Ecological research and protection are moving at lightening speeds in China and playing a central role in the national agenda. Given the pace of change and national prominence of ecological thinking and research, a summary of the principles and applications of ecological research in China is urgently required and will be of great value.  

This book focuses on the five most exciting and dominant themes in ecological research in China: biodiversity, ecosystem management, degraded ecosystem restoration, global change and sustainable development. It spans all major ecosystems found on earth, such as forests, oceans, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, rivers, farmland and cities.

The book provides fundamental information that will help shape future ecological research and conservation. And given China’s increasingly high profile role in global issues, this book will allow researchers, students and policy-makers outside China to learn about the significant achievements and applications of ecological research within China.

Front Matter
Part Ⅰ Biodiversity Conservation and Its Application
  1 Biodiversity Inventory and Researches
   Dayuan Xue, Jianyong Wu, Xu Liu, Baorong Lu and Shengji Pei
  2 Biodiversity Conservation and Its Research Process
   Zhigang Jiang, Fumin Lei, Chunlan Zhang and Moucheng Liu
  3 Biodiversity Evaluation and Monitoring
   Haigen Xu, Xiaoping Tang, Jiyuan Liu, HuiDing, Jun Wu, MingZhang, Qingwen Yang, Lei Cai,Haijun Zhao, Yan Liu, Rui Wang and Fanghao Wan
  4 Technology and Perspective of Sustainable Biodiversity Utilization
   Luqi Huang, Lanping Guo, Sheng Wang, Qisheng Tang, Ling Tong, Long Li, Jing Yang, Chengyun Li, Youyong Zhu, Runzhi Zhang, Wenhua Li, Qingwen Min and Lu He
  5 Case Study of Species and Population Conservation
   Guanghui Lin, Luzhen Chen, Yihui Zhang, Shengchang Yang, Wenqing Wang, Hangtao Zhou, Jian Qin, Dongmei Shi, Xianzhi Huang, Zhonghuai Xiang, Jusheng Jiang, Zongbo Peng and Zhiyun Ouyang
Part Ⅱ Ecosystem Management
  6 Classification and Research Methods of Ecosystem
   Jixi Gao, Shihai Lv, Zhirong Zheng, Junhui Liu, Changxin Zou, Zhaoping Yang, Liding Chen, Bijie Fu, Changhong Su and Wenhua Li
  7 Ecosystem Service Evaluation
   Gaodi Xie, Shuyan Cao, Yu Xiao, Xia Pei, Yanying Bai, Wenhua Li, Bing Wang, Xiang Niu, Xiaohui Liu, Zhongqi Xu, Qingwen Min, Chunxia Lu, Honghua Shi, Wei Zheng, Dewen Ding, Jiyuan Liu, Jinyan Zhan, Lin Zhen, Li Yang, Xuelin Liu and Moucheng Liu
  8 Ecosystem Management
   Limin Dai, Guofan Shao, Jizhou Ren, Tao Wang, Guangting Chen, Xianguo Lv, Qinzeng Xu, Hongsheng Yang, Qiang Xu, Shiming Luo, Lin Ma, Liu Qian, Wenqi Ma, Fusuo Zhang, Jikun Huang, Xiangping Jia and Cheng Xiang
  9 Water Managemnet
   Wei Meng, Yuan Zhang, Weijing Kong, Qingwen Min, Wenjun Jiao, Yaning Chen, Honghua Zhou, Shaozhong Kang, Ling Tong, Xinmei Hao and Shirong Liu
Part Ⅲ Restoration of Degraded Ecosystem
  10 Restoration of Degraded Ecosystem
   Shaolin Peng, Ting Zhou, Deli Wang, Yingzhi Gao, Zhiwei Zhong, Dong Xie, Hengjie Zhou, Haiting Ji, Shuqing An, Ming Dong, Xuehua Ye, Guofang Liu and Shuqin Gao
  11 Ecological Restoration in the Typical Areas
   Yuancun Shen, Xianzhou Zhang, Jingsheng Wang, Peili Shi, Yongtao He, Zhenxi Shen, Xinquan Zhao, Huakun Zhou, Shixiao Xu, Liang Zhao, Buqing Yao, Ting Zhou, Shaolin Peng, Jianguo Wu, Jianhua Cao, Fen Huang, Hui Yang, Liang Li, Qiang Li, Weikai Bao, Zhenqi Hu, Peijun Wang, Jing Li, Pei Qin, Jie Fan and Pingxing Li
  12 Ecological Protection and Establishment Projects
   Shidong Li, Xiangyang Hou, Ping Li, Yating Dai, Xiliang Li, Qingli Wang, Yong Zhang, Qi Lu, Peng Cui, Yongming Lin, Jiangchun Wei, Zhou Li and Moucheng Liu
Part Ⅳ Global Chang Ecology
  13 The Contribution of Ecology in Internal Global Change Projects
   Quansheng Ge, Bangbo Cheng, Panqin Chen, Xiuqi Fang and Xiubin Li
  14 Ecosystem Positioning Research and Models
   Guirui Yu, Nianpeng He, Biao Liang, Zhiwei Xu, Shenggong Li, Xuebing Guo, Tianxiang Yue and Moucheng Liu
  15 Climate Chang and Carbon Cycle
   Quansheng Ge, Jingyun Zheng, Haolong Liu, Guirui Yu, Huajun Fang, R.L. Wang, Jingyun Fang, Huifeng Hu, Zhaodi Guo, Haihua Shen, Yunshe Dong, Yuchun Qi, Qin Peng, Xiaoke Wang, Hong Zhao, Fei Lu, Changchun Song, Xiaomin Sun and Xuefa Wen
  16 Impacts and Its Adaptation of Global Chang
   Peili Shi, Dingpeng Xiong, Xiaoguang Yang, Zhijuan Liu, Ming Xu, Feng Ge, Yucheng Sun, Guangsheng Zhou, Qijin He, Nuyun Li and Wenhua Li
Prat Ⅴ Sustainble Development Ecology
  17 Principles and Application of Sustainable Development
   Jingzhu Zhao, Longyu Shi, Lina Tang, Lijie Gao, Gaodi Xie, Shuyan Cao, Yanying Bai, Chuanglin Fang, Chao Bao, Wenhua Li, Guangmei Yang, Moucheng Liu, Guihuan Liu, Yihui Wen, Yanmin Zhang and Huiyuan Zhang
  18 Industrial Ecology
   Wenliang Wu, Yifeng Zhang, Songlin Mu, Linsheng Zhong, Guofan Zhang, Huayong Que, Jianguang Fang, Xiwu Yan, Zhihua Lin, Yongyun Zheng, Yunhe Li, Kongming Wu, Yufa Peng and Gaodi Xie
  19 Eco-city Construction
   Kongjian Yu, Linbo Zhang, Zhifeng Yang, Xiangrong Wang and Moucheng Liu
  20 Regional Ecological Construction
   Peicheng Li, Qilei Li, Jinfeng Weng, Feimin Zheng, Jianli Yuan, Danghui Xu, Gang Wang, Xingtu Liu, Ming Wang, Zuofang Yao, Xianghao Zhong, Xiaodan Wang, Shuzhen Liu, Daming He, Shaohong Wu, Tao Pan and Qingwen Min
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Professor Wenhua Li has published 18 books, more than 200 scientific papers, and edited over 40 volumes of text spanning resource science, ecological construction, environmental protection and agricultural heritage.

Professor Li graduated from Beijing Forestry University (Beijing, China) in 1953 and received his doctorate in 1961 from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. He is a famous ecologist in China, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and academician of the International Academy of Sciences for Europe and Asia. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Natural Resources, Journal of Agro-Environment Science and Journal of Resources and Ecology.

Professor Li was the first ecologist to successfully apply computer technology to biomass cartography, broadening research into forest primary productivity. He has developed theoretical principles for the protection and utilization of forest ecosystems; described the distribution of forest across the Tibetan Plateau (laying the scientific basis for forest development and protection in this region); promoted ecological research in the red soil hilly area of China; established the Qianyangzhou Red Hilly Experiment Station; driven agro-ecological engineering at the small watershed unit scale; advanced the theory of Agro-Forestry System Management; and promoted the development of eco-agriculture counties in China.

Professor Li was the first to scientifically tackle sustainable development in China and has stimulated a great deal of research into ecosystem services and ecological compensation. He has actively participated in ecological construction across China and pushed for the establishment of eco-provinces, -cities and -counties.

This book is a synthesis of five most exciting and dominant themes in contemporary ecological research in China.

This book contains research and contributions from scientific leaders across China.

This book spans all the Earth’s major ecosystems, such as forests, oceans, grasslands, wetlands, lakes, rivers, farmalands and cities.

This book provides a platform for scientific research across a variety disciplines.