Background The accurate delimitation of species is essential to numerous areas of
biological research. An unbiased assessment of the diversity, including the cryptic diversity …

Soils in urban parks are mainly manmade and called Technosols. These Technosols are
made of backfill with or without a topsoil addition, which may affect both the physicochemical …

Comparative phylogeography of widespread species that span the same geographic areas
can elucidate the influence of historical events on current patterns of biodiversity, identify …

Background Populations of the earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus, are commonly found across
highly contaminated former mine sites and are considered to have under-gone selection for …

Introgressive hybridization results in mito‐nuclear discordance which could obscure the
delimitation of closely related taxa. Although such events are increasingly reported, they …

This study presents the assemblage of an exhaustive reference library for one of the major
groups of soil invertebrates, earthworms, focused on the long sampled French location of …

Landscape features are known to alter the spatial genetic variation of aboveground
organisms. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the genetic structure of belowground …

Eisenia nordenskioldi subsp. nordenskioldi is an earthworm species inhabiting a large part
of Asia, from approximately the 40° of north latitude to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. This …

The limited dispersal ability of earthworms is expected to result in marked genetic isolation
by distance and remarkable spatial patterns of genetic variation. To test this hypothesis, we …

Urban soils are subject to intense environmental pressures, eg physical disturbance, surface
transformation and pollution, which greatly impact the activity of soil organisms. The epigeic …