中文摘要：

论述了药用植物资源可持续利用的内涵、药用植物资源受威胁的状况和因素、实现药用植物资源可持续利用的途径以及种群生态学在药用植物资源可持续利用研究中的重要地位。笔者认为野生药用植物资源可持续利用的本质是种群更新、收获和如何控制利用量的问题。这些问题的阐明涉及到种群的繁殖系统、个体数量、年龄结构、更新能力、增长模式、收获技术及其与生物和非生物环境的关系等。

英文摘要：

The sustainable use of medicinal plant resources has become an important issue in scientific research today. Its resolution is meaningful for advancing the sustainable development of Chinese medicine industry. The paper discussed the connotation of the sustainable use of medicinal plant resources, the situafions and factors of their being endangered, the ways to achieve their sustainable use and the main role that population ecology plays in the study of their use. We thought that the essence of the sustainable use of medicinal plant resources had a lot to do with renewal, harvesting and using quantity control of population. The explication of the above mentioned issues involved propagating system, individual number, age structure, renewal ability, growth mode and harvesting technique of population, and involved their relations with biological and abiological environments.