关键词: 家畜生态学, 资源开发利用, 资源利用, 环境因子, 畜牧业生产, 农牧业, 限制因子, 生产实践, 生态规律, 生态研究

Abstract: The significance and principal fundamentals of livestock ecology, a new scientific branch in animal science and Ecological science, are discussed in this paper. This new scientific branchisconsidered as a necessary tool and theory for the utilization of natural resources, especially of the biological resources, as well as for animal production, i. e., an ecological way for increasing the productivity of farm animals. The author describes the main rules and principles of this new scientific branch Finally, a brief history of Livestock Ecology in China is summarized, and particular emphasis is laib on the progress of the recent years. The author has also enumerateb three main view points of the development of animal husbandry, the rational utilization of natural resources and the theory and methodology of this new scientific branch.