地域分异,国际上已经不再是地理学界单一的名词,它不仅涉及自然地理专业的地表生态系统的自然演化过程,还涉及人类活动影响下的经济、生态、环保、碳排放及碳汇交易等各方面。目前的国内地域分异研究,主要涉及到农业土地利用、农业资源、农业生态领域,近来多集中于社会经济领域,研究方法趋于数理模型与模拟研究,近些年来也出现了一些较高水平的文章,新的研究方法也得到了创新应用。
Territory differentiation is no longer a term in geography. It involves not only natural evolution in the terrestrial ecosystem, but also economy, ecology, environmental protection, carbon emission and carbon -sink trade etc. , under the influence of human's activities. The national research on territory differentiation is mainly about agricultural land use, agricultural resources, and agroecolo- gy. More recently, it focuses on social and economic fields. The mathematical model and simulation are commonly used. Several high - impact papers are published and new research methods have been applied in recent years.