Research Advances in Landscape Ecology Modeling in the Latest 10 Years

Based on literature review on landscape ecology modeling in China and in the world between 2001 and 2010, it was showed that landscape ecology modeling had already been a hot and key research spot in the field of landscape ecology.The major characteristics, advantages,disadvantages and application scope of the landscape models in the current research field of landscape ecology were analyzed in this paper. The present landscape models were divided into four categories, i.e.,spatial probability models, neighborhood rule models, processbased landscape models, and landscape intelligent coupling models. Among which the processbased landscape models were subdivided into spatial ecosystem models, spatial patch dynamic models, spatial explicit landscape models,and individualbased models.The principal problems related to landscape ecology modeling such as the contradiction between modeling and data acquisition, neglecting model inspection but stressing on model simulation, shortage of studies on impact of the ecological process on the model pattern, and there were no key breakthroughs on the model scale interpretation were summarized. The prospects of the future studies on the aspects of landscape ecology model test and assessment, model scale conversion, model simplification and practical application, model universality and subsidiary support were discussed in the paper.