A DISCUSSION ON THE VEGETATION TYPES DURING LGM TIME IN SOUTH CHINA
关于华南地区末次冰盛期植被类型的讨论

The vegetation types during the Last Glacial Maximum in South China were assessed in the paper using the relevant data available. The present authors agree with the viewpoint that the tropical vegetation in South China disappeared during the LGM and the regional vegetation with latitudinal distribution was subtropical evergreen broad leaved forest in nature, but disagree with the statement that advocates the occurrence of "temperate steppes" in those areas during the LGM. The "herbaceous communities" dominated by either Artemisia or Gramineae were actually resulted from local environment rather than climatic changes and can not be taken as the representatives of regional vegetation. It is suggested that the south boundary for steppe in the LGM was situated in the present north bounds of the middle subtropics, approximately equal to the southernmost distribution of the Xiashu Loess in China.