20世纪70年代以来，湿地研究成为国际环境科学和生态学研究的热点领域之一。尤其是景观生态学的兴起为湿地研究注入了新的活力，为在区域尺度上开展湿地的综合研究起到了启发和指导作用。空间格局、生态过程与尺度之间的相互关系是景观生态学研究的核心内容。同样，从景观尺度上来研究湿地空间格局与生态过程及其相互关系是当前湿地科学的研究热点。对景观格局与生态过程的研究方法、湿地主要生态过程、湿地景观格局与生态过程相互关系等方面的国内外研究进展进行了综述。最后分析了目前湿地景观格局与生态过程相互关系研究中存在的问题与不足，未来湿地生态过程以及湿地格局与生态过程相互关系的研究热点及发展趋势。

Since the 1970's,wetland research has became one of the hot fields in international environmental science and ecology.Especially the booming landscape ecology has given new vigor for wetland research and played enlightening and guiding function on the comprehensive research of wetland on regional scale.The relationship between spatial patterns,ecological processes and scale is the core research contents of landscape ecology.Similarly,research on wetland spatial patterns,ecological processes and their relationship on landscape scale is hot spot of the current wetland research.This article reviews the domestic and foreign research progress of methods of landscape patterns and ecological processes,main ecological processes and the relationship between wetland landscape patterns and ecological processes.Finally,the author analyzes the problems and insufficiency of the present studies of the relationship between wetland landscape patterns and ecological processes,research hot spot and tendency of ecological processes of wetland and the relationship between wetland landscape patterns and ecological processes in the future.