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Long live the creepy crawlies, the bugs, the tiny wigglers and wrigglers, the minuscule parasites and nematodes, the mites and oribatids and all the myriad life forms that buzz, crawl and throb below our feet.

Most have barely been given a second thought by science, but biologists now think that these mostly named creatures make up the beating heart of the biosphere and that the fate of all life may depend on the wellbeing of their fragile worlds.
Thanks to photographer David Liittschwager, we now have a visual inkling of what exactly lives high in the cloud forest canopy, below our feet in the parks, in the sediments of rivers and on coral reefs. Liittschwager, primarily a portrait photographer, had the idea of taking a one-cubic-foot metal frame and recording what moved through this habitat over the course of a day and night. He then made portraits of the life that could be seen with the naked eye. (...)

The article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/11/world-in-cubic-foot-david-liittschwager

Cornstalks Everywhere But Nothing Else, Not Even A Bee:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/11/29/166156242/cornstalks-everywhere-but-nothing-else-not-even-a-bee

More about:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/cubic-foot/liittschwager-photography?source=hp_125_cubic_foot_20130206

The book:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo14365301.html

Sull'argomento:
http://blog.greenme.it/clorofilla/biodiversita-di-una-monocoltura-di-mais-niente-a-che-fare-con-il-pianeta-terra/