关键词: 我国南方, 草场类型, 特征, 利用现状, 载畜潜力

Abstract: South China is a vast area of tropical and subtropical zones of the south of the qinling mountain and Huaihe river.According to the appearance,struc-ture,composition and ecological environment of the community,the types of vegetation of the main rangelands in south China can be classified as fourteen formations.They have the following characteristics:The area of rangeland is large,The grass yield of rangeland is high and the animal carrying potentia-lities are great,but the grazing utilization ratio is low for the present,the herbivorous livestock is small in quantity.Generally speaking,the develop-ment of animal husbandry on the rangelands in the south is somewhat slow.However,there are 5.6—8.0 fold potentialities of increase in grass yield,the animal product unit can be raised largely,and the other favourable condi-tions for promoting development of the animal husbandry on the rangelandsin the south are also available,those work in south China must be developed more rapidly in the future.

Key words: south China, types of rangeland vegetation, characteristics, status quo of utilization, animal carrying potentialities