Landscape Ecology - house journal of IALE
The Association works in close collaboration with Springer to produce the major journal in the field, Landscape Ecology . This journal, first time published in 1984, became the flagship journal in the rapidly developing fields of ecology and sustainability science of landscapes. The journal focuses on highly inter- and transdisciplinary studies, aggregating expertise from biological, geophysical, and social sciences to explore the formation, dynamics and consequences of spatial heterogeneity in natural and human-dominated landscapes. Members get free access to the journal. Below you'll find the most recentc articles published in Landscape Ecology:
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| Road traffic has a consistent negative impact on breeding density of a wide range of bird species in different habitats | ||
| Mittwoch, 11. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Road traffic has a major impact on the environment and numerous studies have shown how various species respond to road traffic. However, a clear picture based on large-scale studies of how complete species communities in different environments are affected by road traffic is lacking. Objectives We assessed the distance within which road traffic negatively impacts breeding bird densities and the extent to which effect... | ||
| Wade carefully: water parametrization in structural landscape connectivity modeling | ||
| Samstag, 07. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Structural connectivity models provide critical insights on how movement potential varies across landscapes and can support decisions on where to prioritize land protection and restoration. Water is a common component of landscape models used to inform conservation strategies, but the impacts of water parameterization on model behavior are poorly understood. Objectives We assessed how various parameterization approaches... | ||
| Landscape context mediates the effect of pollinator garden enhancements on pollinator visitation and plant-pollinator interactions | ||
| Freitag, 06. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Urbanization and associated habitat fragmentation and loss are leading factors contributing to the decline of pollinators, but may be ameliorated with gardens, green spaces, and other conservation efforts. However, there is limited research showing how pollinators respond to floral resource enhancements, and how landscape context mediates the conservation value of such enhancements. Objective Here we aimed to determine... | ||
| Five ways seascape ecology can help to achieve marine restoration goals | ||
| Mittwoch, 04. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Marine restoration is increasingly recognized as a key activity to regenerate ecosystem integrity, safeguard biodiversity, and enable ocean sustainability. Global policies such as the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework include area-based targets to improve ecosystem integrity and connectivity. Achieving these targets requires scaling up restoration in ecologically and socially meaningful ways. Objectives The... | ||
| Hydrodynamics, elevation, and restoration history structure intertidal oyster recruitment | ||
| Freitag, 30. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Reversing global declines of foundation species requires recovery of critical bottlenecks in population dynamics, particularly the recruitment of early life stages. Understanding the controls on recruitment can substantially improve restoration success. Objectives We investigated how geophysical conditions and restoration history determine recruitment in eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica), a foundation species... | ||
| Habitat fragmentation impact on insect diversity: opposing forces at patch and landscape levels | ||
| Freitag, 30. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Habitat loss is widely recognized as a major threat to biodiversity, but the effects of habitat fragmentation, whether positive or negative, remain controversial. It has been suggested that these effects vary depending on the spatial scale studied (patch vs. landscape) and the biodiversity metric considered (α-, β-, or γ-diversity). Objectives We aimed to test the contrasting effects of habitat fragmentation on insect... | ||
| Multi-scale effects of topography and landscape pattern on riverine nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients in an agricultural watershed | ||
| Donnerstag, 29. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context The effects of natural topographic characteristics and land-use patterns on riverine nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) levels are complex and scale-dependent in agricultural watersheds. Quantifying the individual and interactive effects of different landscape categories and determining their spatial scale sensitivities is helpful to develop effective landscape planning to mitigate nonpoint source (NPS) pollution; however, these effects have not been clarified... | ||
| Local tree cover predicts mosquito species richness and disease vector presence in a tropical countryside landscape | ||
| Mittwoch, 28. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Land use change and deforestation drive both biodiversity loss and zoonotic disease transmission in tropical countrysides. For mosquito communities that can include disease vectors, forest loss has been linked to reduced biodiversity and increased vector presence. The spatial scales at which land use and tree cover shape mosquito communities present a knowledge gap relevant to both biodiversity and public health. Objectives... | ||
| Manifesto for multidimensional ecological networks: a perspective to better account for the complexity of habitat loss and fragmentation | ||
| Dienstag, 27. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Ecological networks (i.e. sets of connected natural habitats) emerged in the 1980s and have been implemented worldwide. They have been developed as a land-use planning tool that enables to ensure both habitat amount and landscape connectivity in response to ground based physical anthropogenic drivers (e.g. forest cuttings, roads, dams). Objective We wanted to highlight some gaps in this conception of habitat loss and fragmentation that led to... | ||
| The evolution of landscape ecology reflected in 100 books | ||
| Montag, 26. Mai 2025 | ||
| The increasing role of drought as an inciting factor of bark beetle outbreaks can cause large-scale transformation of Central European forests | ||
| Freitag, 23. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Historically, large-scale outbreaks of the European spruce bark beetle were initiated mainly by windthrows. However, after 2018, a severe drought triggered the hitherto largest bark beetle outbreak observed in Europe, signalling a major shift in the disturbance regime. Objectives Develop and test an approach that allows simulating this novel disturbance dynamics and evaluate landscape-scale compound impacts of wind- and... | ||
| Correction: Incorporating ecosystem services into ecosystem-based management to deal with complexity: a participative mental model approach | ||
| Mittwoch, 21. Mai 2025 | ||
| Unravelling the range expansion of a migratory waterbird: environmental factors underlying the selection of new breeding colonies by the Eurasian spoonbill | ||
| Dienstag, 20. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context While wetland degradation has caused declines in many species, the Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), a colonial waterbird, is increasing along the East Atlantic Flyway, currently (re)colonising its former breeding range over the past two decades. Objectives Evaluate the environmental parameters determining the species distribution in Portugal, and assess whether range expansion can be driven by environmental... | ||
| Delimiting urban growth boundaries for oases by incorporating the protection of ecosystem services and modes of urban expansion: a case study of China’s drylands | ||
| Montag, 19. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Delimiting urban growth boundaries (UGBs) in oases is crucial for reducing the negative effects of urban expansion on fragile ecosystems and requires integrating ecological protection with different urban expansion modes. However, existing methods fail to combine these two elements. Objectives This study aims to develop a new approach for delimiting UGBs in oases by incorporating the protection of ecosystem services and... | ||
| Small habitats as sources of food for pollinators and frugivores in fragmented landscapes | ||
| Sonntag, 18. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Habitat loss and land use homogenization cause a decline in biodiversity in agricultural landscapes. Plant community in small landscape features which remain post-land use change (small natural or semi-natural habitats) may overlap with plant community in semi-natural grasslands and buffer species decline in landscapes where little or no grassland remains. Objectives We explored if small natural or semi-natural habitats... | ||
| A novel method to assess spatio-temporal habitat availability for a generalist indicator species group in human-modified landscapes | ||
| Samstag, 17. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Landscape changes can alter habitat availability for species over time. There can be a time-lagged response of species to such changes, leading to possible extinction debts. In human-modified landscapes, understanding these dynamics is critical to inform conservation actions and mitigate biodiversity loss. Objectives This study examines temporal trajectories of habitat availability over 113 years from 1899 to 2012 in the... | ||
| Landscape and climatic drivers of dengue fever in Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Thailand: a retrospective analysis during 2002–2019 | ||
| Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Dengue is a major public health threat in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos) and Thailand. Dengue transmission is ecologically complex. Concurrently identifying both climate and landscape-based risk factors for dengue virus transmission is necessary to improve dengue prevention and control efforts in Laos and Thailand. Objectives The objective of this study was to determine how changes in climate (temperature... | ||
| Post-fire delayed tree mortality in mesic coniferous forests reduces fire refugia and seed sources | ||
| Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Ecological functions provided by fire refugia are critical for supporting conifer forest resiliency under increased fire activity across the western United States. The spatial distribution and persistence of fire refugia over time are uncertain as fire-injured trees continue to die over subsequent years post-fire. Objectives We examined how post-fire delayed tree mortality affects the spatial distribution and attributes... | ||
| Ecological programs changed the forest landscape pattern in the Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2020 | ||
| Dienstag, 13. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is a key ecological barrier in China. The Natural Forest Protection Program (NFPP) and Grain for Green Program (GGP) are ecological restoration programs implemented in response to the deterioration of China’s ecological environment. It is essential to understand how the NFPP and GGP protect forest resources to appreciate how they support the restoration of the forest ecosystem in the YRB. Objectives... | ||
| Enhancing structural connectivity through coral restoration by adopting a landscape ecology perspective | ||
| Dienstag, 13. Mai 2025 | ||
| Context Restoration is an effective measure to counteract declines of reef-building coral populations. Despite decades of coral restoration research and practice, very little emphasis has been placed on how the spatial distribution of restoration sites influences ecosystem recovery and connectivity. Objectives Combining image classification of aerial data with geoinformatics, we aim to identify priority restoration sites to... | ||