On forest ecosystem health and its Connotations

Abstract

This paper cursorily introduced some ideas and approaches of ecosystem health researches. The definition and connotations of forest ecosystem health have also been expatiated. Defining forest ecosystem health has been discussed from the management objective approach, and integration approach. To impel the relative researches in China, more attention on the properties of a forest ecosystem should be paid.

Keywords

Ecosystem health / Forest ecosystem health / Connotations / Forest / S718.55 / A

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