湿地是由陆地和水生生态系统的各种生态过程在不同尺度上综合作用的结果，具有显著的空间异质性。景砚格局分析作为主要研究工具，有助于理解空间上的生态学过程。湿地水文过程决定了各种湿地类型的形成与维持，影响湿地的生物类群，导致湿地景观格局变化。湿地生物对湿地水文过程及理化环境具有反馈作用，从而控制湿地水文过程。通过湿地景观格局变化对水文过程的影响以及湿地水文过程变化对湿地景观格局的作用等互相关联的2个方面，探讨湿地系统景观格局与水文过程间的耦合机制，将成为今后湿地研究中的重点。

 Wetland is the outcome of the interaction between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems under integrated effects of various ecological processes in different scales,and characterized by prominent spatial heterogeneity.As a main research means,landscape pattern analysis can help us understand the spatial ecological process.Wetland hydrology is the most important determinant of the establishment and maintenance of specific type of wetland,which has a direct effect on the biota in the wetland and makes some changes on landscape ecological pattern.Being a feedback to the wetland hydrological processes and their physical environments,wetland biota can control the hydrology and chemistry of the environments through a variety of mechanisms.The studies on the coupling between wetland ecological pattern and hydrological process would be the keystones in the future research on wetland ecosystem. 更多