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The changes in the environment caused by man’s industrial and agricultural activities have influenced earthworm populations in many parts of southern Africa. These changes have been considerable and many former specimen localities of fifty or even less years ago cannot be found today (Liungström, 1972; Du lessis, 1978). This chapter relates the present distribution of endemic and exotic species to climate, changes in vegetation following development for agriculture, and the physiology and ecology of individual species.
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Reinecke, A.J. (1983). The ecology of earthworms in southern Africa. In: Satchell, J.E. (eds) Earthworm Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5965-1_16
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