Earthworms transform the environment according to their needs

In nature, not only is “everything connected to everything,” as Humboldt wrote almost 200 years ago, but often these connections are feedback. In an article published in Functional Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13668 we have shown that earthworms transform the environment according to their needs: the nutrient content of the forest litter positively influences the number and activity of earthworms (in the soil and in the litter), which by transforming the litter improves the quality of humus and modifies the pH of the soil in a direction that favours the occurrence of earthworms, which improves the quality of the litter and soil pH, etc. … The co-author of this ecological story about earthworms – environmental engineers is professor Bogdan Jaroszewicz