News

The last bulletin of 2024 is out now: 

IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 4, December 2024.

Featured in this issue:

• Season's greetings from our president Dr. Peilei Fan

• Obituary for Prof. Milan Ružička, one of the founders of IALE

• Call for abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the North American chapter of IALE in Raleigh North Carolina DUE December 16th

• Invitation to participate in the upcoming IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress September 2-5, 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia

• Updates from the Urban and Peri-Urban Governance Working Group, updates from our Indian and Chinese chapters, a survey on peatland restoration and recent publications from some very productive chapters!

On behalf of the IALE Executive Committee, we are sending you our best wishes for the New Year.

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 2, June 2024 - is out now.

Featured in this issue:

• The 2025 IALE European Congress in Slovakia is seeking session proposals (due Sept. 30th)

• Consider participating in IRALE 2025 conference In Panna, Madhya Pradesh in February

• Submit a manuscript to a special issue on Forest Sustainability Agriculture in Landscape Ecology

• Guest editors and themes needed for special issues in Physical Transactions of the Royal Society B

• Updates from the our Czech, Indian, and European chapters

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 2, June 2024 - is out now.

Featured in this issue:

• A sneak peak at our host country and city for the 2027 IALE World Congress

• Invitation to participate in the upcoming 2025 IALE European Congress

• Call for abstracts for the 5th European Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership with the following theme “Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health”

• An invitation to submit a manuscript in Sustainability for a special section on Environmental Sustainability and Applications

• Updates from the spatial analysis of organisms in the environment Working Group

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 1, March 2024 - is out now.

Featured in this issue:

• Location of the 12th IALE World Congress (in 2027)

• Which chapters and working groups received funding from IALE

• Upcoming conferences in Portugal and Slovakia

• Many new publications!

Also, if you have upcoming events that need to be pushed out to our members before the next quarterly bulletin (e.g. upcoming webinars, need for another contribution to a special issue), please consider sending them to me at davis.amelie@gmail.com and stating they are for quick release (i.e. not the Bulletin). I will collect these and email them to all our members every other week! We hope to get more timely information out for you all in this manner.

Happy New Year everyone!

As of January 2024, Springer Nature is proud to offer active IALE members a 50% discount off the article processing charge of their paper which has been accepted by Landscape Ecology, an open access journal.

How does it work?

• Please send your request for a single-use discount code to Vice-Secretary General Amelie Davis (davis DOT amelie AT gmail DOT com) only after your paper has been accepted by Landscape Ecology.
• She will verify your active membership status before forwarding the request to Springer Nature for processing.
• You will be contacted for the manuscript ID of your accepted paper to Landscape Ecology and then provided with a single-use discount code to be applied during the MyPublication process.
• Please send additional single-use discount code requests to Amelie after your paper has been accepted by Landscape Ecology and the previously issued single-use discount code has been redeemed.

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 41 no. 3/4 December 2023 - is now online.

Featured in this issue:

·       2023 IALE World Congress Report including a great story map about the meeting: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f22b36695306495d84725abfde856d0c

·       Updates from our Indian and Europe chapters

·       Call to host the next World Congress (Due 1 Jan 2024)

Happy New Year to all!!

Please check out the September newsletter from the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology:

https://www.landscape-ecology.org/resources/News/Attachments/IRALE%20News%2011_%20June%202022.pdf 

IALE, the International Association for Landscape Ecology (www.landscape-ecology.org), invites proposals to host the next IALE World Congress in 2027. The IALE World Congress is the premier event for landscape ecologists worldwide and regular attracts ~1000 attendees. The event lasts one week and must include plenaries, symposia, oral sessions, posters sessions, a social dinner and field trips.

Past locations include (see also our website for a more detailed overview of past events: https://www.landscape-ecology.org/World-Congress):

2003 – Darwin, Australia

2007 – Wageningen, The Netherlands

2011 – Beijing, China

2015 – Portland, Oregon, USA

2019 – Milan, Italy

2023 – Nairobi, Kenya

IALE is committed to providing the fullest support possible for hosting the event including loans, direct travel support for young scholars, processes and procedures developed over the past 30 years, including program assistance, registration and other. We encourage all interested parties to submit a proposal. Bids are due by January 5, 2024.

Criteria

All proposals must be routed through an IALE national or regional chapter. We will not accept bids directly from individuals, academic/research institutions or private companies. Guidelines for bid preparations (including details about the city, venue, transportation options, field trips, potential support, meeting sustainability efforts) are available on request.

Please provide your proposal as a PDF file to the IALE Secretary General Benjamin Burkhard.

Jumbo (Hello)

We are excited to share these IALE 2023 World Conference Updates with IALE Community:

1. IALE 2023 Congress schedule and Program details:

• IALE 2023 World Conference Preliminary Program (June 17)

2.  IALE 2023 Pre-conference Workshops

• Note - all the Pre-conference workshops, except #7, are scheduled for July 09
• Click here for the Pre-conference Workshop Registrations   

3. IALE 2023 Excursions & Tours

• Click here for Excursions & Logistics page
• Click Here Community Excursion Board to link up with other IALE 2023 attendees and organize for Excursion/Tours group rates.

4.  Foreign Scholar Travel Award (FSTA)

The IALE 2023 Foreign Scholar Travel Award Committee reviewed more than 30 applications, selected 14 candidates, and “Award Letters” have been sent out to the winners. There will be a formal announcement of the 2023 FSTA awardees on the IALE 2023 Website, and they will be recognized during the opening ceremony. 
The Organizing committee wishes to express our sincere thanks to the FSTA Review Committee:

• Prof. Chris Shisanya - Department of Geography, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
• Dr. Esther Munyiri - Director, Global Tourism Resilience & Crisis Management Centre (GTRCMC), Eastern Africa, Kenya
• Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy- Wildlife Institute of India
• Prof. Dolors Armenteras - Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Modelling Lab - ECOLMOD, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
• Prof. Henry Bulley - BMCC, City University of New York, USA

5. Registered attendees 

1. All registered attendees will receive an invitation (shortly after this update) to create your virtual IALE 2023 profile on Whova.com.
2. You will get a chance to create your name badge online and print it onsite. Here is a sample name badge:

6. Road to Magical Nairobi (#video Shorts)

IALE 2023 is in 3 weeks, and we want to raise the excitement meter on the webpage and social media.  So, we are inviting all attendees to submit 30 – 60 seconds video shorts. 

1. Use the IALE 2023 logo:

1. Send your video short to iale.2023@mak.ac.ug and vennitaevents13@gmail.com
2. We will feature the video shorts on the IALE 2023 website and there will be a voting for the top 2 video shorts.  The two winners will receive authentic “Kenyan kikoy”, see samples below:

7. IALE 2023 Merchandise

We are pleased to inform IALE community that we will soon have merchandise available for purchase online (and pick up later) or purchase on-site in Nairobi. These include IALE 2023 themed T-shirts, kikoys, shukas, etc:

Feel free to contact the IALE 2023 organizers via iale.2023@mak.ac.ug and vennitaevents13@gmail.com.  We look forward to seeing you in Nairobi in July!

Karibu sana (welcome) to Nairobi

Prof. Joy Obando (IALE 2023 LOC Chair) & Prof. Simon Onywere (IALE 2023 LOC Cochair)