奥德姆的生态思想是整体论吗?

奥德姆的生态思想是妥协的整体论,有还原论的一面。把生态系统看作是功能性整体、承认生态系统各层次的涌现属性属于整体论,把生态关系简化为能量关系、把生态系统看作是物理系统的分析方法则是还原论的。这种矛盾的生态思想决定了其方法论的先天不足:生态模型的内在逻辑关系没有理顺;较少考虑生态系统的进化;生态研究方法的排它性等。但是,它并不妨碍奥德姆的生态思想在夯实生态学的本体论基础、促进理论生态学和生态工程学的形成、协调生态整体论与还原论分歧、奠定生态系统服务功能研究基础等方面发挥重要作用。要超越生态整体论与还原论,繁荣发展生态复杂性理论也许是最好的选择。     

提升生态系统质量和稳定性的生态学原理及技术途径之探讨

提升生态系统质量和稳定性是国家生态环境建设的迫切任务,但生态系统质量及其稳定性的生态学原理是亟待阐述的生态学难题。本文在梳理生态系统质量和稳定性的影响因素及其相互作用关系基础上,从生物集聚与结构嵌套的自组织、生态要素关联及生态过程耦合、生态系统整体性及功能涌现、生态服务外溢及功效权衡、资源供给能力和环境适宜性的协同互作、自然变化和人类活动交互影响等视角,论述了生态系统质量及其稳定性演变的生态学原理,并围绕生态系统宏观格局调整、自然保护地体系建设、区域复合生态系统综合管理、退化生态系统恢复、受损生态系统重建、典型生态系统过程管理等层级,提出了提升生态系统质量及其稳定性的技术途径与管理策略。     

种间互作网络的结构、生态系统功能及稳定性机制研究

生态群落中不同物种间发生多样化的相互作用, 形成了复杂的种间互作网络。复杂生态网络的结构如何影响群落的生态系统功能及稳定性是群落生态学的核心问题之一。种间互作直接影响到物质和能量在生态系统不同组分之间的流动和循环以及群落构建过程, 使得网络结构与生态系统功能和群落稳定性密切相关。在群落及生态系统水平上开展种间互作网络研究将为群落的构建机制、生物多样性维持、生态系统稳定性、物种协同进化和性状分化等领域提供新的视野。当前生物多样性及生态系统功能受到全球变化的极大影响, 研究种间互作网络的拓扑结构、构建机制、稳定性和生态功能也可为生物多样性的保护和管理提供依据。该文从网络结构、构建机制、网络结构和稳定性关系、种间互作对生态系统功能的影响等4个方面综述当前种间网络研究进展, 并提出在今后的研究中利用机器学习和多层网络等来探究环境变化对种间互作网络结构和功能的影响, 并实现理论和实证研究的有效整合。     

虾蟹类能量收支的研究概况

能量流体是生态系统的基本特征之一,动物生命活动中的行为和代谢过程物质的转化都需要能量,研究能量在生物体内转化分配过程的生物能量学也就成为生态学的基本内容。生物能量学的中心问题是阐明生物体内能量收支各组分之间的定量关系,以及各种生态因子对这些关系的作用...     

大尺度陆地生态系统科学研究的理论基础及其技术体系之探讨

大尺度的陆地生态系统科学研究是在生物多样性保护、应对全球气候变化、区域生态环境治理及全球社会经济可持续发展的科技需求背景下应运而生的生态学及生态系统科学前沿领域,并在我国的生态文明建设社会实践中快速发展。本文在系统论述大尺度陆地生态系统科学研究的科技使命基础上,重点梳理和探讨了区域及大陆尺度的生态系统科学研究理论基础和方法学问题,进而基于宏生态系统生态学理论,新提出了宏观生态系统科学的基础理论、科学概念及其研究方法体系的逻辑框架。本文重点探讨了: 1) 基于生态系统的系统学特性,发展多维视角的“生态系统科学概念网络体系”;2) 基于生态系统整体性和涌现性理论,发展“生态系统状态变化分析理论体系”;3) 基于生态系统属性及状态概念,发展生态系统结构-过程-功能-服务级联关系的“整合研究方法学理论体系”的学科内涵及应用问题,进而论述了发展区域及大陆尺度宏观生态系统科学研究的方法体系,提出构建新一代大陆尺度生态系统观测研究实验网络,完善“联网观测-联网实验-数值模拟-知识融合”四位一体的科学研究技术体系的必要性。     

恢复生态学研究的一些基本问题探讨

对恢复生态学的研究概况、基本概念、内涵与研究内容以及生态恢复的目标、原则、程序与技术进行了分析与探讨。指出恢复生态学应加强基础理论研究(包括生态系统的演替理论及干扰条件下生态系统的受损过程与响应机制研究等)和应用技术研究(包括土壤、水体、大气和植被恢复技术、生物多样性保护技术以及生态系统的组装与集成技术等).生态恢复与重建是指根据生态学原理,通过一定的生物、生态以及工程的技术,人为地切断生态系统退化的主导因子和过程,调整和优化系统内部及其与外界的物质、能量和信息的流动过程及其时空秩序,使生态系统的结构、功能和生态学潜力尽快地成功地恢复到原有的乃至更高的水平。     

可持续性转型——第五届工业生态学国际大会综述

综述了在葡萄牙里斯本召开的第五届工业生态学国际大会情况.大会的中心议题是"可持续性转型",设立了可持续资源管理、工业生态学工具、工业共生、发展中国家的工业生态学等10个议题.在简介会议背景和大会基本数据后,对上述议题归类为社会物质代谢、生态工业发展和工业生态学方法工具3个领域并进行介绍和评述.最后,总结了国际工业生态学的发展现状及趋势,提出了对国内工业生态学发展的4点启示,包括加强实证研究、开展国家层面的物质代谢分析、注意新方法的开发与应用、强化理论基础构建意识.     

景观生态分类的理论方法

重点讨论了景观生态分类的基本原理,认为景观生态分类宜采用结构性与功能性双系列体系,提出景观生态系统的基本功能类型,即生物生产、环境服务及文化支持3种.试图对正在发展的景观生态学尤其是景观生态分类的理论和应用产生一些积极影响.     

应对全球气候变化的干旱农业生态系统研究——第二届EAM国际会议青年学者论坛综述

全球气候变暖对干旱农业生态系统管理提出了严峻的挑战,解决方案须从个体到全球不同尺度开展系统研究,并协同考虑与社会经济系统的互作机制。综述了2010年7月24日在兰州大学举行的第二届生态系统评估与管理(EAM)国际会议青年学者论坛的18场青年学者报告,包括全球变化生态学、植物水分生态学、植物营养与土壤生态学、草畜耦合生态学和生态系统设计与管理等5个分支,报告内容从个体尺度到全球尺度、从自然层面到社会层面均有涉及。将会议主题放入Reynolds等人提出的旱地系统发展范式(DDP)、Jianguo Liu等人提出的人与自然耦合系统理论(CHANS)和Thorvald Srensen提出的生态区概念(ecotope)及脆弱生态系统差别分层管理理论(SFDM)的视角中开展系统地讨论。总结过去20a在干旱农业生态学方面的研究工作,并融合国际前沿进展,提出在年降水量为300-550 mm的地区如何实施"大面积搞生态、小面积搞生产"和以"提高农业生产力和增加植被覆盖率"为核心的生态系统管理模式。该模式映射了未来几十年高效应对全球变化给干旱农业生态系统管理带来的挑战。     

菌物生态学专辑序言

菌物分布广泛,多样性丰富,是自然界中的重要生物组成成分,并具有腐生、共生、内生、表生和寄生等多样的生存策略,在生态系统的生物多样性维持、群落演替、以及物质循环和能量流动过程中发挥了重要的生态功能.相比于动物和植物生态学,菌物生态学的发展起步较晚.然而近年来,特别是随着分子生物学技术的发展,菌物生态学无论是在研究范围还是在研究深度上都取得了迅猛发展,已成为生态学的重要研究领域之一.本期《菌物学报》的"菌物生态学专辑"共刊登5篇综述、16篇研究论文和3篇简报,从不同方面反映了近年来我国菌物生态学研究的重要进展.     

植物群落学研究中整体论与个体论关系的探讨

分析了植物群落学研究中长期争论的整体性观点与个体性观点产生的历史背景和思想根源,并介绍了人们目前对二者关系的认识水平．由于植物群落既有整体性一面又有个体性的一面,指出今后植物群落学研究中应采取个体性与整体性相结合的方法以提高人们对复杂的植物群落的认识水平,更好地掌握其变化规律,以便设计更完美的人工生态系统．     

Holism vs. Reductionism: Do Ecosystem Ecology and Landscape Ecology Clarify the Debate?

The holism-reductionism debate, one of the classic subjects of study in the philosopy of science, is currently at the heart of epistemological concerns in ecology. Yet the division between holism and reductionism does not always stand out clearly in this field. In particular, almost all work in ecosystem ecology and landscape ecology presents itself as holistic and emergentist. Nonetheless, the operational approaches used rely on conventional reductionist methodology.From an emergentist epistemological perspective, a set of general 'transactional' principles inspired by the work of J. Dewey and J.K. Feibleman are proposed in an effort to develop a coherent ontological and methodological semantics.     

An ecosystem organization model explaining diversity at an ecosystem level: Coevolution of primary producer and decomposer

Ecological complexity of species interactions and habitat heterogeneity creates and maintains biodiversity at a trophic level in an ecosystem. This biodiversity simultaneously serves as raw material on which selective forces for organizing ecosystems operate. As a result of this organization process, differences in structure and functioning of ecosystems (diversity at ecosystem level) are generated. Although understanding diversity at the ecosystem level has attracted great interest, recent theoretical advances toward this aim have not been fully appreciated yet. Following Higashi et al. (1993), this report presents a theoretical framework that deals with the organization process of an ecosystem as a consequence of the interactions among its biotic components and their modification of ecological traits. Specifically, the ecosystem organization process of a terrestrial ecosystem is analyzed, including primary producers and decomposers. This model sheds new insight into the differences between temperate and tropical forest ecosystems.     

基于管理目标的湖泊生态系统动力学

基于生态系统管理的目标,在对相关研究分析的基础上,依据生态系统生态学、淡水生态学的理论,提出了湖泊生态系统动力学研究的2个理论基础：生态系统管理和生态系统特征.在此基础上,分析得到湖泊生态系统动力学的研究方法体系,主要包括研究内容与技术路线、关键问题识别和动力学模拟、湖泊生态系统的适应性管理决策等部分.其中,湖泊生态系统结构和过程、湖泊中食物网营养动力学研究、生源要素循环、湖泊中关键过程的生态作用以及湖泊生态系统动力学模拟是研究的核心问题.此后,以P为主要的生源要素,将生态系统分为3个子过程：入流、出流和内部反馈,并以此建立了湖泊生态系统动力学的模型框架,以辅助于湖泊的生态系统管理.     

流域生态学的发展困境——来自河流景观的启示

随着中国生态环境问题越来越多地呈现出流域特性,流域生态研究的重要性和紧迫性也日渐凸显。整合流域生态研究,形成一个有效的研究体系,流域生态学迄今未能予以实现。通过对"流域生态学"和"河流景观"这两个相近概念提出过程的比较研究,探讨流域生态学发展困境产生的原因,为流域生态研究体系的构建提供思路。分析结果显示流域生态学目前主要存在两个不足:1)因为提出流域生态学概念的关键现实需求不明确,导致难以确定其核心科学问题;2)因为没有相应的流域生态系统概念模型,进而也就难以带动相关研究落实跟进。要推进流域生态学的发展,第一步要做的就是明确流域生态研究体系构建的核心现实需求,并对流域生态系统进行一个概念模型上的相应设计。     

Key ecological research questions for Central European forests

Forests are under pressure from accelerating global change. To cope with the multiple challenges related to global change but also to further improve forest management we need a better understanding of (1) the linkages between drivers of ecosystem change and the state and management of forest ecosystems as well as their capacity to adapt to ongoing global environmental changes, and (2) the interrelationships within and between the components of forest ecosystems. To address the resulting challenges for the state of forest ecosystems in Central Europe, we suggest 45 questions for future ecological research. We define forest ecology as studies on the abiotic and biotic components of forest ecosystems and their interactions on varying spatial and temporal scales. Our questions cover five thematic fields and correspond to the criteria selected for describing the state of Europe’s forests by policy makers, i.e. biogeochemical cycling, mortality and disturbances, productivity, biodiversity and biotic interactions, and regulation and protection. We conclude that an improved mechanistic understanding of forest ecosystems is essential for the further development of ecosystem-oriented multifunctional forest management in the face of accelerating global change.     

Integrating ecosystem functions into restoration ecology—recent advances and future directions

Including ecosystem functions into restoration ecology has been repeatedly suggested, yet there is limited evidence that this is taking place without bias to certain habitats, species, or functions. We reviewed the inclusion of ecosystem functions in restoration and potential relations to habitats and species by extracting 224 publications from the literature (2004–2013). Most studies investigated forests, fewer grasslands or freshwaters, and fewest wetlands or marine habitats. Of all studies, 14% analyzed only ecosystem functions, 44% considered both biotic composition and functions, 42% exclusively studied the biotic component, mostly vascular plants, more rarely invertebrates or vertebrates, and least often microbes. Most studies investigating ecosystem functions focused on nutrient cycling (26%), whereas productivity (18%), water relations (16%), and geomorphological processes (14%) were less covered; carbon sequestration (10%), decomposition (6%), and trophic interactions (6%) were rarely studied. Monitoring of ecosystem functions was common in forests and grasslands, but the functions considered depended on the study organisms. These associations indicate research opportunities for certain habitats, species, and functions. Overall, the call to include ecosystem functions in restoration has been heard; however, a lack of clarity about the ecosystem functions to be included and deficits of feasible field methods are major obstacles for a functional approach. Restoration ecology should learn from recent advances in rapid assessment of ecosystem functions, and by a closer integration with biodiversity–ecosystem functioning research. Not all functions need to be measured in all ecosystems, but more functions than the few commonly addressed would improve the understanding of restored ecosystems.     

Biomass diversity and stability of food webs in aquatic ecosystems

The diversity–stability hypothesis in ecology asserts that biodiversity begets stability of ecological systems. This hypothesis has been supported by field studies on primary producers in grasslands, in which the interaction between species is mostly competition. As to ecosystems with multitrophic predatory interaction, however, no definite consensus has been arrived at for the relation between trophic diversity and ecosystem stability. The stability index suitable to ecosystems with predatory interaction is given by MacArthurs idea of stability and its formulation by Rutledge et al. More suitable indices of stability (relative conditional entropy) are proposed in this study for the comparison of different ecosystems, and the validity of the diversity–stability hypothesis for food webs (networks of predation) with many trophic compartments in natural aquatic ecosystems is examined. Results reveal that an increase in the biomass diversity of trophic compartments causes an increase in the whole systemic stability of food webs in aquatic ecosystems. Hence, evidence of the whole systemic validity of the diversity–stability hypothesis for natural aquatic ecosystems with ubiquitous multitrophic predatory interaction was obtained for the first time.