Healthy soil has at least 7 types of life, with over 10,000 species. If all of the life in one acre of healthy soil was brought to the surface, it would weigh the same as two full grown elephants. Sometimes referred to as biocomplete or full spectrum living soil, the complete soil microbe biome includes bacteria, fungi, archaea, beneficial nematodes, amoeba, flagellates and micro-arthropods. Often it has other types of life, including animals (earthworms) and other types of protozoa.
Amoeba consume bacteria and keep the soil food web in balance
The plural of amoeba is amoebae.
This page will link to all SymSoil articles on Amoeba and other protozoa. Articles on Flagellates, (another group of protozoa species) can be found here. rticles on amoebae.
Soil Food Web Overview can be found here.
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SymSoil, a California B-Corp is an evidence-based provider of products and services for regenerative agriculture and a leader in development of biological soil amendments for agriculture that restores the microbes that provide the right food to the plant roots, improving plant health, and making food more nutrient dense and flavorful, the way nature intended. SymSoil has products and services for growers using regenerative agriculture methodologies which improve profitability. Its flagship product, SymSoil® RC (Robust Compost) is a complex community of soil microbes, which includes in excess of 1,000 species, covering broad biodiversity of bacteria, fungi, amoebae, and other protozoa, beneficial nematodes and microarthropods. SymSoil was named one of 2019’s AgTech Companies to Watch.
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