Contents Foreword 1 Foreword 2 Preface Chapter 1 Concept, Classification, and Research Method of Soil Fauna Section 1Concept and classification of soil fauna 2 Section 2Research methods of soil fauna 6 Chapter 2 Effects of Desertification and the Stabilization of Sand Dunes on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1Effects of desertification on macroinvertebrate diversity in grassland soils14 Section 2Effects of the stabilization of sand dunes on soil macrofaunal community distribution23 Chapter 3 Effects of Restored Management on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1Influences of exclusion management versus livestock grazing on soil macrofaunal diversity35 Section 2Ef ect of naturally versus manually restored management practices on ground-active arthropod communities45 Chapter 4 Effect of Grassland Cultivation on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1Efect of grassland cultivation versus grazing exclusion on soil macrofaunal community60 Section 2Changes of soil macrofaunal communities along a cultivated cropland chronosequences73 Chapter 5 Effect of Land Use/Cover Changes on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1Effect of selective aforestation on soil macrofaunal community in shifting sandy lands87 Section 2 Soil arthropod communities associated with local land use/cover changes98 Chapter 6 Shrub Cover Acted as a Stimulus of Soil Arthropod Community in Sandy Land Section 1 Facilitative effects of shrub canopy in shifting sand on soil macrofaunal community114 Section 2 Effectiveness of afforested shrub plantation on ground-active arthropod community structure125 Chapter 7 Temporal-spatial Distribution of Ground-active Arthropods in Relation to Shrub Cover Section 1 Ground-active arthropod diversity response to the proximity of shrub cover141 Section 2 Seasonal diversity of ground-active arthropods in age-related shrub microhabitats155 Chapter 8 “Arthropod Island” Formation and Its Relation to Grazing Management Section 1“Arthropod Island” acted by shrub cover and its formation mechanism186 Section 2 “Arthropod Island” contributed by shrub canopy associated with livestock grazing management197 References211