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A video overview: "... two hundred million of these mounds covering an area similar to the UK. This means that 10 km^3 (about 4000 great pyramids of Giza) of s
by raattgift 8y ago
A video overview:
"... two hundred million of these mounds covering an area similar to the UK. This means that 10 km^3 (about 4000 great pyramids of Giza) of soil have been excavated, making this the greatest known example of ecosystem engineering by an insect..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlS48mptbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXlS48mptbM
And the paper:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31287-9 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)...