Relationships of plant community's species-area curve with species diversity in Huoshan Mountain of Shanxi, China
By using standard sampling method, this paper studied the relationships of the plant community' s species number, area, and species diversity in Huoshan Mountain of Shanxi Prov-ince. In the stands at three different elevations, the adjusted coefficients of determination (R2 values) of species(log) -area( log) curves were higher than those of species-area curves and spe-cies-area (log) curves. At medium elevation, the mean species number and the Margalef index (R) and Shannon-Wiener index (H') of the community were the largest, but the Jaccard coeffi-cient (J) was the smallest. The estimated values of the species-area curves and species-area (log) curves in the stands at the three different elevations were close to the observed values.