What lives underground?
Audio 48:30
“Under Earth”, by Mathieu Burniat.
© Mathieu Burniat / Dargaud
By: Caroline Lachowsky
50 mins
Did you know that the soil makes part of our atmosphere?
That it regulates the water cycle?
That it feeds terrestrial plants and animals?
Let's discover this exciting world that is right under our feet!
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Let's explore a living world, teeming with life, and essential to life on Earth: the soil!
Where a multitude of bugs live, a priori not very tasty and of a very bad reputation - mites, fungi, bacteria and other earthworms - without which there would be no atmosphere, no regulation of the water cycle, no food on earth...
How to explore this underground world made of symbiosis and unexpected mutual associations between all these organisms?
With:
Marc-André Selosse
, biologist, professor at the
National Museum of Natural History
in Paris, and at the universities of Gdansk and Kumming.
He is also the president of the
BioGée Federation
and a member of the French
Academy of Agriculture
.
Marc-André Selosse was scientific advisor to author-cartoonist
Mathieu Burniat
, for his comic strip
Sous Terre
, which has just been published by Dargaud.
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