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A of the members of the  IALE Working Group Spatial Analysis of Organisms in the Environment has recently written a book entitled “Individual-based Methods in Forest Ecology and Management” published by Springer. Landscape ecology in forests and woodlands is an integration of structurally different fields. The book put the main ones together to provide practical approaches that can be well implemented in sustainable management of forest ecosystems and their assessment from ecological point of view. The book is consisted of seven chapters and integrates three main fields of tree/plant interactions, biometry of plant growth and human behaviour in forests. The book introduces methods that can reveal interactions of individual plants with other plants, their environment and human. Understanding the individual-based spatial interactions of plants can provide deep insight to establishment and formation of plant communities as one of the main goals in landscape ecology.

The abstract submission deadline for Land' 1st International Electronic Conference on Land—Toward Land System Science (IECL 2022) has been extended to 15 March 2022.

Visit the Conferece Website here

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the abstract submission deadline for the 1st International Electronic Conference on Land—Toward Land System Science (IECL 2022) has been extended to 15 March 2022.

Throughout this event, we aim to cover topics including, but not limited to:

• Land systems and global change
• Soil–sediment–water systems
• socio-economic and political issues related to land
• land–climate interactions
• land planning and architecture
• women in land science
• landscapes and societal challenges
• Renewable energy and land use
• Ecosystem services science for applications in planning and decision making
• Landscapes disturbance in Global South

Full information about the conference can be checked at: https://sciforum.net/event/IECL2022

Critical Dates:

• Deadline for Abstract Submission: 15 March 2022
• Notification of Acceptance: 31 March 2022
• Registration Deadline: 20 April 2022
• Conference Open: 17–19 May 2022

If you want to present your latest research, please register and submit your abstract by 15 March 2022. Please note, the registration fee for Guest Editors in Land is free.

Many thanks in advance. We look forward to your participation!

The 2023 IALE World Congress will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 10th – 15th, 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. The theme is "Transboundary Resource Management, Climate Change and Environmental Resilience". This survey aims to get views and concerns of the landscape ecology community to assist in our planning for IALE 2023 World Congress scheduled for Nairobi Kenya. 

Link to the survey for IALE 2023 World Congress

The journal Land (ISSN 2073-445X, IF 3.398) is currently running a Special Issue entitled “Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity of Peri-Urban Landscapes". Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst, Dr. Marcin Spyra, Dr. Nica Claudia Caló and Dr. HongMi Koo are serving as Guest Editors for this issue.

For this Special Issue of Land, they invite authors to submit theoretical considerations and descriptions of practical case studies concerning ecosystem services (ES) and the biodiversity of peri-urban landscapes (PULs).

Specifically, they welcome papers discussing the following topics:

• Assessment and valuation methods of ES in PULs;
• ES and biodiversity trade-offs in PULs;
• Methods to delimitate ES benefitting and providing areas in the extend of PUL;
• Gaps between demand and provision of ES in PULs;
• ES deficit areas in PULs.

The submission deadline is 15 March 2022. Find more details at the Special Issiue website:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/special_issues/ESB_PUL. 

The IALE-North America Annual Meeting will be Virtual in 2022.

In consultation with the local host committee and Delaney Meeting & Event Management, the IALE-North America Executive Committee has decided to postpone meeting in person in Riverside until next year (2023) and will go fully virtual this year.

More information on the IALE-North America website.

The 7th issue of PANORAMA (December 2021) - the  Newsletter of the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE) - is online.

Topics of the issue: The Deccan Plateau | Networks for Landscape Management | Integrated Landscape Management plan for securing biodiversity and people wellbeing in the Greater Panna Landscape | Views & Opportunities.

Download IRALE News #7 here.

The 7th Mediterranean Forest Week will take place on 21 - 25 March 2022 in Antalya, Turkey. The session “Mediterranean forests: cultural heritage and traditional landscapes” is hosted by IALE members of the working group "Historical Landscape Ecology". Attached you will find their call for abstracts.

MFW session - call for abstracts.pdf

The 1st Internatinal Electronic Conference on Land will take place virtually on 17 - 19 May 2022.

The conference is chaired by IALE past president Christine Fürst, several sessions are chaired by active IALE members. Please check the conference website for further information and the call for abstracts.

Journal of Landscape Ecology is a fully reviewed scientific journal published by Czech National Chapter of the Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-CZ) since 2008. Currently, three issues and more than 20 articles are published annually. The journal is available in print (ISSN 1803-2427) and online as open access (ISSN 1805-4196) published by De Gruyter Open (https://sciendo.com/journal/JLECOL).

The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS (and many other databases) since 2013. The cite score is continuously increasing: 2021 – in the meantime 2.0; 2020 – 1.3; 2019 – 1.1; 2018 – 0.8; 2017 – 0.6 as well as SJR.

The Journal supports integration of knowledge from geo-, bio- and socio-sciences at the ecosystem and landscape level. Great emphasis is given to relationships between nature and culture including knowledge of ancient landscapes. The Journal publishes papers on spatial and temporal heterogeneity especially in the context of climate change and its impacts on terrestrial environment across adequate scale hierarchy. Expertise from the spheres of land-use planning and design, habitat and landscape typology, ecosystem management, biodiversity protection and ecological restoration, and rules of ecological processes are promoted. The scope of the journal includes different landscapes and ecosystems of the world.

Between 2019 and 2021, articles by authors from the following countries were published: Benin, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Estonia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, Ukraine, USA.

Members of editorial board: Petr Maděra, Mendel University in Brno, CZ, Zdeněk Lipský, Charles University in Prague, CZ, Markéta Šantrůčková, The Silva Tarouca Research Institute for Landscape and Horticulture, Průhonice, CZ, Ivo Machar, Palacky University in Olomouc, CZ, Pavel Kovář, Charles University in Prague, CZ, Almo Farina, University of Urbino, Italy, Irina Goia, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Rob H.G. Jongman, Wageningen, Netherlands, Marc J. Metzger, University in Edinburgh, UK, Dušan Romportl, Charles University in Prague, CZ, Alena Salašová, Mendel University in Brno, CZ, Jerzy Solon, Polish Academy of Science, Poland, Richard Stiles, TU Vienna, Austria, Jaroslav Vojta, Charles University in Prague, CZ, Thomas Wrbka, University of Vienna, Austria, Agnieszka Latocha, University of Wrocław, Poland, Robert Gerald Henry Bunce, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.

We are continuously looking forward to good manuscripts for publishing.

Petr Maděra
Editor-in-Chief

Markéta Šantrůčková, Ivo Machar
Executive Editors

The number of participants allows teachers and students to closely collaborate on different sdgtopics of sustainable land use. Foto: Lisa Bose, WSL

The WSL Landscape Centre is proud to announce our next summer school on "Land-System Science for Analysing Dynamic Landscapes" that will take place from July 3 to 8, 2022, in Filzbach (Switzerland). The summer school is carried out in cooperation between the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, the Free University of Amsterdam, Wageningen University, ETH Zurich, and the University of Bern. It particularly addresses young researchers and PhD students who work in the interdisciplinary field of landscape research.

Please find all information on the WSL website.

Registration is open until January 31, 2022 with a motivation letter of 5000 characters and a 1-page short CV.

The location allows the studens to solve landscape management challenges in both intensively used marginalized land. Foto: Lisa Bose, WSL