Foreword 1 Foreword 2 Preface Chapter 1 Concept, Classification, and Research Method of Soil Fauna Section 1 Concept and classification ofsoil fauna Section 2 Research methods of soil fauna Chapter 2 Effects of Desertification and the Stabilization of Sand Dunes on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1 Effects of desertification on macroinvertebrate drversity in grassland soils Section 2 Effects of the stabilization of sand dunes on soil macrofaunal community distribution Chapter 3 Effects of Restored Management on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1 Influences of exclusion management versus livestock grazing on soil macrofaunal diversity Section 2 Effect of naturally versus manually restored management practices on ground—active arthropod communities Chapter 4 Effect of Grassland Cultivation on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1 Effect of grassland cultivation versus grazing exclusion on soilmacrofaunal comniunity Section 2 Changes of soil macrofaunal communities along a cultivated cropland chronosequences Chapter 5 Effect of Land Use/Cover Changes on Soil Faunal Community Distribution Section 1 Effect of selective afforestation on soil macrofaunal community in shifting sandy lands Section 2 Soil arthropod communities associated with local land use/cover changes 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 community Section 2 Effectiveness of afforested shrub plantation on ground—active arthropod community structure 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 cover Section 2 Seasonal diversity of ground—active arthropods in age—related shrub microhabitats Chapter 8 Arthropod Island Formation and Its Relation to Grazing Management Section 1 Arthropod Island acted by shrub cover and its formation mechanism Section 2 Arthropod Island contributed by shrub canopy associated with livestock grazing management References