湿地功能研究进展

湿地是地球上具有重要环境功能的独特生态系统，湿地组分之间的相互作用构成了湿地重要的生态功能。简要阐述了湿地在蓄水、调控径流、净化和过滤、调节气候以及提供野生动植物栖息地等方面的功能，分析了影响湿地功能的自然、社会因素，介绍了湿地功能评价方法的研究进展情况，并对未来湿地功能研究方向进行了初步展望。

A Prospect for Study on Functions of Wetland

tland is one of the particular ecosystems with important environmental functions. Processes between the physical, biological and chemical components that constitute a wetland provide values and benefits to human. Wetland is multi-functional, it provides services-such as water storage, flood mitigation, storm abatement, aquifer recharge water quality improvement, storm protection, sedimentation and stabilization of local climatic conditions, etc. It introduces some kinds of functions of wetland, analyzes progress on the wetland assessment of functions, and discusses the potential trend of future studies.