Earthworm responses to plant species' loss and elevated CO2 in calcareous grassland

Plant and Soil

Volumn 208, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-8

  Zaller, J G ^a,b   Arnone III, J A ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide enrichment; Earthworm electro sampling; Earthworm populations; Lumbricidae; Plant species diversity; Plant animal interactions; Soil ecology

Indexed keywords

EARTHWORM; SWITZERLAND;

CALCAREOUS GRASSLAND; CARBON DIOXIDE ENRICHMENT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; EARTHWORM; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SWITZERLAND;

ALLOLOBOPHORA; ALLOLOBOPHORA ROSEA; ANIMALIA; ANNELIDA; INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICIDAE; PHERETIMA SIEBOLDI;

EID: 0032813435     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004424720523     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. 2. Global Change Biol., in preparation.
2. Bolton P J and Phillipson J 1976 Burrowing, feeding, egestion and energy budgets of Allolobophora rosea (Savigny) (Lumbricidae). Oecologia 23, 225-245.
3. Bouché M B 1972 Lombriciens de France. Ecologie et Systématique. INRA Publ. 72-2. INRA, Paris.
4. Bouché M B 1977 Ecologie et paraecologie: Peut-on apprecier le role de la faune dans les cycles biogeochimiques. In Soil Organisms as Components of Ecosystems. Eds. U Lohm and T Persson. Ecol. Bull. (Stockholm) 25, 157-163.
5. Chapin F S III, Walker B H , Hobbs R J, Hooper D U, Lawton J H, Sala O E and D Tilman 1997 Biotic control over the functioning of ecosystems. Science 277, 500-502.
6. Coleman D C and Crossley D A Jr 1996 Fundamentals of Soil Ecology. Academic Press, San Diego.
7. Edwards C A and Bohlen P J 1996 Biology and Ecology of Earthworms. 3rd ed. Chapman & Hall, London.
8. Gerard B M 1967 Factors affecting earthworms in pastures. J. Anim. Ecol. 36, 235-252.
9. Hooper D U and Vitousek P M 1997 The effects of plant composition and diversity on ecosystem processes. Science 277, 1302-1305.
10. Hungate B A, Holland E A , Jackson R B, Chapin F S III, Mooney H A and Field C B 1997 The fate of carbon in grasslands under carbon dioxide enrichment. Nature 388, 576-579.
11. 2: Global change is under way. Gaia 4, 234-243.
12. 2 on plant species dominance in a highly diverse calcareous grassland. In Carbon dioxide, populations, and communities. Eds. C Körner and F A Bazzaz. pp. 159-175. Academic Press, San Diego.
13. 2 control (SACC): a middle ground between FACE and open-top chambers. Acta Œcol. 18, 207-219.
14. Lee K E 1985 Earthworms. Their ecology and relationships with soils and land use. Academic Press, Sydney, New York.
15. McNaughton S J 1977 Diversity and stability of ecological communities: a comment on the role of empiricism in ecology. Am. Natur. 111, 515-524.
16. Ogermann P, Spycher B, Schaub D and Sollberger R 1994 Die Landschaftsstruktur im Raum Nenzlingen - geoökologisch gesehen. Regio Basiliensis 35, 91-100.
17. Peters R and Lovejoy T 1992 Global Warming and Biodiversity. Yale University Press, New Haven, USA.
18. Scheu S 1987 The role of substrate feeding earthworms (Lumbricidae) for bioturbation in a beechwood soil. Oecologia 72, 192-196.
19. Schulze E-D and Mooney H A 1993 Biodiversity and ecosystem function. Ecological Studies 99. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
20. Sokal R R and Rohlf F J 1981 Biometry. The principles and practice of statistics in biological research. 2nd ed. Freeman & Company, New York.
21. Springett J A 1983 Effect of five species of earthworms on some soil properties. J. Appl. Ecol. 20, 865-872.
22. 2 and plant species diversity on ecosystem level gas exchange in a planted calcareous grassland. Global Change Biol. (In Press).
23. 2 and moisture effects on soil carbon storage and cycling in temperate grasslands. Global Change Biol. 3, 225-235.
24. Thielemann U 1986 Elektrischer Regenwurmfang mit der Oktett-Methode. Pedobiol. 29, 296-302.
25. Tilman D 1996 Biodiversity: population versus ecosystem stability. Ecology 77, 350-363.
26. Tilman D, Wedin D and Knops J 1996 Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems. Nature 379, 718-720.
27. Vetter F 1996 Methoden zur Regenwurm-Extraktion. Vergleich der Formalin-, Senf- und Elektromethode. BUWAL (Bern), Umwelt-Materialien 46 pp.
28. Wedin D A and Tilman D 1990 Species effects on nitrogen cycling: a test with perennial grasses. Oecologia 84, 433-441.
29. Wilkinson L, Hill M A and Vang E 1992 Systat: Statistics. Systat Inc., Evanston, IL, USA.
30. Yeates G W, Tate K R and Newton P C D 1997 Response of the fauna of a grassland soil to doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. Biol. Fertil. Soils 25, 307-315.
31. 2. Oecologia 111, 249-254.
32. Zaller J G and Arnone J A III 1998a Earthworm and soil moisture effects on the productivity and structure of native calcareous grassland communities. Soil Biol. Biochem. (In press).
33. 2. Ecology (In press).
34. Zar J H 1996 Biostatistical Analysis. 3rd ed. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, USA.