Abstract:In order to reveal the correlation between soil Physicochemical properties and soil heavy metals, the diagonal method and circular knife method were used to collect and determine the main physicochemical properties and heavy metal contents in three typical evergreen broad-leaved secondary forest sample plots in Tiantou Mountain Nature Reserve, Shenzhen. It was found that the soil bulk density of the 0~20 cm profile layer was the smallest, and the overall soil organic matter, total nitrogen and alkaline decomposition nitrogen decreased with increasing soil depth. At the same time, there was a significant or highly significant correlation between physicochemical properties and heavy metals. The results showed that chemical properties were closely correlated with heavy metals compared to soil physical properties. Redundancy analysis led to the conclusion that total phosphorus, total nitrogen, total potassium, alkaline soluble nitrogen, pH and organic matter were the main factors affecting heavy metal content. Passage path analysis further determined the direct and indirect effects of soil physicochemical properties on heavy metal activity.