Abstract: Vegetation dynamics could be expressed by many ways, and succession is the core. Based on references and study experience about vegetation dynamics, the characteristic, study method and progress of vegetation succession, fluctuation, regeneration and edge effect of community were analyzed in detail. At the same time, the future study emphasis was put forward according to the study progress contents of vegetation dynamics: 1) the application of 3S technology in the study of vegetation dynamics; 2) vegetation dynamics and biodiversity; 3) vegetation dynamics and desertification; 4) scale and scaling of vegetation dynamics; 5) vegetation dynamics and global change; 6) theory of vegetation fluctuation.