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worms play an important role in soil ecology. By being continually loosened, stirred up, and aerated by the action of earthworms, soil is made more fertile. Thus, plants grow faster and more nourished.

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Worms make plants grow faster, because they tunnel through the soil. Their tunnels open up pore spaces for the more effective and more efficient spread of air, nutrients, and water throughout the soil, and to plants and soil food web organisms. In turn, the pore spaces make it easier for plant roots to push through soil, for growth to the side, and downward. And worms prey on other members of the soil food web. They digest nitrogen-containing organisms. By the processing of their digestive system, and the subsequent elimination into the soil, worms make available necessary nutrients such as nitrogen that otherwise remain locked inside the bodies of their prey. And earthworms also add to the soil's organic content by their own death and decomposition.

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