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 …

Marine recreational fishing (MRF) is a popular activity that involves millions of people
worldwide. While the impacts of recreational fishing on freshwater ecosystems received …

Fundamentals of Soil Ecology, 3rd Edition, offers a holistic approach to soil biology and
ecosystem function, providing students and ecosystem researchers with a greater …

Introduced exotic earthworms now occur in every biogeographic region in all but the driest
or coldest habitat types on Earth. The global distribution of a few species (eg, Pontoscolex …

Applying the concept of sustainability to invasive species management (ISM) is challenging
but necessary, given the increasing rates of invasion and the high costs of invasion impacts …

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

Much of the literature dealing with the biology and management of invasive species has
focused on the damaging ecological and economic consequences of invasions (see Chaps …

The use of live bait by anglers is an important vector of both aquatic and terrestrial invasive
species. Bait-bucket introductions of invasive crayfishes, fishes, earthworms, pathogens, and …

Soil macroinvertebrates have a considerable impact on soil functions important to the
restoration process, such as decomposition; yet, soil organisms have received relatively little …

For cultivated soils, the important function of earthworms as ecosystem engineers and their
major contribution to the composition and functioning of soil ecosystems with a varying …