流域生态学——生态学研究的一个新领域

Watershed ecologyA new research area of ecology

由于人类不合理开发和利用自然资源 ,造成了流域生态环境的重大破坏 ,为了合理开发流域资源和保护生态环境 ,非常有必要开展流域生态学的研究。文中系统阐述了流域生态学的重要意义、主要研究内容和方法。流域生态学属于宏观生态学的研究领域 ,主要借助于宏观生态学的研究方法。流域生态学与目前生态学最关注的“全球变化、生物多样性和可持续发展”3个研究问题紧密结合在一起 ,极具研究价值 ,建议开展广泛深入的研究。

As human's unrational use of resource and environment destroys the watershed ecology and environment severely, it's very important and necessary to begin a wide research on watershed ecology, to solve the problems such as sustainable utilizing the resource and protecting the ecology and environment of watershed. The significance, major research subjects and some important methods of watershed ecology were given here. Being part of the macroscopic ecology research area,many macroscopic ecology methods should be used in the watershed ecology research. watershed ecology research is of great value, as it is deeply related with today's three most important ecological research subjects, “global change, biodiversity and sustainable development\'. It's the time to start a wide and thorough research now.