Methodology of Vegetation Analysis and Vegetation Mapping Based on Phytosociology and Vegetation Science in Chinese''

This methodology paper was translated in Chinese from Japanese version. The materials of phytosociological field surveys, the so-called releves, contribute to understand and record the species composition of vegetation and several conditions of environments. These relev6s also contribute to classification of plant communities and to comprehension and recording of vegetation as basic units of natural environments by table work. These phytosociological syntaxonomy based on releves and table work may assist or contribute to various other scientific studies .such as understanding the vegetation composition, species richness, community dynamics, environmental education, landscape ecology, etc. Practical methods for field surveys, and classification and description of vegetation are described originally in English (Fujiwara 1987) based on Braun-Blanquet (1964) and the "Tuxen school" of phytosociology. Then this methodological paper was translated in Japanese with the. addition of vegetation mapping, which are the actual vegetation map, the degree of naturalness vegetation, map of potential natural vegetation, the map of original vegetation, the map of sigma association, the map of site potential, the functional vegetation map, vegetation complexes, the eco-climate map, the actual vegetation map based on remoted sensing, in 1997 (Fujiwara 1997). This Chinese version was carried out from Japanese version with addition of biotope mapping.