Spatial sequence, instead of time sequence, is used to analyse the effect of vegetation restoration in purplish soil hilly land of Hengyang of Hunan Province on soil microbial characteristics and enzyme activities and analyse their relationship. Results show (1) with the progress of vegetation restoration, soil dissolved carbon, alkali-hydrolysable nitrogen and rapidly available phosphorus, microorganism quantity, carbon-nitrogen content, respiration rate and activities of urease, invertase and catalase are significantly increased (p < 0.05). (2) Compared with the early stage (I), soil respira...
