山西五台山高山林线植被景观.PDFVIP

2003, 27 ( 2)263~ 269 A cta Phy toecologica Sinica 刘鸿雁 曹艳丽 田 军 戴君虎 田育红 崔海亭 ( , 100871) ,, : 1) 2 605~ 2 790 m, 2 810~ 3 015 m;2) , , ; 3) VEGETATION LANDSCAPE OF THE ALPINE TIMBERLINE ON MT. WUTAI, SHANXI PROVINCE LIU Hong_Yan CAO Yan_Li TIA Jun DAI Jun_Hu TIA Yu_Hong and CUI Hai_Ting (Dep artment of Ecology , School of Environmental Sciences , Peking University, Bejiing 100871, China) Abstract As a transitional zone from closed forest to alpine vegetation, timberline is sensitive to climatic change in two aspects, fluctuation of its boundaries and changes to its structure. Therefore, the demarcation of vegetation limits and clarification of vegetation patternsof alpine timberline is critical to studieson theresponse of alpinetimberlineto climatic change. Mt. Wutai, with a summit of 3 058 m a.s. l., is the highest mountain in orth China. It is also oneof several mountains which reach the climatically controlled alpine timberline in the temperate broadleaved forest zone in China. Former studies were focused on the vegetation classification of meadows, vertical changes of plant species diversity and microto meso_scalepatterns of themeadow near the summit. Vegetation analysis on a large scale is still essential to understand the characteristics of vegetation near the timberline. Vegetation investigation was made at 10 m elevation intervals on the shady slope and 20_25 m on the sun- ny slope from the upper forest limit to themountain summit. A total of 280 relevˆs on the shady slope