Landscape Ecology - Forests sustaining agriculture: the contribution of tree-based ecosystem services to food production in multi-functional landscapes
Guest Editors
Terence Sunderland, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sandra Luque, INRAE National Research Institute for Agriculture, Alimentation and Environment UMR TETIS Territories, Environment, Remote Sensing and Space Information, Montpellier, France
Sima Fakheran Esfahani, Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada and Faculty of Natural Resources, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
James Reed, Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
Amy Ickowitz, Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF), Bogor, Indonesia
Synopsis
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 many gaps and limited understanding of how these contributions differ by context and how they interact with each other. Most prior studies have explored the contribution of a single ecosystem service and been conducted at the farm scale. For example, there is a growing literature on the role of forests in providing pollination services for crops at the plot-level, but forests may also sustain productivity in other ways.
We are interested in studies that examine forest-based ecosystem services and their contributions to food production including pollination, pest control, regulation of microclimate (by influencing temperature and water balance), nutritional subsidies for grazing animals, soil nutrient cycling and hydrological services. We welcome studies that extend beyond single ecosystem service provision to consider bundles of services provided by forests at broader landscape scales.
This collection aims to strengthen the evidence base related to the forest-food nexus and reveal the multitude of pathways by which forests can support food systems through improved agricultural yields and performance. We aim to bring together papers that are multidisciplinary from various fields including landscape ecology, soil sciences, conservation, agronomy, and international forestry. In addition, we are interested to see studies from different types of forest-food systems including silvopastoral, agroforestry, forest plantations, forest-adjacent food production systems, as well as the contributions of trees and forests within the landscape to spatially distinct food production systems. It will also address United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1: No Poverty (this opens in a new tab), 2: Zero Hunger (this opens in a new tab), 3: Good Health & Well-Being (this opens in a new tab), 6: Clean Water and Sanitation (this opens in a new tab), and 15: Life on Land (this opens in a new tab).
Students and Early Career Researchers (this opens in a new tab)1 are encouraged to submit their research to this collection.
Pre-submission enquiries are welcome.
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SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 31, 2024
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EXPECTED PUBLICATION: 2024
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Through the generosity of CIFOR, first authors can apply for a publication waiver2 to cover the journal’s APC. For more information about CIFOR funding, please contact Dr. Amy Ickowitz (this opens in a new tab).
Members of the International Association for Landscape Ecology are entitled to a discount off the APC of their accepted paper in Landscape Ecology. Members should send their APC token3 request to the IALE Vice-Secretary General (this opens in a new tab).
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3 Cannot be combined with the SERC incentive and CIFOR publication waiver.
About the Guest Editors
Dr. Terence Sunderland, Professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia focusing on the biological and human dimensions of the sustainable management and utilization of tropical forests, leads the Sunderland Lab (this opens in a new tab) at UBC whose research is focused on applied research, biodiversity, conservation, sustainable resource management, and linkages to levering policy influence. He was previously a Senior/Principal Scientist at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia, where he coordinated CIFOR’s work on forests and food security, biodiversity conservation and integrated landscape management. Prior to joining CIFOR in early 2006, Dr. Sunderland was based in West Africa for over fifteen years and worked on numerous conservation and livelihood-focused projects. Having both a field practitioner and academic background, he has a wide perspective on conservation, livelihoods and related issues. Dr. Sunderland has a master’s degree in forestry from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of London. He has published more than 240 research papers, book chapters and books. Dr. Sunderland is an active blogger and engages regularly with the media on disseminating research for policy influence and outreach.
Dr. Sandra Luque, a Landscape Ecologist, graduated from Rutgers (USA) and holds a HDR from France. Currently she is Research Director at INRAE UMR TETIS, Montpellier. She is a former NASA EOS Fellow, and was elected Vice President for the IALE for nine years. At present, Dr. Luque serves as Chair of the IUFRO Forest Environment Division, board member of INTECOL and Chair of the Science Committee for IGU-GFE commission on Geography for Future Earth. She is associate editor for Landscape Ecology and on the board of five other Journals. Dr. Luque has broad international experience to embrace the new challenges in terms of biodiversity and climate change impacts, to support actions in order to deliver a transformative impact for society, the economy and the environment. Her research focuses on spatial heterogeneity and landscape patterns implications for communities, and ecosystem processes. Dr. Luque has authored articles and book chapters on forest landscape ecology, biodiversity indicators, habitat modelling and coupled methods with remote sensing, temporal and spatial changes. Recently, she has published on conservation value, sustainability science and ecosystem services.
Prof. Dr. Sima Fakheran Esfahani, President of IALE Iran (this opens in a new tab)—national chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (this opens in a new tab)—is currently a visiting Associate Professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, a member of the Sunderland Lab (this opens in a new tab) at UBC, and an Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences at Isfahan University of Technology (this opens in a new tab), Iran. Her research interests include monitoring landscape pattern change and its impacts on biodiversity, ecological impacts of road networks, corridor design, climate change, and conservation planning. Prof. Dr. Esfahani did her Ph.D. at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, and has been Head of the Swiss desk (Leading House for Iran–Switzerland Science and Technology Collaboration) since 2017. Graduating from two different continents in different languages, environments, and cultures; consulting many students, founding and working in several professional organizations; sitting on the board of directors for the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) as Vice president, IALE-Iran President, Director of International Affairs of the Isfahan University of Technology, Head of the department of environmental sciences at the Isfahan University of Technology; and many other environmental and international activities provided her with a unique set of skills to listen, understand, solution, plan, develop and deliver. Prof. Dr. Esfahani is passionate about helping organizations to foster development and innovations through international networking, communication, and learning.
Dr. James Reed is a scientist in the research theme “Sustainable Landscapes and Food Systems” at the Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF) in Bogor, Indonesia. He is interested in inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches that attempt to better understand the dynamics and potential synergies and trade-offs within tropical social-ecological systems. Dr. Reed obtained his PhD from the Lancaster Environment Centre at Lancaster University, UK.
Dr. Amy Ickowitz is a Senior Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF). She is a development and natural resource economist by training holding a PhD in Economics from the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Ickowitz has led and contributed to many multi-disciplinary research projects over the last decade that investigate the links between diets and the natural environment in tropical contexts. She also works in the area of One Health, particularly on the links between tropical forest environments and human health outcomes. Most of Dr. Ickowitz’s work has focused on sub-Saharan Africa and Indonesia.
Contact Information
Terence Sunderland
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
University of British Columbia
Vancouver BC
Canada
terry.sunderland@ubc.ca (this opens in a new tab)
@TCHSunderland (this opens in a new tab)
Sandra Luque
INRAE National Research Institute for Agriculture, Alimentation and Environment UMR TETIS Territories, Environment, Remote Sensing and Space Information
Montpellier
France
sandra.luque@inrae.fr (this opens in a new tab)
Sima Fakheran Esfahani
Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences
University of British Columbia
Vancouver BC
Canada
Faculty of Natural Resources
Isfahan University of Technology
Isfahan
Iran
sima.fakheran@ubc.ca (this opens in a new tab)
@FakheranSima (this opens in a new tab)
James Reed
Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Bogor
Indonesia
j.reed@cifor-icraf.org (this opens in a new tab)
@James_D_Reed (this opens in a new tab)
Amy Ickowitz
Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry Center (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Bogor
Indonesia
a.ickowitz@cifor-icraf.org (this opens in a new tab)
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