Earthworm ecological traits updated

A recent paper in Geoderma by Bottinelli et al. has revisited earthworm ecological categories. Based on statistical evaluation of morpho-anatomical traits, specific definitions of earthworm life-form categories are offered. These can be applied by EUdaphobase working groups on traits to help standardize and harmonise vocabularies used in data input.

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