中国沙漠化研究

中国沙漠化研究伴随着北方干旱和半干旱区自然资源的开发利用，经历了近50年的艰苦探索历程，为国民经济建设和我国沙漠科学体系的建立与发展都做出了重要贡献。重点阐述了中国沙漠化研究领域在有关沙漠化的环境背景研究、沙漠化的物理学和生物学过程研究、沙漠化监测与评价、沙漠化景观生态学研究、沙漠化的植物逆境生理学研究、沙漠化地区水土资源的高效利用与可持续发展、沙漠化整治模式和技术体系研究等方面的主要进展及成就。并进一步明确了开展中国北方沙漠化过程及其防治研究的主要科学问题、研究内容和目标。

Studies on the sandy desertification in China

Studies on the sandy desertification in China has experienced 50 years of hard groping course along with the development and utilization of natural resources in the arid and semiarid regions,having made very important contribution to the national economic construction, environmental protection and China desert science formation and development.During last 5 decades,considerable achievements have been made in desertification study including background of natural and human impacts on the process of desertification,dynamic and biological processes of desertification and its restoration mechanism, monitoring and assessment on desertification,landscape ecology and plant stress physiology,highly efficient utilization and sustainable development of water and land resources and renovating model and technology for combating desertification.The author also discusses the major scientific issue,content and object of future study on the process of desertification and its control in the North China in the paper.