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Field and laboratory studies on the activities of two species of tropical earthworms

(1) Investigations were made on the activities of tropical earthworms found in grassland soil in Nigeria, West Africa. (2) Two main species were found, Hyperiodrilus africabus Beddard and Eudrilus eugeniae (Kinberg), confined to soil in shaded and open grassland respectively. (3) Hyperiodrilus produced funnel-shaped·surface casts and Eudrilus mound-shaped casts. (4) About 70 tons of surface casts/acre/year are produced by each species. (5) Casting·was limited to the wet season, lasting from May-October. Worms did not cast on artificially moistened soil, either before or after the wet season. (…

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Source	Internet Archive
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	Jean-François Ponge
Date	1969-01-01
Type	texts
Details	ia description
Found at	https://archive.org/details/madge-1969
Archived copy	Look it up in the Wayback Machine
Record ID	`internet-archive:madge-1969`

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Field and laboratory studies on the activities of two species of tropical earthworms. Internet Archive, 1969. Vero Archive, record internet-archive:madge-1969.