Abstract:As one of the key topics of landscape ecology, the relationship between landscape pattern and ecological processes has been paid much attention. Landscape models, taking full advantage of limited data to reveal the change rules or mechanisms and simulate the dynamics of landscape pattern, ecological processes and their relationship at different temporal and spatial scales, have become powerful tools in landscape ecology research. This paper reviews the development status and existing problems of landscape pattern simulation, ecological processes simulation and coupling simulation of pattern and processes. The modeling approaches for integration of landscape pattern and ecological processes are put forward. The main trends of landscape model development are also discussed.