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cje ›› 2005, Vol. ›› Issue (11): 1343-1346.

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Current research status and prospects of vegetation succession on sandy land during its desertification process in semiarid regions of China

ZHAO Cunyu, WANG Tao   

  1. Key Laboratory of Desert and Desertification, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
  • Received:2005-02-02 Revised:2005-04-24 Online:2005-11-10

Abstract: In this paper,the main problems existed in the studies of sandy land vegetation succession in the process of desertification and their future work were brought forward,based on the present researches in China semiarid regions.Firstly,sand-blown landform character should be considered,because the most evident character of sandy land vegetation succession was the sandy material shifting and sand-blown motion accompanying with each stage of vegetation succession.Secondly,the study of the nonlinearity of sandy land vegetation succession sequence and the diversity of succession climax should be intensified,because more and more heavy disturbance on ecosystem today made the sandy land vegetation succession sequence present some randomicity and irregularity.Lastly,the specific substitution mechanisms of plants in the process of succession should be lucubrated continually on the levels of physiological ecology,population ecology,synecology,and ecosystem ecology,and the study of the linking between the seed bank of sandy land soil and the dynamics of overground vegetation,as well as the prediction of the succession trend of sandy land vegetation should be further strengthened.

Key words: Polluted grains, Arsenic, Distribution, Binding forms

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