Consequences of subtropical land-use intensity for the abundance and diversity of earthworm ecological categories
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Abstract
• Organic amendments alleviate the negative impacts of land-use intensity on earthworm communities. • Anecic and endogeic earthworms are more sensitive to intensive land-use than epigeic earthworms. • Higher soil pH and improved food resource promoted earthworm abundance. • Earthworm ecological adaptation increased with agricultural intensification. Understanding how soil biodiversity, especially of macrofauna like earthworms, responds to land-use intensity is crucial for developing sustainable land-use strategies. This work is a two-year field investigation of earthworm community responses to increasing land-use intensity, from undisturbed fallow land to actively cultivated agricultural lands (including fallow land, tea plantation, orange plantation, camphora plantation, synthetic fertilizer-amended cropland, compost-amended cropland, and vermicompost-amended cropland) in a subtropical region. Earthworm abundance and diversity increased with land-use intensity, likely due to the compensatory effects of organic amendments, which improve the habitat and resource availability, thereby alleviating the potential negative impacts of tillage and harvesting. Notably, earthworm abundance was higher in cropland (70 ind. m −2 ) than in other land-use types, such as fallow (4 ind. m −2 ) and plantation (22 ind. m −2 ). Greater earthworm abundance was associated with higher soil pH and more food resources, as indicated by high microbial biomass carbon (C), the humification index, and the particulate organic C fraction. Anecic and endogeic earthworms increased more than epigeic earthworms from fallow lands to plantations and croplands, reflecting their ecological adaptability to the soil conditions in managed lands with higher land-use intensity. This suggests that soil ecological restoration practices may enhance the role of earthworms related to soil structure dynamics and carbon sequestration. Our study provides empirical evidence that soil macrofauna have ecological adaptations to cope with agricultural intensification across landscapes.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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