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Diversity and Abundance of Earthworms As Indicators of Soil Pollution: Diversity and Abundance of Earthworms in Relation to Chemical Use Around Goldenrose Agrofarm, Tefki Area, Ethiopia Addisu Mergia

Currently using community parameter is becoming a prefered way of studying the impacts of chemicals on the environment instead of using chemical and physical analysis. Of these, soil macroinvertebrates took major attention to study the effect of chemicals on soil ecosystems. Particularly,for several reasons, earthworms are excellent ecological indicators to assess the impacts of pollutants on soil ecosystems. This work presents how diversity and abundance of earthworms are affected by chemical use in one particular agrofarm in Ethiopia, i.e. Goldenrose Agrofarm