A preliminary study on diversity of soil animal communities in the forest of Bad agong Mountain Nature Reserve
八大公山自然保护区森林土壤动物群落多样性的初步研究

A preliminary study on diversity of soil animal communities in the forest of Badagong Mountain Nature Reserve was made, and 27 species of soil animals were found, belonging to 12 classes of five phyla, of which Acarina, Collembola, Nematoda and Enchytraeidae were dominant communities, accounting for 88.67% of the total hunted ones. There existed a certain relationship between animal density and the type and nature of soil. The density of animals in the main soil types were as follows: 1.256 million ind./m 3 in the black limestone soil, 1.043 million ind./m 3 in the brown limestone soil, 912 000 ind./m 3 in mountain soddy yellow_brown earth and 742,000 ind./m 3 in mountain yellow_brown earth.