The impact of multiple agricultural land uses in sustaining earthworm communities in agroecosystems - A global meta-analysis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe impact of agricultural land use on biodiversity has been extensively examined through efforts to synthesize available data. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of a thorough synthesis describing the earthworm response to agricultural land-use Our ...
Bibiana Betancur-Corredor +2 more
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Soil Security, 2023 Earthworms an ecologically important group of invertebrates that are crucial to delivery of many ecosystem services, but also considered ecosystem engineers playing an important role in soil fertility and land productivity.
Marco E. Mng'ong'o
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High-resolution melting (HRM) curve analysis as a potential tool for the identification of earthworm species and haplotypes [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Earthworm communities are an important component of soil biodiversity and contribute to a number of ecosystem functions such as soil-nutrient cycling.
Anna Vaupel, Bernd Hommel, Lukas Beule
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Earthworm density differences among tallgrass prairies over time in the Ozark Highlands
Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 2021 To mitigate the loss of tallgrass prairies through fragmentation and conversion to other land uses, prairie restoration efforts have been undertaken to reclaim areas that have been previously used for agricultural production.
Carlee Hensley +4 more
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Agronomy, 2022 Field margin (FM) provides refuges for earthworm survival in rape-rice system after flooding, while the effects of FM with different size on earthworm in arable field (AF) is unclear.
Chao Li +7 more
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Campsites, forest fires, and entry point distance affect earthworm abundance in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Factors controlling the spread of invasive earthworms in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness are poorly known. Believed to have been introduced by anglers who use them as bait, invasive earthworms can alter the physical and chemical ...
Todd Wellnitz +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Abundance and distribution of earthworms in agricultural fields is frequently proposed as a measure of soil quality assuming that observed patterns of abundance are in response to improved or degraded environmental conditions.
Mark E Hodson +6 more
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Proximal Soil Sensing - A Contribution for Species Habitat Distribution Modelling of Earthworms in Agricultural Soils? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Earthworms are important for maintaining soil ecosystem functioning and serve as indicators of soil fertility. However, detection of earthworms is time-consuming, which hinders the assessment of earthworm abundances with high sampling density over entire
Michael Schirrmann +6 more
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Developing a systematic sampling method for earthworms in and around deadwood
Forest Ecosystems, 2019 Background The ecological importance of deadwood is widely acknowledged, however popular forestry practices may reduce deadwood from a site, and most European forests now fall below recommended targets, putting deadwood-associated species at risk.
Frank Ashwood +3 more
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Impact of the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris (L.) on As, Cu, Pb and Zn mobility and speciation in contaminated soils [PDF]
, 2011 To assess the risks that contaminated soils pose to the environment properly a greater understanding of how soil biota influence the mobility of metal(loid)s in soils is required. Lumbricus terrestris L. were incubated in three soils contaminated with As,
Hodson, Mark E. +3 more
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