Definition of ecological landscape?

Definition of ecological landscape: Landscape ecology is a new branch of ecology that studies the spatial structure, interaction, coordination function and dynamic changes of the whole (landscape) composed of many different ecosystems in a considerable area. Landscape ecology has brought new ideas and new research methods to ecology.

Multi-dimensional complex ecosystem consisting of geographical landscape (topography, geomorphology, hydrology and climate), biological landscape (combination of vegetation, animals, microorganisms, soil and various ecosystems), economic landscape (energy, transportation, infrastructure, land use and industrial processes) and human landscape (population, system, culture and history, etc.). ). It includes not only tangible geographical and biological landscapes, but also intangible individual and whole, internal and external, past and future, and the coupling relationship between subjective and objective systems.