Earthworm species composition affects the soil bacterial community and net nitrogen mineralization

By M. Postma-Blaauw, J. Bloem, Jack H. Faber, J. V. van Groenigen, R. D. de Goede, L. Brussaard. 2006

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Role of Earthworms in Soil Fertility Maintenance through the Production of Biogenic Structures (2010, background): “Various experimental studies suggest that EWs have potentially negative consequences on fertilizer-N retention studies [62].”
Carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes from soil as influenced by anecic and endogeic earthworms (2008, background): “This may have been overly cautious, since the endogeic earthworms Octolasion lacteum and A. caliginosa stimulated the same amount of CO2 production in microcosms without plant litter as in microcosms with litter (Potthoff et al., 2001; Vetter et al., 2004).”
Soil food web properties explain ecosystem services across European land use systems (2013, background): “For instance, animals that consume micro-organisms 87 can stimulate rates of nutrient mineralization (9) and plant productivity (10), whereas 88 bioturbators, such as earthworms, can further incre ase nutrient availability for plants (11), 89 although they can also increase N 2O emissions from soil ”