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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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An explicit definition of earthworm ecological categories – Marcel Bouché’s triangle revisited
, 2020 In the early 70s, the soil biologist Marcel Bouche classified French earthworms species into defined ecological categories. This classification system was immensely successful and is still widely used to describe earthworm functional groups even outside ...
N. Bottinelli +3 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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Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. Applied Soil Ecology, 2020 A previous review of earthworm impacts on greenhouse-gas emissions concluded that earthworms elevated soil CO2 emissions with no apparent influence on soil organic carbon (SOC), especially in laboratory incubations and in agroecosystems.
Wei Huang, G. González, X. Zou
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Science of the Total Environment, 2018 Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) is the most abundant source of microplastic pollution worldwide. A recent study found that LDPE decay was increased and the size of the plastic was decreased after passing through the gut of the earthworm Lumbricus ...
E. Huerta Lwanga +6 more
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Impact of different earthworm ecotypes on water stable aggregates and soil water holding capacity
Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2020 We carried out mesocosm experiments using either the anecic earthworm Lumbricus terrestris or the endogeic earthworm Allolobophora chlorotica and loam, silt loam and sandy loam soils to investigate the differing impact of these earthworm of different ...
J. Hallam, M. Hodson
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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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Environmental Pollution, 2019 Ubiquitous contamination of microplastics and arsenic in soil ecosystems can induce many health issues to nontarget soil organisms, and will also cause many potential threats to the gut bacterial communities of soil fauna. However, the changes in the gut
Hongtao Wang +7 more
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Earthworm mucus contributes to the formation of organo-mineral associations in soil
Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2020 Earthworms are considered as “ecosystem engineers” impacting soil properties as well as nutrient and element cycles. As they move through soil, earthworms secrete cutaneous mucus which is metabolized by soil microorganisms and a source of plant-available
Tom Guhra +3 more
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Earthworm Inoculation Improves Upland Rice Crop Yield and Other Agrosystem Services in Madagascar
Agriculture, 2021 The effects of earthworm inoculation and cropping systems on upland rice systems were examined over a four-year period in the Highlands of Madagascar.
Onja Ratsiatosika +7 more
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