The rain cometh and the worm rise (with a little help): Manaus Day 7 last day in the field

Posted on 26 April 2015 by Pete

Well today was the last day in the field for me and I was rearing to go and complete control sites for the dark soil sites we had done on Day 2 (crop and new (ish) secondary forest.  Being saturday we flew out of Manaus without the now customary traffic issue and raced to the
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Giant ‘Earthworm’ Poo: Manaus Day 6 Sampling non tera preta soil

Posted on 26 April 2015 by Pete

Sorry for not post yesterday – a tremendous thunderstorm in Manaus knocked out the internet for 24 hours – no internet how can one survive? Well you do the next best thing and sample earthworms. Today’s sampling is a non-dark earth (tera preta) site and I had been promised something special and I wasn’t disappointed
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