Soil aggregate is an important indicator of soil quality and sustainable land utilization,and impacts the retention abilities of water and fertilizers.The differences of the aggregate stability in the small watershed scale are sensitively affected by the land pattern of human interference,while the influence of land uses on the aggregate is rarely reported in the small tributary of Yangtze River,located in the hilly region of western Hubei.The purpose of this study was to figure out the effects of five land use patterns(cypresses forests(CF),ve...