Biological Research Cluj Napoca National Institute of Research and Development for Biological Sciences Bucharest Romania

Institute of Biology Geobotany and Botanical Garden Martin Luther University Halle Wittenberg Halle Germany

Institute of Biology Leipzig University Leipzig Germany

Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology University Greifswald Greifswald Germany

Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences Průhonice Czech Republic

Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics Faculty of Geosciences and Environment University of Lausanne Lausanne Switzerland

Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences University of Tartu Tartu Estonia

Institute of Landscape Ecology Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava Slovakia

Instituto Argentino de Nivologiá Glaciologiá y Ciencias Ambientales CONICET CCT Mendoza Mendoza Argentina

Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad Santiago Chile

Isotope Bioscience Laboratory ISOFYS Ghent University Gent Belgium

Jolube Consultor Botánico Jaca Spain

Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains Ministry of Education School of Geographical Sciences Northeast Normal University Changchun China

Laboratorio de Invasiones Biológicas Facultad de Ciencias Forestales Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile

Landscape Ecology Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems Department of Environmental Systems Science ETH Zürich Zürich Switzerland

Majella Seed Bank Majella National Park Lama dei Peligni Italy

Mountains of the Moon University Fort Portal Uganda

National Forest Centre Forest Research Institute Zvolen Zvolen Slovakia

Plant Ecology Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences University of Goettingen Goettingen Germany

Plant Ecology Group Department of Evolution and Ecology University of Tübingen Tübingen Germany

Regional Centre for Integrated Environmental Monitoring Odesa National 1 I Mechnikov University Odesa Ukraine

Remote Sensing Laboratories Department of Geography University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland

Research Group PLECO University of Antwerp Wilrijk Belgium

Research Institute for Nature and Forest Brussels Belgium

Research Unit Community Ecology Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL Birmensdorf Switzerland

School of Ecology and Environment Studies Nalanda University Rajgir India

School of Education and Social Sciences Adventist University of Chile Chile

School of GeoSciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh UK

School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Tempe AZ USA

School of Natural Resources and Environment University of Florida Gainesville FL USA

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt Gelnhausen Germany

Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk Russia

Swedish Species Information Centre Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala Sweden

Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Birmensdorf Switzerland

Swiss National Park Chastè Planta Wildenberg Zernez Switzerland

TERRA Teaching and Research Center Faculty of Gembloux Agro Bio Tech University of Liege Gembloux Belgium

UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology Midlothian UK

Unit of Land Change Science Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Birmensdorf Switzerland

Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco Cusco Peru

UR 'Ecologie et Dynamique des Systèmes Anthropisées' Univ de Picardie Jules Verne Amiens France

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Princeton University Princeton NJ USA

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF Davos Switzerland

Zhejiang Tiantong Forest Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences East China Normal University Shanghai China

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