Earthworms Enhance Global Soil Carbon Storage Through Microbial-Mineral Stabilization. [PDF]
Glob Chang BiolEarthworms as conditional ecosystem engineers of the soil carbon cycle. The conceptual framework illustrates how earthworm effects on soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics depend on plant‐derived carbon inputs and time. With sustained inputs, earthworm activity stimulates decomposition and nutrient release, boosting plant productivity.
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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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Basic Research Tools for Earthworm Ecology [PDF]
, 2010 Earthworms are responsible for soil development, recycling organic matter and form a vital component within many food webs. For these and other reasons earthworms are worthy of investigation. Many technologically-enhanced approaches have been used within
Butt, Kevin Richard, Grigoropoulou, Niki
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mSystems, 2022 Exploring the ecological mechanism of microbial community assembly in soil and the earthworm gut in a vanadium polluted environment could help us understand the effects of vanadium stress on microbial diversity maintenance and function, as well as the ...
Rong Xia +5 more
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Earthworm differences among mound positions in native prairies in the Ozark Highlands
Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment, 2021 Mounded, tallgrass prairie ecosystems are a unique, endangered ecosystem due to severe disturbance for agricultural production and/or urban expansion.
Carlee D. Hensley +4 more
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In‐situ tin casting combined with three‐dimensional scanner to quantify anecic earthworm burrows
Vadose Zone Journal, 2022 Earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) play a critical role in soil ecosystems. Analyzing the spatial structure of earthworm burrows is important to understand their effect on water flow and solute transport.
Na Wen +4 more
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Extent and mechanism of sealing in transected giant axons of squid and earthworms [PDF]
, 1994 Transected axons are often assumed to seal at their cut ends by the formation of continuous membrane barriers that allow for the restoration of function in the axonal stumps.
Ballinger, Martis L. +3 more
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Toxics, 2023 In this study, we assessed the acute and chronic toxic effects of Sb (III) and Sb (V) on Eisenia fetida (Savingy) (E. fetida) by applying the filter paper contact method, aged soil treatment, and avoidance test experiment.
Jing Bai +8 more
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Earthworm coelomocyte extracellular traps : structural and functional similarities with neutrophil NETs [PDF]
, 2018 ROD UJ /
Joanna Homa
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Earthworm (Clitellata: Megadrili) taxonomy in the last 200 years: A homage to András Zicsi (1928−2015) [PDF]
Opuscula Zoologica Instituti Zoosystematici et Oecologici Universitatis Budapestinensis, 2016 Prof. Dr. András Zicsi, the renowned soil biologist and earthworm taxonomist passed away on 22 July, 2015 at the age of 87. To honour his enormous contribution in exploring earthworm biodiversity all over the world, we provide a brief, albeit ...
Csuzdi, Cs., Szlávecz, K.
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