Adaptation Strategies of Nematodes to Environmental Stresses

Soil nematodes are richness group in soil animals and play important roles in soil organism decomposition,plant nutrient mineraliza- tion and circulation,and widely used to indicator studies in agriculture and forest ecosystems∙Soil nematodes have strong ability to survive and adapt in many kinds of environment,they even be found in extreme conditions∙This article introduces some of the strategies that soil － inhabiting nematodes use to cope with deteriorating environmental conditions and with particularly severe conditions ∙