Southern Flatcoil

A damp freshwater shoreline where ludwigia, dollarweed, and sedges root in moist sand along the glass edge of the lake, sheltering amber snails, bladder snails, baby crayfish, ants, worms, and visiting crabs in a nursery and corridor zone between the water and the terrestrial habitats above.

A rain-fed terrestrial meadow where grasses and broadleaf plants feed field crickets, grasshoppers, and a burrowing mole cricket above organic-rich soil worked by millipedes, isopods, and cockroaches at the top of the miniBIOTA terrestrial zone.

A salt-influenced terrestrial forest where red and black mangroves create a layered canopy above a shell-rich substrate worked by climbing crabs, cockroaches, spiders, scorpions, and ants at the boundary between the freshwater and marine sides of miniBIOTA.