Anna Rożen

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: The key predictors of soil invertebrate richness were light availability in the understory, the abundance of an epigeic earthworm species, the amount of phosphorus, nitrogen, and calcium in soil, soil acidity, and the diversity of fungi, plant litter, and roots.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used multiple regression to describe how ~100 variables were related to soil organic carbon (C) pools in a common garden experiment with 14 temperate tree species, including abundance, chemical composition, and decomposition rates of leaf litter and fine roots.

TL;DR: The observed tolerance to cadmium (higher reproduction, better survival) in the population from the heavily polluted forest apparently was heritable, suggesting adaptation of D. octaedra to life in a polluted environment.

TL;DR: The distribution of enchytraeids in the Niepolomice Forest reflects habitat characteristics but was not influenced by heavy metal content in soil, which matched exactly the forest habitat typology based on vegetation.