OUTLINE OF SCIENTIFIC ISSUES AND DEVELOPMENTAL TRENDS OF ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT
The special issue, Researches on Basic ecological Processes of Ecosystem Management, collects some staged achievements supported by ecosystem management researches of One hundred Talents Project, part of which is first published publicly. The subjects of these achievements, mainly focusing on the basic ecological processes of ecosystem management, involve comprehensive theoretical issues of ecosystem management, evaluation of ecosystem service, agricultural and forest ecosystem management, vegetation evapotranspiration, water resource management, and digitizing methods of regional resource ecosystem, and so on. As preface of this special issue, discussions of this article are rested upon the scientific issues, developmental trends, and disciplinary orientation of ecosystem management. And then, the main progresses of our research group are introduced in brief.