Title: The manifestation of the complex structure of plant communities in the tourism landscape planning of traditional villages

Authors: Yi Lin

Addresses: School of Management, Anshan Normal University, Anshan – 114007, Liaoning, China

Abstract: Traditional villages are important tourism resources, and the study of their landscape planning has certain value. This paper mainly studied the plant communities of traditional villages. It took three traditional villages, A, B, and C, in Guangdong and three traditional villages, D, E, and F, in Guangxi as the subjects to analyse their plant communities and investigate the species situation in these villages. Moreover, the importance and diversity of the species were calculated. The results showed that villages A, B, and C had fewer arbour families and genera than villages D, E, and F, and the villages in Guangxi had more abundant species resources. Importance calculation revealed that the dominant species in villages A, B, and C were mostly evergreen trees, while those in villages D, E, and F were mostly deciduous trees. Diversity calculation showed that Village F had better diversity and uniformity in all layers.

Keywords: plant community; complex structure; traditional village; landscape planning; tourism.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEE.2026.151947

International Journal of Environmental Engineering, 2026 Vol.14 No.1, pp.40 - 51

Received: 18 Jul 2025
Accepted: 29 Aug 2025
Published online: 27 Feb 2026 *

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