Subject code:0120000003

Subject title: Agriculture Ecology

Period: 36  Credit hour: 2

Previous subjects: Ecology; Agricultural Systematic Engineering.

Brief introduction:

“Agriculture Ecology” is a subject of integrative applied technologies. With an integrated, overall and strategic viewpoint, it describes the interrelation between agro-organisms and environment, the interrelation among agro-organisms and the interrelation among farming, forestry, stockbreeding, fishery and sidelines; and it discusses the approaches to exploit and utilize agricultural resources, and to realize sustainable, stable and highly-efficient development of agriculture. It makes the students understand well about the theory of energy flow, matter cycle and information transform in agro-ecological system.

Recommended textbook and reference books:

Recommended textbook:

Wang Liufang. Agriculture Ecology. Xi’an: Shaanxi Science and Technology Publishing House, 1994

Reference books:

(1)    Chen Fu. Agriculture Ecology. Beijing: China Agricultural University Publishing House, 2002

(2)    Wang Zhaoqian. Agro-ecological System Management. Beijing: China Agriculture Publishing House, 1995

(3)    Shen Hengli. Agriculture Ecology. Beijing: China Agriculture Publishing House, 1998

(4)    Luo Shiming. Agriculture Ecology. Guangdong: Huanan Publishing House, 1996