On 10-12 November 2017, the 9th Chinese Landscape Ecology seminar was held in Guangzhou. The seminar was hosted by IALE-China, Landscape Ecology Professional Committee of Chinese Association of Ecology, Natural Geography Professional Committee of Chinese Association of Geography and Guangzhou University and co-undertaken by Institute of Geography, Guangzhou University, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences CAS/State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology and The College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing University. Seven hundreds and 55 persons from 207 institutions were present.
There were 9 subjects discussed in different rooms. They were Landscape Dynamics and Ecological Effects of City Group, Landscape Ecology and Flexible Management of Sea Shore, Landscape Sustainability and Land-system design, Landscape Service and Biodiversity Conservation, Tread offbetween Multiple Functional Landscape and Ecological Service, Landscape Ecology and City Sustainability, Urban Heat Effect and Landscape Optimization, Changes and Space Optimization of Mountainous Social-Ecological Complex Landscape and Landscape Ecology and Practice in Landscape Garden. One hundred and ninety eight scholars reported their workand induced warm discussions.
To encourage the diligent, enterprising and innovating spirit of young workers, IALE-China Duxue Award was initiated by Prof XIAO Duning in 2015. After careful discussion during this seminar, 6 graduated students were elected as winners of this award. They were CHEN Die from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, WU Wen from IAE, CAS, XU Chaohao from the Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, CAS, DU Yueyue from Beijing University, CAO Qian from Beijing Normal University and GUO Jingpeng from Northeast Agricultural University.
The new council of China Branch of International Association of Landscape Ecology was elected. Prof HU Yuanman from IAE was elected as the Chairman, LI Xiuzhen from East China Normal University, MA Keming from Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, CAS, DING Shengyan from Henan Univ, WU Zhifeng from Guangzhou Univ, SHE Zehao from Beijing Univ, YU Zhenrong from Beijing Agricultural Univ, LIU Shiliang from Beijing Normal Univ, KONG Fanhua from Nanjing Univ, PENG Jian from Beijing Univ were elected as Vice Chairman. Fifty nine council members were elected including Prof CHANG YU from IAE. The next seminar (2019) will be undertaken by Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS and Xinjiang University.