Indexed by: Essay collection

Document Code: EI: 20094712458826

First Author: Wang Zhen

Journal: Computer Society Press

Included Journals: EI

Affiliation of Author(s): Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Place of Publication: Wuhan，China

Discipline: Engineering

First-Level Discipline: Landscape Architecture

Funded by: Hubei Natural Science Foundation （2008CDB380)

Document Type: C

Page Number: 316-320

ISSN No.: 978-076953682-8

Key Words: biodiversity, Ecotone, urban waterfront, landscape pattern, edge effect, landscape management

Date of Publication: 2009-08-11

Abstract: Ecotone is regarded widely by scholars of both ecology and environment recently because of its special status in ecological system. The paper described the Ecotone theory and summed up its basic characteristics and function after annotation of its definition. After kinds of functions and their own characteristic of modern urban waterfront were anal sized, the principle of“ecology first”under insuring of stability and safety while constructing urban waterfront was proposed. It indicated that, we should pay attention to the integrative design way combining with landscape form, ecological technol

Links to published journals: doi: 10.1109/ESIAT.2009.458