Biodiversity is responsible for the provision of many ecosystem services; human well‐being
is based on these services, and consequently on biodiversity. In soil, earthworms represent …

The biodiversity of soil animal communities is still poorly known. Most taxa, from the smaller
body-sized to the large invertebrates of the macrofauna, suffer a strong taxonomic deficit …

Earthworms are known for their important role within the functioning of an ecosystem, and
their diversity can be used as an indicator of ecosystem health. To date, earthworm diversity …

2012 is the 10th anniversary of the publication of the first molecular phylogenetic study of
earthworms by Jamieson and colleagues in 2002. Since then, a total of 29 papers on …

Global warming is affecting regional climate, ecosystem and diversity array of species by
causing physical and biological changes throughout the planet. Therefore, there is a need to …

Background The accurate delimitation of species is essential to numerous areas of
biological research. An unbiased assessment of the diversity, including the cryptic diversity …

Earthworms directly and indirectly affect soil physico-hydraulic properties. We studied
interactions between winter wheat and the common European earthworm Allolobophora …

Cryptic mitochondrial (mt) lineages are known to exist in the earthworm morphospecies
Lumbricus rubellus and L. terrestris. The latter was recently split into two species, L. terrestris …

Eisenia nordenskioldi subsp. nordenskioldi (Eisen, 1879) is the most cold-tolerant
earthworm species that is widespread in Northern Eurasia. We analyzed genetic variation …

The importance of the Aporrectodea caliginosa species complex lies in the great abundance
and wide distribution of the species which exist within it. For more than a century, chaos has …