Original Articles

Progress on the Study of Process of Wetland Landscape Changes and Cumulative Environmental Effects

Expand
  • Northeast Institute of Geography and Agricultural Ecology,CAS,Changchun 130012

Received date: 2002-10-01

  Revised date: 2002-12-01

  Online published: 2003-01-25

Abstract

Wetland, located in the terrestrial aquatic transverse zone, is an important landscape and ecosystemWetlands have huge environmental functions in maintaining ecological balance and regional stability due to their particular characteristics in hydrology, soil, and plant, as well as landscape ecological structuresBut over past decades, wetland landscapes have been changed greatly, and these changes have relationship with land use / cover changes as well as human activitiesWetland landscape changes in structure and process have huge impacts on environmental changes caused by the spatial and temporal interaction of wetland natural ecosystem processesUp to now, a natural wetland pattern has been changed to a human dominated land use pattern by human beingsThe processing of wetland changes influenced wetland and other ecosystem in biodiversity, primary productivity, and global biogeochemistry cycle, as well as greenhouse gas contents in the atmosphereWetland change also has clear impacts on climate change, hydrological change, biodiversity change in regional or global scales.

Cite this article

LIU Hongyu, LU Xian-guo, ZHANG Shi-kui . Progress on the Study of Process of Wetland Landscape Changes and Cumulative Environmental Effects[J]. PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY, 2003 , 22(1) : 60 -70 . DOI: 10.11820/dlkxjz.2003.01.008

Outlines

/