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The International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) is excited to announce the 2023 IALE World Congress will take place in Nairobi, Kenya (see Magical Nairobi), from 10^th – 15^th, July 2023.  The IALE World Congress occurs every four years and is the premier event for landscape ecologists worldwide to address topics in landscape ecology that range from local to global in scale. During the World Congress, landscape ecologists from public, private, and non-profit sectors will address a broad spectrum of environmental challenges and their potential solutions. The 2023 World Congress will be a hybrid (online/in person) event and it is for the first time being hosted in the Global South. 

The World Congress theme is ‘Transboundary Resource Management, Climate Change and Environmental Resilience’.  The World Congress will include plenaries, symposium, oral sessions, posters sessions, a social dinner, and field trips. It is jointly hosted by Kenyatta University (KU), Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), National Museum of Kenya (NMK), Institute of Climate Change and Adaptation Institute, University of Nairobi (UON), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and in collaboration with the African-Chapter of IALE (Africa-IALE).

Nairobi is an exceptionally beautiful and exceptional city (see Magical Nairobi).  The planned post conference excursions include: Nairobi National Park,  Karura Forest Nature trails, The National Museums, Kakamega forest (‘Time has stood still for the Kakamega Forest, a remnant of the rain forest that stretched all across Central Africa’) and Watamu Marine National Park and Reserve (a complex of marine and tidal habitats along the Kenya’s north coast with rich and diverse bird life, fish, turtles and dugongs). Furthermore, Kenya is well known for the Great Rift Valley (Great Rift Valley).  July is an excellent time to visit Kenya because it is the dry season and wildlife will be easier to see.

Watch here for more information soon: www.landscape-ecology.org

The second newsletter of the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE) is online. Including: Expert View on IRALE by Felix Kienast, a portrait of the Trans-Himalayas and the announcement of the 1st Annual IRALE Symposium.

IRALE News 2 _ May 2021.pdf

What: In this 3-part modeling miniseries, we will take a wide-ranging look at State-and-Transition-Simulation-Models (STSMs) and use the LANDFIRE BpS models as a launching point for inquiry about ecosystem change over time. We will communicate practical ways to use STSM in real-life research, management, and academia. There will be 15-20 min at the end of each section for Q & A.   

When: June 2, 9, 16

Time: 1 pm (ET) (for all sessions)

Register: (LIVE captioning will be available) https://tnc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcOCsqjIqHdRKvE8h78qAacanVgf0J6WX | Link will stay the same for all sessions (Are you registered for one session? That means you are registered for all of them)

June 2 - Part 1: Kori Blankenship* (LANDFIRE Fire Ecologist) will discuss the basics of (STSMs), introduce the LANDFIRE BpS models and share resources for both novice and intermediate state-and-transition modelers.  

June 9 - Part 2: Leonardo Frid (Systems Ecologist at Apex Resource Management Solutions) will showcase real-life STSM applications with the ST-Sim package for SyncroSim, demonstrate how to use both the Graphical User Interface and rsyncrosim R package and discuss different approaches for applying state and transition modeling tools in real-life management scenarios.  

June 16 - Part 3: Randy Swaty (LANDFIRE Ecologist) & Dr. Priscilla NyamaiNyamai (Asst. Professor, Grand Valley State Univ.) will discuss how integrating STSMs in the classroom can be useful for conceptualizing ecosystem changes.

Check out all the details here | Sponsored by Apex RMS, International Association of Landscape Ecology | *New pub!

The first newsletter of the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE) is online. Read more about the vision and mission of the Indian IALE chapter here.

IRALE News 1 _ 14 April 2021.pdf

At the ESP (Ecosystem Services Partnership) researchers are investigating the uptake of ecosystem services in urban planning. If you have such experience, it would be great if you take 10 minutes of your time to fill the survey, which can be found at this link:

https://forms.gle/M9p9hgSLEyUsXo4eA

Your feedback is highly valuable for this research. For any questions regarding the survey, please contact Wies Dijkstra (wies.dijkstra@windesheim.nl). 

Royal Society Publishing has recently published a special issue of Philosophical Transactions B entitled Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions compiled and edited by Janet Franklin, Yadvinder Malhi, Nathalie Seddon, Martin Solan, Chris Field, Nancy Knowlton and Monica Turner.

The special is now completely FREE to access!  The articles can be accessed directly at - https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2020/375/1794

The next webinar of the IUFRO Landscape Ecology series will take place in April 14, 2021 (13-14:30 GMT), in collaboration with the IUFRO Radioactive Contamination of Forest Ecosystems working party (8.04.07). Under the topic "Forests in Fukushima and Chernobyl-people, wildlife and landscape".

Find more information here and in the attached file.

The registration platform and the program for the virtual conference "From Plans to Land Change: Dynamics of Urban Regions" which will be held on April 20-22, 2020 is now open at:

About the conference

The conference will be an opportunity to hear the latest advances about the planning evaluation and urban modelling, discuss the theoretical developments in the field, data sources, comparative studies and modelling approaches.

The registration is free and the registration deadline is April 9, 2021.

See you at the conference and feel free to invite your colleagues!

Contact: concur@wsl.ch

Kind regards

Anna Hersperger, Robert Pazur, Susanne Senn

Our flagship journal, Landscape Ecology, has announced the Best Paper of 2020.  

Riva R, Nielsen SE (2020) Six key steps for functional landscape analyses of habitat change. Landscape Ecology 35(7):1495-1504.

Congratulations to Federico Riva and Scott Nielsen!

Riva F, Nielsen SE (2020) Six key steps for functional landscape analyses of habitat change. Landscape Ecology 35(7):1495-1504. (freely accessible until May 19, 2021)

Learn more and the list of honorable mentions here.

Following the postponement of the IALE European Landscape Ecology Congress 2021, IALE-Europe has rescheduled the IALE the Congress to 11-15 July 2022. The venue will remain the Old Library of the University of Warsaw, Poland.

The new call for abstracts will start on 3 November 2021 and end on 28 January 2022. Please see the updated program outline and all new important dates at the congress website www.iale2022.eu. We are waiting for your submissions and see you next year in Warsaw.

If you have any questions related to the new time frame, please feel free to contact the congress organizers at congress@iale2022.eu 

This news item has been adopted from the IALE-Europe newsletter.