Discussion
Large number of soil animal study sites have been established in
different regions worldwide (Yin et al., 2010; Wu et al., 2011), and
many scholars have studied soil fauna on their ecological function
(Lubbers et al., 2020) and soil animal
coexistence mechanisms
(Stefanie et al., 2015;
Guo et al., 2018). However, most of
these studies were on reginal or
population scales (Marchen et al., 2015; Song
et al., 2017;
Phillips et al., 2019). There is a
lack of studies that analyze communities with broad ranges of taxa on
large scales. Various ecosystems worldwide are interconnected.
Thus, integrating comparative
large-scale analyses could better reveal the laws of soil fauna
community distributions and species coexistence mechanisms.