About earthworm communities in a rain forest and an adjacent pasture in Peru

Abstract

Earthwomis were coilected from a primary forest and a four-year-old pasture near Panguana Biological Station (Dpto. Huánuco,Pem). The sites are located in the preandine zone of the Pemvian rain forest, where the forest is beiig increasingly replaced by pasture. It can be expected ihat rhe soil fauna changes accordingly.