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[Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>]

I find organic mulch to be helpful in creating aeration, thanks in large part to the acitivity of earthworms as they orgy out on the feast.  Occassionaly, anecdotally, I have had a problem with paper under the mulch.  Wet paper is not going to allow the max free exchange of gasses until the worms have swiss cheesed it.  I have seen plants become chlorotic in wet situations where I broke up the paper a bit and plants greened up.  Not scientific, but good enough for me.

Haven't encoutered this for several years, however