{"id":86919,"date":"2019-08-13T16:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=9133"},"modified":"2019-08-13T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T11:15:24","slug":"mapping-worlds-soil-worms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mapping-worlds-soil-worms\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping world\u2019s soil worms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>According to the global analysis of nematodes published in Nature,there are about 57 billion nematodes for every human being on Earth.<\/li><li>The researchers have said that Sub-Arctic regions have the highest abundance of nematodes followed by temperate regions and tropical regions.<\/li><li>Nematodes prefers colder region as soil organic matter content is the key driver for nematode abundance.<\/li><li>Further,the low temperature and high moisture in the sub-Arctic regions reduces the decomposition rate of organic matter.This leads to accumulation of organic matter and the nematodes happily thrive on them.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Nematodes<\/strong> are worm shaped nearly microscopic animals,many of which are virtually invisible to the unaided eye when they are in the soil or within plant material.<\/li><li>These are roundworms and their size can vary from a tiny 0.2 millimetre to a few metres.They are responsible for around 2.2% of the total carbon emission from soils.<\/li><li>The nematodes play a crucial role in the environment as they are responsible for production of ammonia of the soil and also a bioindicator of soil ecosystem\u2019s health.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the global analysis of nematodes published in Nature,there are about 57 billion nematodes for every human being on Earth. The researchers have said that Sub-Arctic regions have the highest abundance of nematodes followed by temperate regions and tropical regions. Nematodes prefers colder region as soil organic matter content is the key driver for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/mapping-worlds-soil-worms\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mapping world\u2019s soil worms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4612,4613],"class_list":["post-86919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-nematodes","tag-soil-worms","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704669911},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}