In this paper, the qualitative properties of general nonautonomous Lotka-Volterra n-species competitive systems with impulsive effects are studied. Some new criteria on the permanence, extinction and global attractivity of partial species are established by used the methods of inequalities estimate and Liapunov functions. As applications, nonautonomous two species Lotka-Volterra systems with impulses are discussed. §1 IntroductionIn the natural world, competition is usually defined as the simultaneous demand by two or more organisms for limited environmental resources, such as food, nutrients, living space, or light. As there are two sides to everything , competition can be good to the natural selection, but on the other hand, it is harmful to some cases. For multiple species in a habitat, one well-known consequence of competition is that all species will be co-prosperous; the another consequence is partial species can coexist and segmental species will be extinct. Modeling and analysis of the dynamics of biological populations by means of differential equations is one of the primary concerns in population growth problems. As we well known, Lotka-Volterra competition system which models the interaction among various competing species is one of the most celebrated models in mathematical biology and population dynamics. Traditional Lotka-Volterra competition system usually is expressed as follows:a ij (t)x j (t)], i = 1, 2, · · · , n.