- Nematodes can be found everywhere: cultivated fields, forests, grasslands, deserts, tundras and ocean beaches.
- They can live anywhere from high to low elevations.
- A square yard of ground could contain over a million nematodes.
- They often outnumber any other organisms inhabiting the land.
- They represent 90% of all life forms on the ocean floor.
- They are beneficial, for different purposes, to a variety of ecosystems.
- Nematodes are some of the only organisms who can survive desiccation, extreme dryness, because of their late embryogenesis abundant proteins.
- Most soil living nematodes choose nutrient and bacteria rich environments, where they can feed on organic decaying matter.
- Their variety of size and simple body structure allow nematodes to function in almost every ecosystem.
- Nematodes can be found almost everywhere on the ocean floor, breaking down different items in the water.
- There small, sometimes microscopic, size allows them to function and break down items in any part of the earth's lithosphere, outermost crust.
- Nematodes play a huge role in the breakdown of soil nutrients, and play help to fertilize the soil.