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Earthworms as colonizers of natural and cultivated soil environments
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The role of earthworms in succession is understood to improve their role in soil restoration and soil management, and limiting environmental factors seem to play a more important role than inherent ecological characteristics like r/K selection.About:
This article is published in Applied Soil Ecology.The article was published on 2011-10-01. It has received 86 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil biology & Soil ecology.read more
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Biodiversity effects on soil processes explained by interspecific functional dissimilarity
D.A. Heemsbergen,D.A. Heemsbergen,D.A. Heemsbergen,Matty P. Berg,Matty P. Berg,Matty P. Berg,Michel Loreau,Michel Loreau,Michel Loreau,J.R. van Hal,J.R. van Hal,J.R. van Hal,Jack H. Faber,Jack H. Faber,Jack H. Faber,H.A. Verhoef,H.A. Verhoef,H.A. Verhoef +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used soil microcosms to show that functional dissimilarity among detritivorous species, not species number, drives community compositional effects on leaf litter mass loss and soil respiration, two key soil ecosystem processes.
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Scientific Opinion addressing the state of the science on risk assessment of plant protection products for in-soil organisms
Colin Ockleford,Paulien Adriaanse,Philippe Berny,Theodorus Brock,Sabine Duquesne,Sandro Grilli,Antonio F Hernandez-Jerez,Susanne Hougaard Bennekou,Michael Klein,Thomas Kuhl,Ryszard Laskowski,Kyriaki Machera,Olavi Pelkonen,Silvia Pieper,Michael Stemmer,Ingvar Sundh,Ivana Teodorovic,Aaldrik Tiktak,Christopher J. Topping,Gerrit Wolterink,Peter S. Craig,Frank de Jong,Barbara Manachini,Paulo Sousa,Klaus Swarowsky,Domenica Auteri,Maria Arena,Smith Rob +27 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that in‐soil environmental risk assessments are made at in‐ and off‐field scale considering field boundary levels, and a new testing strategy which takes into account the relevant exposure routes for in‐ soil organisms and the potential direct and indirect effects is proposed.
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The impact of agricultural practices on soil biota: A regional study
Jean-François Ponge,Guénola Pérès,Muriel Guernion,Nuria Ruiz-Camacho,Jérôme Cortet,Céline Pernin,Cécile Villenave,Rémi Chaussod,Fabrice Martin-Laurent,Antonio Bispo,Daniel Cluzeau +10 more
TL;DR: It is shown that studied animal and microbial groups, with the exception of epigeic springtails, are negatively affected by the intensity of agriculture, meadows and crops in rotation exhibiting features similar to their permanent counterparts.
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Utilization of earthworms and termites for the restoration of ecosystem functioning
TL;DR: In this article, the management of earthworm and termite activity for the restoration of ecosystems is discussed, and the major obstacles hampering the utilization of soil engineer activity for restoring degraded, acid, compacted or crusted, polluted and eroded soils are summarized.
Invasion of exotic earthworms into ecosystems inhabited by native earthworms
Paul F. Hendrix,Geoff H. Baker,Mac A. Callaham,G. A. Damoff,Carlos Fragoso,Grizelle González,Samuel W. James,S. L. Lachnicht,Thaïs Winsome,Xiaoming Zou +9 more
TL;DR: The most conspicuous biological inva- sions in terrestrial ecosystems have been by exotic plants, insects and vertebrates. as mentioned in this paper explored the idea that indigenous earthworm fauna and/or characteristics of their characteristics are common in ecosystems inhabited by native earthworms, especially where soils are undisturbed.
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Organisms as ecosystem engineers
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Biodiversity and stability in grasslands
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TL;DR: This article showed that primary productivity in more diverse plant communities is more resistant to, and recovers more fully from, a major drought and that each additional species lost from our grasslands had a progressively greater impact on drought resistance.