Methylation of Mercury in Earthworms and the Effect of Mercury on the Associated Bacterial Communities [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Methylmercury compounds are very toxic for most organisms. Here, we investigated the potential of earthworms to methylate inorganic-Hg. We hypothesized that the anaerobic and nutrient-rich conditions in the digestive tracts of earthworm's promote the ...
Bian Liu, Beat Frey, Ivano Brunner
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Effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and earthworms on plant-soil systems of urban turf grasses [PDF]
PeerJBackground Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) and earthworms have been known to enhance plant growth and improve soil quality, but the results have shown some inconsistencies, exhibiting synergistic or independent effects under different studies. Methods
Ying Hou +4 more
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APPROACHES TO THE ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF EARTHWORMS. A REVIEW [PDF]
Вопросы лесной науки, 2021 Earthworms are the most important component of natural communities, therefore they have attracted the attention of researchers from various fields of biology and agriculture.
S. A. Ermolov
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Earthworms accelerate rice straw decomposition and maintenance of soil organic carbon dynamics in rice agroecosystems [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Background To promote straw degradation, we inoculated returned farmland straw with earthworms (Pheretima guillelmi). Increasing the number of earthworms may generally alter soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics and the biological activity of agricultural ...
Ke Song +7 more
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APPROACHES TO ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF EARTHWORMS: A REVIEW
Вопросы лесной науки, 2022 Earthworms as critical components of natural communities have traditionally attracted the attention of researchers from various fields of biology and agriculture.
S. A. Ermolov
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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022 This study prepared surface-modified biochar, including acid washing biochar (HBC) and biochar supported with nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI-HBC).
Guixiang Zhang +6 more
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Degradation of potassium rock by earthworms and responses of bacterial communities in its gut and surrounding substrates after being fed with mineral. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 BACKGROUND: Earthworms are an ecosystem's engineers, contributing to a wide range of nutrient cycling and geochemical processes in the ecosystem. Their activities can increase rates of silicate mineral weathering.
Dianfeng Liu +3 more
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Animal ecosystem engineers modulate the diversity-invasibility relationship. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2008 BackgroundInvasions of natural communities by non-indigenous species are currently rated as one of the most important global-scale threats to biodiversity. Biodiversity itself is known to reduce invasions and increase stability. Disturbances by ecosystem
Nico Eisenhauer +3 more
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Jurnal Ilmiah Pertanian, 2021 In this study, the inoculation effect of earthworms Pontoscolex corethrurus on celery growth (Apium graveolens L.) has been carried out in red-yellow podzolic (RYP) soils. The research studied in a pot experiment using a completely randomized design (CRD)
Seprita Lidar, Indra Purnama
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Earthworms Building Up Soil Microbiota, a Review
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2019 The positive effect of earthworms on soil processes and plant growth has been extensively documented. The capacity of earthworms to decompose organic matter has been attributed to the microbial communities that inhabit their digestive track or the ...
Regina M. Medina-Sauza +10 more
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