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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2023, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (1): 249-256.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202301.026

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Mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland holistic protection and restoration engineering and landscape ecology

LI Yue-hui, HU Yuan-man, WANG Zheng-wen*   

  1. CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
  • Received:2022-06-23 Revised:2022-10-27 Online:2023-01-15 Published:2023-06-15

Abstract: Theoretical researches and practices on the life community of mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland mosaic and its protection and restoration have been gradually developed in China, which demands the support of a systematic disciplinary theory. Landscape ecology, as an interdisciplinary science of geography and ecology, can meet such demand thanks to its macroscopic spatial theory and technical system. Here, landscape ecology is taken as the supporting discipline of holistic protection and restoration for mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland mosaic. Firstly, we clarified that life community of mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland is a heterogeneously mosaic landscape, which bears all the characteristics of landscape and thus follows the principles of landscape ecology. Secondly, we expounded how the basic principles of landscape-ecological construction could be applied to the planning and evaluation of holistic protection and restoration for mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland mosaic. Finally, we summarized the new trend of landscape-ecological construction research, listed the theoretical and practical problems to be solved, and discussed how the projects of holistic protection and restoration for the mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland mosaic can provide a variety of practices for seeking the solutions. The combination of landscape ecology and practical restoration projects would generate effective solutions to realize sustainable development in terms of ecology, economy, and society in China and even the whole world.

Key words: mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland life community, holistic mountain-water-forest-farmland-lake-grassland-sandland protection and restoration engineering, landscape ecology, landscape pattern and process, landscape-ecological construction.