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Spatial variations of soil characteristics in forest directly always determine the forest productivity and the approach to ecological restoration. However, in plantation forests that have been suffered from many dis-turbances due to human activities, spatial distribution of soil physical and chemical properties are still unclear. To examine the status of soil properties in different plantation forests, altitude and soil depth in southern mountainous area in Anhui Province, we sampled soil from six forests in Meichen forestry station at Dongzhi County in Octo-ber 2016, and measured its pH, Ec, TOC, LOC, DOC and TN at the soil depth of 0-20 cm and 20-40 cm. The re-sults were as follows: (1) The soil chemical characteristics of artificial forest in Meicheng forestry station were mainly affected by forest types, and the order of soil fertility was generally ranked as coniferous forest > hard broad-leaved forest > broad-leaved mixed …