Study on soil fauna of subtropical forests in China

鉴于亚洲亚热带地区可能是世界上土壤动物群落最丰富和最有趣的地区，环境扰动正在迅速蔓延，我们的中日合作项目由12名日本人和15名中国参与者组织，题目是“中国亚热带森林土壤动物研究”。我们分别于1989年8 - 9月和1990年9月在国家自然保护区——浙江西天目山和自然保护区——浙江武岩岭进行了野外调查，采用了Tullgren仪器采集法和筛分法。1989年至1991年，所有与会者都集中精力推动上述野外调查所得标本的分类研究。正如我们所预料的那样，这些藏品包含了许多不为人知或鲜为人知的物种。据我们估计，其中包括150多个新物种。我们已经在9篇论文中发表了12个新物种的描述，并将在12篇文章中发表约40个新形式的描述（出版），尽管我们的集体和个人仍在不懈地努力。对于土中甲螨、棘足虫等微型节肢动物的分类研究，需要进行长期的（最短10年）和有组织的计划，才能取得满意的结果。另一方面，必须强调的是，即将于1992年6月出版的《中国亚热带土壤动物》一书的出版具有重要的价值。科学出版社，北京1)。全书涉及506属716种，60万字，图1600余幅。这不仅是我们项目的初步总结，也是第一本用中文编写的土壤动物学教材。可以预见，它对中国土壤生态学的发展和中日各领域合作的未来发展具有十分重要的意义和深远的影响。少

Our Sino-Japanese cooperative project was organized by 12 Japanese and 15 Chinese participants under the title of "Study on soil fauna of subtropical forests in China", in view of that environmental disturbance is rapidly spreading over the subtropical area in Asia, which is presumably the richest and the most interesting of all the world in the animal community of the soil.Our field researches were done on West Tian-mu Mountain (Zhejiang Province), a national protective area in August - September, 1989, and in Wu-yan-ling (Zhejiang Province), a natural protective area in September, 1990, by the gleaning method with Tullgren apparatuses and sieving method. Through the years 1989-1991, all the participants have concentrated their efforts to promote taxonomic study of the collections made by our field researches mentioned above. As we expected, the collections comprised so many unknown or little known species. Our estimate suggests more than 150 new species are included in them. We have … More already issued descriptions of 12 new species in 9 papers and will publish those of about 40 new forms in 12 articles (in press), though our collective and indidual efforts have been tirelessly continued. So far as taxonomic studies on such micro-arthropods as oribatid mites and collembolans in soil are concerned, it is necessary to carry on a long term (e. g. 10 years in the shortest case) and well oraganized program in order to achieve satisfactory results.On the other hand, it must be stressed the significant value in the publication of "Subtropical Soil Animals in China (Yin and others, in press [probably to be issued in June, 1992. Science Press, Beijingl)". This book mentions 506 genera 716 species, and comprises 600 thousand Chinese words and 1600 figures. It is not only a preliminary summary on our project, but also the first text book of soil zoology written in Chinese language. We can expect its very important meaning and strong influence on the progress of soil zoology in China and for future development of Sino-Japanese cooperations in various fields. Less