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    A Berlese funnel or Berlese trap is a device used to extract desiccation-intolerant invertebrates from samples of soil or leaf litter. It works by creating...
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    with pest species. In 1905, Berlese described an apparatus used to extract small creatures from soil for examination. The funnel device has been adapted in...
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    (while the Berlese funnel is dry) and does not depend on a light/heat gradient. Nematodes move out of the soil and to the bottom of the funnel because,...
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    1080/00779962.1987.9722513.[permanent dead link] Bremner, G (1990). "A Berlese funnel for the rapid extraction of grassland surface macro-arthropods" (PDF)...
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  • Berlese funnel device used to extract ants and other living organism from soil and leaf-litter samples; a sample is placed on a screen with a funnel beneath...
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    Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão. The eponymous "Tullgren funnel" is a modified Berlese funnel, a device used to extract small insects and arthropods from...
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  • be set up above the apparatus (in this way similar to the Tullgren-Berlese funnel). Liquor from the bottom of the apparatus is removed periodically by...
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    nets, and suction trapping. Direct collection from leaf litter with Berlese funnels can also result in specimens that can not be collected by other means...
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    specimens have been collected from Berlesate (soil samples run through a Berlese Funnel). Troglosironidae are 1.7 to 2.5 mm long and eyeless. They have mostly...
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  • Rapoport, E.H. 1975. Wire-gauze size and the efficiency of the Berlese-Tullgren's funnels. Pedobiologia 15: 330-335. Rapoport, E.H., Ezcurra, E. & Drausal...
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