RESUMO
By using correlation analysis, this paper studied the relationships of soil microbial quantity and biomass with soil physical and chemical factors and enzyme activities in highway shelter-forests of Tarim Desert, aimed to approach the interactions between microbes and environmental factors in aeolian sandy soil of extremely arid area. The results showed that soil microbial quantity and biomass in the shelter-forests had an increasing trend with the decrease of soil bulk density and particle size (R < -0.84) and the increase of soil moisture content and porosity (R > 0.85), with the correlation between soil microbial biomass and soil bulk density as the key. Soil microbial quantity and biomass were positively correlated with soil nutrient contents, mainly caused by the correlations of soil actinomycetes and microbial biomass C and P with soil available nutrients. Greater differences (R = 0.51-0.91) were observed in the correlations of soil enzyme activities with soil microbial quantity and biomass, which was mainly determined by the correlations of soil invertase and phosphatase activities with soil actinomycetes and microbial biomass C. The increase of soil salt content was not favorable to the accumulation of soil microbial biomass (R < -0.71), and there was a higher positive correlation (R > 0.63) between soil microbial amount and biomass. In practice, good soil condition should be established in the forestlands of arid area for the development of soil microbes and the promotion of soil matter cycling.
