Collections and calls for papers

Collection: Artificial intelligence (AI) and landscape ecology: tools, perspectives, and complementarities

Artificial intelligence (AI) and landscape ecology bear many linkages and mutual benefits, stemming from their complementary capabilities. On the one hand, landscape ecology can enhance AI by providing rich,...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2025

Collection: Challenging landscapes and hunter-gatherers’ subsistence and mobility

Prehistoric hunter-gatherers inhabited regions with challenging landscapes across the globe, from high-altitude mountains to deserts. Many of the sites found in these regions are small and ephemeral, and usu...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 August 2025

Collection: Towards a mechanistic understanding of animal movement across scales

Understanding the drivers of animal distributions is a cornerstone of ecological research, spanning behavioral ecology, population ecology, and landscape ecology. Most animals navigate their environments in ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2025

Collection: Seascape ecology as a solution-focused science

Seascape ecology is fast emerging as a solution-focused science delivering operationally relevant ecological information. This collection will highlight cutting-edge applications of landscape ecology princip...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 October 2025

Collection: Effects of agricultural landscapes on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and yield

Agriculture is the leading cause of farmland biodiversity loss and an associated decline of various ecosystem services. Nevertheless, a wealth of agricultural diversification measures can support and maintai...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Forests sustaining agriculture: the contribution of tree-based ecosystem services to food production in multi-functional landscapes

Forests provide a range of services and disservices to food production that are conceptually well established. The empirical evidence for these contributions has been building over time, but there are still ...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Advances and Applications of Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) Research in Landscape Ecology

Small Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS; aka drones) have become increasingly popular research tools in the environmental sciences, allowing scientist to generate low-cost, high quality and high-resolution imag...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Improving landscape sustainability across urban and rural regions in a changing world

Landscape sustainability refers to “the capacity of a landscape to consistently provide long-term, landscape-specific ecosystem services essential for maintaining and improving human well-being” (Wu, 2013). ...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Landscape Ecology from Space: Improving biodiversity monitoring for sustainable landscapes on the road to 2030 conservation targets

Rationality The preservation of biodiversity has become a major challenge for sustainable development from local, national to global levels. To address the current conservation needs, we need operational met...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Shifts in Ecological Patterns and Processes under Global Changes

Ecosystems around the globe are facing increased demand for ecosystem services due to the fast-expanding human population. At the same time, they are challenged by the rapidly changing climate, extensive bio...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Landscape Ecology and Landscape Approaches in the Iberian context: challenges, opportunities and future prospects

Context The Iberian Peninsula is a regional context where ecological and socio-cultural values of landscapes are mutually interconnected due to their long and rich human history (Gómez Sal, 2017), a fact tha...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Understanding relationships between biodiversity and ecosystem services in real landscapes

Human actions are causing rapid biodiversity declines worldwide. Recent global assessments reveal that >75% of species have been lost in the most severely human-impacted ecosystems, and current rates of spec...

Submission status

Closed

Topical Collection: Pandemics and landscape ecology in a post-COVID world

The COVID-19 pandemic has had dramatic effects on many aspects of our lives. The most acute effects have been on individual health, with over 4.6 million deaths globally. Global and regional maps of COVID ho...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Strengthening bidirectional linkages between social and ecological systems in landscape ecology

Landscape ecology research has broadened its scope and study systems are frequently conceptualized as socio-ecological, socio-environmental, or coupled natural-human systems (“coupled systems” as follows). H...

Submission status

Closed

Topical Collection: Landscape Sustainability Science

Landscape ecology focuses on the effects of landscape pattern and its changes on biodiversity, ecological processes, and ecosystem services with the ultimate goal of understanding and improving landscape sus...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Special Issue: Toward a Science of Scaling in Landscape Ecology

Landscape ecologists have long known that spatial scale can impact analyses, and scale has been a key topic in the discipline for more than 30 years. To scale something means to change the size while maintai...

Submission status

Closed

Special Issue: Interdisciplinary landscape analysis with novel technologies

The special issue consists of contributions in which interdisciplinary approaches (such as simulations, modelling, object-based analysis, smart infrastructure, interactive planning solutions, and internation...

Submission status

Closed

Collection: Social Theory and Landscape Ecology

Landscapes managed by humans are complex socio-ecological systems, in which land use trajectories are influenced by composite arrays of anthropogenic and natural factors. Farmland, rangelands, and managed fo...

Submission status

Closed