How important are soil invertebrates for our future?
How important are soil invertebrates? A new paper in Science Advances may have the answer. Researchers have estimated the abundance of all land arthropods (animals like insects, crabs, spiders and millipedes). It turns out that two-thirds to three-quarters of all these lifeforms live in our soils.
Termites make up 40% of soil arthropods globally. Source: smuay Stock photo ID:471740577
Soil is the by-product of animal life on Earth. It’s the deposition of millions of years of waste from plants a...
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Wildlife in the Balance
Wildlife has a huge and immeasurable impact on the stability, health and functioning of ecosystems. For this reason, humanity cannot survive without wildlife. Wild animals turn dust into soil, carbon
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