Soil Macrofauna of the South of Kunashir Island (Kuril Islands, Russia)

Study of the soil biota organization under the con� ditions of minimal human influence in different soil types is one of the most important tasks for both fun� damental and applied soil biology. When developing the concept of the zoological method of soil diagnos� tics, Gilyarov [6] considered the taxonomic diversity and the number of species of the soil macrofauna as the main parameters, characterizing soil types and soil differences. Soils of the Russian Far East were studied not so thoroughly. Notwithstanding considerably