Featured in the New York Times: Earthworms are taking up residence in the Far North, land "that's been wormless since the last ice age," writes reporter Sofia Quaglia. Their presence has the potential to rapidly alter the balance of fragile northern ecosystems, but determining how they might do so is highly complicated.
Forest ecologist and director of the Center for Forest Ecology Lee Frelich weighs in: “You get into a situation where there are so many different impacts that it’s hard to predict the outcome," he shares. "It sounds contradictory, but [impacts] can literally do opposite things depending on the context.”
Read "Some Squirmy Stowaways Got to the Arctic. And They Like It There." in the New York Times.