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Harmful or useful? A case study of the exotic peregrine earthworm morphospecies Pontoscolex corethrurus

2018-01-01

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Exotic peregrine earthworms are often considered to cause environmental harm and to have a negative impact on native species, but, as ecosystem engineers, they enhance soil physical properties. Pontoscolex corethrurus is by far the most studied morphospecies and is also the most widespread in tropical areas. The term of morphospecies is used in this review because P. corethrurus may in fact constitute a complex of...

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Literature Corpus work: 79fe717b-56c9-596f-b76b-d0c5fba2e7b1
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2017.10.030

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