種豐度是為植物社會的重要特徵。物種數隨取樣面積加大而增多，被稱作物種面積關聯，利用面積與種豐度間的關係曲線估算某區域的物種數是最古老且最常被使用的種豐度估算法。本研究利用多尺度取樣技術與物種面積曲線修正法估算林業試驗所太麻里研究中心實驗林的種豐度，並列出當地植物名錄闡述其物種組成與特性。
在研究區域共記錄到748種維管束植物，包括98種台灣特有種，21種稀有種，以及林道等干擾地的36種歸化種。三種植群類型中，675公頃的原始林種豐度估算值為701種(95％ CI＝651~758種)；291公頃的人工林所估得之物種數約為819種(95％ CI＝744~889種)；8.1公頃的林道種豐度估算值為560種(95％ CI＝508~641種)。因人工林取樣不足，所以無法估算整體種豐度。本研究發現在台灣使用0.1公頃的Modified-Whittaker樣區的多尺度取樣技術與物種面積曲線修正估算法，可以利用海拔差異將物種聚合分群來直接估算種豐度，而不需考慮到實際的植群分佈。

Many ecologists are struggling to quantify the species richness in a particular landscape or region. The number of species increases with sample area. Species-area relationship is often used to estimate species richness of a particular region. This study used species-log (area) curves, corrected with Jaccard’s coefficients for within-vegetation type heterogeneity, to estimate species richness and to describe vascular plant species composition in Taiwan Forestry research Institute Tai-Ma-Lee Experimental Forest.
In the study area, the author recorded 748 plant species, including 98 endemic species, 21 rare species and 36 naturalized species.
There are estimation of 701 species (95％ CI＝651~758 species) in the 583-ha natural forest area, 819 species (95％ CI＝744~889 species) in the 291-ha plantation area, 560 species (95％ CI＝508~641 species) in 8.1-ha forest road. As plantation area is not well-sampled, the total species number in the 947-ha study area could not be estimated. When use 0.1 Modified-Whittaker sampling techniques to assess plant diversity, it is possible to use elevation division, instead of vegetation type, to estimate species richness.

中文摘要 I
英文摘要 II
目次 III
圖目次 IV
表目次 V
壹、前言 1
貳、研究地區與研究方法 3
一、研究地區環境概述 3
(一)地理位置 3
(二)地形、地質 3
(三)土壤 3
(四)氣候 3
(五)土地利用 4
二、研究方法 5
(一)野外調查前置作業 5
(二)野外樣區設置與調查 6
(三)資料分析 8
參、結果與討論 11
一、野外調查結果 11
二、維管束植物名錄 11
(一)物種組成 12
(二)各植群類型物種相似度 12
(三)生活型 12
(四)稀有種與特有種 13
(五)歸化種與入侵種 13
三、種豐度的估算 13
(一)各植群類型物種面積曲線與種豐度估算 13
(二)原始林植物社會樣區數探討 15
肆、結論 17
伍、引用文獻 32
附錄 36

上河文化 2001 台灣地理人文全覽圖-南島 上河文化股份有限公司。
王永繁、余世孝、劉蔚秋 2002 物種多樣性指數及其分形分析 植物生態學報 26: 391-395。
杜清澤、林光清、洪富文、黃菊美 2003 台灣森林土壤調查報告(六)：林業試驗所-太麻里試驗林 行政院農業委員會林業試驗所。
呂光洋 1999 生物多樣性熱點如何選定？ 生物多樣性研討會論文集 1999: 159-165
呂勝由、牟善傑、彭鏡毅、謝宗欣、許再文 1996~2001台灣稀有及瀕危植物之分級：彩色圖鑑(I~IV) 行政院農業委員會。
吳征鎰、路安民、湯彥承、陳之端、李德銖 2003 中國被子植物科屬綜論 科學出版社。
徐國士、宋永昌、呂勝由 2001 台灣植被類型圖說 國立台灣科學教育館。
陳正祥 1957 氣候之分類與分區 台大實驗林叢刊第七號 國立台灣大學農學院實驗林。
黃順成 2000 鹿寮水庫植群與整合性地理資訊監測系統建立之研究 國立中興大學森林系碩士論文。
楊遠波、劉和義 2000 台灣維管束植物簡誌第六卷 行政院農業委員會。
劉棠瑞、蘇鴻傑 1987 森林植物生態學 台灣商務印書館。
Arrhenius, O. 1921. Species and area. Journal of Ecology 9: 95-99.
Barbour, M. G., J. H. Burk, W. D. Pitts, F. S. Gilliam, and M. W. Schwartz. 1998. Terrestrial plant ecology. 3rd ed. Addison Wesley Longman Press, Menlo Park, California, USA.
Barnett, D. T., and Stohlgren T. J. 2003. A nested-intensity design for surveying plant diversity. Biodiversity and Conservation 12: 255-278.
Boufford, D. E., H. Ohashi, T. C. Huang, C. F. Hsieh, J. L. Tsai, K. C. Yang, C. I. Peng, C. S. Kuoh, and A. Hsiao. 2003. A checklist of the vascular plants of Taiwan. Flora of Taiwan 6: 15-139.
Brose, U. 2001. Relative importance of isolation, area and habitat heterogeneity for vascular plant species richness of temporary wetland in east-German farmland. Ecography 24: 722–730.
Burnham, K. P., and W. S. Overton. 1979. Robust estimation of population size when capture probabilities vary among animals. Ecology 60: 927-936.
Campbell, N. A., and J. B. Reece. 2005. Biology. Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco.
Colwell, R. K., and J. A. Coddington. 1994. Nonbiological gradients in species richness and a spurious Rapoport effect. American Naturalist 144: 570-595.
Colwell, R. K., C. X. Mao, and J. Chang. 2004. Interpolating, extrapolating, and comparing incidence-based species accumulation curves. Ecology 85: 2717-2727.
Colwell, R. K. 2005. EstimateS-statistical estimation of species richness and shared species from sample Version 7.5. User’s guide and application published at http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/EstimateS7Pages/EstS7UsersGuide/EstimateS7UsersGuide.htm#WhatEstComputes.
Crawly, M. J. 1997. Plant ecology. Blackwell Publishing company, Cambridge.
Dumortier, M., J. Butaye, H. Jacquemyn, N. van Camp, N. Lust, and M. Hermy. 2002. Predicting vascular plant species richness of fragmented forests in agricultural landscapes in central Belgium. Forest Ecology and Management 158: 85-102.
Grytnes, J. A., and H. J. Briks. 2003. The influence of scale and species pool on the relationship between vascular plant species richness and cover in an alpine in Norway. Plant Ecology 169: 273-284.
Halpern, C. B., and T. A. Spies. 1995. Plant species diversity in nutural and managed forest of the pacific nothwest. Ecological Applications 5: 913-934.
Heikkinen, R. K. 1998. Can richness patterns of rarities be predicted from mesoscale atlas data? A case study of vascular plants in the Kevo Reserve. Biological Conservation 83: 133-143.
Heltshe, J. F., and N. E. Forrester. 1983. Estimating species richness using the jackknife procedure. Biometrics 39: 1-11.
Holt, R. D., J. H. Lawton, G. A. Polis, and N. D. Martinez. 1999. Trophic rank and the species-area relationship. Ecology 80: 1495-1504.
Honnay, O., K. Piessens, W. van Landuyt, M. Hermy, and H. Gulinck. 2003. Satellite based land use and landscape complexity indices as predictors for regional plant species diversity. Landscape and Urban Planning 63: 241-250.
Hsieh, C.-F. 2003. Composition, endemism and phytogeographical affinities of the Taiwan flora. Flora of Taiwan 6: 1-14.
MacArthur, R. H., and H. S. Horn. 1969. Foliage profile by vertical measurements. Ecology 50: 802-804.
Mace, G. M., and S. N. Stuart. 1994. Draft IUCN red list categories. Version 2.2. Species 21-22: 13-24.
Magurran, A. E. 2004. Measuring biological diversity. Blackwell Publishing company, Cambridge.
McCune, B. and M. J. Mefford. 1999. PC-ORD multivariate analysis of ecological data. Version MjM Software Design, Gleneden Beach, Oregon.
Ojeda, F., J. Arroyo, and T. Mara