Effect of earthworm addition on soil nitrogen availability, microbial biomass and litter decomposition in mesocosms

By Y. Araújo, F. Luizão, E. Barros. Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Soil Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Grizelle González
2. Wei Huang
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4. M. Blouin
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Citations in the corpus

• Earthworms Building Up Soil Microbiota, a Review (2019, background): “Earthworms Increase Nutrient Mineralisation in the Soil Earthworms, in particular endogeic geophagous earthworms, are known to promote C and N mineralisation in the soil (Lavelle et al., 1998; Araujo et al., 2004; Coq et al., 2007; Gopal et al., 2017), most likely through a priming effect affecting ”
• Earthworm abundance and functional group diversity regulate plant litter decay and soil organic carbon level: A global meta-analysis (2020, background): “Earthworm effect on litter decay depends on the quality of the litters (Araujo et al., 2004; Jiang et al., 2018; Qiu and Turner, 2016), litterbag mesh size (Szlavecz et al., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsoil.2019.103473 Received 28 June 2019; Received in revised form 13 December 2019; Accepted 16…”
• Belowground organism activities affect plant aboveground phenotype, inducing plant tolerance to parasites (2005, background): “D I SCUSS ION Improvement of nutrient availability by earthworms (Lavelle et al. 1992; Subler et al. 1997; Araujo et al. 2004) may have reduced the need to mobilize nitrogen through autophagic processes in growing and/or stressed plants.”
• A review of earthworm impact on soil function and ecosystem services (2013, background): “Elevated nitrate concentrations of the drilosphere soil are consistent 416 with elevated nitrifying bacterial populations indicating autotrophic nitrification in the 417 presence of earthworms (Araujo et al., 2004).”
• Vermicomposting of vegetable waste: A bio- physicochemical process based on hydro-operating bioreactor (2008, unknown): “The increase in nitrogen content during vermicomposting is due to the nitrogen release by earthworm’s metabolic products and dead tissues (Araujo et al., 2004).”