Ecosystem responses to exotic earthworm invasion in northern North American forests

Nico Eisenhauer; Olga Ferlian; Dylan Craven; Jes Hines; Malte Jochum

doi:10.3897/rio.5.e34564

Cancan Zhao, Yin Li, Chenlu Zhang, Yuan Miao, Mengzhou Liu, Wanlin Zhuang, Yuanhu Shao, Weixin Zhang, Shenglei Fu (2021)
Considerable impacts of litter inputs on soil nematode community composition in a young Acacia crassicapa plantation. Soil Ecology Letters 3: 145.

DOI: 10.1007/s42832-021-0085-3

Malte Jochum, Olga Ferlian, Madhav P. Thakur, Marcel Ciobanu, Bernhard Klarner, Jörg‐Alfred Salamon, Lee E. Frelich, Edward A. Johnson, Nico Eisenhauer (2021)
Earthworm invasion causes declines across soil fauna size classes and biodiversity facets in northern North American forests. Oikos 130: 766.

DOI: 10.1111/oik.07867

Malte Jochum, Lise Thouvenot, Olga Ferlian, Romy Zeiss, Bernhard Klarner, Ulrich Pruschitzki, Edward A. Johnson, Nico Eisenhauer (2022)
Aboveground impacts of a belowground invader: how invasive earthworms alter aboveground arthropod communities in a northern North American forest. Biology Letters 18: .

DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2021.0636

Olga Ferlian, Kezia Goldmann, Michael Bonkowski, Kenneth Dumack, Tesfaye Wubet, Nico Eisenhauer (2024)
Invasive earthworms shift soil microbial community structure in northern North American forest ecosystems. iScience 27: 108889.

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108889

Malte Jochum, Nico Eisenhauer (2020)
How Introduced Earthworms Alter Ecosystems. Frontiers for Young Minds 8: .

DOI: 10.3389/frym.2020.534345

Daniel Mietchen, Lyubomir Penev, Teodor Georgiev, Boriana Ovcharova, Iva Kostadinova (2021)
Open science in practice: 300 published research ideas and outcomes illustrate how RIO Journal facilitates engagement with the research process. Research Ideas and Outcomes 7: .

DOI: 10.3897/rio.7.e68595

Olga Ferlian, Simone Cesarz, Alfred Lochner, Anton Potapov, Lise Thouvenot, Nico Eisenhauer (2022)
Earthworm invasion shifts trophic niches of ground-dwelling invertebrates in a North American forest. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 171: 108730.

DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2022.108730

Lise Thouvenot, Olga Ferlian, Dylan Craven, Edward A. Johnson, Johannes Köhler, Alfred Lochner, Julius Quosh, Anja Zeuner, Nico Eisenhauer (2024)
Invasive earthworms can change understory plant community traits and reduce plant functional diversity. iScience 27: 109036.

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.109036

Anton Potapov, Ina Schaefer, Malte Jochum, Rahayu Widyastuti, Nico Eisenhauer, Stefan Scheu (2021)
Oil palm and rubber expansion facilitates earthworm invasion in Indonesia. Biological Invasions 23: 2783.

DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02539-y

Zhen Zhao, Xiaoling Wang, Weixin Zhang, Xiankai Lu, Tao Liu (2022)
Effects of Exotic and Native Earthworms on Soil Micro-Decomposers in a Subtropical Forest: A Field Mesocosm Experiment. Forests 13: 1924.

DOI: 10.3390/f13111924

Jérôme Mathieu, John W. Reynolds, Carlos Fragoso, Elizabeth Hadly (2024)
Multiple invasion routes have led to the pervasive introduction of earthworms in North America. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 489.

DOI: 10.1038/s41559-023-02310-7

Olga Ferlian, Madhav P. Thakur, Alejandra Castañeda González, Layla M. San Emeterio, Susanne Marr, Barbbara da Silva Rocha, Nico Eisenhauer (2020)
Soil chemistry turned upside down: a meta‐analysis of invasive earthworm effects on soil chemical properties. Ecology 101: .

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2936

Madhav P. Thakur, Tom Künne, Sybille B. Unsicker, Arjen Biere, Olga Ferlian, Ulrich Pruschitzki, Lise Thouvenot, Manfred Türke, Nico Eisenhauer, Ayub Oduor (2021)
Invasive earthworms reduce chemical defense and increase herbivory and pathogen infection in native trees. Journal of Ecology 109: 763.

DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13504

Yevgeniya Malyutina, Gail W. T. Wilson, Eric B. Duell, Scott R. Loss (2023)
Effects of native and non-native earthworms on grassland plant communities and abundance of associated arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Biological Invasions 25: 455.

DOI: 10.1007/s10530-022-02926-z

Romy Zeiss, Maria J. I. Briones, Jérome Mathieu, Angela Lomba, Jessica Dahlke, Laura‐Fiona Heptner, Gabriel Salako, Nico Eisenhauer, Carlos A. Guerra (2024)
Effects of climate on the distribution and conservation of commonly observed European earthworms. Conservation Biology 38: .

DOI: 10.1111/cobi.14187

Kenneth Dumack, Olga Ferlian, Deisy Morselli Gysi, Florine Degrune, Robin-Tobias Jauss, Susanne Walden, Hüsna Öztoprak, Tesfaye Wubet, Michael Bonkowski, Nico Eisenhauer (2022)
Contrasting protist communities (Cercozoa: Rhizaria) in pristine and earthworm-invaded North American deciduous forests. Biological Invasions 24: 1345.

DOI: 10.1007/s10530-021-02726-x