植物生态学报 ›› 2020, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 96-110.DOI: 10.17521/cjpe.2019.0259

• 研究论文 • 上一篇    下一篇

《中国植被志》的植被分类系统、植被类型划分及编排体系

方精云1,2,*(),郭柯1,王国宏1,唐志尧2,谢宗强1,沈泽昊2,王仁卿3,强胜4,梁存柱5,达良俊6,于丹7   

  1. 1中国科学院植物研究所植被与环境变化国家重点实验室, 北京 100093
    2北京大学城市与环境学院, 北京大学生态研究中心, 北京 100871
    3山东大学生命科学学院, 济南 250100
    4南京农业大学生命科学学院, 南京 210095
    5内蒙古大学生态环境学院, 呼和浩特 010021
    6华东师范大学生态与环境科学学院, 上海 200241
    7武汉大学生命科学学院, 武汉 430072
  • 收稿日期:2019-09-27 接受日期:2019-12-16 出版日期:2020-02-20 发布日期:2020-04-08
  • 通讯作者: 方精云
  • 基金资助:
    国家科技基础性工作专项(2015FY210200);国家科技基础资源调查专项(2019FY202300);国家自然科学基金委员会基础科学中心项目(31988102)

Vegetation classification system and classification of vegetation types used for the compilation of vegetation of China

FANG Jing-Yun1,2,*(),GUO Ke1,WANG Guo-Hong1,TANG Zhi-Yao2,XIE Zong-Qiang1,SHEN Ze-Hao2,WANG Ren-Qing3,QIANG Sheng4,LIANG Cun-Zhu5,DA Liang-Jun6,YU Dan7   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China
    2Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
    3School of Life Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
    4School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China
    5School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot 010021, China
    6School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
    7College of Life Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
  • Received:2019-09-27 Accepted:2019-12-16 Online:2020-02-20 Published:2020-04-08
  • Contact: Jing-Yun FANG
  • Supported by:
    Special Foundation for National Science and Technology Basic Research Program of China(2015FY210200);Special Foundation for National Science and Technology Basic Resources Investigation of China(2019FY202300);Basic Research Center Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31988102)

摘要:

植被志(vegegraphy)是基于植被调查资料, 全面记叙植被的群落外貌、种类组成、结构和功能、生境条件, 以及地理分布等特征, 并对同类植被进行归纳和总结的志书。“植被志”的英文译为“vegegraphy”, 是本文的新造词, 它是由“vegetation”的词头“vege-”和英文后缀“-graphy” (记叙之意)组成的合成词。《中国植被志》的研编是一项时间紧迫、内容复杂、工作量浩繁的重大科学工程。它的完成将极大提升中国植被科学和生态学的研究水平, 并为中国植被资源的合理利用、生物多样性保护及生态环境治理等提供不可或缺的基础资料。本文首先简述了植被的基本特征(主要包括外貌特征、种类组成、群落结构以及动态变化等)和国内外植被调查的进展情况, 简要回顾了中国植被分类系统的研究历史, 并对以往的分类系统进行了若干修订。在此基础上, 着重讨论并提出了《中国植被志》卷册编排体系和用于《中国植被志》研编的植被类型划分方案。在对植被分类系统的修订方面, 主要对高级分类单位及相对应的英文名称进行了讨论和修订。按照本文修订的分类系统, 中国植被的分类单位及其对应的英文名称分别是: 植被型组(Vegetation Formation Group)、植被型(Vegetation Formation)和植被亚型(Vegetation Subformation)、群系组(Alliance Group)、群系(Alliance)和亚群系(Suballiance)、群丛组(Association Group)以及群丛(Association)。在植被型组中, 划分为9类: 森林、灌丛、草本植被、荒漠、高山冻原与稀疏植被、沼泽与水生植被、农业植被、城市植被及无植被地段。关于《中国植被志》的卷册编排和“植被类型”划分, 首先按高级分类单位——植被型划分相应的“卷”; 在此框架下, 模糊“植被亚型”、“群系组”和“群系”的概念, 确定“植被类型” (Vegetation type), 并将其作为植被志各卷中的“册”。这样处理不仅保证了研编工作的可操作性, 也保持了同一卷册中特定植被类型的完整性。《中国植被志》编排体系中的“植被类型”的划分很重要, 它是指具有相同建群种及相同优势类群(如种、属)的植被组合, 但它不是严格意义上的植被分类单位。“植被类型”的划分遵循“优势类群及生活型的同一性, 生境条件的相对重要性, 植被特征及用途的差异性, 以及突出植被志的应用性”等原则。按该编排体系, 《中国植被志》将由48卷约110册组成。

关键词: 植物群落, 植被, 植被分类系统, 植被分类单位, 植被类型, 植被类型划分, 中国植被志

Abstract:

Vegegraphy, a newly-created term in this paper and a compound word of prefix “vege-” of “vegetation” and suffix of “-graphy”, is a series of monographs that describe detailedly species composition, structures, functions, environmental settings, and distribution of a set of plant communities and/or their combinations for each vegetation type, using community data from vegetation survey. Its compilation is very huge, comprehensive, time-consuming research project, and great importance in the ecological research, vegetation restoration and utilization, biodiversity conservation, and environmental monitoring. This article first documents major community characteristics (i.e., species composition, structures, physiognomy, and dynamics), and historical development and current state of vegetation survey in China and worldwide, then reviews historical studies on vegetation classification systems and their revisions, and finally discusses compilation of vegetation of China and classification of vegetation types used for the compilation. For the revision of vegetation classification systems, we mainly revised high-level units of previous classification systems and the corresponding English terms. Following this revised classification system, the hierarchical level of China’s vegetation classification is expressed as high-level units (Vegetation Formation Group, Vegetation Formation, and Vegetation Subformation), medium-level units (Alliance Group, Alliance, and Suballiance), and lower-level units (Association Group and Association), respectively. In the Vegetation Formation Group unit, nine types were divided as Forest, Shrubland, Herbaceous vegetation, Desert, Swamp & Aquatic Vegetation, Alpine Tundra & Sparse Vegetation, Cultivated Vegetation, Urban Vegetation, and Non-Vegetated Area. For the compilation of vegetation of China and the classification of vegetation types, we used the high-level unit, Vegetation Formation, as the Volume of the vegegraphy, and used a specific term, “Vegetation type”, as the Issue under the Volume. The Vegetation type here is not a real vegetation classification unit but is a combination of a set of vegetation units (i.e., Vegetation Subformation and/or Alliance Group and/or Alliance) in which there exist the same or similar constructive species or the same dominant taxa (species or genus) in the communities. The determination of “Vegetation type” follows the four principles: identity of dominant taxa and life form, relative importance of habitats, difference of vegetation characteristics and application, and practicability of vegegraphy. As a result, the vegetation of China (Vegegraphy of China) completed will be composed of 48 volumes and about 110 issues.

Key words: plant community, vegetation, vegetation classification system, vegetation classification unit, vegetation type, classification of vegetation type, Vegegraphy of China