Five types of plots, grass (GS), frutex and grass (FG), frutex (FX), arbor and frutex (AF), and arbor (AR) communities, were selected to study the properties of soil aggregates in different revegetation stages and their main influencing factors of purple soils on sloping land in Hengyang, Hunan Province, China by using spatial series instead of time series. The five communities in purple soils on sloping land were similar in site conditions, and denoted as five different successive stages. The relationships between the properties of soil aggr...