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“Ghost Soil Creature” Of Antarctica Has Survived 30 Ice Ages

A YouTube video produced by BYU University Communications highlights a primitive insect-like creature that has survived 30 ice ages and was recently rediscovered in Antarctica by a team of scientists who had been searching for it for decades. “This is what we affectionately refer to as the ghost collembola,” says BYU biology professor Byron Adams,

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Tiny ‘ghost creatures’ from Antarctica give insight into past, current climate change

The DNA of tiny Antarctic invertebrates holds clues to past climates and the ancient history of a massive ice sheet. Learn more in this new paper from Diana Wall and colleagues. Collins, G. E. et al. Genetic diversity of soil invertebrates corroborates timing estimates for past collapses of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. Proc. Natl.

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Our work is on the cover of Conservation Biology

Our work on soil biodiversity responses to Amazonian deforestation, in collaboration with Bruno Sobral & Artur Silva from UFPA (Brazil), is on the cover of Conservation Biology this month (June 2019)! Thanks to dozens of published studies on this topic we were able to generate the first data synthesis on the consequences of deforestation in the so-called

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