ArticleSoil organisms2019
Climate change effects on earthworms - a review.
Article in Soil organisms, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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22 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Elucidating the impact of soil's physico-chemical properties and seasonal variation on earthworm distribution in flood-prone areas of Harike wetland, India.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatial distribution of exotic lumbricid earthworm Octolasion tyrtaeum in endangered Taxus contorta stands across Northwest Himalayan moist temperate forests.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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- Wheat field earthworms under divergent farming systems across a European climate gradient.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter.Nature communications · 2024Review
- Biotic interactions in soil and dung shape parasite transmission in temperate ruminant systems: An integrative framework.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2024Review
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- Fifty years of data show the effects of climate on overall skull size and the extent of seasonal reversible skull size changes (Dehnel's phenomenon) in the common shrew.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Earthworms as catalysts in the formation and stabilization of soil microbial necromass.Global change biology · 2022Article
- Ecotoxicological Effects of Aflatoxins on Earthworms under Different Temperature and Moisture Conditions.Toxins · 2022Article
- Toxicity of fipronil to Folsomia candida in contrasting tropical soils and soil moisture contents: effects on the reproduction and growth.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2022Article
- Urban storm water infiltration systems are not reliable sinks for biocides: evidence from column experiments.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Climate change can have a plethora of effects on organisms above and below the ground in terrestrial ecosystems. Given the tremendous biodiversity in the soil and the many ecosystem functions governed by soil organisms, the drivers of soil biodiversity have received increasing attention. Various climatic factors like temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, as well as extreme climate events like drought and flood have been shown to alter the composition and functioning of communities in the soil. Earthworms are important ecosystem engineers in the soils of temperate and tropical climates and play crucial roles for many ecosystem services, including decomposition, nutrient cycling, and crop yield. Here, we review the published literature on climate change effects on earthworm communities and activity. In general, we find highly species- and ecological group-specific responses to climate change, which are likely to result in altered earthworm community composition in future ecosystems. Earthworm activity, abundance, and biomass tend to increase with increasing temperature at sufficiently high soil water content, while climate extremes like drought and flooding have deleterious effects. Changing climate conditions may facilitate the invasion of earthworms at higher latitudes and altitudes, while dryer and warmer conditions may limit earthworm performance in other regions of the world. The present summary of available information provides a first baseline for predictions of future earthworm distribution. It also reveals the shortage of studies on interacting effects of multiple global change effects on earthworms, such as potential context-dependent effects of climate change at different soil pollution levels and across ecosystem types.
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