نتایج جستجو برای: earthworm meal

تعداد نتایج: 31560  

2016
Hristo VALCHOVSKI Tímea SZEDERJESI

Identifying the earthworm material recently collected from different parts of Bulgaria (Rila Mountain, Danube plain, Thracian Lowland and Sub-Balkan valleys) resulted in twelve records of lumbricids, including two earthworm species discovered for the first time in the country. The occurrence of Cernosvitovia munteniana Zicsi & Pop, 1991 in Bulgaria and also on the territory of the Balkan Penins...

2017
Dylan Craven Madhav P. Thakur Erin K. Cameron Lee E. Frelich Robin Beauséjour Robert B. Blair Bernd Blossey James Burtis Amy Choi Andrea Dávalos Timothy J. Fahey Nicholas A. Fisichelli Kevin Gibson I. Tanya Handa Kristine Hopfensperger Scott R. Loss Victoria Nuzzo John C. Maerz Tara Sackett Bryant C. Scharenbroch Sandy M. Smith Mark Vellend Lauren G. Umek Nico Eisenhauer

Globally, biological invasions can have strong impacts on biodiversity as well as ecosystem functioning. While less conspicuous than introduced aboveground organisms, introduced belowground organisms may have similarly strong effects. Here, we synthesize for the first time the impacts of introduced earthworms on plant diversity and community composition in North American forests. We conducted a...

Journal: :Chemosphere 2014
Peng Xu Yinghuan Wang Yanfeng Zhang Jianzhong Li Huili Wang

Earthworms represent an important food source for many vertebrates and as a result, predators may encounter toxic effects via the food chain from consumption of contaminated worms. Therefore, including an assessment of xenobiotic to worms in risk assessment procedures is advisable. Here we studied the acute toxicity, bioaccumulation and elimination of ethofumesate enantiomers in earthworm, Eise...

2014
Rosa Fernández Sebastian Kvist Jennifer Lenihan Gonzalo Giribet Alexander Ziegler

In spite of the high relevance of lumbricid earthworms ('Oligochaeta': Lumbricidae) for soil structure and functioning, the taxonomy of this group of terrestrial invertebrates remains in a quasi-chaotic state. Earthworm taxonomy traditionally relies on the interpretation of external and internal morphological characters, but the acquisition of these data is often hampered by tedious dissections...

2009
Tunira Bhadauria K. G. Saxena Pradeep Kumar Rohit Kumar V. K. Chaturvedi

Land use-land cover change and management practices influence earthworm species composition and abundance. The natural and agroecosystems under study in the Indogangetic region have a depauperate earthworm fauna. This study provides evidence that agriculture intensification and soil sodicity can severely influence earthworm diversity, in which natural and less disturbed ecosystems had lower ear...

2011
Manuel Aira Jorge Domínguez

BACKGROUND Earthworms are key organisms in organic matter decomposition because of the interactions they establish with soil microorganisms. They enhance decomposition rates through the joint action of direct effects (i.e. effects due to direct earthworm activity such as digestion, burrowing, etc) and indirect effects (i.e. effects derived from earthworm activities such as cast ageing). Here we...

1999
Timothy B. Parkin Edwin C. Berry

Earthworms play an active role in soil nitrogen cycling. Past research has shown that earthworm castings are enriched in NO3 ÿ and NH4 + and show a high potential for microbial nitri®cation and denitri®cation. Little information is available on microbial populations and N transformations in the 1±2 mm thick soil lining of earthworm burrows (the drilosphere). We measured nitrifying bacterial pop...

2008
Andrew R. HOLDSWORTH

The effects of invasive earthworms on decomposition are little known, and the controls of their effect on decomposition may be different than those of microbes. Sugar maple–dominated forests previously devoid of earthworms in the western Great Lakes region (USA) exhibit different degrees of earthworm invasion, presenting a natural experiment to study its effects on litter decomposition. We hypo...

2014
Nico Eisenhauer Artur Stefanski Nicholas A. Fisichelli Karen Rice Roy Rich Peter B. Reich

Climate change causes species range shifts and potentially alters biological invasions. The invasion of European earthworm species across northern North America has severe impacts on native ecosystems. Given the long and cold winters in that region that to date supposedly have slowed earthworm invasion, future warming is hypothesized to accelerate earthworm invasions into yet non-invaded region...

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