New study calculates that about 59% of species on Earth rely on #soil for one or more stages of their life. That figure is a steep change from the only previous general estimate of about a quarter of all animals.
“We’re starting to realize that we’ve really messed up our soils at a global scale.” says one of the study's authors.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-than-half-of-earths-species-live-underground/
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