The world population is increasing at an alarming rate and tremendous quantity of waste is
getting produced due to urbanization, industrialization, increase in human population, and …

Earthworms have a prominent role in supporting soil functioning and thus in providing key
services to humanity. Their beneficial role relates to effects on soil structure, carbon and …

Critical knowledge gaps about environmental fate and unintentional effects of currently used
pesticides (CUPs) hamper the understanding and mitigation of their global impacts on …

Energy flux in food webs, ie, energy consumption by different trophic groups and describing
their energetic structure, has been proposed as a powerful tool to understand the …

Contamination of microplastics (MPs) is a global environmental issue that has received
much attention from the scientific and public communities due to ecological concerns in …

The negative environmental impacts of chemical fertilizers have been recognized for a long
time, and the returning of agricultural residues to the soil is considered a sustainable …

Pesticides promote the stable development of intensive global agriculture. Nevertheless,
their residues in the soil can cause ecological and human health risks. Glyphosate is a …

Petroleum is an important industrial raw material that enters the soil during production and
use and is harmful to soil organisms. To evaluate the toxicity of petroleum-contaminated soil …

Earthworms play positive ecological roles in soil formation, structure, and fertility,
environmental protection, and terrestrial food chains. For this review, we searched the Web …

Biodiversity across multiple trophic levels is required to maintain multiple ecosystem
functions. Yet it remains unclear how multitrophic diversity and species interactions regulate …