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JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH  2014, Vol. 34 Issue (5): 1337-1342    DOI: 10.7522/j.issn.1000-694X.2013.00428
    
An Overview on the Distribution Pattern of Soil Animal Responses to Precipitation Pulses in Arid Desert Ecosystems
Liu Jiliang, Zhao Wenzhi, Li Fengrui
Linze Inland River Basin Research Station, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Abstract  In the arid desert areas, natural precipitation has a strong characteristic of pulse, namely strong variations in the frequency, intensity and quantity of precipitation. This precipitation pulse may have an important impact on the distribution pattern of soil animals. However, our knowledge on the influence of precipitation pulse on the distribution, composition and diversity of soil animal communities remains limited Hence, there is a need for a more thorough exploration of the mechanisms underlying how precipitation pulses affect the distribution pattern of soil animals at different taxonomic and trophic levels. This paper gives an overview of advances in the study of the precipitation pulse drive resource pulse affect the soil animal food web structure, which is the core issue, with a focus on the natural precipitation, winter snow and summer rainfall changes in the domestic and international research developments and the latest progress of the study to compare the system of review; on this basis, exploring arid desert ecosystem response precipitation change research in the focus on and study of several cutting-edge scientific issues several issues, which can be to our arid desert ecosystems biological diversity conservation and management provide a scientific basis and promote desert ecosystem biodiversity theory, resource pulse ecology theory and research methods.
Key words:  arid desert      precipitation pulses      soil animals      distribution pattern     
Received:  27 June 2013      Published:  20 September 2014
ZTFLH:  S154.5  
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Liu Jiliang
Zhao Wenzhi
Li Fengrui

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Liu Jiliang, Zhao Wenzhi, Li Fengrui. An Overview on the Distribution Pattern of Soil Animal Responses to Precipitation Pulses in Arid Desert Ecosystems. JOURNAL OF DESERT RESEARCH, 2014, 34(5): 1337-1342.

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