Earthworms Coordinate Soil Biota to Improve Multiple Ecosystem Functions

Ting Liu; Xiaoyun Chen; Xin Gong; Ingrid M. Lubbers; Yangyang Jiang; Wen Feng; Xianping Li; Joann K. Whalen; Michael Bonkowski; Bryan S. Griffiths; Feng Hu; Manqiang Liu

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.045

Earthworms Coordinate Soil Biota to Improve Multiple Ecosystem Functions

Ting Liu, Xiaoyun Chen, Xin Gong, Ingrid M. Lubbers, Yangyang Jiang, Wen Feng, Xianping Li, Joann K. Whalen, Michael Bonkowski, Bryan S. Griffiths, Feng Hu, Manqiang Liu^*

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CSS : Soils & Systems

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Abstract

Liu et al. study a 13-year-old field experiment to show that earthworms are beneficial to agroecosystems from a multifunctional perspective. This work incorporates the concerns of negative effects of earthworms in recently published syntheses and highlights the potential pathways in which earthworms contribute to sustainable agriculture.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3420-3429.e5
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	29
Issue number	20
Early online date	3 Oct 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.08.045
Publication status	Print publication - 21 Oct 2019

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bacterial-dominated channel
earthworm
ecosystem engineer
ecosystem service
soil fauna
soil microbe
sustainable agriculture

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Earthworms Coordinate Soil Biota to Improve Multiple Ecosystem Functions

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