Microfungal communities in soil, litter and casts of Lumbricus terrestris L. (Lumbricidae): a laboratory experiment.

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The influence of invasive earthworms on indigenous fauna in ecosystems previously uninhabited by earthworms (2006, background): “Tiunov and Scheu 2000a, b). This forms attractive microhabitats for protozoa and nematodes compared to surrounding soil (Shaw and Pawluk 1986, Tiunov et al. 2001, Aira et al. 2003).”
Detritivorous earthworms directly modify the structure, thus altering the functioning of a microdecomposer food web (2008, background): “Further, microbial communities of casts and earthworm burrows differ from those of uningested soil (Sampedro and Whalen, 2007; Tiunov and Scheu, 1999, 2000), which would finally result in changes in decomposition rates (Swift et al., 1979; Saetre, 1998).”
Earthworm invasions of ecosystems devoid of earthworms: effects on soil microbes (2006, methodology): “ Tiunov and Scheu (2000b) observed a tendency for two species of Mucorales and two species of Alternaria to be less abundant and for Trichoderma species to be more abundant in fresh casts than in the original litter, possibly due to differential survival of fungal propagules during gut passage.”