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Ecological Engineering: Application of Ecosystem Principles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Ma Shijun
Affiliation:
Director, Research Center of Ecology, Academia Sinica, 7 Zhongguancun Road, Beijing 100080, China; President, Ecological Society of China.

Extract

This paper introduces the concept of ‘ecological engineering’, which is based on two fundamental functions that play leading roles in the dynamic processes of ecosystems. These functions are maintaining ‘the general eco-balance resulting from the harmonization of well-coordinated structures with functions in the ecosystems’, and the transformation and regeneration ‘of substances based on the multi-layer trophic structures’ that are common to most ecosystems.

Type
Main Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1985

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