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Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2002, Vol. ›› Issue (12): 1679-1683.

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Basic theory and research method of urban forest ecology

HE Xingyuan, JIN Yingshan, ZHU Wenquan, XU Wenduo, CHEN Wei   

  1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016
  • Received:2002-08-15 Revised:2002-09-12 Online:2002-12-15

Abstract: With the development of world economy and the increment of urban population,the urban environment problem hinders the urban sustainable development. Now,more and more people realized the importance of urban forests in improving the quality of urban ecology. Therefore,a new subject,urban forest ecology,and correlative new concept frame in the field formed. The theoretic foundation of urban forest ecology derived from the mutual combination of theory relating to forest ecology,landscape ecology,landscape architecture ecology and anthrop ecology. People survey the development of city from the view of ecosystem,and regard the environment,a colony of human,animals and plants,as main factors of the system.The paper introduces systematically the urban forest ecology as follows:1) the basic concept of urban forest ecology;2) the meaning of urban forest ecology;3) the basic principle and theoretic base of urban forest ecology;4) the research method of urban forest ecology;5) the developmental expectation of urban forest ecology.

Key words: Urban forest, Ecology

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