Earthworm invasion into previously earthworm-free temperate and boreal forests

By L. Frelich, C. Hale, S. Scheu, Andrew R. Holdsworth, L. Heneghan, P. Bohlen, Peter B. Reich. Biological Invasions, 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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• Soil fauna responses to natural disturbances, invasive species, and global climate change: Current state of the science and a call to action (2017, background): “…system structure and functioning in some of the most pristine areas of North America (Addison, 2009; Bohlen et al., 2004; Cameron and Bayne, 2009; Frelich et al., 2006; Hendrix et al., 2008), although this largely occurs in areas that were not previously occupied by earthworms (Hendrix et al.,…”
• Pandora's Box Contained Bait : The Global Problem of Introduced Earthworms (2008, background): “Does one invasive species facilitate establishment of others as in the relay effect described by Frelich et al. (2006), and could earthworm invasions manifest as an invasional meltdown (Simberloff & von Holle 1999)?”
• A proposal for including humus forms in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB-FAO) (2013, background): “Ponge), or the invasion of North-American terrestrial ecosystems by earthworm species of European origin (Frelich et al., 2006).”
• European buckthorn and Asian soybean aphid as components of an extensive invasional meltdown in North America (2010, background): “…suggested that introduced earthworms facilitate the establishment of introduced plants and other invaders, and in turn that introduced plants facilitate earthworm invasions, leading to the potential for positive feedback among invaders (Aplet et al. 1991; Kourtev et al. 1999; Frelich et al. 2006).”
• How common are invasion-induced ecosystem impacts? (2011, background): “Nevertheless, research in previous worm-free areas in North American boreal and temperate forests suggests major ecosystem impacts of worm invasions (Frelich et al. 2006).”
• Impacts of exotic invertebrates on New Zealand's indigenous species and ecosystems (2010, background): “Exotic earthworms are a well-studied invader in a number of ecosystems, particularly northern temperate forests (Bohlen et al. 2004; Frelich et al. 2006; Hendrix 2006; Eisenhauer et al. 2007; Holdsworth et al. 2007), but the impact of exotic invertebrates on decomposition has received comparatively ”
• The influence of paleoclimate on present-day patterns in biodiversity and ecosystems (2015, background): “F or p er so na l u se o nl y. across the Bering land bridge as well as climate-driven extirpations from Europe and western North America (Donoghue & Smith 2004).”
• Global meta‐analysis of the impacts of terrestrial invertebrate invaders on species, communities and ecosystems (2016, background): “…on detritivores examined earthworm invasions into areas where native earthworms were absent (e.g. hardwood forests in the north-eastern United States) and thus their functional uniqueness as ecosystem engineers in these systems may have contributed to their large effects (Frelich et al., 2006).”
• Distribution and impacts of invasive earthworms in Canadian forest ecosystems (2008, background): “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 plant communities in Minnesota (Hale 2004), including the extirpation of the rare fern Botrychium mormo Wagner in the…”
• Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration (2010, background): “, 2006), earthworms (Frelich et al., 2006), rats (Wardle et al.”
• Impacts of invasive biota in forest ecosystems in an aboveground–belowground context (2017, background): “…can include short term enhancement of plant nutrition and growth (Scheu and Parkinson 1994), but adverse longer term biogeochemical effects and impaired recruitment of forest tree species resulting from the loss of organic matter (Frelich et al. 2006; Eisenhauer et al. 2009; Paudel et al. 2016).”