植被-气候关系的研究已经超越了植被地理学、植被生态学的研究范围，而成为全球变化研究的核心内容之一，从而受到地理学家、生态学家等的广泛关注，并开展了大量的研究。本文概述了过去、现在和未来自然植被对气候变化响应研究的主要进展，阐述了自然植被响应气候变化，特别是未来全球气候变化的基本的可能结果。

More attentions have been attracted to the relationship between vegetation and climate by geographers, ecologists, which has been listed one of core projects of IGBP. In this paper, the main progresses of researches on responses of vegetation to climate change are reflected from the three temporal scales of past, current and future, especially, the basic regimes of impacts of future climate change to vegetation are set forth.