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Pictorial Keys To Soil Animals Of China
English Edition
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By Yin Wenying
Page: 727 pages
Published in 2000
ISBN: 7-03-008629-5/Q 981
Price: US$85+$9 seamail
Chinese edition is also avaiable at price: US$68+$9
This book was written by more than 30 zoological taxonomists headed by
MCAS (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ) Yin Wenying on
the basis of the Chinese NSF key project "Studies on the Subtropical
Soil Animals of China" in 1987-1991, and of the output from the Chinese
NSF key program "Researches on Soil Animals in Typical Regions of
China" in 1993-1996. The investigated regions embraced the high-altitude
cold grass marshes and grass steppe, temperate forests, nature reserve
of warm temperate zone, subtropical forests, ditch valley rain forest
of the mid-tropical zone, and rain forest of the north tropical zone,
altogether 6 typical regions; the investigated animal taxa included Protozoa,
Platyhelminthes, Rotifera, Nemata, Nemata, Mollusca, Annelida, Tardigrada
and Arthropoda altogether 1,400 genera of soil animals belonging to approximately
500 families, 90 odd orders, 28 classes and 8 phyla. Most of the raw Materials
for the numerous diagrams of key characteristics were according to identified
specimens. The distribution area of grams of key characteristics were
drawn according to identified specimens. The distribution area of various
taxa was also as certained on the basis of synthesizing the actual recordings
from on-the-spot field surveys. Both of them represent precious first-hand
materials of soil animals research in China.
Taxa involved in soil animals are extraordinarily extensive. Among every
soil sample investigated, there was an assemblage of scores or even around
one hundred discrete them one by one simply and conveniently was a pressing
problem to be tackled. The present book integrates the diagram of characteristics
with the identification key to form a diagram-key complex, which is convenient
for information retrieval on the one hand, and helpful in perceiving the
relationship between the relevant taxa on the other hand. Book of such
kind, combining atlas and key "two-in-one", is unprecedented
in China.
This book represents an achievement of not only taxonomical research with
high specialty, but also a popularization monograph with extensive reference
value. Its publication will undoubtedly give strong impetus to the teaching
and learning of soil zoology and the research activities of agriculture
forestry, environmental protection as well as of nature reserve
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