Davorka K. Hackenberger

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: Based on the available data and general knowledge on animal lifestyles, collembolans and oribatid mites may be important in transporting ECM fungal propagules by ectozoochory, whereas earthworms, isopods, and millipedes could mainly transfer AM fungal spores in their gut systems.

TL;DR: Investigation of the effects of individual and binary-combined commercial insecticides endosulfan, temephos, malathion and pirimiphos-methyl on the earthworm Eisenia andrei showed additive effect for mixtures, synergistic effect for mixture endOSulfan+temephos and in the case of mixture malathions-methyl the antagonistic effect was indicated.

TL;DR: Investigating whether widely used commercial formulations of glyphosate, tembotrione and nicosulfuron each applied at three environmentally relevant concentrations have adverse effects on various biomarkers and reproduction in epigeic earthworm Dendrobaena veneta suggested that oxidative stress plays an important role in the toxicity of tested herbicides.

TL;DR: The results of this experiment demonstrate that experiments with at least two different environmental conditions can give a very good insight into some possible effects that the climate change could have on the toxicity of pesticides.