Fig 1.
Wangtian Cave portal information and sampling point settings.
Note: 1. Surroundings outside the cave; 2. Portal environment; 3. Farmland (FL); 4. shrub (SB); 5. cave wall (CW); 6. ground (GD); 7. understory (US).
Table 1.
Dominant species of plants at the entrance of Wangtian Cave and outside the cave.
Fig 2.
Partial moss in different habitats.
Note: 1. Moss on the ground in caves; 2. The moss on the cave wall; 3. Middle moss in the shrub outside the cave; 4. Moss in Farmland Outside the Cave.
Table 2.
Classification criteria of community types on soil mites (Oribatida).
Fig 3.
Distribution of family number (1) and genus number (2), individual number (3) and individual density (4) of Oribatid mites in different moss habitats. Note: Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences in the distribution of family number, genus number, individual number and individual density in different habitats. Ground (GD), understory (US), cave wall (CW), surface shrub (SB) and farmland (FL).
Fig 4.
Composition of dominant genera of oribatid mites in different moss habitats.
Note: Ground (GD), understory (US), cave wall (CW), surface shrub (SB) and farmland (FL).
Fig 5.
Distribution and change of diversity index (H ’), richness index (SR), evenness index (J) and dominance index (C) of oribatid mites in different moss habitats.
Note: Different lowercase letters indicate the significance of distribution difference of diversity index (H ’), richness index (SR), evenness index (J) and dominance index (C) of different habitats; GD: Ground; SB: Surface Shrub; US: Understory; CW: Cave wall; FL: Farmland.
Fig 6.
String diagram describing the number of oribatid mites in different moss habitats.
Note: The color and the thickness of the line indicate the connection and intensity between different types of oribatid mites and moss habitats. GD: Ground, SB: Shrub, US: Understory, CW: Cave wall, FL: Farmland.
Table 3.
Similarity of oribatid mite communities in different moss habitats.
Fig 7.
Two-way cluster analysis of oribatid mite community in different moss habitats.
Note: GD: Ground, SB: Shrub, US: Understory, CW: Cave wall, FL: Farmland; Standardized the row data and clustered the row and column data evenly, with the clustering type being Euclidean.
Table 4.
Similarity of oribatid mite communities in different moss habitats.
Table 5.
Trophic structure of oribatid mites.