Includes bibliographical references (p. {253}-270) and index.

Soil toxicity tests in risk assessment of new and existing chemicals / Hans Lokke and Cornelis A.M. van Gestel -- Selection of species for soil ecotoxicity testing / Ryszard Laskowski, Paulina Kramarz and Paul Jepson -- Reproducibility in soil toxicity testing / Hartmut Kula and Udo Heimbach -- Comparison of species sensitivity / Sten Rundgren and Cornelis A.M. van Gestel -- Evaluation of the developmental status of ecotoxicity tests on soil fauna / Cornelis A.M. van Gestel -- Test on the enchytraeid Cognettia sphagnetorum (Vejdovsky) 1877 / Sten Rundgren and Anna Karin Augustsson -- Tests on the earthworms Eisenia fetida and Aporrectodea caliginosa / Hartmut Kula and Otto Larink -- Tests on the oribatid mite Platynothrus peltifer / Cornelis A.M. van Gestel and Anja Doornekamp -- Tests with the collembolans Isotoma viridis, Folsomia candida and Folsomia fimetaria / John A. Wiles and Paul Henning Krogh -- Tests on the staphylinid Philonthus cognatus Steph. 1832 / Kai Metge and Udo Heimbach -- Test on the centipede Lithobius mutabilis L. Koch 1852 (Chilopoda: lithobiidae) / Ryszard Laskowski ... {et al.} -- Test on the millipede Brachydesmus superus Latzel 1884 / Karel Tajovsky -- Tests on the isopod Porcellio scaber / Elisabeth Hornung, Sandor Farkas and Erno Fischer -- Test on the competition between the nematodes Plectus acuminatus and Heterocephalobus pauciannulatus / Jan E. Kammenga and Joost A.G. Riksen -- Test on the predatory mite Hypoaspis aculeifer preying on the collembolan Folsomia fimetaria / Paul Henning Krogh and Jorgen A. Axelsen.