Abstract: The tropical forest in the southern border of Yunnan Province is identified as a hotspot of ecological diversity and an important ecological barrier. It is of great ecological significance to optimize the land use layout in such region. The thought of wilderness protection coincides with the traditional ecological wisdom philosophy conforming to nature. In this study the thought of wilderness protection and traditional ecological wisdom were combined into proposing the concept of "wilderness wisdom", and to construct the optimization model of land use under wilderness protection. To archieve this goal, GeoSOS (geographical simulation and optimization systems)-FLUS model was used. A variety of development driving factors were set as the constraints of human expansion, and the degree of wilderness was taken as the constraint variable. Multi-scenario simulation of land use change in tropical forest region in the southern border of Yunnan Province was carried out and compared, followed by an analysis of the difference of artificial space expansion between inertia mode and wilderness protection mode. The optimal layout plan that coordinates the artificial space and wilderness space was then put forward. The results show that the spatial layout based on the integrated development inertia and wilderness protection could better meet the needs of ecological space protection than the one from the development inertia alone. The proposed framework of artificial space and wilderness space can provide quantitative decision support for the optimization of land use planning and layout in similar regions, and provide a new perspective for the study of ecological wisdom.

Key words: ecological wisdom, the wilderness, GeoSOS-FLUS model, land use, the wild wisdom