The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms¶
Darwin, C. (1837). The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms: With Observations on Their Habits.
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- Bioturbation
- Darwin's 1881 study of earthworm activity (The Formation of Vegetable Mould) was among the first systematic treatments of the phenomenon
This sourceDarwin's monograph, which reports markers such as burnt marl and coal-cinders strewed over fields and found buried inches down a few years later, at about an inch in four and a half years. Estimates that more than ten tons of earth per acre passes annually through earthworms' bodies and is brought to the surface.
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“the more desirous to learn something on this head, as few observations of this kind have been made, as far as I know, on animals so low in the scale of organization and so poorly provided with sense-organs, as are earth-worms.”
- Darwin's 1881 study of earthworm activity (The Formation of Vegetable Mould) was among the first systematic treatments of the phenomenon
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