Influence of Exotic Earthworms on the Soil Organic Horizon and the Rare Fern Botrychium mormo

By M. Gundale. 2002

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology

1. J. Addison
2. Grizelle González
3. X. Zou
4. C. Hale
5. M. Mclean
6. L. Heneghan
7. Peter B. Reich
8. Peter M. Groffman

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. J. Addison
2. M. Mclean
3. Dennis Parkinson
4. Grizelle González
5. X. Zou
6. M. Callaham
7. L. Heneghan
8. C. Hale

In Soil Science

1. J. Addison
2. C. Hale
3. Peter B. Reich
4. Grizelle González
5. X. Zou
6. M. Mclean
7. P. Bohlen
8. L. Heneghan

Citations in the corpus

• Distribution and impacts of invasive earthworms in Canadian forest ecosystems (2008, background): “... at the aspen and lodgepole pine sites in the Kananaskis Valley (Dymond et al. 1997; McLean and Parkinson 2000a, b). Lumbricus rubellus has a voracious appetite for the organic material of the forest floor (Frelich et al. 2006), and is the species implicated as causing significant changes in plan”
• Policy and management responses to earthworm invasions in North America (2006, background): “Also in Minnesota, one study linked the local extirpation of populations of a rare fern, Bostrychium mormo, with the presence of the introduced earthworms Lumbricus rubellus and Dendrobaena octaedra (Gundale 2002).”
• Non‐native invasive earthworms as agents of change in northern temperate forests (2004, background): “The disappearance of established populations of the rare goblin fern (Botrychium mormo) were also associated with the invasion of this earthworm (Gundale 2002).”
• EXOTIC EUROPEAN EARTHWORM INVASION DYNAMICS IN NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS OF MINNESOTA, USA (2005, background): “L. rubellus (adults) merits a unique category since it is considered an epigeic species by Bouché (1977) but has a much greater ability to consume and mix litter into the upper soil horizon than the other epigeic species (Gundale 2002).”
• Earthworm invasions in the tropics (2006, background): “In those areas, exotic European lumbricids have been shown to alter forest floor, change nutrient cycling rates and the distribution and function of microbes and roots, and negatively impact the native vegetation (e.g., Alban and Barry 1994; Gundale 2002; Bohlen et al. 2004; also see Frelich et al”
• Earthworms (Lumbricus terrestris) affect plant seedling recruitment and microhabitat heterogeneity (2006, background): “However, detrimental effects of earthworms on herbaceous plants and tree seedlings have also been documented (James & Cunningham 1989; Gundale 2002; Hale 2004), but these reports are restricted to habitats previously devoid of earthworms and now invaded by non-native earthworm species (Bohlen et…”
• Interactions of an introduced shrub and introduced earthworms in an Illinois urban woodland: impact on leaf litter decomposition. (2007, background): “Gundale (2002), for instance, reported a negative correlation between Lumbricus rubellus, a worm, and Botrychium mormo, an endangered fern.”
• How common are invasion-induced ecosystem impacts? (2011, background): “This structural modification may even have led to the local extirpation of at least one ground cover species (Gundale 2002) and certainly constitutes an ecosystem impact, but soil impacts are also substantial.”
• Current and Potential Roles of Soil Macroinvertebrates (Earthworms, Millipedes, and Isopods) in Ecological Restoration (2008, background): “…other detritivores (e.g., millipedes; Snyder et al. unpublished data) and other soil fauna (Migge-Kleian et al. 2006), reduce leaf litter depth, contribute to soil aggregation, and reduce understory plant diversity and tree seedling density (Gundale 2002; Bohlen et al. 2004; Hale et al. 2006).”