Inversion tillage reduced spider density and richness throughout the following growing season, while soil mesofauna densities, carabid taxonomic diversity and functional composition recovered by spring 🌾 🕷️ 🍂

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Charismatic mesofauna

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Naw but for real technically dogs and cats count as megafauna (or at least mesofauna) and we go everywhere as a team

Kicking off the second half of our ‘Degraded Soils and Restoration’ session Ainoa Pravia emphasizes mesofauna community gradients as bioindicators of land use and management and left us with an important question: where do we go next in terms of peatland restoration?

Counting, sorting, identifying. 🤓
Time to check all the alpine #SoilFauna from soil samples & pitfall traps from the Ben Avon plateau (@cairngormsnews.bsky.social) in #Scotland.
After a nice sampling season, I am in the soil labs of @hutton.ac.uk in Aberdeen.
Very promising first results already! 🤞

yeshua bar yosef is not too good for sapwood and soil mesofauna

idk if you have Daiso, or any other Japanese small little houseware store, but the Daiso near me has an entire section of cheap acrylic bug carriers, and some of them are specifically made only about an inch thick

i think it's for observing stag beetle larvae but might work for aquatic mesofauna?

Our February issue is now live! This month featuring articles on:
🪱 Soil biodiversity
🦈 Shark and ray conservation
🌊 Climate-smart marine spatial planning
🌎 Area-based conservation and data justice

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Part of a litter sample from one 1m2 plot (Harvard Forest, plot 100S, Macrosystems transect, 2013). These mites represent a "mesofauna" that is as daunting as it is fantabulous.

It takes a certain blend of self-confidence and derangement to study the ecology of oribatid mites.

🪱How much do we know about soil diversity in Latin America?
A new review by @laumoreno.bsky.social found major knowledge gaps: research is concentrated in Brazil & tropical forests, while mesofauna, microfauna, & other ecosystem functions receive less attention. We need more regional collaborations!

let's call refer to them as "agricultural mesofauna"

Hi, I like to be added to the list as a chemist. A publication link is:
pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Thank you

Sure. There are four common levels:
Megafauna (>20 mm): moles etc.
Macrofauna (2–20 mm): e.g. earthworms
Mesofauna (0.2–2 mm): basically, whatever you can just see (e.g. mites or springtails)
Microfauna (<0.2 mm): even smaller organisms, e.g. ciliates or many nematodes

Shannon! I forgot to send you my charismatic microfauna (possibly mesofauna…) of the other day! I saw a snapping turtle in our campus creek on my morning walk!! (today’s microfauna were envigilating chipmunks and squirrels)