Biodiv Sci ›› 1999, Vol. 07 ›› Issue (2): 140-144.  DOI: 10.17520/biods.1999021

Special Issue: 土壤生物与土壤健康

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The scope and content of study on soil biodiversity and its sustainable exploitation

ZHANG Jia-En   

  1. Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Ecology , South China Agricultural University ,Guangzhou  510642
  • Received:1998-05-26 Revised:1998-07-28 Online:1999-05-20 Published:1999-05-20

Abstract: Soil biodiversity is an ignored study field , a lot of researches should be conducted urgently , which include : (1) field investigation of soil biodiversity ( the types , composition , distribution and data base of soil organisms) ; (2) study on functions and physio2ecological processes ; (3) the loss mechanism and restoration of soil biodiversity ; (4) study on the conservation and exploitation of soil biodiversity. Moreover , promising for it is utilization sustainable of the resource of living organisms in soils including edible animals , natural enemy organisms , rhizosphere microbes , biofertilizers and indicator organisms for environment pollution.

Key words: plant diversity, distribution pattern, hot-spot, China