Study on soil fauna of subtropical forests in China

我们的中日合作项目是由12名日本人和15名中国人以《中国亚热带森林土壤动物研究》为题组织的，考虑到环境干扰正迅速蔓延到亚洲亚热带地区，被认为是世界上最丰富和最有趣的土壤动物群落。我们于1990年8-9月对国家级自然保护区浙江西天目山进行了实地考察，并于1990年9月对自然保护区武夷岭进行了实地考察。在1989-1991年间，所有参与者都集中精力促进了我们上述田野调查所收集的藏品的分类学研究。正如我们所料，这些藏品包含了如此多未知或鲜为人知的物种。我们的估计表明，它们中包括了150多个新物种。我们有…More已经在9篇论文中发表了对12个新物种的描述，并将在12篇文章中发表约40个新变型的描述(在印刷中)，尽管我们的集体和个人努力仍在不懈地继续。对土壤中甲螨、弹尾类等微型节肢动物的分类研究，要取得满意的结果，需要长期(最短可达10年)、组织严密的计划。另一方面，在出版《中国笔下的亚热带土壤动物(尹氏等人，可能于1992年6月出版，北京科学出版社)》一书中，必须强调其重要价值。全书共收录506属716种，约60万字，1600个数字。它不仅是对我们项目的初步总结，也是第一本中文土壤动物学教材。可以预见，它对中国的土壤生态进步和中日各领域合作的未来发展具有非常重要的意义和强大的影响。较少

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