Earthworm distributions are not driven by measurable soil properties. Do they really indicate soil quality?

• Mark E. Hodson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark E. Hodson, Ron Corstanjeb

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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• Ron Corstanjeb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mark E. Hodson, Ron Corstanjeb

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, United Kingdom

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• David T. Jones,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

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• Jo Witton,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3751-4294

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• Victoria J. Burton,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0122-3292

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• Tom Sloan,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environment and Geography, University of York, York, United Kingdom

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• Paul Eggleton

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: P.Eggleton@nhm.ac.uk

  Affiliation Life Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1420-7518

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