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T1  - The unseen invaders : introduced earthworms as drivers of change in plant communities in North American forests (a meta-analysis) 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/178722 
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A1  - Craven, Dylan; Thakur, Madhav P.; Cameron, Erin K.; Frelich, Lee E.; Beausejour, Robin; Blair, Robert B.; Blossey, Bernd; Burtis, James; Choi, Amy; Davalos, Andrea; Fahey, Timothy J.; Fisichelli, Nicholas A.; Gibson, Kevin; Handa, I. Tanya; Hopfensperger, Kristine; Loss, Scott R.; Nuzzo, Victoria; Maerz, John C.; Sackett, Tara; Scharenbroch, Bryant C.; Smith, Sandy M.; Vellend, Mark; Umek, Lauren G.; Eisenhauer, Nico 
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Y1  - 2017 
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AB  - Globally, biological invasions can have strong impacts on biodiversity as well as ecosystem functioning. While less conspicuous than introduced aboveground organisms, introduced belowground organisms may have similarly strong effects. Here, we synthesize for the first time the impacts of introduced earthworms on plant diversity and community composition in North American forests. We conducted a meta-analysis using a total of 645 observations to quantify mean effect sizes of associations between ... 
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KW  - introduced earthworms; plant communities; plant diversity; biological invasions; earthworm invasion; community composition; meta-analysis; INVASIVE EARTHWORMS; HARDWOOD FORESTS; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS; NONNATIVE EARTHWORMS; ENDOGEIC EARTHWORMS; GLOBAL METAANALYSIS; BIODIVERSITY CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM ENGINEER; TEMPERATE FORESTS; 1172 Environmental sciences; 1181 Ecology, evolutionary biology 
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