Ecosystem and landscape are basic functional units of the Earth surface systems. The scientific concepts have come into being from the perspectives of the supports provided by ecosystems and landscapes for human survival and development as well as sustainable use and environmental conservation. Recently, researches on ecosystem service and multifunctional landscapes have grown into hotspots in the fields of eco鄄environmental sciences. However, quantitative analyses regarding ecosystem services and landscape multi鄄functionality are still weak and premature as revealed by the international research progress on these themes. Ecosystem and landscape are organized hierarchically, where the former acts as building blocks for the latter. Therefore, ecosystem service and landscape function may have the same origin. The present paper advocates that the close integration of ecosystem service and landscape multi鄄functionality researches has both real world basis and advantage of advancing the quality of quantitative analysis on ecosystem service and landscape multi鄄 functionality. An integrative framework for this task has been formulated accordingly. Scales and scaling, methodological integration, the interactions among ecosystem services and landscape functions as well as management intervention are the core themes under this framework. From the contemporary literature, we can see that this framework is operational and can be treated as a viable choice to advance the researches of both ecosystem services and landscape multi鄄functionality.

Land uses have significant impacts on the changes of land surface covers and ecological processes. Land use type is closely related to the soil fertility and soil carbon pool function. The Ganzhou District and Linze County of Gansu Province, as the typical oasis鄄desert ecotones, is located in the middle of Heihe River Basin in northwest arid region of China. The topsoil samples were took from the 0-20 cm depth land surface. The topsoil was sampled at Ganzhou District and Linze County during 2011-2012. The soil nutrients were tested in the laboratory including soil organic matter, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total potassium and pH. We compared the sampled soil nutrients with the national secondary soil survey data in 1980s which have the similar parameters of soil nutrient and pH.The results showed that the soil organic matter and total phosphorus decreased by 3.54% and 12.5%, respectively, during 2011-2012 in comparison to 1980s. Whereas, the soil total nitrogen, soil total potassium and pH increased by 74郾 4%, 98.2%, and 4.9%. There had no significant differences of soil nutrients among the desert, cropland and meadow in 1980s. However, the soil nutrients of forest were significantly higher than those of the above three land uses such as soil organic matter, soil total nitrogen and soil total potassium. During the period of 2011-2012, the soil total phosphorus, soil total nitrogen of cropland were significantly different from those of the forest, meadow and desert. The results indicated that the long鄄term farming activity of cropland reduced soil organic matter by 4.94% and soil total phosphorus by 5.02%, but increased soil total nitrogen by 86.93% and made soil more alkaline. The results also showed that the desert can increase of