Mountain Zebra National Park has been extended over a number of years. To develop a scientifically sound management programme for the Park it was essential that an inventory of its natural resources was instituted. As a result various phytosociological studies were undertaken on the newly acquired farms to identify the different plant communities present on each. These detailed maps and descriptions are regarded too fine scale for the management of this large area taking into account the limited time, human and financial resources. The aim of this study was to use the detailed plant community descriptions together with land type data and produce a broad vegetation map, which can serve as management units. Land type data for the Park was used to stratify the area into physiographic units which was further refined into terrain landscape units (TLU's) and terrain units (TU's). The floristic data was analysed using both the BBPC suite and JUICE software packages. The large units identified from a TWINSPAN analysis were related to the different terrain landscape units (TLU's) and landscape units (LU's) from where a broad vegetation map was produced. The study resulted in the identification, classification and description of three major terrain landscape units (TLU) which have been divided into 13 landscape units (LU) and two sub-units. This new approach proved to be an accurate and effective way whereby various floristically defined plant communities for a large area could be lumped together into landscape units (LU's) that can be used for management purposes.

斑马山国家公园已经延长了许多年。为了制定一个科学合理的公园管理计划，建立自然资源清单至关重要。结果，在新近收购的农场上进行了各种植物社会学研究，以确定每个农场上存在的不同植物群落。考虑到有限的时间，人力和财力，这些详细的地图和说明对于这样大面积的管理来说过于精细。这项研究的目的是使用详细的植物群落描述以及土地类型数据，并绘制出广阔的植被图，可以作为管理单位。公园的土地类型数据用于将区域分为自然地理单位，然后进一步细分为地形景观单位（TLU）和地形单位（TU）。使用BBPC套件和JUICE软件包对植物数据进行了分析。通过TWINSPAN分析确定的大型单位与产生宽广的植被图的不同地形景观单位（TLU）和景观单位（LU）有关。研究结果确定，分类和描述了三个主要的地形景观单元（TLU），它们已分为13个景观单元（LU）和两个子单元。事实证明，这种新方法是一种准确有效的方法，可以将大范围内各种植物定义的植物群落集中到景观单元中（LU'