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A dataset for the effect of earthworm abundance and functional group diversity on plant litter decay and soil organic carbon level.
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- Litter quality outweighs climate in driving grassland root decomposition.Frontiers in plant science · 2025Pooled it
- Changes in soil carbon mineralization related to earthworm activity depend on the time since inoculation and their density in soil.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Planting food forests can increase soil biodiversity in agricultural landscapes of Northwest Europe.npj biodiversity · 2026Article
- Earthworms Enhance Global Soil Carbon Storage Through Microbial-Mineral Stabilization.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Topographic modulation of soil functional indicators in shaded coffee agroforestry systems: a multivariate and network-based approach.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Living cover crops are associated with higher earthworm abundance and biomass in a subtropical citrus orchard.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Fauna-microbe diversity coupling lost in agricultural soils: Implications from the bacteria hidden in earthworm gut.Fundamental research · 2025Article
- Ecological and evolutionary responses of earthworm holobionts to environmental changes.The ISME journal · 2025Review
- Global changes and their environmental stressors have a significant impact on soil biodiversity-A meta-analysis.iScience · 2024Article
- Earthworms increase forest litter mass loss irrespective of deposited compounds - A field manipulation experiment in subtropical forests.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Small predators dominate fish predation in coral reef communities.PLoS biology · 2022Article
- The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Earthworms Modulate Impacts of Soil Heterogeneity on Plant Growth at Different Spatial Scales.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- A dataset for the effect of earthworm abundance and functional group diversity on plant litter decay and soil organic carbon level.Data in brief · 2020Article
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Abstract
This paper describes data of earthworm abundance and functional group diversity regulate plant litter decay and soil organic carbon (SOC) level in global terrestrial ecosystems. The data also describes the potential effect of vegetation types, litter quality, litterbag mesh size, soil C/N, soil aggregate size, experimental types and length of experimental time on earthworm induced plant litter and SOC decay. The data were collected from 69 studies published between 1985 and 2018, covering 340 observations. This data article is related to the paper "Earthworm Abundance and Functional Group Diversity Regulate Plant Litter Decay and Soil Organic Carbon Level: A Global Meta-analysis" [1].
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