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During the 1880s, many important works on the soil were published and it is of a great interest to put together what Dokuchaev, Darwin and Muller wrote at that time. First, we learn, rewriting slightly Dokuchaev’s definition of the soil, that its structural features can be understood as the result of an equilibrium between organizing forces (living organisms) and erosive forces (mainly climate and relief) acting on the parent material. Darwin and Muller described the role of living organisms, dealing respectively with earthworms and with the soil fauna as a whole. Both of them emphasized the effect of the fauna on the transformation of soil into ‘good earth’ and on its resultant fertility.
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Kretzschmar, A. (1983). Soil transport as a homeostatic mechanism for stabilizing the earthworm environment. In: Satchell, J.E. (eds) Earthworm Ecology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5965-1_6
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