Microfauna - Wikipedia
网页The microfauna are the least understood of soil life, due to their small size and great diversity. Many microfauna are members of the so-called cryptozoa, animals that remain undescribed by science. Out of the estimated 10-20 million animal species in the world, only 1.8 million have been given scientific names, and many of the remaining ...
Microfauna | Soil organisms, Ecology, Biodiversity | Britannica
网页Microfauna, small, often microscopic animals, especially those inhabiting the soil, an organ, or other localized habitat. Single-celled protozoans, small nematodes, small unsegmented worms, and tardigrades (eight-legged arthropods) …
Microfauna - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页The microfauna are mobile organisms that inhabit the waterfilms on soil surfaces. From: Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, 2005
Global distribution of soil fauna functional groups and their …
网页2022年10月17日 · Microfauna are mostly predators of soil bacteria and fungi (e.g. protists and some nematodes), but some groups of soil microfauna are saprophagous and contribute to litter decomposition (e.g...
Microfauna community assembly and cascading relationship with ...
网页2023年11月1日 · This study aimed to characterize the diversity distribution pattern of soil microfauna communities in agroecosystems along a latitudinal gradient, disentangle the underlying community assembly mechanism of microfauna communities, and generalize the environmental influence factors and trophic relationship within soil food web.
Soil Health: The Contribution of Microflora and Microfauna
网页The microflora and microfauna contribute towards soil health through the secretion and excretion of products. They achieve incorporation of nutrients to soil through the process of fixation, solubilization, chelation, mineralization, excretion and degradation.
Microfauna Within Biological Soil Crusts | SpringerLink
网页2016年5月22日 · A variety of microfauna inhabit the biological soil crusts (biocrusts) of arid soils from all parts of the globe, including the southwestern USA (Bamforth 2004, 2008; Darby et al. 2006, 2007a, b; Neher et al. 2009), the Negev Desert of Israel (Jones and Shachak 1990; Pen-Mouratov et al. 2011), the Tengger Desert of northern China (Liu et al ...
Microfauna - SpringerLink
网页2015年1月1日 · Definition. Microfauna are minute organisms typically found in high abundances in estuarine and coastal marine bottom sediments (Fenchel, 1969, 1978; Alongi, 1990; Day et al., 2012). They are not only important members of the benthos but also play a significant ecological role in pelagic environments (Fenchel, 1988, 2001).
Organism body size structures the soil microbial and nematode …
网页2020年12月17日 · Here, we investigate the community assembly of differentially sized soil microorganisms and microfauna using a continental-scale sampling effort combined with a global-scale meta-analysis.
Increased connections among soil microbes and microfauna …
网页2024年3月20日 · In this study, the effects of afforestation and natural regeneration approaches on connection patterns among soil microbes and their co-existing microfauna were assessed in ex-arable lands on the Loess Plateau in China along a 50-year restoration chronosequence.
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