Ecogeographical characteristics of forest soil animal in mountainous districts of the eastern China

Abstract

In this paper ecogeographical characteristics of forest soil animal in mountainous districts of the eastern China was analyzed, and results show that soil fauna was very rich in diversified forest habitat, moreover, as times and spaces varied, their compositions and abundance changed obviously too. Forest soil animal decreased gradually in taxa and individual number from the tropics to cold-temperature zone, and they are higher in zonal forest habitat than in other ones on the same mountain. Forest soil animal also got gradually less with increasing of depth in soil layer, and distributed principally in surface layer. The activities of human had strong affection on faunal composition and diversity of soil animal. On the tropics and subtropics mountains, forest soil animal are less in spring-summer than in autumn-winter, whereas they are more in summer-autumn than in winter-spring from warm-temperate zone to cold-temperate zone.

Keywords

Forest soil animal / Faunal characteristics / Ecogeographical distribution / Eastern China / S714.3 / A

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