The ecosystem service emphasizes that the ecological elements contribute to human welfare,and it has become one of the most important research focuses in the ecological field during the past few years. However, it is still challenge to clarity the connotation of ecosystem service from the perspective of landscape pattern. This paper introduced the definition, classification and scale of ecosystem service associated with landscape, and proposed the index for landscape service evaluation and quantitative methods for ecosystem service mapping. Then the problems of concept of ecosystem service when it was applied in landscape planning and design were discussed. Finally we propose few future research directions to improve the understanding on the landscape services, including to refine the definition of landscape service and classification system, to understand the multi-scale interaction mechanism of landscape service, to develope effective quantitative methods of landscape service mapping, to predict the change of landscape service in the future, to explore interaction mechanisms among different landscape services, and to explore a systematic method of landscape planning and design with the consideration of landscape service.