Soil nutrient recovery has emerged as a critical issue to maintain the soil fertility. However,
the use of some organic and inorganic chemicals in agricultural and industrial systems gives …

Methods for species delimitation using molecular data have developed greatly and have
become a staple in systematic studies of clitellate worms. Here we give a historical overview …

Research was conducted to study the response and detoxification mechanisms of
earthworms collected from Cd-contaminated areas in Hunan Province, South China …

Due to extensive vanadium (V) mining and processing, an increasing amount of V has
accumulated in soil, which poses a threat to public health. Consequently, we used …

Nanomaterials (NMs) can interact with the innate immunity of organisms. It remains,
however, unclear whether these interactions can compromise the immune functioning of the …

Environmental stressors are persistent but most toxicological studies always evaluate the
risk via short-term acute toxicity, while continuous toxicity and biological resistance across …

Nanoparticles have gained considerable attention as one of the pollutants released into the
environment through consumer products. This study describes the sub-chronic and …

Research on cryptic species complexes has reached a consensus on the necessity of
integrating multiple sources of evidence. Reduced representation library techniques such as …

Earthworm systematics have been limited by the small number of taxonomically informative
morphological characters and high levels of homoplasy in this group. However, molecular …

The scale of variation in species sensitivity to toxicants has been theoretically linked to mode
of action. Specifically, it has been proposed there will be greater variations for chemicals …