Effects of bioenergy crop cultivation on earthworm communities—A comparative study of perennial (Miscanthus) and annual crops with consideration of graded land-use intensity
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Energy crops are of growing importance in agriculture worldwide. This field study aimed to investigate earthworm communities of different intensively cultivated soils during a 2-year period, with special emphasis on annual and perennial energy crops like rapeseed, maize, and Miscanthus. These were compared with cereals, grassland, and fallow sites. Distribution patterns of earthworm abundance, species, and ecological categories were analysed by constrained ordination procedures (redundancy analysis; CANOCO) using a set of environmental variables as predictors, such as CN value of harvest residues, SOC and Nₜ content, soil pH, soil texture, and land-use intensity. The latter was determined by principal component analysis using average soil coverage and intensity of tillage, weed control, and fertilisation as input variables. It was clearly found that land-use intensity was the dominant regressor for earthworm abundance and total number of species. The diversity of earthworm communities was especially enhanced and showed a more balanced species composition in extensively managed soils under grassland, fallow, and Miscanthus. For the total number of species, Miscanthus (5.1±0.9) took a medium position and neither differed significantly from intensively managed rapeseed (4.0±0.9), cereals (3.7±1.1), and maize sites (3.0±1.4), nor from grassland (6.8±1.5) and fallow (6.4±1.0) sites. Total earthworm abundance ranged between 355 (±132) and 62 (±49)individualsm⁻² in fallow and maize sites, respectively. Interestingly, Miscanthus had quite positive effects on earthworm communities although the CN value of harvest residues was very high. It is recommended that Miscanthus may facilitate a diverse earthworm community even in intensive agricultural landscapes.
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- Authors
- Felten, D., & Emmerling, C.
- Affiliations
- Universität Trier (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Felten, Daniel
- ORCID
- Emmerling, Christoph
- Venue
- Applied Soil Ecology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-09
- Volume
- 49
- Pages
- 167-177
- ISSN
- 0929-1393 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2088085434
- Cited by
- 83
- References
- 57
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 11 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 6.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Applied Soil Ecology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Keywords
- earthworm communities, energy crops, Miscanthus, land use intensity, soil fauna, earthworm diversity, earthworm abundance, soil organic carbon, soil nitrogen, harvest residues, tillage, fertilization, weed control, Brassica napus, maize, grassland, fallow
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