COMMUNITY STRUCTURES OF SOIL FAUNA ON THE HILLY TEA GARDEN, SOUTHERN ANHUI PROVINCE
皖南低丘茶园土壤动物群落结构研究

From 1986 to 1988, in the tea garden of the low hill of Southern Anhui, 9 468 individual faunas were collected. They belong to 6 phyla, 13 classes and 37 genera, among which the dominant genera are Nematoda, Acari and Formicidae; the common-seen genera are Enchytra-eidae, Collembola, Coleoptera, Diptera, Araneida. These two constitute 94.03% of the total collected population. Species, individual numbers anl the index of H, E, D'G for the soil fauna communities of 30 years' tea garden are richer than 20 years' tea garden, and in turn the latter richer than 15 years'. These index are also richer in tea garden located on the yellowish red earth than on yellowish brown earth.