Keystone College Wildlife Biology Graduate Students Studying Invasiveness of Earthworms (opens in new tab)

Keystone College Wildlife Biology Graduate Students in Assistant Professor Linda Tucker Serniak’s Forest Ecology Lab are learning how invasive earthworms are affecting the plants, arthropods, and salamanders on the Woodlands Campus. Earthworms consume leaf litter, which can decrease the habitat available for salamanders as well as affect what types of arthropods live there. Because many forest soil nutrients come from leaf litter, invasive earthworms have the potential to modify nutrient cycl...