Volcanic eruption is a typical large scale catastrophic disturbance, and it offers opportunity to learn how do ecosystem respond and recover from environmental devastation. In order to identify which parts of ecosystem components are fragile and hard to recover under biotic and abiotic disturbance, we studied distribution and abundance of soil and ground surface dwelling macro-fauna, a subset forest ecosystem of a volcanic island, Miyake-jima erupted in 2000. Recovery of particular soil-macro fauna was evaluated by comparing abundances of various functional/taxonomic groups sampled by pit-fall traps in 2002, 2003 and 2010 at fixed sites along disturbance gradient, and we discovered that field crickets, ground beetles and wolf spiders recovered extensively even in heavily disturbed sites. However, recovery of earthworm and amphipods was little even in less disturbed sites. We, thereafter, evaluated island-wide ecosystem status using ecological niche modeling for the selected indicator species. Major finding is that predicted distribution of earthworm and amphipod crustacean coincided well with distribution of least disturbed forest. In addition, we also detected that isopods were common in moderately disturbed area, but their abundance were patchily depressed by presence of introduced toad.