Experiences volunteering on the BESS earthworms project: Scaling and thresholds in earthworm abundance and diversity in grassland agricultural systems
A day late for #wormwednesday this post looks back on the earthworms I identifying during my volunteer work on the Natural History Museum Soil Biodiversity Group BESS Earthworm Project. Last week I finished sorting and identifying ‘my’ half of the Soil Biodiversity Group’s samples from the BESS Earthworm Project. The tubes from the last couple …
Continue reading Throwback Thursday – Earthworms by numbers (May 2014)
This week's #throwbackthursday chronicles the final part of field work on the NERC BESS earthworm project in 2013 - hard to believe two years have past since we finished! With the soil analysis laboratory in York shortly closing for Christmas the race was on to complete enough samples in each field and county for the …
Continue reading Throwback Thursday – Earthworms – the final chapter! (December 2013)
Two years ago I was volunteering on yet another week of earthworm sampling on the NERC BESS project, this time in Leicestershire and Dorset. This week features farty mustard solution and an exciting day in an active quarry! Another county, another field… Last Monday and Tuesday I was again away with the Natural History Museum Soil …
Continue reading Throwback Thursday – More earthworm sampling (December 2013)
Victoria J. Burton 