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Gut microbes

Appears in 4 processs and 10 steps. Everything below is linked: open a process to see it in context.

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Soil fauna

3 steps

Earthworm gut passage, casts and the drilosphere

3 steps

Earthworm drilosphere: gut passage, casts, middens and greenhouse gas effects

3 steps

Start: Earthworm encounters litter and soil in moist conditions
End: Casts, burrows and nutrients change soil function
Gut mucus supplies easily used carbon that activates dormant soil microbes (the Sleeping Beauty effect) while digestion is partly mutualistic

Bioturbation: fauna remodel soil structure

1 step

Gut passage and mucus bind particles into water-stable casts

Often found with

Earthworms 9 Soil organic matter 3 Mucus 3 Lumbricus terrestris 3 Plant roots 3 Carbon 2 Nitrogen 2 Litter 2 Earthworm casts 1 Minerals 1 Soil aggregates 1 Polysaccharides 1

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