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AUTHOR
Pierre Marmonier
Relationships between earthworm communities and burrow numbers under different land use systems
International audience; This study addresses the influence of three different land use systems (continuous maize, pasture/maize rotation, permanent pasture) on the relationships between earthworm populations and the number of earthworm burrows quantified in a soil profile. Quantified burrows were limited to those observable by the naked eye (i.e. >2 mm in diameter) and enumerated earthworms were limited to those which could have created the observable burrows (i.e. >0.3 g). The results were combined with data from the literature coming from different geographical regions. This study showed that earthworm abundance decreased with the increasing land management intensity (maize crop vs. pastu…
Groundwater biodiversity in Europe. In: Freshwater Biology Special Issue, Assessing and Conserving Groundwater Biodiversity (Eds. J. Gibert & D.C. Culver),
International audience
Groundwater biodiversity in Europe
18 páginas, 7 figuras, 4 tables et al