Jill Clapperton
Mapped relationships between crop and root diversity, tillage, and earthworm and microarthropod communities in no-till systems.
The record
- Standing
- foundational work
- Based
- Rhizoterra Inc. (founder) · United States
- Focus area
- Microfauna
- Works on
- earthworms, soil microarthropods, no-till, rhizosphere, nutrient density.
Standing is this studio’s placement of the work, not a ranking of the person, and it is the one line here that is a judgement rather than a cited fact.
The work
Rhizosphere ecologist who spent 16 years at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Lethbridge Research Centre studying how no-till, rotations, and cover crops shape soil biota, with an emphasis on earthworms and mites. Founded the Worm Watch citizen-science program. Now principal scientist and owner of Rhizoterra Inc. (founded 2011, Pacific Northwest US), consulting and speaking internationally on nutrient-dense food and soil health.
Where to read them
- Jill Clapperton — lab or personal site
- Worm Watch program (Canada)
- Clapperton et al. (1997) earthworms under no-till
- Rhizoterra Inc.
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