Research Progress of Ecological Carrying Capacity

Studying regional resources-ecology-environment from the angle of ecological carrying capacity is an hotspot and one of front field in ecological,geographical and economic research nowadays.According to the domestic and overseas research,the carrying capacity's origin,evolvement and development were elaborated,the commonly used evaluation method for ecological carrying capacity,i.e.the net primary productivity of natural vegetation,ecological footprint analysis,the dispersion of resource to requirement,the state space,the model of environmental carrying capacity and the integrative measurements,were introduced and discussed.The paper also put forward the direction and prospect of research on ecological carrying capacity in the future.