The positive effect of earthworms on soil processes and plant growth has been extensively
documented. The capacity of earthworms to decompose organic matter has been attributed …

Intensive agriculture is often criticized for negative impacts on environment and human
health. This issue may be solved by a better management of organisms living in crop fields …

Food production and waste management are two increasing issues ensuing from the
growing world population. Recycling organic residues into amendment for food production …

Biodiversity is responsible for the provision of many ecosystem services; human well‐being
is based on these services, and consequently on biodiversity. In soil, earthworms represent …

Invertebrates play significant, but largely ignored, roles in the delivery of ecosystem services
by soils at plot and landscape scales. They participate actively in the interactions that …

Tillage systems affect the soil physical and chemical environment in which soil organisms
live, thereby affecting soil organisms. Tillage practices change soil water content …

Numbers of species above ground and below ground may be correlated when taxa in both
realms respond similarly to the same or correlated environmental driving variables …

The moment the soil enters into contact with an earthworm, both superficially and internally,
physicochemical and biological changes take place. The drilosphere represents the whole …

Current knowledge of earthworm feeding ecology is reviewed, with particular reference to
food selection, ingestion, digestion and assimilation, and the use of novel techniques to …

Soils are self-organized ecological systems within which organisms interact within a nested
suite of discrete scales. Microorganisms form communities and physical structures at the …