A special issue, “Modeling the Effects of Land-Use Change on Forest Dynamics at Regional to Global Extents” will be published in the journal Land. We encourage IALE members and others to submit relevant manuscripts. See the link for more details about the scope of the issue.

Though the deadline is 10 October, for IALE members, the journal has agreed to accept tentative abstracts and titles as placeholders by that date. Please contact Jen Costanza (jennifer.costanza@usda.gov) with a tentative title, list of authors, and abstract by 10 October prior to submitting to the journal. We are also able to waive all publication fees for a limited number of submitted manuscripts. To request a fee waiver, send your statement of financial need to Jen Costanza along with your title and abstract.

Sincerely,

Jen Costanza, Kurt Riitters, Karen Schleeweis, and Kristen Emmett, Guest Editors

 More details about the journal and submission:

Land (ISSN 2073-445X, impact factor 3.905) is an international and cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, and open access journal of land system science, landscape, soil–sediment–water systems, urban study, land–climate interactions, water–energy–land–food (WELF) nexuses, biodiversity research and health nexuses, land modelling and data processing, ecosystem services, multifunctionality and sustainability, etc., published monthly, online, by MDPI. The International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), European Land-use Institute (ELI), and Landscape Institute (LI) are affiliated with Land, and their members receive a discount on the article processing charge.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website.