EXOTIC EUROPEAN EARTHWORM INVASION DYNAMICS IN NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS OF MINNESOTA, USA

By C. Hale, L. Frelich, Peter B. Reich. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. C. Hale
2. M. Mclean
3. L. Heneghan
4. Grizelle González
5. Wei Huang
6. X. Zou
7. Sonja Migge-Kleian
8. Peter B. Reich

In Global and Planetary Change

1. K. S. Knight
2. Peter B. Reich
3. S. Scheu
4. L. Frelich
5. I. Wright
6. M. Westoby
7. Brian J. Enquist
8. A. Moles

Citations in the corpus

• Ecology and ecosystem impacts of common buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica): a review (2007, background): “It is difficult to separate the effects of R. cathartica from co-occurring factors, such as exotic earthworms (Bohlen et al. 2004; Hale et al. 2005) and deer overpopulation (Rooney and Waller 2003), that may also lead to declines in understory species.”
• Earthworm invasion into previously earthworm-free temperate and boreal forests (2006, background): “Nitrogen availability in the A horizon declined after multiple-species earthworm invasion in Minnesota hardwood forests (Hale et al. 2005a).”
• Spatial variability of an invasive earthworm (Amynthas agrestis) population and potential impacts on soil characteristics and millipedes in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA (2011, background): “…from other studies that invasive earthworms can negatively affect leaf litter and forest floor characteristics (McLean and Parkinson 1997; Bohlen et al. 2004a; Hale et al. 2005; Suárez et al. 2006), as well as the type and distribution of soil aggregates (Bossuyt et al. 2006; Haynes et al. 2003).”
• Earthworm abundance and functional group diversity regulate plant litter decay and soil organic carbon level: A global meta-analysis (2020, background): “But they differ in the roles of plant litter fragmentation, conditioning of plant litter in cast and tunnel environment, priming effect on SOC decomposition, and clay protection of SOC (Crumsey et al., 2013; Hale et al., 2005).”
• Invasion of exotic earthworms into ecosystems inhabited by native earthworms (2006, background): “Observations by Alban and Berry (1994) and Hale et al. (2005) suggest extended periods of time between introduction of European lumbricid species and their invasion of earthworm-free forests in Minnesota (also see Frelich et al. and Tiunov et al., this issue).”
• Invasion Patterns of Lumbricidae Into the Previously Earthworm-free Areas of Northeastern Europe and the Western Great Lakes Region of North America (2006, background): “In the southern areas of Minnesota and Wisconsin with the longest duration (~150 years) and greatest intensity of human use since European settlement, several European earthworm species (i.e., L. rubellus and Aporrectodea species) are ubiquitous.”
• The influence of invasive earthworms on indigenous fauna in ecosystems previously uninhabited by earthworms (2006, background): “There is still much need for investigations on the microfauna in these systems since, for example, protozoan activity is tightly linked to plant growth (Bonkowski 2004), and might help restore equilibrium in the heavily earthwormimpacted plant communities of the north-central USA described by Hale (”
• European buckthorn and Asian soybean aphid as components of an extensive invasional meltdown in North America (2010, background): “In fencerows and woodlands however, L. terrestris often dominates the soil faunal community (Hale et al. 2005; Holdsworth et al. 2007).”