How predatory arachnids absorb carbon in grassland

The environmental newspaper Mongabay published a piece titled ‘Animating the Carbon Cycle: Earth’s animals vital allies in CO2 storage.’ It’s long been known animals are essential for ecosystem vitality. But Professor Oswald Schmitz at the Yale School of the Environment tells me that: ‘I have been trying to get the scientific community to pay attention for a decade or more.’ In his work Schmitz describes how predatory arachnids absorb carbon in grassland.

Maratus tasmanicus … a type of peacock ...