Effects Of Tourism On Diversity Of Arthropods In The Mt. Hengshan Nature Reserve In Hunan

The rising of eco-tourism has brought the serious ecology destruction and the environmental problem for the nature reserve. And to seek the traveling development and the environmental protection harmonious unification has become the important topic in the nature reserve sustainable development. The Mt. Hengshan, as one of the Five Famous Mountains in our country attracts the multitudinous tourist by its beautiful natural scenery, the historical glorious religion culture, so its tourism developed rapidly. However the massive tourists' inrushing has brought the nature reserve a series of changes about the environment and the animal and plant resources. From this point, the article regards tourism as a kind of disturbance, and compares the diversity of arthropod change under the eco-tourism conflicting through dividing 3 elevations and 4 seasons, and reveals in quota the influence rule of the eco-tourism to the arthropod community multiple. Through whole year of the on-the-spot investigation and the comparative analysis which carries on in the Mt. Hengshan nature reserve, the findings as follow:By the investigation, collecting in the Mt. Hengshan nature reserve the arthropod 2,863 individuals,which includes 243 species 91 families 18 orders 4 classes. What the types are most is Araneae, occupies total the numbers 19.75%, next is the Coleoptera, occupies 16.87%; What the quantities are most is the Orthoptera and Araneae, respectively achieves 27.91% and 22.77%. If dividing the arthropod community, according to the feeding pattern, into phytophagous,predatory, parasitic and others, it accounts for the total the proportion is in turn 49.07%, 28.22%, 7.38% and 15.33%. The seasonal variation of the arthropod community quantity and its type are for summer > autumn > spring > winter. At the same time, the arthropod community has the obvious vertical gradient change. Its family number, species number and individual number drop along with the elevation, but the display is not obvious. It is possible that the Mt. Hengshan...