The present review discusses the impact of heavy metals on the growth of plants at different
concentrations, paying particular attention to the hormesis effect. Within the past decade …

Earthworms provide key soil functions that favour many positive ecosystem services. These
services are important for agroecosystem sustainability but can be degraded by intensive …

In the 26áyears since the third edition of the Biology and Ecology of Earthworms was
published, there has been an enormous expansion of interest and research in earthworms …

Environmental metabolomics is the application of metabolomics to characterise the
interactions of organisms with their environment. This approach has many advantages for …

Ecotoxicology faces the challenge of assessing and predicting the effects of an increasing
number of chemical stressors on aquatic species and ecosystems. Herein we review …

Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) organize knowledge on the progression of toxicity
through levels of biological organization. By determining the linkages between toxicity …

Inland waters cover less than 1% of Earth's surface but harbor more than 6% of all insect
species: Nearly 100,000 species from 12 orders spend one or more life stages in freshwater …

Epigenetics can play a role in interactions between chemicals and exposed species,
between species and abiotic ecosystem components or between species of the same or …

Epigenetics is the study of mitotically or meiotically heritable changes in gene function that
occur without a change in the DNA sequence. Interestingly, epigenetic changes can be …

Both genetic and epigenetic responses of organisms to environmental factors, including
chemical exposures, influence adaptation, susceptibility to toxicity and biodiversity. In model …