Landscape Ecology - Hausjournal von IALE
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| Environmental heterogeneity governing river macrophyte beta diversity in Europe is scale- and context-dependent | ||
| Freitag, 03. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Content A comprehensive understanding of how and to what extent beta diversity and community-environment relationships vary at various spatial scales is important to derive realistic forecasts of the future of freshwater communities. Objectives We assessed how total beta diversity and its two components (species replacement and species richness differences) of river macrophytes change among and across Portugal, Poland, Germany... | ||
| UAS and high-resolution satellite imagery improve the accuracy of cheatgrass detection across an invaded Yellowstone landscape | ||
| Freitag, 03. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) is a problem across the western United States, where it outcompetes and replaces native grass species, alters habitats, and increases the risk of wildfires. Cheatgrass greens up earlier in the growing season compared to native grasses, making it classifiable with multi-temporal and multi-spectral remote sensing. Objectives We mapped cheatgrass at different scales in the Greater Yellowstone... | ||
| Bellowing for habitat on private land: distribution of koalas in a complex landscape | ||
| Freitag, 03. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Anthropogenic modification of landscapes through clearing, degradation and fragmentation of habitat for human land-use can cause biodiversity loss, population declines and shifts in species distributions. The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) is a forest-dependent specialist-folivore with a distribution overlapping areas of high anthropogenic use. Objectives Our study aimed to identify environmental and habitat factors... | ||
| Local berry plant abundance but not regional occupancy may decline under climate change: predicting future conditions and promoting resilience in Southeast Alaskan forests | ||
| Freitag, 03. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Climate change may affect the distribution and performance of many high latitude species. Plants producing fleshy, edible fruits are ecologically, economically, and socially important components of Alaskan forests, but the potential impacts of climate change on their regional distribution and local abundance remain largely unknown. Objectives This study investigated how climate change may impact the regional occupancy and... | ||
| How does landscape composition and configuration affect dung beetle communities in Eastern Austrian agricultural landscapes? | ||
| Freitag, 03. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Understanding the effects of landscape composition on biodiversity is crucial, especially in human-dominated agricultural landscapes. This study focuses on dung beetles, an ecologically significant group, to explore how landscape composition and configuration influences species richness, abundance and community structure of dung beetles in Eastern Austrian agricultural areas. Objectives The primary objective of this study... | ||
| Using multiscale graph theoretic methods to understand spatial patterns of decline: a case study with lesser prairie-chickens | ||
| Freitag, 03. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) lek network represents a prime testing ground for examining how analyses of connectivity may help inform why and where population declines occur. Objectives We compared how patterns of decline and inactivity were associated with lek structural connectivity. Methods We used lek locations and years of recorded activity... | ||
| Future forest conditions under alternative management and hydrological scenarios in the Upper Mississippi River floodplain | ||
| Donnerstag, 25. September 2025 | ||
| Context Floodplain forests are being transformed by multiple pressures, prompting widespread management and restoration efforts. It is uncertain how disturbances, including hydrologic change, and management actions will interact to influence the ecology of these threatened forests. Objectives This study examined the effects of alternative management and hydrologic regimes on forest succession at an Upper Mississippi River... | ||
| No evidence of decline in bumblebee abundance and species richness from edge to interior in moderately-sized red clover fields | ||
| Montag, 01. September 2025 | ||
| Context Mass-flowering crops have the potential to mitigate the negative effects of agricultural intensification on resource availability for pollinators, but their full utility also depends on pollinators providing consistent pollination services across the entire field. However, the spatial extent of pollination services in mass-flowering fields remains poorly understood, particularly within the landscape context. Objectives We... | ||
| Space use by waterfowl reveals scale mismatches in contemporary environmental management, including mitigation of human-wildlife conflict | ||
| Freitag, 29. August 2025 | ||
| Context Conservation requires aligning the spatial, temporal, and functional scales of environmental management with those of interlinked ecological processes. Objectives To assist Indigenous Ngāi Tahu and government-mandated authorities in the management of black swans (kakī anau, Cygnus atratus) in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, we investigated the effects of land cover on space use by swans and identified scale... | ||
| Characterizing landscape configuration effects on eastern spruce budworm infestation dynamics | ||
| Mittwoch, 27. August 2025 | ||
| Context Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana, Clem, SBW) is the largest defoliator of boreal and mixedwood forests in North America. Its impact is directly linked to the quality and availability of primary host species such as balsam fir (Abies balsamea, (L.) Mill.) at the stand level. At the landscape level, the ability of SBW to disperse over long distances suggests that the configuration of available resources may also play an important role in affecting infestation... | ||
| Local-scale tree cover modulates pollination services and crop yield in tropical agroforestry landscapes, Rwanda | ||
| Mittwoch, 27. August 2025 | ||
| Context Global pollinator decline threatens food security, especially in regions with intensive agriculture and habitat loss. Agroforestry, a sustainable agricultural diversification practice, could mitigate these issues by providing diverse habitats and floral resources for pollinators, yet its effects on pollination services and crop yields in tropical Africa remain undocumented. Objectives This study examined the impact of... | ||
| Not just species recording: the potential of citizen science for habitat monitoring | ||
| Dienstag, 26. August 2025 | ||
| Context Reversing the global biodiversity crisis requires not only conservation and management of species, but the habitats in which they live. While there is a long history of biodiversity recording by volunteers, at least in Europe, information on habitats is less frequently recorded. Habitat data is needed to map and monitor habitat extent and condition; to train and validate earth observation (EO) data; and to explain biodiversity change. The complexity of habitat... | ||
| Bats in livestock farms—effects of farm characteristics and landscape composition on bat activity | ||
| Donnerstag, 21. August 2025 | ||
| Context Animal farming is a key driver of rural landscape structure, ecosystem processes and economy. Over recent decades, traditional management practices have largely shifted toward modern industrialized systems, altering habitat composition and influencing the abundance and distribution of many taxa, including bats. Objectives This study investigates the interaction between livestock farms and insectivorous bats, focusing on... | ||
| A spatial-explicit analysis of influencing factors of observed floods in the Yangtze River Delta, China | ||
| Donnerstag, 21. August 2025 | ||
| Context Flooding is not only shaped by hydrological and hydraulic mechanisms, but also substantially influenced by landscape configuration. Elucidating the relationships between historical floods and environment determinants is crucial for advancing both flood resilience strategies and landscape sustainability practices. Objectives The objectives of this study were: (1) to spatial-explicitly quantify flood-environment associations... | ||
| Planning human-dominated landscapes for wolf conservation: the role of resting habitats | ||
| Donnerstag, 14. August 2025 | ||
| Context Planning human-dominated landscapes for large carnivore conservation requires careful consideration of key trophic and habitat resources, including suitable resting habitats. However, the specific characteristics of these habitats often remain poorly understood, particularly because they may be influenced by individual traits, circadian rhythms, and site use typology. Objectives This study investigates wolf resting site... | ||
| Leveraging sequential least-cost modelling to uncover multiple introductions: a case study of an invasive wild bee species | ||
| Donnerstag, 14. August 2025 | ||
| Context Invasive species pose a significant threat to biodiversity, creating a need for accurate methods to assess their spread. Although multiple introductions are common, estimates of expansion rates often assume a single introduction site due to limited knowledge of population structure. Objectives This multidisciplinary study aimed to develop a novel spatio-temporal approach to delineate potential populations without prior... | ||
| Divergent impacts of urbanization on ecosystem services in urban versus non-urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Basin, China during 1990–2050 | ||
| Donnerstag, 14. August 2025 | ||
| Context Exploring the long-term spatial heterogeneity effect of urbanization on ecosystem services (ES) in large river basin is critical for differentiated sustainable governance. However, few studies have systematically compared the divergent impacts between urban and non-urban agglomerations across historical and future periods. Objectives Assess and predict the spatiotemporal evolutions of ESs (water yield, soil conservation... | ||
| Spatial prediction of evapotranspiration in a tropical mosaic landscape using remote sensing and explainable machine learning | ||
| Dienstag, 12. August 2025 | ||
| Context Tropical forest regions are being transformed to other land covers at a high rate, often resulting in landscapes with heterogeneous vegetation structures. In combination with environmental factors this may influence ecosystem services, including evapotranspiration (ET). Objectives We aimed to predict the spatial variability of ET using spaceborne observations in a heterogenous tropical landscape, with a particular focus... | ||
| The impact of a decade of urbanisation on a semi-aquatic mammal in a subtropical freshwater ecosystem | ||
| Dienstag, 12. August 2025 | ||
| Context Urbanisation replaces vegetation with impervious cover, impeding water filtration and increasing runoff contamination. These changes contribute to the ‘urban stream syndrome’—a suite of negative impacts on freshwater ecosystems and associated species. Objectives Assessed how urbanisation, measured using landscape metrics related to variations in impervious cover (‘imperviousness’) impacted platypus... | ||
| Benefits of wildflower strips in agricultural field margins differ based on landscape complexity across four ecosystem services | ||
| Dienstag, 12. August 2025 | ||
| Context Agricultural landscapes must produce food, fodder, fuel, or fiber while simultaneously maintaining non-market ecosystem services. Conservation practices such as planting perennial wildflower strips can improve multifunctionality, but their effectiveness may depend on the surrounding landscape. Objectives Our goals were to (1) model the effect of adding perennial wildflower strips along crop field margins on ecosystem... | ||