Abstract: Urbanization is one of the main reasons for biodiversity reduction and habitat fragmentation, which changes urban landscapes and ecological processes. Soil fauna is a significant component of urban ecosystems. It could make quick responses to rapid urbanization, being a typical environmental indicator. Due to the complicated disturbance factors of the urban ecosystem, the land use type could not fully reflect local habitat differences of soil fauna. It remains unclear about the influence of urban landscape pattern on soil fauna diversity. Aiming at solving the conflict between habitat loss and soil fauna diversity protection caused by urbanization, we summarized research progress on the impacts of urban landscape pattern on soil fauna biodiversity along urbanization gradient, to reveal the patterns of soil fauna distribution in different habitats in landscape scale. This review provides a new thought for the protection of urban soil fauna diversity and enriches the contents of landscape ecology.

Key words: directional planting, light environment, photosystem II, photosynthetic performance, summer maize