Landscape Ecology - Best Article Award: Virtual Archive of Past Recipients

The Best Article Award (this opens in a new tab) has been awarded annually to the best article published in Landscape Ecology in the previous calendar year since 2020.

We invite you to explore this virtual archive of winning and honorable mention articles, and enjoy view-only access via Springer Nature SharedIt (this opens in a new tab) content-sharing initiative:

2021 Winner

• Resasco, J., Fletcher, R.J. Accounting for connectivity alters the apparent roles of spatial and environmental processes on metacommunity assembly. Landsc Ecol 36, 1089–1099 (this opens in a new tab)

2021 Honorable Mentions

• Santos, M.J., Smith, A.B., Dekker, S.C. et al. The role of land use and land cover change in climate change vulnerability assessments of biodiversity: a systematic review. Landsc Ecol 36, 3367–3382 (this opens in a new tab)
  (Open Access)
• Andrade, R., Franklin, J., Larson, K.L. et al. Predicting the assembly of novel communities in urban ecosystems. Landsc Ecol 36, 1–15 (this opens in a new tab)
• Jeanneret, P., S. Aviron, A. Alignier, C. Lavigne, J. Helfenstein, F. Herzog, S. Kay, and S. Petit. Agroecology landscapes. Landsc Ecol 36:2235-2257 (this opens in a new tab)
  (Open Access)
• Casquin, A., Dupas, R., Gu, S. et al. The influence of landscape spatial configuration on nitrogen and phosphorus exports in agricultural catchments. Landsc Ecol 36, 3383–3399 (this opens in a new tab)
   

2020 Winner

• Riva F, Nielsen SE (2020) Six key steps for functional landscape analyses of habitat change. Landscape Ecology 35(7):1495-1504 (this opens in a new tab)

2020 Honorable Mentions

• Bloomfield LSP, McIntosh TL, Lambin EF (2020) Habitat fragmentation, livelihood behaviors, and contact between people and nonhuman primates in Africa. Landscape Ecology 35(4):985-1000 (this opens in a new tab)
• Voigt CC, Scholl JM, Bauer J, Teige T, Yovel Y, Kramer-Schadt S, Gras P (2020) Movement responses of common noctule bats to the illuminated urban landscape. Landscape Ecology 35(1):189-201 (this opens in a new tab)
• Weideman EA, Slingsby JA, Thomson RL, Coetzee BTW (2020) Land cover change homogenizes functional and phylogenetic diversity within and among African savanna bird assemblages. Landscape Ecology 35(1):145-157 (this opens in a new tab)
• Ridding LE, Watson SCL, Newton AC, Rowland CS, Bullock JM (2020) Ongoing, but slowing, habitat loss in a rural landscape over 85 years. Landscape Ecology 35(2):257-273 (this opens in a new tab)
  (Open Access)
   

2019 Winner

• Callaghan, C. T., G. Bino, R. E. Major, J. M. Martin, M. B. Lyons, and R. T. Kingsford. 2019. Heterogeneous urban green areas are bird diversity hotspots: insights using continental-scale citizen science data. Landscape Ecology 34:1231-1246 (this opens in a new tab)

2019 Honorable Mentions

• Steele, M. K. and H. Wolz. 2019. Heterogeneity in the land cover composition and configuration of US cities: implications for ecosystem services. Landscape Ecology 34:1247-1261 (this opens in a new tab)
• Tarr, N.M., 2019. Demonstrating a conceptual model for multispecies landscape pattern indices in landscape conservation. Landsc. Ecol. 34, 2133–2147 (this opens in a new tab)
  (Open Access)
• Wickham, J. & Riitters, K. H. (2019). Influence of high-resolution data on the assessment of forest fragmentation. Landscape Ecology, 34, 2169-2182 (this opens in a new tab)
  (Open Access)
• Adams, A. B., J. Pontius, G. Galford, and D. Gudex-Cross. 2019. Simulating forest cover change in the northeastern US: decreasing forest area and increasing fragmentation. Landscape Ecology 34:2401-2419 (this opens in a new tab)

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