由胡自治教授编著、任继周院士和张新时院士作序的《英汉植物群落名称词典》已 2 0 0 1年 12月由甘肃省科学技术出版社出版。　　本词典 1984年完成初稿 ,收集了主要是与草业科学有关的植物群落名称词条约 10 0 0条。嗣后又历时 14年 ,从 10 0多部中外专著、词典和大量期刊中 , The Dictionary of English-Chinese Plant Communities, edited by Professor Hu Zizheng and by Academician Ren Ji Zhou and Zhang Xinshi, was published by Gansu Science and Technology Press in December 2001. The first draft of this dictionary was completed in 1984 and collects about 100 entries on the names of plant communities that are mainly related to grassland science. After another 14 years, from more than 10 foreign and domestic monographs, dictionaries and a large number of periodicals,