[Research advances in vulnerability assessment of natural ecosystem response to climate change].
Climate change with global warming as the sign has been caught great attention by the governments, international organizations, and scientists in the world. Human society and natural ecosystem are both exposed to climate change, and more and more people are waked up by its increasing harm. Vulnerability analysis and assessment are the key and basis for adapting and mitigating climate change, being the highlight in the research fields of climate change and ecology in recent years. The vulnerability assessment of climate change is being carried out in various research fields and on different scales, and much progress has been made. This paper introduced the concept of vulnerability, and summarized the research progress in vulnerability assessment of climate change, with the focus on the frame and methodology of vulnerability assessment of natural ecosystem response to climate change. The existed problems and future prospects in this research area were also discussed.
Zhao
Hui-xia
HX
Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. zhaohx.04b@igsnrr.ac.cn
Wu
Shao-hong
SH
Jiang
Lu-guang
LG
D002980:Climate; D004190:Disasters; D017753:Ecosystem; D005544:Forecasting; D017752:Greenhouse Effect; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment