Microfauna

Word MICROFAUNA
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Definitions and meanings of "Microfauna"

What do we mean by microfauna?

Microscopic or very small organisms, such as protozoans, that live in soil or benthic sediments. noun

A fauna in which all the animals are of minute or diminutive size; a congeries of microscopic animals, or sometimes a depauperated fauna. noun

The smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc. noun

The smallest of the faunal size divisions, including mainly microorganisms but also sometimes applied to the tiniest species of animal groups such as ticks, insects, etc.

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The word "microfauna" in example sentences

If you try ferments at home, you may find some interesting microfauna try to crash the party. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Organisms that live within the interstitial spaces of sea ice include microfauna such as protists, and larger organisms such as ciliates, nematodes, rotatorians, turbellarians, and copepods. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Long term manipulation of the microbes and microfauna of two subarctic heaths by addition of fungicide, bactericide, carbon and fertilizer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As we pointed out, farming techniques are rapidly evolving away from plowing residues back into the ground, in light of studies that show this actually reduces the organic content of the soil due to the disruption of microfauna. ❋ Unknown (2004)

It had to preserve beneficial microfauna in the vagina that are called lactobacilli and maintain the vagina's acid balance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

However, research has now shown this practice leads to long-term reduction of organic matter in the soil, due to disruption of soil microfauna. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Because there was absolutely no sense of scale, some of the figures being created on the screen could have been equally well interpreted as bizarre galaxies - or the microfauna in a drop of ditchwater. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1990)

The microfauna of the earth not only diminish in quantity, but they also change in quality and consequently this factor, this element, which carries out the dual physical and chemical function in the soil is lacking and consequently the ground becomes packed. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Thus, when the conditions of life in the soil are changed as a result of plowing, the microfauna diminish extraordinarily. ❋ Unknown (1964)

The real reason for the packing of the soil -- and this in turn reduces the amount of moisture and oxygen in the soil -- is simply the destruction of the microfauna which takes place with the plowing of pastures. ❋ Unknown (1964)

One of these essential ideas is related to the microorganism of the earth, with the microfauna of the earth. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Therefore, we must investigate to see what the influence of this extraordinary quantitative increase in organic material added per year per hectare is on the microfauna of the soil and on the solution of the problem of the years of poverty. ❋ Unknown (1964)

However, when the third or the fourth year has passed, that microfauna has practically disappeared, or is considerably reduced. ❋ Unknown (1964)

The conditions of life for those microorganisms or the microfauna in the soil are changed. ❋ Unknown (1964)

However, it is enough to say that we had never thought of these problems, we had never heard any our technicians speak of them until for the first time the work of Professor Voisin appeared in Cuban and pointed out two most important facts: the importance of microfauna in the soil and the problem of the years of poverty. ❋ Unknown (1964)

It is that in permanent pastures ideal conditions of life are established for microorganisms and in general for the microfauna of the soil -- to distinguish the really microscopic organisms from such small organisms and earthworms and the (enquitrelos -- phonetic) in the soil. ❋ Unknown (1964)

Voisin precisely in the relation of microfauna to the soil. ❋ Unknown (1964)

More than 12 tonnes of peaty river bed deposits were also removed from the site, yielding a wealth of tiny plant and animal fossils, including pollen, microflora, microfauna and the tiny bones of frogs, newts, lizards, snakes and small mammals and birds. ❋ Telegraph Staff (2012)

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