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| Post-fire structural forest recovery associated with climate extremes in dry sub-boreal forests | ||
| Montag, 01. Dezember 2025 | ||
| Context Recent large and high-severity wildfires have burned vast areas of coniferous forests throughout Western North America. These burned landscapes are recovering amid increasingly frequent climate extremes, such as drought. We need to understand how post-fire climate extremes and other ecological drivers (such as fire impacts) influence patterns and trends of coniferous recovery. Objectives We worked at a... | ||
| Effects of prescribed fire on plant α- and ꞵ-diversity and the regulating role of soil in a mesquite-oak savanna | ||
| Freitag, 28. November 2025 | ||
| Context Fire is a fundamental ecological process in the Great Plains rangelands. While it is well-established that dynamic mosaics created by fire and grazing are essential for maintaining biodiversity of grassland systems, how fire affects plant diversity in spatially heterogeneous savanna landscapes of the Southern Great Plains remains poorly understood. Objectives The objective was to explore how spatially heterogeneous fire... | ||
| Image auto-coding tools for social impact assessment: leveraging social media data to understand human dimensions of hydroelectricity landscape changes in Canada | ||
| Freitag, 28. November 2025 | ||
| Context Social media data has been shown to be a valuable data source for assessing social impacts, particularly when paired with the swift progress in artificial intelligence technologies, allowing comprehensive analyses of larger datasets than is possible using conventional approaches. Objectives We sought to understand the social impacts of hydropower-related landscape changes based on a quasi-chronosequence... | ||
| How land use and GDP interact to shape ecosystem services trade-offs | ||
| Freitag, 28. November 2025 | ||
| Context Land use and land cover (LULC) change, intertwined with economic development, exerts profound impacts on the spatial distribution and functionality of ecosystem services (ES). Understanding these coupled dynamics is vital for landscape sustainability, yet their joint influence and landscape-scale heterogeneity remain insufficiently quantified. Objectives This study aimed to (1) develop and apply a... | ||
| Considerations for the use of remotely sensed production (ANPP) and standing biomass products to support management of ecosystems with dynamic vegetation cover | ||
| Donnerstag, 27. November 2025 | ||
| Context New satellite-based Remote Sensing (RS) data products provide near-real time vegetation monitoring capacities and potentially offer valuable insights to land managers. Since RS data products are rapidly evolving, it is important to understand what each product measures or estimates. Misinterpretations of the data products can lead to ineffective management decisions. In ecosystems with dynamic vegetation cover such as rangelands, grasslands, and savannas, it is... | ||
| Navigating fragmentation: movement ecology and habitat selection of a large, long-lived skink in an agricultural landscape | ||
| Donnerstag, 27. November 2025 | ||
| Context As global agricultural expansion continues, there is little choice but to incorporate modified landscapes into biodiversity conservation efforts. Increasingly available animal movement data can be leveraged to identify important habitat features and assess population connectivity in fragmented landscapes. Objectives We use the shingleback lizard (Tiliqua rugosa) as a case study to demonstrate the utility of GPS-telemetry... | ||
| Increasing fragmentation of the wildland–urban interface as it expands across China’s dryland landscape from 1990 to 2020 | ||
| Donnerstag, 27. November 2025 | ||
| Context The wildland–urban interface (WUI) is a landscape where buildings and wildland vegetation meet or mix, and is usually regarded as a high risk region because of the high impact of human activities. The expansion of the wildland–urban interface (WUI) could exacerbate environmental risks such as wildfire risk at the landscape scale. China’s dryland landscape provides an ideal case study for assessing WUI dynamics, as they are experiencing rapid urbanization and... | ||
| Multiple trajectories of land-cover change: influence of disturbance severity over four decades after the eruption of Mount St. Helens | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context To understand land-cover change, it is necessary to monitor landscapes over long temporal extents. The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (MSH) provides an opportunity to analyze vegetation recovery trajectories over four decades after disturbances of different severities. Objectives We aim to enhance understanding of land-cover changes after major disturbances to inform management of the processes influencing ecosystem... | ||
| Local-scale increase masks landscape-scale loss of species richness in managed Pannonian grasslands | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context While biodiversity decline is undebated on the global level, landscape-scale trends are poorly known and local assemblages even show stable species richness, accompanied by pronounced turn-over. The landscape-scale consequences of local-scale species turnover likely depend on whether species replacement is random or biased towards more frequent species in the metacommunity, but this potential bias is insufficiently studied... | ||
| Living on the shores of the Alboran Sea. The Neolithic on the coast of Málaga (Spain) a multiproxy approach | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context The coast of Málaga is one of the core areas for the Neolithic in southern Iberia with the earliest occupations dating to the middle of the 8th millennium cal BP. From the outset, evidence shows a fully developed and highly diversified system of agriculture and animal husbandry. The palaeoenvironmental conditions during this period in the southern Iberian Peninsula reveal phases of aridity. Objectives This study aims to... | ||
| Severely disturbed forests in Central Europe retain robust recovery capacity but face resilience loss due to spatial homogenization | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context Following the hot and dry year of 2018, European forests underwent an unprecedented wave of disturbances. The subsequent recovery phase is indicative of ecosystem resilience and critical for long-term forest development; however, the landscape-scale manifestation of these processes remains poorly understood. Objectives Quantify forest disturbance and early recovery dynamics across a 9000-km2 forested... | ||
| A tale of scale: different factors influence the range boundaries and habitat use of a generalist mammalian carnivore | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context Understanding how environmental factors shape species distributions at different spatial scales is crucial for predicting responses to global change. However, most studies conflate factors determining habitat use and range boundaries, lacking a clear distinction between them. Objective This study examines the environmental determinants of a generalist species with a relatively small range... | ||
| The effects of land use on downstream water quality and biodiversity in a changing tropical mosaic landscape | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context Land use and other human activities generally reduce downstream water quality, with consequences for ecosystem services and freshwater biodiversity. However, the relative effects of different types of land use and associated activities across large spatial scales can be difficult to understand, and thus to address, in heterogeneous landscapes. Objectives To assess how different types of landscapes affect the water quality... | ||
| It’s about time: temporal fragmentation and metrics for habitat change | ||
| Dienstag, 25. November 2025 | ||
| Context Habitat fragmentation is commonly analyzed in space, but continuity can also fail in time. Temporal habitat fragmentation describes this disruption of continuity and can be defined as the division of a continuous period of habitat availability into multiple shorter or irregular intervals. Although classic theories such as patch dynamics and metapopulation address habitat change through time, the ecological role of temporal configuration and structure is worth further... | ||
| multiScaleR: a generalizable approach for multiscale ecological modeling and scale of effect estimation | ||
| Montag, 24. November 2025 | ||
| Context Analyses in landscape ecology often seek to understand how the landscape surrounding field survey locations relates to ecological responses measured at those sites. A central challenge in these studies is defining the spatial scale at which landscape variables matter. While the limitations of standard approaches to estimating this scale are well known, practical alternatives remain limited and often difficult to apply... | ||
| Evaluating the effects of alternative forest management strategies on spruce budworm outbreaks | ||
| Sonntag, 23. November 2025 | ||
| Context Forest insect outbreaks are major landscape-scale disturbances that shape forest composition and dynamics. In eastern North America, the spruce budworm (SBW) is a key defoliator driving these patterns. Understanding how local forest management interacts with outbreak dynamics at broad spatial extents is crucial for designing sustainable management strategies under climate change. Objective We evaluated... | ||
| Priorities for peri-urban recreation ecology research, policy, and practice in a transforming world | ||
| Sonntag, 23. November 2025 | ||
| Context Peri-urban landscapes are increasingly expected to support both outdoor recreation and biodiversity conservation. Different trade-offs and potential synergies between these two objectives call for a clear, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive framework for the design, management, and stewardship of such landscapes to better support outdoor recreation and biodiversity conservation. Objectives The aim of this work was to... | ||
| The effect of the type and speed of dominant land-cover transitions on patterns of tropical forest fragmentation | ||
| Donnerstag, 20. November 2025 | ||
| Context The speed and severity of tropical forest conversions to croplands and rangelands, give rise to distinct fragmentation patterns, altering species composition and ecosystem resilience. While the type of the surrounding land-cover can mitigate these impacts through landscape complementation, the role of specific land-cover transitions and their speeds in shaping forest fragmentation patterns remains poorly understood at the pan-tropical scale... | ||
| Integrating 3D radiative transfer and soil spectral models reveals soil–vegetation synergy in arid steppes | ||
| Donnerstag, 20. November 2025 | ||
| Context In arid and semi-arid regions, the expansion of the shrub-encroached grassland (SEG) has a profound impact on ecosystem dynamics and desertification processes. However, there is a serious lack of research on the interaction between plant community structure and soil using model systems at the scene scale. Objectives A repeatable and scalable soil–canopy 3D model framework for arid areas was established, and provided... | ||
| Local-landscape filtering explains insect diversity patterns across a dryland urban landscape | ||
| Donnerstag, 20. November 2025 | ||
| Context Urbanization has a profound impact on biodiversity worldwide. The commonly applied ‘urban–rural gradient’ approach often yields contrasting patterns of insect diversity. Integrating local-scale habitat and landscape-scale attributes that act as filters of community assemblage (‘local-landscape filtering’) may help reconcile these contrasting patterns. Objectives Our objective is to evaluate if and to what extent... | ||