Abstract: In the last ten-day of April 2011, an investigation was conducted on the soil macrofauna in five different urban green spaces (poplar plantation, park green space, nursery, lawn, and rapeseed field) in Yancheng City of Jiangsu Province, aimed to understand the community structure and functional groups of soil macrofauna in the City in spring. There existed significant differences in the macrofauna group number and abundance among different green spaces. The number and abundance of the functional groups followed as phytophage > saprozoic > camivorous. An obvious surface assembly phenomenon of soil macrofauna was observed. Green space type,soil layer, and their interaction had significant effects on the group number and abundance of soil macrofauna. Among the green spaces except lawn vs. rapeseed field and nursery vs. park green space, there were significant differences in the abundance frequency distribution of phytophage and non-phytophage. Hierarchical clustering and non-metric two-dimensional scaling ordination showed that the soil macrofauna communities were similar between lawn and rapeseed field, but differed between other green spaces.

Key words: reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), summer, preferred habitat, principal component analyses, habitat selection, Daxing’an Mountain.