Relationship between Soil Invertebrate Abundance and Soil Heavy Metal Contents in the Environs of the Kosogorsky Metallurgical Plant, Tula Oblast

摘要

The spatial distribution of soil animals is an important parameter of their populations that depends on both internal (community structure, abundance, and individual parameters) and external factors (biotic and abiotic). Among the latter, industrial pollution plays a major role. In the past decade, the problem of micros-cale heterogeneity in the distribution of animal communities and pollutants in the soil has been considered in a number of publications (Vorobeichik, 2007; Robertson et al., 1993; Fenoglio et al., 2007). In many cases, their authors employ geostatistics operating with spatially dependent data (for reviews, see Ettema and Wardle, 2002; Pokarzhevskii et al., 2007).