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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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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The effects of clonal integration and earthworms on the growth, active constituent accumulation in Glechoma longituba, and the soil microbial community in its root zone [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceIntroductionClonal integration represents a key ecological advantage of clonal plants, enabling resource transfer among interconnected ramets. Earthworm activity significantly influences soil processes and plant growth.
Bing-Nan Zhao +7 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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Earthworms contribute significantly to global food production
Nature Communications, 2023 Earthworms are critical soil ecosystem engineers that support plant growth in numerous ways; however, their contribution to global agricultural production has not been quantified. We estimate the impacts of earthworms on global production of key crops by
S. Fonte, M. Hsieh, N. Mueller
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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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Sustainability, 2022 Earthworms mix soil layers and bind the soil with organic matter. This combination allows organic matter to disperse through the soil and also allows plants to access the nutrients they retains and enhance the soil’s fertility.
Nazeer Ahmed, K. Al-Mutairi
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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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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 ...
Stephan Raphael Rieder +4 more
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