RA- What's under our feet project

 How do we find out

What’s under your feet?

1.Dig

2.Sort

3.Count

4.Measure

What happens next?

Schools across the UK will upload the data they collect to the Pod for the scientists.

This will be the first time a large scale study of soil invertebrate abundance across the country has been carried out.

We will regularly go to the Pod to look at blogs from the scientists so we can find out how our work is helping them to understand what is causing bird decline.

What’s Under Your Feet? will provide these SCIENTFIC OUTCOMES for the BTO

1.The first maps of soil invertebrate abundance across the country, by relating the data from schools to information about soil-type and climate across the country.

2.An understanding of the main factors influencing soil invertebrates – especially climate and soil-type, which will identify how vulnerable these populations are to future change.

3.A scientific paper linking the soil invertebrate data to large-scale variation in bird populations and trends, and looking at the importance of climate in driving these trends – because we helped the scientists we be credited in the paper.  So we will be named in a real scientific paper!