At the Biological Recording Company, one of our 4 primary aims is to increase our knowledge of earthworms by delivering training courses and recording events across the UK. Most of these are free to attend due to funding from partners (or just our own goodwill), and all of them are components of the Earthworm IDContinue reading “Spring 2023: Earthworm Courses & Events”
Category Archives: Earthworms
Weird But Wonderful World of Worms: Tales From The Museum Collections
Emma Sherlock (Natural History Museum) provides a tour of some of the weirder worms from the museum’s collections.
The Earthworm Invasion of North America
Earthworms are well-known ecosystem engineers, profoundly affecting soil processes. They are generally considered beneficial organisms that improve soil quality. But what happens when earthworms are introduced to ecosystems that have evolved with no or very different kinds of earthworms? Prof Katalin Szlávecz discusses the impacts of non-native earthworms in the Atlantic region of North America.
The Giant Wetland Worms of South America
The Orinoco Llanos of Columbia and Venezuela were home to a mystery. These tropical wetlands are home to a landscape dominated by densely packed, regularly spaced mounds of soil. These Surales can be up to 5 m in diameter and 2 m tall and cover an area almost the size of Scotland! Rumsaïs Blatrix takes us on a journey to South America to discover how the mystery of the Surales was solved by her research team.
Phylogenetic Tools to Dig Out the Evolutionary History of Earthworms
The morphology of earthworms is as obscure as their habitat, and this complicates our understanding of their evolutionary relationships and historical biogeography. Dr Daniel Marchán reviews different applications of genetic tools to shed light on these big questions, with an emphasis on the rare, endemic and threatened species.
Earthworms of the World
Take a journey around the world, detailing some of the weird and wonderful earthworms discovered by Dr Sam James, and the stories behind his research expeditions at home and in the far-flung corners of the world.
Worms of the World Virtual Symposium
To celebrate the wonderful diversity of earthworms from around the world, we brought earthworm scientists from around the globe together to teach anyone interested in earthworms about the world of earthworms beyond the UK.
Wriggling Into Recording: 10 Years of the National Earthworm Recording Scheme
Keiron Derek Brown (Earthworm Society) discusses how the data generated by biological recorders and earthworm researchers is improving our understanding of British and Irish earthworms.
2022 National Earthworm Recording Scheme Review
2022 has been a great year for earthworm recording, with 2,185 new earthworm species occurrence records generated! 25 out of the 31 species known to occur in natural environments in the British Isles were recorded, including our first-ever earthworm species records for the Isle of Man. Alongside new and existing earthworm recorders, I’ve been involvedContinue reading “2022 National Earthworm Recording Scheme Review”
365 Days of Earthworms
“Worms have played a more important part in the history of the world than most persons would at first suppose” Charles Darwin (1881) The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Actions of Worms It’s officially over… 2021 is behind us. As National Recorder for Earthworms it’s my responsibility to process all of the earthworm recordsContinue reading “365 Days of Earthworms”
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