Claim · model-written summary
The earthworm population proliferated.
- Taxon
- Pontoscolex corethrurus
Pontoscolex corethruruse1 - Outcome
- worm population proliferatede0
Verbatim
e0“Plant biomass was improved in EW+ and worm population proliferated.”
e1“with and without Pontoscolex corethrurus (EW+ and EW−, respectively)”
Title
Disentangling the influence of earthworms in sugarcane rhizosphere
Lucas P. P. Braga; Caio A. Yoshiura; Clovis D. Borges; et al. Scientific Reports 2016. doi:10.1038/srep38923
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Intervention effect Earthworm treatments had higher belowground nitrous oxide concentrations in bulk soil and rhizosphere.
- Intervention effect Earthworm treatments had higher relative abundance of nitrous oxide genes in bulk soil and rhizosphere.
- Mechanism The results suggest soil microbes consumed earthworm-induced nitrous oxide.
- Intervention effect Around 70 microbial functions differed between earthworm-present and absent treatments.
- Intervention effect Genes indicative of biosynthetic pathways and cell proliferation were enriched with earthworms.
- Intervention effect Plant-microbe symbiosis functions were enriched in earthworm-present rhizospheres.
- Intervention effect Earthworms decreased niche diversification.
- Intervention effect Earthworms increased keystone functions.
- Intervention effect Sugarcane biomass improved with earthworms.