Biodiv Sci ›› 2007, Vol. 15 ›› Issue (5): 463-469.  DOI: 10.1360/biodiv.070016

Special Issue: 土壤生物与土壤健康

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Soil animal communities and their seasonal change in the greening litters of different functional zones in Baoshan Steel Plant, Shanghai

Jinfeng Wang 1, Wenhui You 2,3*, Lan Yi 2,3   

  1. 1 College of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266510
    2 Department of Environmental Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
    3 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization and Ecological Restoration, Shanghai 200062
  • Online:2007-09-20 Published:2007-09-20

Abstract: To find out the relationship between the abundance and diversity of soil animals and soil characteristics in industrial zones, we investigated soil animals in litters of different functional zones in Baoshan Steel Plant. A total of 52,070 soil animals were collected using Tullgren funnel, belonging to three phyla, 10 classes and 19 orders. The dominant groups were Arcarina and Collembola, accounting for 90.60% of the total in terms of individual numbers. The common groups were Lepidoptera and Oligochaeta plesiopora. The results indicated that different functional zones had similar dominant groups but different common groups. Soil animal reduced along a gradient of production zone, transition zone, office zone. Similarity index showed that the five indices were different in different functional zones. The density-group index (DG) showed the following pattern: production zone > transition zone >office zone. The seasonal change of the total number of soil animals were ranked as: winter>autumn>summer>spring, while the number of soil animal groups were ranked as: winter=autumn>summer=spring. The pH, TOC, TN and TP of litters in different functional zones were different, which might have impacts on the distribution of soil animals.