Biodiversity of the soil dwelling invertebrates will be studied as in natural, so in degraded habitats of Saskhori Quarry and adjacent territories for the first time; Annotated lists of springtails, mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen, myriapods, isopods, beetles and ants will be compiled; New species for Science will be described and the first recorded species for the Caucasus and Georgia will be revealed; Ecological indicator and dominant species will be detected; By comparison, faunistic and ecological analyzes will be carried out as in virgin, so in different level degraded habitats in quarry and adjacent riparian forest and agroecosystems (almond tree plantations); Pupils of Nichbisi and Kavtiskhevi public schools and students will be involved in the investigation in order to become they interested in researches associated with biodiversity; Results of the project will be published as article(s) in the peer-reviewed journal(s) and will be presented in international conferences.
The last field trip
After 15 field trips, we collected enough samples to carry out our study about soil invertebrates. Now, our team is in the process of making faunistic and ecological analyzes, annotated lists, and detecting ecological indicators and dominant species.
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01Sep
Last field trips and future works
Our team continues collecting soil invertebrates. We have already sorted the main groups of animals that were our research subject and started statistical and ecological analyses.
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31Jul
9th field trip and laboratory work
Collecting samples and identifying species from the Saskhori quarry.
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08Jun
21Apr
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