Soil Organisms News Today

Recent research has shone the light on a severe biodiversity crisis, with a focus on the escalating extinction risk among insects, plants, and vertebrates, driven by man-made environmental change.

As part of the Start in Your Yard initiative, the Wild Ones of Greater Kane County, Gail Borden Library and the Elgin Sustainability Commission are hosting the four-part series "Under Our Feet."

These incongruent or homoplastic characters are a notorious problem for phylogenetics and contradict the evolutionary prediction of a nested hierarchy.

The newly discovered subterranean arthropod is the first true millipede ever found, even if it looks like a worm with dainty feet

Dr. michael gooseff, a hydro-ecologist and dr. byron adams, a biologist. >> anthony: so what are you looking at our here? >> michael: everything that lives here lives in the soil. we study the soil organisms mostly the animals the animals that live here, but also the microbes that those animals feed off of. >> anthony: right. >> byron: this is just a marker that tells us to stay on this trail. these soils are so sensitive that if we walk off the trail or whatever we could completely jack up the ...

Affects all soil organisms especially earthworms who are immensely important to the fertility and structure of the soil in the humus they transport minerals and nutrients from deep down to the surface. in healthy soil this means tons of earthworms and countless miles of their tunnels unfortunately theyre in decline. without the earthworm the humus and the ecosystem lose their most brilliant engineer. first learns to not like synthetic fertilizers they do not like as decides they do not like fung...

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Hydro-ecologist, and dr. byron adams, a biologist. >> anthony: so what are you looking at our here? >> michael: everything that lives here lives in the soil. we study the soil organisms mostly the animals that live here, but also the microbes that those animals feed off of. >> anthony: right. >> byron: this is just a marker that tells us to stay on this trail. these soils are so sensitive that if we walk off the trail or whatever we could completely jack up the soils organisms that live below th...

Looking at our here? >> michael: everything that lives here lives in the soil. we study the soil organisms mostly the animals the animals that live here, but also the microbes that those animals feed off of. >> anthony: right. >> byron: this is just a marker that tells us to stay on this trail. these soils are so sensitive that if we walk off the trail or whatever we could completely jack up the soils organisms that live below there. >> anthony: oh like that guy? >> byron: yeah, like that dude h...