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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2025, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (11): 3231-3236.doi: 10.13287/j.1001-9332.202511.033

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A harmonious ecosystem management paradigm based on modernized perception methods

MA Keming*   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
  • Received:2025-03-11 Accepted:2025-09-02 Online:2025-11-18 Published:2025-12-15

Abstract: Realizing a modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature is the core content of current ecological civilization construction. Ecology is an important scientific foundation for ecological civilization construction. It is urgent to explore new ways to enhance the perception and regulation of nature, which would contribute new theories and methods to the modernization of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. By fully leveraging modern technology to empower human senses, ecology is rapidly expanding in the form of modernized perception methods, providing several new ways for humans to deeply perceive nature and gradually achieving the modernization of the discipline's development. Under such a background, I argued that ecology should change the current adaptive ecosystem management paradigm that starts from nature conservation and establish a new scientific method system to conduct more precise mutual feedback regulation of the relationship between humans and nature. I proposed a harmonious ecosystem management paradigm that starts from human sensory satisfaction, takes ecosystem services as the link, comprehensively considers supply and demand balance and input-output, and fully cross-links various human sensory experiences with various ecosystem services to precisely regulate the harmonious relationship between humans and nature. The establishment of this new paradigm depends on how modern techno-logy promotes the future development of ecology, requires interdisciplinary integration from natural science to social science, and relies on extensive practice by government departments.

Key words: human sensory organ, modern technology, ecosystem services, ecosystem management, landscape ecology, landsense ecology