Research progress on the farmingpastoral ecotone in China

Based on the domestic literature on farmingpastoral ecotone, the research emphases, contents, methods, progresses and prospects of the farmingpastoral ecotone in China were analyzed. The conclusions are as follows: 1) From 1990 to 2006, the studies on farmingpastoral ecotone mainly focused on the natural conditions, landuse and landscape, ecosystems, industry and regional economic development etc; 2) GIS, RS, GPS technologies and model analysis gradually became the important methods; 3) The integrated multidisciplinary, multiscale research and timespatial integrated and applications of modern information technology will be main trend in future.