Monitoring of soil quality and health provides critical insights into the performance of
ecosystems. Nematodes are useful indicators of soil condition because they are ubiquitous,
represent different trophic levels of a soil food web and are convenient to work with. Several
quantitative analyses of nematode assemblages have been developed and used in
monitoring programs and by individual researchers. However, the calculations of the metrics
involved are quite complicated. Since they are done manually using spreadsheet software …