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Determining the availability of earthworms for visually hunting predators
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2019 Studies of interactions among earthworms as prey for visually foraging predators required a field method that measures earthworm availability (i.e., the density of surfacing earthworms).
Jeroen Onrust +2 more
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European Journal of Biological Research, 2023 Heavy metals pose serious threats to both individuals and the environment, and there is growing global concern over potentially harmful elements. Heavy metal contamination can have a significant impact on the soil ecosystem's functioning.
Nishat Fatima, Keshav Singh
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30 years of hay meadow succession without fertilization: how does it affect soil and avifauna groups? [PDF]
, 2010 In the present study we investigated the effects of hay meadow succession in the brook valley system of the Drentse A Nature Reserve, in the NE of the Netherlands.
Bakker, Jan P. +5 more
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Environmental assay on the effect of poultry manure application on soil organisms in agroecosystems [PDF]
, 2012 This paper reports the effects produced on the organisms of the soil (plants, invertebrates and microorganisms), after the application of two types of poultry manure (sawdust and straw bed) on an agricultural land.
Alonso +20 more
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The role of earthworm defense mechanisms in ecotoxicity studies [PDF]
Invertebrate Survival Journal, 2015 Earthworms are important soil organisms that affect the soil structure by influencing organic and inorganic matter breakdown. Earthworms are in permanent contact with soil particles via their permeable skin and digestive tract and are thus strongly ...
R Roubalová +4 more
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Earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris L.) Mediate the Fertilizing Effect of Frass
Agronomy, 2020 With the forecasted dramatic growth of insect rearing in the near future, frass (insect excreta) has been increasingly considered a sustainable resource for managing plant nutrition in cropping systems and a promising alternative to conventional ...
Anne-Maïmiti Dulaurent +3 more
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Polyploid races, genetic structure and morphological features of the earthworm Octodrіlus transpadanus (Rosa, 1884) (Oligohaeta: Lumbricidae) in the Ukraine [PDF]
, 2009 Kariological investigation of the earthworm Octodrilus transpada-nus (Rosa, 1884) in the Ukraine showed that this species is represented by at least three races of different ploidy with the basic chromosome number n=15. Strict geographic heterogeneity
Garbar, А. V. +2 more
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Environment InternationalAgricultural plastic mulching films have been an environmental concern for decades. The effects of the interactions between the anthropogenic plastisphere and other soil biospheres, particularly that of earthworms, on the fate of plastics remain poorly ...
Caide Huang +5 more
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Impacts of epigeic, anecic and endogeic earthworms on metal and metalloid mobility and availability [PDF]
, 2011 The introduction of earthworms into soils contaminated with metals and metalloids has been suggested to aid restoration practices. Eisenia veneta (epigeic), Lumbricus terrestris (anecic) and Allolobophora chlorotica (endogeic) earthworms were ...
Charnock, John +5 more
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