Tag: soil biology

  • Grasshoppers Stress Level Affects Soil Biology

    This article was mentioned in Howard Garrett’s recent newsletter. “Fear factor seems relevant in decomposing bug’s effect on soil” It explains how the conditions a grasshopper dies under affect how beneficial the grasshoppers’s corpse is to the soil.  The grasshopper eats differently and processes its food differently if it is living under fear of death,…