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Community Structure and Composition of Macro-soil-fauna in Apple Orchard in Summer

  • LIU Changhai;QI Long;QU Yatan;YUAN Caixia;WANG Wenqiang;LI Yongchao
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  • College of Life Science, Yanan University; Shaanxi Engineering & Technological Research Center for Conversation & Utilization of Regional Biological Resources, Yan'an 716000, Shaanxi Province, China

Received date: 2012-04-06

  Revised date: 2012-06-07

  Online published: 2012-06-28

Abstract

This paper studies the community diversity of the summer macro-soil-fauna in the apple orchard in Luochuan, to provide some basic material for the soil zoology in the non-timber forest in Northern region of Shaanxi. The macro-soil-fauna samples were acquired by a diagonal line five-point method of sampling and the universal hand-sorting, from the apple demonstration orchard and a conventional orchard in Luochuan in June, 2010. 134 individuals were collected, belonging to 9 orders, 6 classes, and 4 phylas. Among these sampled animals, the advantaged families were Enoplida, Lumbricidae, Coleoptera, and the familiar families were Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoprera, and Syommatopora. The largest percent numbers of families were Enoplida, Lumbricida, Coleoptera, accounting for 78.57% of the total with each constituting 37.31%, 28.36%, and 12.69%, respectively, forming the main frame of the community. Besides, between the apple demonstration orchard and the conventional orchard, the macro-soil-fauna samples see an obvious surface aggregation. Compared with the conventional orchard, the demonstration orchard shows a higher group number, diversity, evenness and richness, but a smaller individual number and dominance. These data suggest that the soil-fauna in the demonstration orchard is rich in species, complicated in structure, and well-distributed in group number, which shows the response of the soil macro-fauna communities to the different land use types and management practices of the apple orchard.

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LIU Changhai;QI Long;QU Yatan;YUAN Caixia;WANG Wenqiang;LI Yongchao . Community Structure and Composition of Macro-soil-fauna in Apple Orchard in Summer[J]. Science & Technology Review, 2012 , 30(18) : 56 -59 . DOI: 10.3981/j.issn.1000-7857.2012.18.008

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