So, I'm trying to read through some journal articles that talk about different modes of sampling. And it occurs to me: I wonder if someone has written up a standard protocol for sampling soil inverts?

by golly, they have!.

While I don't have the nifty fancy Hydropneumatic Elutriator (what a great name!), I CAN use Berliese funnels to get what I can, and will "float" the rest out in water.

So I'm all set for tomorrow afternoon's collecting. I'm always relieved to find that the basic idea I had of how to do something (at least getting the soil samples) was pretty much what an "expert" had in mind. I am not so convinced that my extraction method will work as well but you do what you can, in the absence of a Hydropneumatic Elutriator. (It's not a good time to write grants, even if I had a prayer of getting the NSF to look favorably on my little tiny research program)