Earthworms have a prominent role in supporting soil functioning and thus in providing key
services to humanity. Their beneficial role relates to effects on soil structure, carbon and …

Soil fauna is crucial to soil formation, litter decomposition, nutrient cycling, biotic regulation,
and for promoting plant growth. Yet soil organisms remain underrepresented in soil …

The three main ecological categories of earthworms (anecic, endogeic, epigeic) are often
used as proxies for functional groups. This is troublesome since they were not designed for …

We carried out mesocosm experiments using either the anecic earthworm Lumbricus
terrestris or the endogeic earthworm Allolobophora chlorotica and loam, silt loam and sandy …

Microplastic pollution can have detrimental effects on soil environments and inhibit crop
growth. Earthworms, known as soil engineers, promote crop growth, but their role and …

Water is a crucial factor controlling the fate and processing of soil organics. Water commonly
flows through the vadose zone via preferential flow pathways, resulting in nonuniform and …

Earthworms, which contribute to important soil functions, suffer from intensive agriculture.
Their response depends among other things on the earthworm ecological group (anecic …

A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid,
forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical phase …

Earthworms feed on organic matter present at the soil surface or within the soil. Thus, its
distribution in the soil profile is likely to greatly influence earthworm behavior and, in turn …

Endogeic earthworms live and burrow in the soil to find their food. They burrow by pushing
the soil aside or ingesting it and are thus sensitive to soil compaction. However there is a …