Department of Ecology, Lincoln University, Lincoln, 7647 Christchurch, New Zealand

Interactions of native and introduced earthworms with soils and plant rhizospheres in production landscapes of New Zeala...

Published in Applied Soil Ecology

Native and exotic earthworms and plants co-exist on the margins of agricultural land in New Zealand. Remnants of native vegetation support mixed assemblages of depleted populations of native Megascolecid earthworms together with apparently increasing invasive populations of introduced Lumbricidae. We question whether the survival and viability of t...