THE USE OF NUMERICAL TAXONOMY IN NATURAL BAMBOO COMMUNITY DIVISION

By using various numerical techniques such as principal components analysis(PCA) clustering, distance clustering, and adop ting different combinatorial strategies such as nearest-neighbour, furthest-neighbour, median, centroid and group-average etc., the authors have classified 20 sample plots of bamboo community in 3 areas of southern Yunnan, China. It is indicated that the result of PCA ordination in two-dimensional space and group-average distance clustering is identical with the traditional classification approaches.