Amy Choi

TL;DR: It was found that local species richness and abundance typically peaked at higher latitudes, displaying patterns opposite to those observed in aboveground organisms, which suggest that climate change may have serious implications for earthworm communities and for the functions they provide.

TL;DR: It is found that plant diversity significantly declined with increasing richness of introduced earthworm ecological groups, and there is evidence that introduced earthworms are associated with declines in plant diversity in North American forests.

TL;DR: The Earthworm diversity data, obtained from the primary literature or provided directly by authors, were collated with information on site locations, including coordinates, habitat cover, and soil properties.

TL;DR: A growing understanding about the impacts of earthworms (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) on ecosystem processes and forest restoration necessitates an examination of their role in Canadian forests where...

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial variations of earthworm populations by measuring abundance based on regional municipality, vegetation type, and edge habitat have been examined, and the results showed that regional effects were more significant than vegetation type likely due to a gradient of soil characteristics in southern Ontario; edges had intermediate earthworm abundance and a higher proportion of epigeic species.