对1995观生态学大会和景观生态学发展的国内外现状进行了思考。当今景观生态学与国际生态学的研究热点（全球变化、生物多样性和持续发展）基本一致，但又有自己的特色，其重点领域包括：①生态空间理论与景观异质性研究；②景观变化模型与未来景观规划；③景观系统分析与ＧＩＳ应用等。由于经济发展和社会生态意识的不同，使得该学科在各地区间的发展很不平衡。着重就我国的本领域研究状况与国际水平作了比较。

This article is adapted from Mr.Xiao′s reflections after he attended the IALE ’95 world congress held in Toulouse,France.He hold that contemporary landscape ecology shares the same ‘hot points’ with modern ecology (i.e. Global Change,Biodiversity,and Sustainable Development etc.).In the mean while,Landscape Ecology has its own characteristics,which include:1)Eco spatial Theory and landscape heterogeneity;2)Dynamic landscape model and future landscape planning;and 3)Landscape system analysis and GIS application etc.On account of the difference in economic development and thus in social eco ideology among countries and areas,landscape ecology development is substantially unequivalent.Developing countries like China are far behind the western world in methodolgy,measurements and applications.