02/19/2024
By Erin Blakemore February 18, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EST Researchers said nonnative earthworms pose a "serious threat" to biodiversity because of their role as “ecosystem engineers.” (Heather Rousseau for The Washington Post) Nonnative earthworms have colonized much of the North American continent, posing a threat to native ecosystems, a recent analysis reveals. Writing in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers documented the presence of scores of nonnative earthworm species across the continent, calling them a “serious threat” to biodiversity because of their role as “ecosystem engineers.”...
By Erin Blakemore February 18, 2024 at 6:30 a.m. EST Researchers said nonnative earthworms pose a “serious threat” to biodiversity because of their role as “ecosystem engineers.” (…
