Elaheh Daghighi

• Dr. rer. nat. Natural Sciences
• Head of Science-Hub at betterSoil e. V

Agriculture plays a pivotal role in improving food security and reducing poverty in Africa, as well as in promoting climate change mitigation and adaptation and general progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the agricultural sector employs 70% of the population and is estimated to contribute roughly 15% t...

Population growth, land use and urbanization are currently increasing rapidly. This is accompanied by a high volume of food and green waste such as kitchen and garden waste in cities. In many countries, this waste is not recycled but is burned or ends up in landfills, releasing significant amounts of greenhouse gases and polluting groundwater as we...

Based on all collected literature dealing with the fauna of springtails in Vojvodina Province (Republic of Serbia), a list of species was created and taxonomically revised according to the latest system of Collembola taxonomy. In total, the check list of springtails of Vojvodina includes 125 species in 58 genera from 16 families and 3 orders. The m...

Microplastics (MP) and nanoplastics (NP) contamination of the terrestrial environment is a growing concern worldwide and is thought to impact soil biota, particularly the micro and mesofauna community, by various processes that may contribute to global change in terrestrial systems. Soils act as a long-term sink for MP, accumulating these contamina...

Adequate knowledge of mosquito behavior can aid in the prevention of numerous diseases that they are capable of transmitting. Therefore, a comprehensive research was designed to study the effects of color and some environmental factors on the oviposition behavior and biodiversity of mosquitoes for the first time in Iran. This study was conducted in...

Monitoring the efficiency of betterSoil principles: 1. Soil management, 2. Compost, 3. Biochar, 4. Agroforestry for soil improvement and promotion of sustainable agriculture in practice. https://www.bettersoil.info/projects/bettersoil-iran/

Hormozgan Province is one of the important foci of malaria in Iran. In addition to malaria pathogens, mosquitoes also transmit the pathogens that cause dirofilariasis and West Nile fever in the province. Also, the threat of emerging aedine-borne viruses that cause infections, such as Chikungunya, dengue, and Zika, is noticeable. There is little inf...

Global Symposium on Soil Biodiversity (GSOBI21) was held virtually by FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations) in Rome, Italy between 19 and 22 April 2021. The main objective of this science-policy meeting was to find solutions to live in harmony with nature, in order to achieve sustainable development goals by conserving and susta...

During 2018-2019 a project was carried out to determine the prostigmatid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) associated with tea orchards in Guilan province, Northern Iran. The soil, litter and plant samples were collected from tea orchards in eastern and western parts of Guilan province. Mites were extracted by placing soil, plant foliage and litter in a B...

A faunistic study of mesostigmatid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) associated with tea orchards in Guilan province, Northern Iran was carried out during 2018 and 2019. Plant, soil and litter samples were collected from tea orchards in eastern and western parts of Guilan province. Mesostigmatid mites were extracted by using Berlese funnel or direct exam...

During 2018-2019, fauna of the oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) related to tea plant, Camellia sinensis (L.) in Guilan Province was collected and identified. Mites were extracted from soil samples by Berlese funnel and from leaves by direct examination under a stereomicroscope and cleared in Nesbitt’s solution. Cleared mites were mounted in Hoyer’...

The Symphypleon springtails collected from Guilan province in Northern Iran were investigated in the framework of a faunal study that carried out between 2009 and 2011. Among totally 25 determined species of Collembola in this study, three species and one tribe of order Symphypleona were reported for the first time from Guilan province, Iran. Of th...

During 2018- 2019 in a research entitled the identification of arthropods associated with tea, some samples of leaves and branches of tea plant infected by broad mite (Tarsonemidae) were collected. Mites were separated from infected plant parts, cleared in Nesbit’s fluid and mounted on microscopic slides in Hoyer’s medium. Mites were identified by...

The species Desoria trispinata ( MacGillivray, 1896) is globally distributed but probably not native to Europe. Reports on its occurrence have increased substantially over the last years, proving that it is extremely successful, often dominating in number not only Collembola but the entire macroscopic soil fauna under favourable conditions. Still,...

Eighteen sampling campaigns were evaluated for investigating the long-term secondary succession of Collembola communities in relation to climate change and vegetation and in comparison with Gamasina communities at two different managed experimental plots. One plot (SUC) was left undisturbed for natural secondary succession, the other plot (REC) was...

Soil mesofauna was collected between 1983 and 2000 from a successional site in Bremen, Germany. The recent analysis of Collembola from this collection posed great challenges in clearing of the specimens stored in 70 % ethanol for 15–32 years for microscopical inspection. For this purpose, five media for permanent slide mounts with different clearin...

The fauna of Isotomidae (Collembola: Entomobryomorpha) was studied in Guilan province, Northern Iran. A total of 11 springtail species belonging to 8 genera from the family Isotomidae were collected and identified, of which six species, Isotomurus punctiferus YOSSI, Cryptopygus thermophilus (AXELON), proisotoma tenella (REUTER), Folsomides parvulus...

A Faunal study of springtails in Guilan Province, Northern Iran was conducted during 2009-2011. A total of 18 springtail species belonging to two orders (Entomobryomorpha and Symphypleona), three families (Isotomidae, Entomobryidae and Kattianidae) and 14 genera were collected and identified. Among them three species, Pseudosinella alba (PACKARD 18...

The numerically dominant hexapoda in most terrestrial ecosystems are collembola. Most species of springtails live in the soil or in such habitats as leaf litter, under bark and in fungi. Most of the Collembola feed on decaying plant materials, fungi and bacteria and just a few species are pests. During 2009-2011 in order to study springtail fauna i...

The numerically dominant hexapoda in most terrestrial ecosystems are collembola. Most species of springtails live in the soil or in such habitats as leaf litter, under bark and in fungi. Most of the Collembola feed on decaying plant materials, fungi and bacteria and just a few species are pests. During 2009-2011 in order to study springtail fauna i...

In this study, some genus of Symphypleon springtails have been reported for the first time from Guilan province, Iran.

In this study, two species of family Entomobryidae (Entognatha: Collembola) have been reported for the first time from Guilan province, Iran: Sinella Coeca, Entomobrya marginata.