![]() ![]() Many will go extinct before we have time to document them. Even now, an estimated 70% of all Australian invertebrate species remain undescribed. Renowned Australian scientist Baron Robert May is famously quoted as saying “to a good approximation, all species are insects”. Invertebrates account for fully 99% of all animal species and most of the weight of animals on the planet. Why are these tiny creatures so important? That would give us an estimate of 120 trillion. Then to get to truly extraordinary numbers, we can include mites and springtails which account for around 95% of individual invertebrates. The total loss might be closer to 6 trillion individuals. ![]() But of all the forest that burned during that summer, rainforests made up only about 1%. If we look at all temperate rainforest burned at different severities across the south-east that means 60 billion tiny deaths. We used Tullgren funnels to sort leaf litter fron its inhabitants.
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