Review on Chinese Plant Ecology and Geobotany During Last Three Decades and the Future Prospects
三十年来中国植物生态学和地植物学的回顾和展望

>Since the establishment of new China the following investigations and research works during the last thirty years have been undertaken: 1. The vegetation of the subtropical and tropical forest region; 2. The vegetation of the temperate forest region; 3. The vegetation of the temperate steppe region; 4. The vegetation of the temperate desert region; 5. The vegetation of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau; 6. The vegetation types and regionalization of whole China as well as the vegetation mapping; 7. The environmental botany. The following items or problems would be suggested to be further studied: 1. The fundamental principles of vegetation in China; 2. Vegetation mapping of different scales, including their compilation and surveying methods; 3. The classification of cultural plant communities and ecological characteristics of the economical plants; 4. The experimental research on photocoenosium and physiological photoecology; 5. The structure and function of the terrestrial ecosystems; 6. Plant ecology for the environmental protection; 7. Indicators of plants and plant communities.