Yukio Minamiya

TL;DR: In this article, the changes in water stable aggregates (WSA) and soil carbon (C) at a site in Akame, Mie, Japan, operating a no-tillage with weed mulch management (NWM) system over a chronosequence from 0 to 17 years after conversion from conventional tillage practices (0, 5, 10, 15, and 17 years).

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of two tillage practices (conventional tillage and no-till farming and weed mulching) and their interaction on earthworm abundance, soil aggregates, and soil carbon at two years after land conversion from grassland to agricultural land were studied.

TL;DR: There is a low risk that H. lichenatus will be affected by radioactive contamination in these districts, though further studies on dose rate estimation are required for definitive risk characterisation.

TL;DR: The context-dependent change of soil N dynamics to warming could be caused by differential feeding activity of earthworm, and it results in the modification of the growth characteristics of birch seedlings.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the history of Protura invasion explains the biogeography of these soil-based, small arthropods and also that climate change will induce a shift in the distribution of species irrespective of changes in vegetation type.