English Abstract This report describes methods used and developed for
our research on freeliving nematodes. Most methods were examined and
developed in experiments. In the chapters two to four the methodology is
described for taking and analysing field samples. Including field sampling
of both soil and litter, extraction of the nematodes from the substrate,
fixation and preparing permanent slides. The other four chapters are
laboratory oriented. Methods are described and experiments are carried out
to find and develop methods for culturing and to perform toxicity tests.
Some methods used in ecofysiology are also described. Each chapter consists
of a description of some standard methods, mostly used in phytopathologic
studies, an overview of the adaptations of these standard methods applied
for freeliving nematodes and the now preferred method. This general part of
the chapter is followed by a description of some
experiments.
