Exotic Earthworm Invasion and Microbial Biomass in Temperate Forest Soils

By Peter M. Groffman, P. Bohlen, M. Fisk, T. Fahey. Ecosystems, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Soil Science

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In Ecology

1. J. Addison
2. S. Spector
3. Clive G. Jones
4. J. Steffen
5. Sonja Migge-Kleian
6. J. L. Gutiérrez
7. M. Mclean
8. J. Louzada

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

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2. J. Addison
3. S. Spector
4. T. Larsen
5. Elizabeth S Nichols
6. J. Louzada
7. L. Frelich
8. J. Steffen

In Soil Science

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2. J. Steffen
3. M. Mclean
4. Dennis Parkinson
5. Clive G. Jones
6. L. Heneghan
7. Peter B. Reich
8. C. Hale

Citations in the corpus

• Distribution and impacts of invasive earthworms in Canadian forest ecosystems (2008, background): “The biological impacts of the invading earthworms in soil included altering the distribution of fine roots (Fisk et al. 2004) and the size and activity of microbial biomass (Li et al. 2002; Groffman et al. 2004 ) and negatively affecting mycorrhizal colonization rates (Lawrence et al. 2003).”
• Physical Ecosystem Engineers as Agents of Biogeochemical Heterogeneity (2006, background): “In other situations, biogeochemical heterogeneity results from the active transport of abiotic materials by physical ecosystem engineers (e.g., litter burial by earthworms; Groffman et al. 2004).”
• Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles (2008, background): “Earthworms also incorporate feces into the soil, and alter organic materials that pass through their gut – spurring microbial interactions that alter N availability in complex ways (Groffman et al., 2004).”
• Earthworm invasions of ecosystems devoid of earthworms: effects on soil microbes (2006, background): “But the magnitude of the effect related to the original forest floor available for incorporation into the mineral horizon (Groffman et al. 2004); in the previously cultivated site, there was little forest floor to be mixed into the mineral horizon and the increases in microbial biomass in the…”
• EXOTIC EUROPEAN EARTHWORM INVASION DYNAMICS IN NORTHERN HARDWOOD FORESTS OF MINNESOTA, USA (2005, background): “…from a mor-moder to mull humus conditions may have significant effects on the nutrient dynamics, microbial biomass and function, and plant root and seedling dynamics of these forests (Scheu and Parkinson 1994, Bohlen et al. 2004b, Fisk et al. 2004, Groffman et al. 2004, Suárez et al. 2004).”
• Interactions of an introduced shrub and introduced earthworms in an Illinois urban woodland: impact on leaf litter decomposition. (2007, background): “There is a growing literature confirming that invasive earthworms have negative impacts on these woodlands (Gundale, 2002; Bohlen et al., 2004; Groffman et al., 2004).”
• From peds to paradoxes: linkages between soil biota and their influences on ecological processes. (2008, background): “An increase in total microbial biomass after earthworm invasion may act as a strong immobilization sink for available N in C-rich soils (Groffman et al., 2004).”
• The influence of invasive earthworms on indigenous fauna in ecosystems previously uninhabited by earthworms (2006, background): “…structural changes in the habitat, earthworm invasion will change the food source (e.g., organic matter and microorganisms) for these organisms quite strongly (McLean and Parkinson 1998b, 2000b, Scheu and Parkinson 1994, Groffman et al. 2004; also see Frelich et al. and McLean et al., this issue).”