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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2007, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (6): 542-542.

Special Issue: 农业生态

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Review on the Ecological Influences of Environmental Stresses on Soil Animals

Li Fangliang, Zhang Jia′en   

  • Online:2007-06-05 Published:2007-06-05

Abstract: Soil animals are one of the important components of the terrestrial ecosystem, they are the essential contributors to the decomposition of soil organic matter, mineralization of plant nutrients and matter cycling. But, with the development of industry and agriculture, soil pollution becomes more serious, and soil animals are influenced. So, this paper summarized the ecological influences of four environmental stresses on soil animals as follows: (1) pesticide pollution: with the increase of pesticide pollution, community of soil animals, the total number of the individuals, the diversity index, the homogeneous index, the density of individuals were decreased. But the influencing extents of different types of pesticides on soil animals were different, the insecticide was more serious than herbicide. Different soil animals were sensitive to different types of pesticide. (2) heavy metal pollution: the influences of heavy metal pollution on soil animals were similar as pesticide pollution. (3) N deposition: the influences of N deposition on soil animals changed with the specific environment. (4) atmospheric CO2 enrichment: some foreign researchers mainly used the FACE(Free-Air CO2 Enrichment)system to study soil animals, they found that soil animals may generate positive, neutral, negative response. Finally this paper pointed out several new areas which should be further studied in soil animal ecology in China.

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