Chapter 1 Biological invasions belowground—earthworms as invasive species

Chapter 2 Dispersal and clonal diversity of North-European parthenogenetic earthworms

Chapter 3 Lumbricid earthworm invasion in the Carpathian Mountains and some other sites in Romania

Chapter 4 Invasion patterns of Lumbricidae into the previously earthworm-free areas of northeastern Europe and the western Great Lakes region of North America

Chapter 6 Earthworm invasions in the tropics

Chapter 7 Earthworm invasions of ecosystems devoid of earthworms: effects on soil microbes

Chapter 8 The influence of invasive earthworms on indigenous fauna in ecosystems previously uninhabited by earthworms

Chapter 9 Invasion of exotic earthworms into ecosystems inhabited by native earthworms

Chapter 10 Introduced earthworms in agricultural and reclaimed land: their ecology and influences on soil properties, plant production and other soil biota

Chapter 11 Policy and management responses to earthworm invasions in North America