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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| Scale-dependent habitat relationships of a semi-aquatic mammal in a highly regulated freshwater ecosystem | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Understanding what factors influence species occupancy in human-modified landscapes is a central theme in ecology. This is particularly vital for freshwater semi-aquatic organisms that occupy both terrestrial and aquatic environments that have often undergone severe habitat alteration from flow modification, water abstraction, and human encroachment. A greater understanding of their habitat and hydrological requirements is needed to predict how further changes to... | ||
| Using old fields for new purposes: ecosystem service outcomes of restoring marginal agricultural land to forests | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Human activities, particularly intensive agriculture, have caused significant environmental degradation, reduced ecosystem diversity, and increased vulnerability to global change. Recent international policies, such as the Global Biodiversity Framework’s 30 × 30 target, advocate for nature-based solutions (NbS) such as ecological restoration to address these impacts. In agricultural landscapes, however, there are concerns that restoration may impact food... | ||
| DynamicPATCH: method and software for spatially explicit dynamic patch transition characterization | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Decades of research have used spatial pattern metrics at time points, such as those in FRAGSTATS, to measure the net change of landscape configuration and composition during time intervals. However, metrics at time points fail to quantify a time interval’s gross change, which can be substantially larger than net change between two time points. The field of landscape ecology has lacked a conceptual framework and accompanying software to characterize patterns of gross... | ||
| Correction to: Hydrodynamics, elevation, and restoration history structure intertidal oyster recruitment | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Interannual dynamics of China’s wild elephant habitat revealed by Landsat-based time series land cover and meta-analysis derived habitat preferences | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context A long-term and highly dynamic understanding of terrestrial habitats is of extreme importance for enhancing wildlife conservation, habitat management, human-wildlife conflict mitigation in a timely manner. Currently, however, fine-resolution, multi-decade, and inter-annual habitat mapping remains rare due to high costs and data scarcity of wildlife presence/absence data. Moreover, the existing land cover datasets used for habitat mapping have high uncertainty in... | ||
| Impact of the morphology of logged areas on medium and large mammal communities in forests | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context The morphology of logged areas (MLA) can impact medium and large mammal habitat. Assessing MLAs with landscape metrics facilitates sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation. Objectives We quantified MLAs and assessed their impacts on medium and large mammals. Methods We assessed mammal occurrence using camera traps in 24 logged and 26 unlogged sites in South... | ||
| Using AI enhanced agent-based models to support management of wild populations | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Managing wild populations in rapidly changing, human-dominated landscapes requires models that accommodate complex interactions among climate, land use, disease, and evolution. Agent-based models (ABMs) are well suited to this task but are often difficult to parameterize, calibrate, and interpret at management-relevant scales. Objectives We discuss how artificial-intelligence (AI) techniques, including machine-learning... | ||
| Multi-temporal analysis of urban vegetation using deep learning and 3D reconstruction | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Urban green spaces play a vital role in enhancing environmental quality and human well-being. However, traditional assessment methods, such as the green view index, primarily quantify green coverage while neglecting vegetation diversity, color richness, and seasonal dynamics, which are critical for urban livability. Objectives This study develops a multi-temporal and multi-perspective analysis framework for urban green... | ||
| Predicting carbon storage in North American maritime boreal forests under combined disturbances | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Understanding how forest disturbances, such as fire and herbivory, affect carbon storage across the landscape can help inform forest management and disturbance mitigation. However, this is made difficult by uncertainties in carbon predictions and limited records of disturbance histories. Objectives Our objectives were to predict carbon stocks and predict where disturbances have created open forest patches across the study... | ||
| Multiple small patches have higher taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional diversity as well as more clustered assemblages than fewer large patches of comparable area | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context The long-standing SLOSS debate concerns whether several small patches (SS) or a single or fewer large patches (SL) better support biodiversity. Recent literature reviews and meta-analyses highlight the importance of small patches, yet much of this focus has centered on taxonomic diversity, overlooking phylogenetic and functional dimensions that offer deeper insights into community structure. Objectives We investigated the... | ||
| Monitoring bush encroachment in Bisley Nature Reserve using RapidEye and PlanetScope data | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context The woody vegetation encroachment into natural grasslands is a significant global concern in nature reserves and other protected and conserved landscapes. Bush encroachment remains one of the major contributors of land degradation and landscape alterations. The phenomenon adversely affects biodiversity, conservation efforts, landscape productivity and recreational value. Objectives To understand the progression and threat... | ||
| Energy landscape and life-history requirements shape habitat use in an extreme soaring specialist | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Understanding how animals respond to the energy landscape is crucial for elucidating the mechanisms of habitat selection, movement strategies, and connectivity dynamics. However, assessing the responses of highly mobile and long-lived species is challenging, as movement behaviors related to distinct life-history requirements may operate at extreme spatial and temporal scales. Objectives We combined movement and genetic... | ||
| UAS-based geomorphic change detection of incised montane meadow stream channels with low-tech process-based restoration treatments | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Montane meadows play an important hydrologic role in headwater catchments, but past land use has largely degraded their condition. Low-tech restoration methods, such as beaver dam analogs (BDAs), are increasingly used to support recovery of incised streams by promoting key geomorphic processes. However, there remains a need for studies that leverage UAS for monitoring low-tech restoration treatments in incised meadow systems. Objectives... | ||
| Semi-natural habitats and their contribution to crop productivity through pollination and pest control: a systematic review | ||
| Dienstag, 01. Juli 2025 | ||
| Context Semi-natural habitats (SNHs) play a vital role in delivering key ecosystem services, such as crop pollination and biological pest control, which are essential to support agricultural productivity. However, the evidence of the economic benefits of SNHs is scattered, and their impacts on productivity in agricultural landscapes are not well understood, limiting their adoption and integration into farming practices and agricultural policies... | ||
| Climate buffering effects of western Canadian boreal lakes: the effect of lake size and depth on shoreline and nearshore forests | ||
| Montag, 23. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Lakes can provide thermal refugia effects by buffering shoreline and inland temperatures, potentially delaying forest transitions. However, this effect has not been quantified for the majority of boreal Canada lakes, which are often excluded in general circulation model predictions of climate, thus potentially underestimating the effects of lake-mediated buffering. Objectives Here, we quantify the effects of varying lake... | ||
| A framework for creating urban growth boundaries that integrate ecological protection and disaster risk reduction | ||
| Freitag, 20. Juni 2025 | ||
| Efficiency of flower strips for bumblebee colonies depends on nesting habitat and interactions with semi-natural habitats and mass-flowering crops | ||
| Freitag, 20. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Pollinator populations are generally sensitive to landscape fragmentation, but the contribution of habitat types at different area proportion to the development of bumblebee colonies at landscape scale is unclear. Objectives We contribute to this field of landscape ecological research by analysing how the area proportions of semi-natural habitats, flower strips and mass-flowering crops affect the density of bumblebee... | ||
| Towards transformative climate actions in landscape architecture | ||
| Freitag, 13. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Transformative actions are required in the built environment if we are to avoid breaching planetary boundaries. To do so, climate actions within cities need to be coordinated across both adaptation and mitigation, and across knowledge boundaries. Landscape architects are well-positioned to drive climate actions through strong ecological underpinnings and creative design thinking. However, their capacity to support transformative climate actions is relatively unknown... | ||
| How landscape structure influences water-related ecosystem service flows | ||
| Freitag, 13. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context Landscape planning to optimize ecosystem service (ES) provision requires an integrated understanding of different components of a provision chain (supply, demand, flow). However, the effects of landscape structure on ES flows remain poorly understood. Objectives The objective is to assess how ES flows quantitatively respond to landscape structure. Methods We proposed a... | ||
| Revealing youth-perceived cultural ecosystem services for high-density urban green space management: a deep learning spatial analysis of social media photographs from central Beijing | ||
| Donnerstag, 12. Juni 2025 | ||
| Context In high-density urban areas, managing urban green spaces (UGSs) is challenging due to limited space. Young people in these environments often experience mental health issues, exacerbated by insufficient exposure to green spaces. UGSs provide cultural ecosystem services (CESs), crucial for enhancing mental well-being and landscape sustainability in general. Objectives Focusing on central Beijing, our study addresses three... | ||