| Earthworm
impacts in maple forests |
Lee
E. Frelich |
| Aug
24, 2007 10:48 PDT |
ENTS:
Two papers by my recently graduated Ph.D. student Andy
Holdsworth were
published this month on the negative impacts of European
earthworm invasion
on plant species richness in maple forests of Wisconsin and
Minnesota:
Holdsworth, A.R., Frelich, L.E. and Reich, P.B. 2007. Effect of
earthworm
invasion on plant species richness in northern hardwood forests.
Conservation Biology 21: 997-1008.
Holdsworth, A.R., Frelich, L.E. and Reich, P.B. 2007. Regional
extent of an
ecosystem engineer: Earthworm invasion in northern hardwood
forests.
Ecological Applications 17: 1666-1677.
The Conservation Biology paper is also covered in the Research
Highlights
section of the Aug. 23 issue of Nature, and the Journal watch
section of
Conservation Magazine.
Lee |
|