Landscape Ecology - Hausjournal von IALE
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| Optimizing future cropland allocation in a biodiverse savanna by integrating agricultural benefits and ecological costs | ||
| Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Producing sufficient food to meet a growing population while minimizing the ecological impacts of agricultural expansion is a major global challenge, particularly in biodiverse regions where cropland development threatens ecological integrity. Tanzania exemplifies this tension, as efforts to meet food security goals often conflict with the conservation of its rich ecosystems. Objectives We aimed to optimize the spatial... | ||
| Global assessment of landscape pattern changes from 1992 to 2020 | ||
| Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Changes in landscape patterns, which refer to the composition and spatial configuration of land use and land cover (LULC) classes in a landscape, can have negative impacts on biodiversity and environmental processes such as carbon cycles. Such impacts are both dependent on the spatial extent of changes and which LULC classes are affected, but previous global-scale landscape pattern assessments have focused on single LULC classes or landscape-level measurements only. A... | ||
| Perceptions of drivers of land use and land cover change from forest to agriculture in Ethiopia | ||
| Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Land use and land cover (LULC) change, particularly the conversion of forests to agriculture, is a major driver of landscape fragmentation and ecosystem degradation in Ethiopia. Although these changes are well documented at national and regional scales, the perceptions of local communities regarding their underlying drivers remain poorly understood, limiting the effectiveness of landscape management strategies. Objectives... | ||
| A spatially independent seed dispersal design for forest landscape models | ||
| Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Seed dispersal is a spatially continuous process occurring over areas ranging from tens to thousands of square meters. Current seed dispersal designs (CDD) in forest landscape models (FLMs) have notable limitations. CDD may fail to disperse seeds outward when cell size exceeds dispersal distance and commonly assumes seed sources are centrally located within cell. The problems can accumulate spatially and temporally leading to large prediction errors... | ||
| A palaeoecology of upland transhumance sites: a long view on the timing, economy and environmental impact of seasonal settlement sites in the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland | ||
| Montag, 13. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Archaeological and historical evidence attest that transhumance was commonplace across Ireland during the last millennium. This largely involved the movement of people and their cows to upland pastures for the summer months to create space in the lowlands for arable farming. Significant gaps in understanding remain relating to the timing of and motivations for seasonal settlement, the activities that herders engaged in and the impact of land-use on the local... | ||
| Smallholder land-use decisions in a tropical agro-forest frontier in Southern Mexico | ||
| Montag, 13. Oktober 2025 | ||
| Context Agricultural expansion has significantly diminished tropical forests. Understanding how social-ecological processes impact local smallholder land-use decisions is critical for assessing the effectiveness of land-use policy initiatives and shaping long-term socio-environmental futures. Objectives Through a comparative analysis of two neighboring communities this research examines: 1) the land-use composition at farm-level... | ||
| 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... | ||
| 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... | ||
| 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... | ||
| 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... | ||
| 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... | ||
| 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... | ||