Species abundance and zoogeographic affinities of Chinese terrestrial earthworms

Changes in fibrolytic enzyme activity during vermicomposting of maize stover by an anecic earthworm Amynthas hupeiensis

“…Amynthas hupeiensis was chosen as the earthworm species for vermicomposting of maize stover in the present study in view of its being an anecic ecotype. Also, A. hupeiensis is a wide-range species in China [22].…”

Reports of Drawida (Oligochaeta: Moniligastridae) from far East Asia

“…1 phylogram shows "Drawida japonica" from KOBIC Korea that agrees with "Drawida japonica" from China although both differ from Drawida japonica from Japan as listed in . In , it was also noted that COI barcodes (by Huang et al 2007 andChang et al 2008) from Chinese source material differed by ~17% from a Lake Biwa sample and that conspecificity of these Chinese entities needs to be reexamined.…”

Using municipal biosolids in ecological restoration: What is good for plants and soil may not be good for endemic earthworms

“…Barrera and Andres, 2001;Ndegwa and Thompson, 2001;Suthar and Singh, 2009;McDaniel et al, 2013). Many natural ecosystems include highly diverse endemic earthworm communities (Boyer and Wratten, 2010;Huang et al, 2007;Tsai et al, 2009), and due to the frequent location of mines in undisturbed environments, native and endemic flora and fauna are often impacted. Much research studying the impacts of biosolids, such as metal accumulation or survival of earthworms, suggests that the effects are largely species-and metal-specific (Ireland, 1979;Spurgeon et al, 2000), therefore endemic species may respond differently to biosolids than the earthworm species commonly studied.…”