SciShow: North America’s Destructive, Invasive… Earthworms

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Content of the Lesson: Earthworms may be good for your garden, but they also have the potential to disrupt forest ecosystems across much of North America. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Marwan Hassoun, Jb Taishoff, Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://worms.educ.ualberta.ca/ http://worms.biology.ualberta.ca/how-to-help/ http://genesee.cce.cornell.edu/agriculture/natural-resources/invasive-pests/jumping-worm-amynthas-spp https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annise_Dobson/publication/320283286_Invasive_earthworms_change_nutrient_availability_and_uptake_by_forest_understory_plants/links/59df8c66aca27258f7d7e7ca/Invasive-earthworms-change-nutrient-availability-and-uptake-by-forest-understory-plants.pdf https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10530-016-1101-x https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071720302510 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/15-1085 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2745.13504 https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ecy.2936 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.12746 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-016-9977-y https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ddi.12472 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6944502/ https://www.geosociety.org/GSA/News/pr/2018/18-42.aspx https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131029133126.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150422104041.htm https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/18469/nzp_Loss_et_al_LandscapeEcol_2012.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/05/150520122838.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4395857/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00912.x https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2980/1195-6860(2007)14%5B482%3AHIOEEI%5D2.0.CO%3B2 https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/a915b866-daef-4346-93be-9cbe6bbd79ca/view/dd9144cf-8aab-4f68-a09c-c8137d3efc91/Cameron_Erin_fall2013.pdf https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160906103358.htm https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.13446 https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/52/9/801/248749 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1164556310000567 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167947315000122?via%3Dihub https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-003-0126-z Image Sources: https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/level-panning-shot-of-forest-floor-4osqhxk https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/leaves-on-the-forest-floor-2-2xuq0uc https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/child-holding-worms-in-hand-kqeurnc https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/large-earthworm-on-the-ground-wriggles-and-crawls-bfs8r9bi0njwkdu5yt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balsam_Poplar_Trees_-_Along_Stewart-Cassiar_Highway_-_Northern_British_Columbia_-_Canada.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ovenbird_(47841951792).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amynthas_agrestis.jpg https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/an-earthworm-is-a-terrestrial-invertebrate-that-belongs-to-the-class-clitellata-order-oligochaeta-phylum-annelida-they-exhibit-a-tube-within-a-tube-body-plan-r1gw74rfvkh8vxld9 https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/dirty-and-mud-splattered-car-gets-stuck-in-the-mud-on-a-bad-dirt-road-then-pushes-through-and-continues-going-hhs0efnjlj0gry7pw https://www.storyblocks.com/video/stock/fisherman-puts-a-worm-on-the-hook-and-points-on-it-portrait-of-adult-man-with-beard-who-is-fishing-river-fishing-fishing-on-the-river-rhxvbzbzenjpo54aqd


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