Abstract: Recently, China has entered into a developmental stage of rapid urbanization, and cities have been expanding rapidly with increasing number of skyscrapers. Consequently, the interactions between cities and their surrounding environments have become more complex. Thus, developing theory and method of threedimensional landscape pattern dynamics and processes is important for urban ecological security and health. In this review, the study progresses on urban landscape pattern and its atmosphere environmental effects were introduced from threedimensional perspectives. Atmospheric numerical models of urban landuse at different scales, and atmosphere environmental effects of urban landscape elements and pattern change were elucidated. The deficiencies of theoretical basis of three-dimensional landscape pattern and research methods on atmospheric numerical models were summarized. In future, quantitative analysis of three-dimensional pattern and its environmental effect will be a new research direction in urban landscape ecology. On the basis of three dimensional urban landscape theories, building pattern indexes which could reflect the relationship between landscape pattern and atmospheric environment, constructing multiscale models which combine dynamic mechanism of urban landscape pattern change with atmospheric environmental factors, and strengthening optimization study of threedimensional urban landscape pattern are considered as future directions of the study field.

Key words: ecosystem function, allochthonous material, land-water interaction, biodiversity, community structure