{"id":5969,"date":"2020-07-25T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2021-03-02T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T12:35:45","slug":"soil-mite-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/soil-mite-salad\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil mite salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The science center is involved in a research on climate change impact on frequency and magnitude of flood events, funded by the Ministry of Science &amp; Technology. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/elli-groner-ph-d-ecology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Elli Groner<\/a> and colleague study the effect of floods in 3 Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites along a climate gradient on the ecosystem. One of the variables measured is soil mesofauna. Soil mites are often found in samples obtained through the Berlese funnel method, a process in which arthropods instinctively move away and downward from an artificial light source, falling through a screen and into an ethanol-filled container.<\/p>\n<p>The photo below exhibits various species of soil mites captured at the Mata LTER site, a research site dedicated to studying the effect of climate change on biodiversity. Mites are one of the most diverse, prolific and widespread arthropods, successfully inhabiting a diverse class of environments. They often play an important and beneficial role in the decomposition and breakdown of organic matter.<\/p>\n<p>The photo was taken through the lens of an optical microscope by Sofia Galeano who works at the DSASC lab located in MItzpe Ramon.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5970 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites-600x581.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites-300x290.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites-1024x991.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites-768x743.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites-1536x1486.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science center is involved in a research on climate change impact on frequency and magnitude of flood events, funded by the Ministry of Science &amp; Technology. Dr. Elli Groner and colleague study the effect of floods in 3 Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites along a climate gradient on the ecosystem. One of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-and-media"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/mites.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5972,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions\/5972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adssc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}