Effect of tillage, sampling date and soil depth on earthworm population on maize monoculture with continuous stover restitutions

Rosas-Medina, Miguel Ángel; León-González, Fernando de; Flores-Macías, Antonio; Payán-Zelaya, Fidel; Borderas-Tordesillas, F.; Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Francisco; Fragoso, Carlos

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“…However, Evans and Guild (1948) found that a single spring ploughing did not significantly reduce the biomass or total number of earthworms. Rosas-Medina et al (2010) found no difference between shallow tillage, disk ploughing, and ripper decompaction on earthworm abundance and biomass. Pelosi et al (2009) found three to seven times more anecic and epigeic earthworms in a direct seeded system with living mulch treatment than those in conventional or organic farming systems with ploughing, and there were approximately two times more endogeic earthworms in conventional and organic farming ploughed systems than those in the direct seeded system.…”

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“…Endogeic earthworms seem to be less impacted, and even sometimes favored by ploughing, as their access to organic matter is facilitated when crop residues are buried and partially decomposed by soil microorganisms (Nuutinen 1992;Wyss and Glasstetter 1992). The endogeic earthworm A. caliginosa was considered to be tolerant of soil tillage (Peigne et al 2009;Rosas-Medina et al 2010) although de Oliveira et al (2012) found it to be more sensitive to tillage than A. rosea. Pelosi et al (2009) estimated that endogeic earthworms represented 75 % of total earthworm populations in ploughed fields (conventional and organic farming systems) and only 36 % in unploughed ones (direct seeded system).…”

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Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review

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Barot

Blouin

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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Intensive agriculture is often criticized for negative impacts on environment and human health. This issue may be solved by a better management of organisms living in crop fields. Here, we review the benefits of earthworms for crops, and we present techniques to increase earthworm abundance. The major points are the following: (1) Earthworms usually improve soil structural stability and soil porosity and reduce runoff. (2) Earthworms modify soil organic matter (SOM) and nutrient cycling. Specifically, earthworms stabilize SOM fractions within their casts, and they also increase the mineralization of organic matter in the short term by altering physical protection within aggregates and enhancing microbial activity. (3) The positive correlation between earthworm abundance and crop production is not systematic, and contrasting effects on yields have been observed. Earthworms induce the production of hormone-like substances that improve plant growth and health. (4) Direct drilling increases earthworm abundance and species diversity, but the beneficial effect of reduced tillage depends upon the species present and tillage intensity. (5) Organic amendments enhance earthworm abundance. (6) Earthworms feeding at soil surface are the most exposed to pesticides and other agrochemicals. Finally, we discuss how to combine management practices, including inoculation, to increase the earthworm services. We conclude that using earthworm services in cropping systems has potential to boost agricultural sustainability.

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Section: Tillagementioning

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Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review

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Barot

Blouin

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Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…Previous researchers have reported negative effects of tillage on soil arthropods (e.g., Rosas-Medina et al, 2010). Tillage directly affects soil macro-faunal populations through mechanical damage, and indirectly affects these organisms by modification of their environment via the destruction of burrows, redistribution of litter in the soil profile, and changes in soil water content and temperature (Chan, 2001).…”

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Effects of Cultivation and Grazing Exclusion on the Soil Macro-faunal Community of Semiarid Sandy Grasslands in Northern China

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Zou³

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Arid Land Research and Management

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“…only); Clapperton, Miller, Larney, and Lindwall (), Clapperton () and Rosas‐Medina et al. () ( Aporrectodea caliginosa ); Hubbard et al. () ( Aporrectodea trapezoides ); Reeleder et al.…”

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Conventional tillage decreases the abundance and biomass of earthworms and alters their community structure in a global meta‐analysis

Briones

Schmidt

2017

Global Change Biology

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Article (refereed) -postprintBriones, María Jesús I.; Schmidt, Olaf. 2017. Conventional tillage decreases the abundance and biomass of earthworms and alters their community structure in a global meta-analysis. Global Change Biology, 23 (10). 4396-4419. 10.1111/gcb.13744 Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. Accepted ArticleThis article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Accepted ArticleThis article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. AbstractThe adoption of less intensive soil cultivation practices is expected to increase earthworm populations and their contributions to ecosystem functioning. However, conflicting results have been reported on the effects of tillage intensity on earthworm populations, attributed in narrative reviews to site-dependent differences in soil properties, climatic conditions, and agronomic operations (e.g., fertilization, residue management and chemical crop protection).We present a quantitative review based on a global meta-analysis, using paired observations from 215 studies performed over 65 years across 40 countries on five continents, to elucidate this long-standing unresolved issue. Results showed that disturbing the soil less (e.g., no-tillage and Conservation Agriculture) significantly increased earthworm abundance (mean increase of 137% and 127%, respectively) and biomass (196% and 101%, respectively) compared to when the soil is inverted by conventional ploughing. Earthworm population responses were more pronounced when the soil had been under reduced tillage for a long time (>10 years), in warm temperate zones with fine-textured soils, and in soils with higher clay contents (>35%) and low pH (<5.5). Furthermore, retaining organic harvest residues amplified this positive response to reduced tillage, whereas the use of the herbicide glyphosate did not significantly affect earthworm population responses to reduced tillage.Additional meta-analyses confirmed that epigeic and, more importantly, the bigger-sized anecic earthworms, were the most sensitive ecological groups to conventional tillage. In particular, the deep burrower Lumbricus terrestris exhibited the strongest positive response to reduced tillage, increasing in abundance by 124% more than the overall mean of all 13 species analysed individually. The restoration of these two important ecological groups of earthworms and their burrowing, feeding and casting activities under various forms of reduced tillage will ensure the provision of ecosystem functions such as soil structure maintenance and nutrient cycling by "nature's plough". Accepted ArticleThis article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Co...

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Effect of tillage, sampling date and soil depth on earthworm population on maize monoculture with continuous stover restitutions

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References 21 publications

Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review

Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review

Effects of Cultivation and Grazing Exclusion on the Soil Macro-faunal Community of Semiarid Sandy Grasslands in Northern China

Conventional tillage decreases the abundance and biomass of earthworms and alters their community structure in a global meta‐analysis

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