Microfauna (Ancient Greek mikros "small" + Neo-Latin fauna "animal") refers to microscopic animals and organisms that exhibit animal-like qualities, and...

Microfauna are microscopic or very small animals (usually including protozoans and very small animals such as rotifers). To qualify as microfauna, an...

environments. While older microfossils have since been described, the Gunflint microfauna is a historic geologic discovery and remains one of the most robust and...

Protists. Microbiota with animal-like characteristics can be classified as microfauna. The terms "Flora" and "Fauna" were first used by Carl Linnaeus from Sweden...

compacted lawns, aeration improves soil drainage and encourages worms, microfauna and microflora which require oxygen. Lawn aeration involves controlling...

Soil ecology is the study of the interactions among soil organisms, and between biotic and abiotic aspects of the soil environment. It is particularly...

the veins of quartz. Lurking among these miniature "forests" are the microfauna, species of invertebrate, each with its own specific habitat requirements...

cystitis Interstitial fauna, small aquatic invertebrates, larger than microfauna but smaller than macrofauna Interstitial fluid, a solution that bathes...

reaches up to between 13-22 degrees in winter. The lake's lack of basal microfauna and ferruginous soil provides clear water. The area prior had been previously...

The Bahariya Formation (also transcribed as Baharija Formation) is a fossiliferous geologic formation dating back to the early Cenomanian, which outcrops...

expanded multigene families associated with hydrolysis of bacterial and microfauna polysaccharides and proteins. This genome analysis revealed the dual saprotrophic...

protozoa, fish eggs and various larvae. The pelagic zone contains macro- and microfauna and myriad zooplankton which drift with the currents. Most of the smallest...

The Hartley Mammoth Site is a pre-Clovis archaeological and paleontological site in New Mexico. Preserving the butchered remains of two Columbian mammoths...

or as "show tanks", with the rock kept largely bare of the algae and microfauna that would normally populate it, in order to appear neat and clean. The...

meiofauna loosely defines a group of organisms by their size—larger than microfauna but smaller than macrofauna—rather than by their taxonomy. This fauna...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Microbiota are the microflora and microfauna in an ecosystem. Microbiota may also refer to: Microbiota (plant), a genus...

such as spiders, bees, dust mites, ladybugs and many more. The specific microfauna featured in the game suggests the setting to be somewhere in North America...

and Cantharellus cibarius. In addition to mycorrhiza, the presence of microfauna in the soil assists the growth of the tree, as it enhances the mobilization...

microbes (especially bacteria) practiced by animals of the mesofauna, microfauna and meiofauna. Microbivorous animals include some soil nematodes, springtails...

been convincingly eliminated", noting that "A recent examination of the microfauna from the strata into which the grave was cut suggests that the pollen...

highly modified underground leaves to attract, trap and digest minute microfauna, particularly protozoans. Although suggested a century earlier by Charles...

 331–2. ISBN 978-0-486-61897-5. OCLC 595572282. Martin, D. (August 1968). Microfauna of Biological Filters. University of Newcastle upon Tyne - Department...

function of the benthic ecosystem, its chemical and physical factors and the microfauna communities with special reference to the ciliated protozoa (1969) Website...

ciliates and amoeboid protozoa, annelids, round worms, insect larvae, other microfauna. (If annelids are abundant, the filter may be considered a vermifilter...

death. Studies in 2009 questioned whether the decline in biota (including microfauna) as a result of human intervention might impede human health, hospital...

offering them a protection against desiccation and predation by soil microfauna (bacteriophagous protozoa and nematodes). Microaggregates (20–250 μm)...

concerning the transfer of the strict anaerobe organisms in the gut microflora/microfauna to the next host generation. Here, mutual licking and coprophagia certainly...

contain live rock and live sand, macroalgae, and sometimes scavenger microfauna such as micro brittle stars, tiny sea stars such as Asterina, snails,...

metal contaminated areas could be a sign of reduced activity by soils microfauna and microflora, indicating a reduced number of individuals or diminished...

3897/ZooKeys.113.1402. PMC 3187628. PMID 21976991. Boetius, A (2005). "Microfauna–Macrofauna Interaction in the Seafloor: Lessons from the Tubeworm". PLOS...