Sample size (a), Taxa absent (b), Abundance (c), Percentage of Abundance (d), and taxa composition percentage (e) of microfauna from 109 soil samples at ten regions.

†Including 27 samples (20 with mite specimens, and 7 with only mite ecdysis).
Total abundance and average for the regions in (c) are given in bold. Percentage of abundance for all sites in (d) is shown in bold in 1st column. Taxa composition in (e) refers to presence of taxa in samples (no abundance data considered for this category). List of acronyms: Casey Station (CS), Vestfold Hills (VH), Hop Island (HI), Mather Peninsula (MP), Larsemann Hills-Broknes Peninsula (BP), Larsemann Hills-Stornes Peninsula (SP), Larsemann - Islands (L-Isl), Sansom Island (SI), Mawson Station (MS), Framnes Mountains (FM), and Unidentified Bdelloids (Unident-Bdell).