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The Main Terrestrial Ecosystem Services and Ecological Security in China

  • FU Ba-Jie ,
  • ZHOU Guo-Yi ,
  • BAI Yong-Fei ,
  • SONG Chang-Chun ,
  • LIU Ji-Yuan ,
  • ZHANG Hui-Yuan ,
  • LV Yi-He ,
  • ZHENG Hua ,
  • XIE Gao-De
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  • 1.State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology,Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100085, China;
    2.South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou  510650, China;
    3. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100093, China;
    4. Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun  130012, China;
    5. Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing  100101, China;
    6.Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning,Ministry of Environmental Protection,Beijing  100012,China

Received date: 2009-04-28

  Revised date: 2009-05-11

  Online published: 2009-06-10

Abstract

       Ecosystem service has become a hot topic in international ecological research with two major trends of advancing ecosystem service mechanism and regional integration methodologies. At the same time, terrestrial ecosystem service research is a great national science and strategic need for ecological restoration, ecological functional regionalization, ecological compensation, and sustaining ecological security. Targeting this necessity and the international research frontiers of ecosystem service, this project takes main terrestrial ecosystems in China as the object of research. There are three scientific themes that will be tackled: ①the interaction between ecosystem structure, process and services; ②spatiotemporal coupling and scale effects of ecosystem service; ③regional ecosystem service assessment and integration modeling. Through the above, it is managed to promote the development of ecosystem service theory and applications to scientifically support national ecological rehabilitation and environmental protection.

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Cite this article

FU Ba-Jie , ZHOU Guo-Yi , BAI Yong-Fei , SONG Chang-Chun , LIU Ji-Yuan , ZHANG Hui-Yuan , LV Yi-He , ZHENG Hua , XIE Gao-De . The Main Terrestrial Ecosystem Services and Ecological Security in China[J]. Advances in Earth Science, 2009 , 24(6) : 571 -576 . DOI: 10.11867/j.issn.1001-8166.2009.06.0571

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