Springtails—Worldwide Jumpers
Springtails are tiny, six-legged animals that you meet every day, but hardly notice. They can survive in big cities, on ice in Antarctica, in the deepest caves, and in rainforest canopies. Some scientists call them the earliest known and the most numerous insects on Earth. Springtails are famous jum...
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ftsubgoettingen:oai:publications.goettingen-research-online.de:2/114187 2023-09-05T13:13:38+02:00 Springtails—Worldwide Jumpers Potapov, Anton Potapov, Anton; 1Animal Ecology, J.F. Blumenbach Institute of Zoology and Anthropology, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany 2020-11-24 https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/114187 https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.545370 en eng 2296-6846 https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/114187 doi:10.3389/frym.2020.545370 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ journal_article original_ja yes published_version 2020 ftsubgoettingen https://doi.org/10.3389/frym.2020.545370 2023-08-20T22:16:39Z Springtails are tiny, six-legged animals that you meet every day, but hardly notice. They can survive in big cities, on ice in Antarctica, in the deepest caves, and in rainforest canopies. Some scientists call them the earliest known and the most numerous insects on Earth. Springtails are famous jumpers—if they were as large as humans, they would easily be jumping over 10-story buildings. This ability allows them to escape from danger. Every day, springtails are very busy, improving soil health and supporting numerous species of spiders, beetles, ants, and other small predators on our planet. They are a key part of soil biodiversity, but we still need to learn a lot about them and many of these beautiful animals are yet to be discovered. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Georg-August-Universität Göttingen: GoeScholar Frontiers for Young Minds 8 |
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Springtails are tiny, six-legged animals that you meet every day, but hardly notice. They can survive in big cities, on ice in Antarctica, in the deepest caves, and in rainforest canopies. Some scientists call them the earliest known and the most numerous insects on Earth. Springtails are famous jumpers—if they were as large as humans, they would easily be jumping over 10-story buildings. This ability allows them to escape from danger. Every day, springtails are very busy, improving soil health and supporting numerous species of spiders, beetles, ants, and other small predators on our planet. They are a key part of soil biodiversity, but we still need to learn a lot about them and many of these beautiful animals are yet to be discovered. |
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