Abstract:

To understand the situation of subalpine meadow soil in Dongling Mountain, Beijing, morphological and physico-characteristics of 3 soil profiles at subalpine meadow were analyzed. According to Chinese Soil Taxonomy (3rd edition), results showed that, the soil profiles in the plots were classified into two groups, i.e., Hapli-Ustic Isohumosols and Hapli-Ustic Cambosols, which were further divided into two subgroups, i.e. Ordinary Hapli-Ustic Isohumosols and Ordinary Hapli-Ustic Cambosols. These showed that, subalpine meadow soil in Dongling Mountain acquired the typical characteristics of mountain meadow soil, which was higher content of humus in the surface with lower content of humus in the bottom, and easily lost by nature and human factors.