Abstract: This paper analyzed the present status of ecology specialty constru ction and personnel training in China. It was considered that there existed some problems to be solved, e.g., the contradiction between the rapid development of new subjects in ecology and the relative weakness in personnel qualified to teach, the unbalance between the extensive and intensive, and the deep and shall ow teaching programs for the students in ecology, the conflict between the “sof t” (theoretical) ecologcal education and the “hard” (technical) ecological con struction, and the contradiction between the limited demands and the relative su rplus supply of undergraduate students in ecology. Based on these analyses, a se ries of suggestions and countermeasures for the innovation of the teaching style s and training directions in ecological specialties were put forward, including 1) to formulate a development and construction plan of ecology specialty an d to appropriately regulate the enrollment of undergraduate students, 2) to achi eve the changes in current teaching styles from classroom to field and from “so ft” theoretical teaching to “hard” technical training, 3) to develop and impl ement a variety of diversified teaching methods, such as participative, interact ive, research-based, and innovative teaching for undergraduate students, 4) to enhance the undergraduate educational quality and teaching resource bank constru ction and to achieve teaching resource sharing, and 5) to establish “T-type” personnel training system in ecology. Some employment-oriented personnel traini ng directions in ecology specialty were also presented.

Key words: Excentrodendron hsienmu,  young tree, natural regeneration, spatial pattern.