community structure and biodiversity of soil ciliates at dongzhaigang mangrove forest in hainan island, china土壤纤毛虫的群落结构和生物多样性dongzhaigang红树林在海南岛,中国.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Applied and Environmental Soil Science Volume 2010, Article ID 103819, 8 pages doi:10.1155/2010/103819 Research Article Community Structure and Biodiversity of Soil Ciliates at Dongzhaigang Mangrove Forest in Hainan Island, China Jing Li,1 Qingyu Liao,1, 2 Mei Li,3 Jinhong Zhang,2 Nora Fungyee Tam,4 and Runlin Xu1 1 School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China 2 Research Center of Ecology and Environment, Guangzhou Research Institute of Environment Protection, Guangzhou 510620, China 3 The Research Institute of Tropical Forestry, The Chinese Academy of Forestry, Guangzhou 510520, China 4 Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong Correspondence should be addressed to Runlin Xu, xurunlin 1960@ Received 18 November 2009; Revised 7 March 2010; Accepted 30 March 2010 Academic Editor: Yongchao Liang Copyright © 2010 Jing Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The distribution of soil ciliates in three different habitats within a typical mangrove forest in Dongzhaigang, Hainan, China was investigated. The abundance, biodiversity, and community similarity of ciliates in fresh and air-dried soil with different, physical/chemical properties were analyzed. Three Classes, 11 Orders, 34 Genera, and 70 species of ciliates were found with the first dominant group being Hypotrichida. Ciliate biodiversities followed Site B Site A Site C in both fresh and dried samples. Ciliate abundance was positively correlated with soil moisture, salinity, organic matter (OM), total nitro