Комахи степу: чи перевищує їх число населення світу? | Steppe Insects: Do They Outnumber the World?

Could a square kilometre of steppe contain more insects than there are people on Earth? Studies of grassland insect communities show that abundance varies greatly by place, season, insect group, and counting method. For example, one study of grasslands during the monsoon counted about 67 insects per 100 square metres—roughly 670,000 per square kilometre, far fewer than the more than eight billion people worldwide. Other plots may contain far more tiny soil arthropods, but the unqualified claim is not established without defining the taxa and sampling method. The illustration was created with AI.