Assertion: earthworm's role | /r/HasProperty | fragoso
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text: Although litter-burying (anecic) earthworms appear not to be as prevalent in tropical as in temperate climates (Lavelle, 1983), in oligotrophic tropical forests where communities are dominated by litter-feeding epigeic and anecic species, earthworms may have a major role in plant litter decomposition and incorporation (Fragoso and Lavelle, 1995).
text: However, in areas dominated by geophagous endogeic (soil-living, soil-eating) species (e.g., many savannas), the role of earthworms in surface-litter decomposition and incorporation will be mostly indirect, through the deposition of casts on litter and the acceleration of microbial activity (Brown et al., 2000; Fragoso and Lavelle, 1995; Liu and Zou, 2002).