By Clive A. Edwards 2004. Highlights the critical beneficial role of earthworms for plant and soil health and their important role in organic waste management]

... Presents in-depth discussion of earthworm biogeography, diversity, taxonomy, and systematics]

... Provides full coverage of feeding behavior, food preferences, dietary requirements, and the interaction between earthworms and microbial communities]

... Includes information on the impacts of climate, human activities, soil properties, predation, disease and parasitism, and competition upon earthworm ecology]

... Offers new perspectives on vermicomposting research]
Earthworm Ecology, Second Edition updates the most comprehensive work available on earthworm ecology with extensive revisions of the original chapters. New chapters analyze the history of earthworm research, the importance of earthworms as representatives of soil fauna and how they affect plant growth, the effects of the invasion of exotic earthworms into North America and other regions, and vermiculture and vermicomposting in Europe and Asia.This well-illustrated, expansive study examines the important and often overlooked impact earthworms have on the environment. It discusses the impact of climate, soil properties, predation, disease and parasitism, and competition upon earthworm ecology.
...This book, and the authors that have contributed individual chapters, go a long way toward providing some of the basic science neededvaluable to farmers and researchersin ecotoxicological evaluations... - IPM Practitioner