Spatial relationships among soil nematodes and soil microorganisms were investigated in a grassland ecosystem at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. This area was contaminated with a wide range of concentrations of heavy metals. The study quantified microbial biomass, the abundance of soil protozoa and nematode populations. Geostatistical techniques were used to evaluate cross-correlations among biotic and abiotic parameters and to determine spatial distributions of these parameters in soil. The graphical analysis technique displayed a surface in three-dimensional space, the topography of which was generated by an independent variable and the surface colored by a dependent variable. Both the visualization technique and the cross general relative semivariogram showed a negative correlation between the abundance of fungivore nematodes and fungal biomass, the abundance of bacterivore nematodes and bacterial biomass, and between the numbers of protozoa and microbial biomass in less-contaminated portions of the study site. Graphical analyses of the spatial distribution of soil biota showed that relationships among components of the soil foodweb were altered in the highly contaminated area compared to the less-contaminated local background area. This suggests that environmental conditions in the soil of the contaminated areas may have a detrimental effect on trophic interactions in the soil foodweb.