Abstract: The response of vegetation phenology to climate warming has attracted increasing attention during the last few decades under the background of global change. In this paper, we summarized the response of vegetation phenology to meteorological factors (temperature, moisture, light), and their research methods were also introduced. In addition, the research progress on vegetation phonological changes in China over the past several decades were overviewed. With the global climate warming, the start of season is generally advanced in most regions of China, while this trend is not remarkable in some arid regions of Xinjiang. It is noteworthy that different observation methods at different research scales complicated the intercomparison or synthesis of phonological data at regional and global scale. Therefore, we recommended that a unified phenological observation network should be established based on the ChinaFLUX network and the widely distributed Chinese Ecological Research Network. Moreover, the method of deriving plant phenology information from the eddy covariance data should be improved. A uniform judging criterion for phenological change could standardize the research on the response of vegetation phenology to climate warming.

Key words: genetic diversity, Enhalus acoroide, microsatellite, genetic differen-tiation., clonal diversity