A study on the association between the environmental factors and bamboo Bashania spanostachya growth(culm height,culm basal diameter,density,shoot generation,proportion of old shoots and death rate of adult culms),was conducted from 1994 to 1996 in Yele Natural Reserve,Sichuan Province.The results showed that the environmental factors such as canopy cover,slope,aspect,altitude significantly influenced the bamboo growth.As the altitude increased,bamboo culms became shorter and slender,and proportion of o...