Welcome to Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology! Today is Share:

Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology ›› 2002, Vol. ›› Issue (5): 605-610.

Previous Articles     Next Articles

On forest ecosystem health and its evaluation

CHEN Gao1, DAI Limin1, FAN Zhuhua2, WANG Qingli 1   

  1. 1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016;
    2. Rizhao Forestry Bureau, RiZhao 276800
  • Received:2001-03-20 Revised:2001-11-28 Online:2002-05-15

Abstract: Definition and connotation of forest ecosystem health were introduced, and existing ideas and methods of health evaluation were analyzed in this paper.Furthermore, forest ecosystem health was discussed from the aspects of the management objective approach, ecosystem approach, and integration approach. Widespread application of ecological indicators is the main means of evaluation on forest ecosystem health at present, and some material forest health evaluation methods, especially EMAPand FHM, were introduced and summarized to impel the relative researches in China.

CLC Number: