Aim To review published evidence regarding the factors that influence the geographic
variation in diversity of soil organisms at different spatial scales. Location Global. Methods A …

Terrestrial ecologists and soil modelers have traditionally portrayed the inhabitants of soil as
a black box labeled as “soil fauna” or “decomposers or detritivores” assuming that they just …

The invasion of jumping worms, a small group of pheretimoid earthworm species from Asia,
has increasingly become an ecological, environmental and conservation issue in forest …

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 …

Although DNA barcodes-based operational taxonomic units (OTUs) are increasingly used in
earthworm research, the relative efficiency of the different methods available to delimit them …

Collembola is one of the major functional groups in soil as well as a model taxon in
numerous disciplines. Therefore the accurate identification of specimens is critical, but could …

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 …

Biological invasions are increasingly recognized as a potent force altering native
ecosystems worldwide. Many of the best documented cases involve the massive invasions …

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 …

The invasion of the pheretimoid earthworms in North America, especially the genera
Amynthas and Metaphire, has raised increasing concerns among ecologists and land …