“…During both crops, 45,564 organisms of soil meso-and macrofauna were collected distributed among the orders Collembola, Hymenoptera, Hemiptera, Coleoptera, Diptera, Orthoptera, Araneae, Thysanoptera, Diplopoda, Oribatida, Mesostigmata, Prostigmata, and Astigmata. The number of individuals collected over this study was much higher than that collected in the study conducted by CASTALDELLI et al (2015), who collected 15,424 organisms, demonstrating the robustness and representativeness of sampling performed in this study. Figure 2.…”