Abstract:Based upon data obtained from field investigation, the interspecific relationships among 21 dominant woody species of forest communities in Pangquangou National Nature Reserve at Mt. Guandi were analyzed by using χ2-test for 2×2 contingency table, variance ratio (VR) test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient test, and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient test.The results clearly show that the overall association of forest communities among all species tends to no correlation (χ20.95N<W<χ20.05N) and the species distributions are relatively independent, however, there are some competitions among dominant species occurring at partial elevation. The overall associations of groupⅠand Ⅱ located at lower elevation (1 600~2 200 m) are some negative correlation and they are not significant (p>0.05), but the index of group Ⅲ located at elevation (2 200~2 430 m) is no correlation. With the altitudes increasing, the overall association indexes(VR), the ratio of the positive and negative association and the positive significant percentage of χ2 test and Spearman rank correlation coefficients are all rising, while negative significant decreased. This means that interspecific relationships tend to null and forest communities will be more stable with the rising of elevation from 1 600 m to 2 430 m. The results suggest that it is better to investigate the interspecific correlation by combining variance ratio (VR) with test χ2-test, Pearson’s correlation coefficient test and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient test. They can make up the defects of each other’s.The results are in accordance with the idea that interspecific association tends to be null with the development of community succession, that is, when the forest community gets to the climax, they will have stable structure and species distribution are relative independent, moreover the interspecific association tends to be no correlation.