Jun-Kai Pei

Multi-scale responses of soil nematode communities to mercury-associated mining contamination: from community restructuring to transcriptomic signatures of potential local adaptation.

Mercury (Hg) is a persistent global pollutant that threatens soil ecosystem structure and function. However, for soil nematodes, most studies have focused on functional groups and model species, leaving a gap in our understanding of how community assembly processes are linked with molecular adaptive responses in field...