title: [Redundancy theory and its application in agro-ecosystem management].
abstract: Redundancy theory is an ecological theory developed in 1990s. This paper gave a brief introduction on the concept of redundancy, its hypothesis and redundancy degree, and briefly reviewed the research advances in redundancy theory and in the methodologies about species redundancy, layer redundancy, gene redundancy, and growth redundancy. A hypothesis of optimal growth redundancy degree (OGRD) was proposed, i. e., under certain cultivation and management conditions, there existed a growth redundancy degree corresponding to the highest crop yield, and a high yield would be obtained if OGRD could be achieved through the regulation of management practices. The hypothesis was tested by using the data from high-yielding rice cultivation cases.
authors.affiliation: Agro-Ecology Institute of Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China. hanmc88@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Mingchun
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Han
authors.forename: Jianjun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Fen
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D017753:Ecosystem