IALE-North America Newsletter
SUMMER 2019 | VOLUME 34
The IALE-North America Newsletter is a biannual publication containing updates on the industry, the Association, and the Annual Meeting. Previously, the newsletter was in PDF format (view the archives). Beginning in the Fall of 2017, the Newsletter highlights are emailed to our subscribers (join our mailing list) and the complete newsletter can be viewed online here.
IN THIS ISSUE:
President’s Message
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Dear Landscape Ecology Community,
As I write, I am celebrating one year in my new home in the Driftless Area of Wisconsin, a region that the glaciers missed 10,000 years ago, leaving behind unusually steep ridges, deep valleys and riverways for the Midwest. As I watched my first cycle of seasons here, I think of this little cherished piece of landscape in the context of our whole North American continent and the many places our people are working, including those connecting landscapes across the continent like the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. We can also celebrate the past year of progress and change in our organization. This spring we embraced multi-national, cross-continental connections by considering a formal change to the name and scope of our association to the International Association for Landscape Ecology - North America (IALE – North America). In April 2018, you voted to begin the process of expanding the geographic scope of our Regional Chapter, founded in 1986 and originally encompassing only the United States, now to include Canada and Mexico, and invite participation from other North American nations, and to change our association’s name to IALE – North America to reflect this broader scope. Between the 2018 and 2019 US-IALE annual meetings, the Executive Committee worked to revise the bylaws and formalize this proposed change. These revisions seek to reach underrepresented scientists, practitioners, and students across the entire continent and to ultimately increase member diversity and knowledge exchange. The membership voted and approved these changes in April. A summary document that outlines the key changes to the bylaws can be viewed here, and the full text of the new bylaws are available here. Finally, this month we presented our desired changes at the IALE World Congress in Milano, Italy where both the IALE Council and Executive Committee supported our move. Also there, Robert Scheller from our North American membership became President of IALE, and Anita Morzillo will serve as our representative on the Council. So what next? We have registered with the state of Pennsylvania and now just need to update our status with IRS (being handled by our fearless Treasurer, Jessica Price). To diversify and expand representation on the board, our revised bylaws call for adding a 4th Councilor-at-Large, for whom we are seeking your vote now. If you are a current member, you should have received an email inviting you to vote. If you did not receive that email, please contact Leslie Pelch ([email protected]). If you'd like to vote and are NOT a current member, we invite you to visit the membership page now to join or renew, and then email Leslie Pelch ([email protected]) for the link to vote. Soon we will be forming a new Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Committee – please let me know if you are interested. And we are already WAY on top of social media thanks to our Communications Committee Chair, Yolanda Weirsma who secured our new Twitter handle and URL, and Brian Buma who has updated all our member email lists. Here are the handles and addresses you will want to have in your pocket:
Finally, we are super excited to hold our 2020 annual meeting in Toronto Canada as IALE-North America! Helene Wagner and others are working closely with Leslie Pelch, Delaney Meeting and Management, to plan for another great annual meeting and to pilot some innovative approaches to break cost and travel barriers, again reflecting our effort to reach broader participation across North America. Stay tuned! Looking forward from the Toronto meeting President-Elect, Nancy McIntyre and team will help set the course for IALE-North America – next gen. I can’t wait to see the many connections we’ll make across borders! Sincerely, Janet Silbernagel President IALE-North America [email protected] |
IALE-North America President Janet Silbernagel
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2019 Meeting Update: Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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The Local Hosts and Program Chairs would like to thank everyone for an enjoyable and successful US-IALE conference in Fort Collins, CO. Springtime in the Rockies gave us a warm and sunny beginning, ending with a wet blizzard.
We broke previous registration records, with a total of 517 attendees. As is tradition with US-IALE, we had quite strong student participation with over 189 students attending. Among all attendees, 37% were at their first US-IALE meeting while 27% of attendees had attended more than 5 meetings. Respondents to the post-conference survey indicated that the most important reason for attending the conference was opportunities to network and to acquire knowledge. The conference included 15 symposia and 17 contributed oral sessions, 9 workshops and a well-attended poster session. We also had three excellent plenary speakers who provided inspirational, innovative, and integrated perspectives from industry, academia, and non-profit organizations: Dana Villeneuve (New Belgium Brewery), Liba Pejchar (Colorado State University), and Juilana Delgado (The Nature Conservancy). |
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2020 Meeting Update: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Conference Theme: Becoming IALE – North America: Landscape Ecology Without Borders
REMINDER: Submit your proposal to organize a symposium or host a workshop!
The IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting (our FIRST as IALE-North America!) is now accepting proposals to organize symposia and host workshops. We invite you to participate! All proposals must be submitted online by Wednesday, October 16 to be considered.
We encourage the submission of symposia and workshops that address the conference theme: Becoming IALE – North America: Landscape Ecology Without Borders, illustrating how your work crosses borders. These borders could be political (e.g., cross-jurisdictional), ecological (e.g., crossing ecoregional or biome boundaries) or disciplinary. We also encourage topics that address diversity, equity, and inclusion, including indigenous peoples’ perspectives.
Save the date! The Annual Meeting will be held May 10-14, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Submit a Proposal
An Organized Symposium is a series of integrated presentations that address aspects of a single topic or theme. Symposia are the scientific centerpiece of the meeting and will run concurrently with other technical sessions. A symposium can consist of invited speakers only or be open to accepting presentations from the general call for abstracts, which will open in November 2019. Symposia should use 15 min slots to facilitate switching between sessions.
Workshops provide training on a specific skill, technique, or process and may involve one or more instructors. Workshops are intended to emphasize learning through participation, discussion, and "hands-on" activities. Attendance at workshops is by advance registration only, and a fee will be charged. Workshops will be half day in length, and will be offered on Tuesday, May 12 and Thursday, May 14.
Important Dates
Sponsorship Opportunities Available
IALE-North America is asking for your support of the 2020 Annual Meeting in Toronto. On behalf of the local host team, we invite you to participate as a sponsor or exhibitor and benefit from numerous networking opportunities with a targeted audience! The IALE-North America Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to engage with colleagues dedicated to the conservation of our natural resources and landscape. We hope you’ll be able to join us as a valued supporter. Learn more.
We hope to see you in Toronto!
Helene Wagner, Local Host Committee Chair
Yolanda Wiersma, Program Committee Co-Chair
Patrick James, Program Committee Co-Chair
REMINDER: Submit your proposal to organize a symposium or host a workshop!
The IALE-North America 2020 Annual Meeting (our FIRST as IALE-North America!) is now accepting proposals to organize symposia and host workshops. We invite you to participate! All proposals must be submitted online by Wednesday, October 16 to be considered.
We encourage the submission of symposia and workshops that address the conference theme: Becoming IALE – North America: Landscape Ecology Without Borders, illustrating how your work crosses borders. These borders could be political (e.g., cross-jurisdictional), ecological (e.g., crossing ecoregional or biome boundaries) or disciplinary. We also encourage topics that address diversity, equity, and inclusion, including indigenous peoples’ perspectives.
Save the date! The Annual Meeting will be held May 10-14, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Submit a Proposal
An Organized Symposium is a series of integrated presentations that address aspects of a single topic or theme. Symposia are the scientific centerpiece of the meeting and will run concurrently with other technical sessions. A symposium can consist of invited speakers only or be open to accepting presentations from the general call for abstracts, which will open in November 2019. Symposia should use 15 min slots to facilitate switching between sessions.
Workshops provide training on a specific skill, technique, or process and may involve one or more instructors. Workshops are intended to emphasize learning through participation, discussion, and "hands-on" activities. Attendance at workshops is by advance registration only, and a fee will be charged. Workshops will be half day in length, and will be offered on Tuesday, May 12 and Thursday, May 14.
Important Dates
- Call for Organized Symposia and Workshops: Deadline: October 16
- Organized Symposia and Workshops finalized and announced by end of October. Symposia will be included as part of the technical program and will run concurrently with other general contributed sessions. All individual presentations within a special symposium, including those that have been invited, need to submit abstracts through the online Call-for-Abstract form.
- Call for Abstracts for oral presentations and posters: Opens early November; Deadline: January 21, 2020. *Note: Deadline to submit all abstracts including individual speakers within a symposium, general contributed oral, and posters.
- Notifications of acceptance will be sent to submitting authors by mid-January, and the schedule will be posted online by early February.
Sponsorship Opportunities Available
IALE-North America is asking for your support of the 2020 Annual Meeting in Toronto. On behalf of the local host team, we invite you to participate as a sponsor or exhibitor and benefit from numerous networking opportunities with a targeted audience! The IALE-North America Annual Meeting is a great opportunity to engage with colleagues dedicated to the conservation of our natural resources and landscape. We hope you’ll be able to join us as a valued supporter. Learn more.
We hope to see you in Toronto!
Helene Wagner, Local Host Committee Chair
Yolanda Wiersma, Program Committee Co-Chair
Patrick James, Program Committee Co-Chair
Student News & Notes
2019 Meeting Student Walking Tour led by local student volunteer Amanda Cicchino
Greetings from the IALE-North America Student Representatives, Kristin Braziunas and Kate Hayes. IALE-NA has always had a strong focus on supporting students at the annual meeting, and Fort Collins was no exception. The meeting brought together 189 students, along with 328 researchers and professionals from around the country and abroad. This was the first meeting for two-thirds of student attendees (based on responses to the post-meeting survey). Thank you to everyone who made the journey, and welcome to the students new to IALE-NA.
IALE-NA sponsored and organized a variety of networking and professional activities for students. The diversity of attendees provided students with the chance to share in a wide range of perspectives, learn about research and career opportunities, and interact in more casual formats as well. Student activities included a walking tour led by local student volunteer Amanda Cicchino (see photo), student social, and “We’ll Pick up the Tab”, where students must find the professional who sponsored their drink ticket and get a chance to introduce themselves and talk about science. This year we re-launched the student-mentor lunch (after a one-year hiatus), in which students and mentors were grouped based on mutual interests for a semi-structured discussion of career goals, research interests, and professional expectations and opportunities over lunch. In addition, 81 students took advantage of the opportunity to register for one workshop free of charge, which was first offered at the previous year’s meeting in Chicago.
Following the meeting, we held an election for the new student representative. The votes came in, and we elected Kate Hayes. Kate is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Denver studying fires and carbon cycling in the boreal forests of Interior Alaska. She did her undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and her master’s at the University of Oregon where she worked on a variety of paleoecological fire and charcoal-related projects. Congratulations Kate and thank you to the other candidates for running.
As the 2020 annual meeting approaches, keep your eyes out for additional information regarding electing your next IALE-NA Student Representative. As we embark on our first year as IALE-NA and look forward to meeting in Toronto, we are specifically asking students who are citizens of Canada, Mexico, or another non-United States country in the continent of North America to run for student representative. We will be officially seeking nominations at the Toronto meeting to replace outgoing representative Kristin as she finishes her 2-year term. Student representatives serve as voting members on the executive IALE-NA board, representing the best interests of the broader students of Landscape Ecology. Each serves for a 2-year term, with the newly-elected representative overlapping with the current representative. If you’ve enjoyed student activities in the past meetings, want to get more engaged in your professional organization, and/or want more opportunities to network and shape the IALE-NA student activities, this is your chance!
In closing, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any feedback on student activities or involvement with IALE-NA. And share your landscape ecology successes with us on Facebook or Twitter, so we can celebrate how awesome our students are!
Your Student Representatives,
Kristin & Kate
(Kristin Braziunas – [email protected], Kate Hayes - [email protected]).
IALE-NA sponsored and organized a variety of networking and professional activities for students. The diversity of attendees provided students with the chance to share in a wide range of perspectives, learn about research and career opportunities, and interact in more casual formats as well. Student activities included a walking tour led by local student volunteer Amanda Cicchino (see photo), student social, and “We’ll Pick up the Tab”, where students must find the professional who sponsored their drink ticket and get a chance to introduce themselves and talk about science. This year we re-launched the student-mentor lunch (after a one-year hiatus), in which students and mentors were grouped based on mutual interests for a semi-structured discussion of career goals, research interests, and professional expectations and opportunities over lunch. In addition, 81 students took advantage of the opportunity to register for one workshop free of charge, which was first offered at the previous year’s meeting in Chicago.
Following the meeting, we held an election for the new student representative. The votes came in, and we elected Kate Hayes. Kate is a doctoral student at the University of Colorado Denver studying fires and carbon cycling in the boreal forests of Interior Alaska. She did her undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin and her master’s at the University of Oregon where she worked on a variety of paleoecological fire and charcoal-related projects. Congratulations Kate and thank you to the other candidates for running.
As the 2020 annual meeting approaches, keep your eyes out for additional information regarding electing your next IALE-NA Student Representative. As we embark on our first year as IALE-NA and look forward to meeting in Toronto, we are specifically asking students who are citizens of Canada, Mexico, or another non-United States country in the continent of North America to run for student representative. We will be officially seeking nominations at the Toronto meeting to replace outgoing representative Kristin as she finishes her 2-year term. Student representatives serve as voting members on the executive IALE-NA board, representing the best interests of the broader students of Landscape Ecology. Each serves for a 2-year term, with the newly-elected representative overlapping with the current representative. If you’ve enjoyed student activities in the past meetings, want to get more engaged in your professional organization, and/or want more opportunities to network and shape the IALE-NA student activities, this is your chance!
In closing, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any feedback on student activities or involvement with IALE-NA. And share your landscape ecology successes with us on Facebook or Twitter, so we can celebrate how awesome our students are!
Your Student Representatives,
Kristin & Kate
(Kristin Braziunas – [email protected], Kate Hayes - [email protected]).
US-IALE 2019 Awards Update
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Congratulations to the following award winners from the US-IALE Annual Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Best Student Presentation The Best Student Presentation Award recognizes scientific merit and presentation skill of a student at the annual meeting. We had 25 entries in Fort Collins. The winner of the Best Student Presentation for the 2019 meeting was Courtney Larson (Colorado State University) for “Recreation and Wildlife Conservation in a Fragmented Urban Landscape.” We also had one honorable mention recipient: Michele Buonanduci (University of Washington) for her presentation “Individual Tree and Local Tree Neighborhood Factors Affecting Mountain Pine Beetle-Induced Lodgepole Pine Mortality.” The Awards Committee would like to thank to this year’s judges, who graciously donate their time to evaluate the talks and posters: Mathieu Basille, Frederic Beaudry, Daniel Carver, Alisa Coffin, Marina Cortes, Jennifer Costanza, Amelie Davis, Jasmine Dillon, Laura Farwell, Brad Fedy, Timothy Fullman, Geoffrey Henebry, Jeffrey Hepinstall-Cymerman, Falk Huettmann, Christopher Jones, Dan Kashian, Maureen Kennedy, Anne Kuhn, Jessica Kurylo, Melissa Lucash, Amanda Martin, Emily Minor, Matthew Mitchell, Anita Morzillo, Humberto Perotto, Andrew Rayburn, Jessica Salo, Ella Vazquez-Dominguez, Helene Wagner, and Kimberly With. Student Travel Awards Ten Student Travel Awards were supported this year with funding provided by US-IALE. These awards included $700 for travel to the conference in Fort Collins and were selected from an applicant pool of 48 students. The 2019 recipients were:
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology Award The purpose of the Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology Award is to recognize papers published during the past two years that make an outstanding contribution to the field of landscape ecology. Papers are nominated by the US-IALE membership. The recipient of the 2019 Outstanding Paper Award was Matthias Bürgi and coauthors for the paper “Processes and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe” in Landscape Ecology 32.11 (2017): 2097-2112. Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award The objective of the Distinguished Landscape Practitioner Award is to recognize outstanding applications of the principles of landscape ecology to real-world problems. The recipients of this year’s award was Dr. Michael Dombeck. Dr. Dombeck led a prominent career in public lands management, policy, and leadership. His roles as National Fisheries Program Manager (1986-1989), Science Advisor and Special Assistant to the Director, Bureau of Land Management (1989-1992), followed by Acting Director of the Bureau of Land Management from 1994–1997, and finally as the fourteenth Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, placed Dombeck at the helm of key environmental conservation and management direction for public lands in the U.S. Today, even in retirement, Dr. Dombeck continues to support environmental leadership of the next generation internationally as Executive Director of the David H. Smith Conservation Fellows Program. Distinguished Service Award The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have contributed exceptionally to US-IALE in terms of time, energy, and dedication that advanced the mission of US-IALE in an extraordinary manner. The recipients of this year’s award were Dr. Todd Lookingbill and Dr. Kathleen Vigness-Riposa. Dr. Vigness-Riposa has chaired the Foreign Scholar Committee for many years, and only recently stepped down. Dr. Lookingbill has chaired the Awards Committee for years, and recently moved into chairing the Nominating Committee. Both committees operate “under the radar” and as chairs of these two committees, both have performed a vital service for US-IALE. The work involved in advertising the awards, screening the applicants, selecting and communicating with the winners is not trivial, and both Kathleen and Todd have performed this task with professional aplomb year after year. Distinguished Landscape Ecologist The Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award recognizes individuals whose long-term scientific contribution has helped to define the field of landscape ecology. The recipient of this year’s award was Dr. Kurt Riitters of the U.S. Forest Service. To quote his nominating letter: Dr. Ritters’ academic record includes more than 150 publications, of which more than 20 have been cited over 100 times. Dr. Kurt Riitters’ research, has had a significant impact on landscape ecology. Three principles come from Kurt’s work: 1) pattern measurements must be fundamental and robust to uncover pattern-process relationships across a wide range of processes; 2) the single-most fundamental measurement of pattern is amount, and; 3) patches are not a fundamental measurement of pattern. The importance of the last of the three cannot be understated given the influence of Cadiz Township, IL on the early development of landscape ecology in North America. ---The 2019 US-IALE Awards Committee Betty Kreakie (chair), Pete August, Jennifer Costanza, Sarah Goslee, Dan Kashian, Emily Minor, Brian Pickard, & Jingle Wu |
2019 Meeting Student Travel Award Recipients
Dr. Michael Dombeck's nephew with IALE-North America president Janet Silbernagel
Dr. Kathleen Vigness-Riposa with IALE-North America President Janet Silbernagel
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Foreign Scholar Travel Award
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The purpose of the FSTA is to provide support for landscape ecologists from foreign countries to attend the annual IALE-NA symposium and to foster international exchange about advances in landscape ecology. Winners are selected based primarily on high quality scientific endeavors that advance landscape ecology, but early career scientists with demonstrated financial need also receive high priority. Please consider applying for the 2020 symposium in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; the application deadline aligns with that of the conference abstract deadline (deadline date TBD: January 2020). More details on eligibility and the selection criteria can be found on the IALE-NA website (http://www.ialena.org/foreign-scholar-award.html).
We received 12 applications this year representing 7 countries: Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and Spain. Special thanks to Robert Corry (Univ. of Guelph), Deahn Donner (USFWS), Nancy McIntyre (Texas Tech Univ.), Kathy Vigness-Raposa (Marine Acoustics, Inc.) and Tammy Wilson (National Park Service) of the FSTA Committee for taking the time to carefully review and rank the applications. Tatiana Lobato de Magalhães (Brazil) and Marcela de Matos Barbosa (Brazil) were awarded US$1200 to help with their travel expenses to the 2019 Fort Collins, CO symposium. Congrats to these stellar foreign scholars! As always, during the 2020 symposium, we will be holding the annual Silent Book and Software Auction. Please remember to donate any books you may have on your shelves…old and new are greatly appreciated. There will be tables at registration for you to drop off your goodies. Also, don’t forget to bid early and often on the great items that will be available at the auction. All proceeds from sales directly fund the FSTA scholarships. |
2019 Meeting Foreign Scholar Travel Award Recipients with IALE-North America president Janet Silbernagel
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NASA-MSU Program turns 22
The NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards Program turns 22 this year. The awards are made possible by support from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Michigan State University (MSU). The program has supported more than 440 students from approximately 170 institutions worldwide since 1998 to present their research and interact with leading scientists and other attendees at US-IALE meeting and IALE Congress. Numerous former awardees have made outstanding achievements.
This year, the 20 new awardees had opportunities to present their research, meet at a special celebration dinner gathering with speakers of the NASA-MSU sponsored workshop on telecoupling (http://www.ialena.org/workshops2019.html), learn the latest developments in landscape ecology, present their research, build professional networks with other conference attendees, and collaborate on telecoupling (http://csis.msu.edu/telecoupling). They also received award certificates from Dr. Janet Silbernagel (President of IALE-NA) at the conference banquet. For more information, please visit https://www.canr.msu.edu/csis/education/nasa_msu_award/.
This year, the 20 new awardees had opportunities to present their research, meet at a special celebration dinner gathering with speakers of the NASA-MSU sponsored workshop on telecoupling (http://www.ialena.org/workshops2019.html), learn the latest developments in landscape ecology, present their research, build professional networks with other conference attendees, and collaborate on telecoupling (http://csis.msu.edu/telecoupling). They also received award certificates from Dr. Janet Silbernagel (President of IALE-NA) at the conference banquet. For more information, please visit https://www.canr.msu.edu/csis/education/nasa_msu_award/.
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NASA-MSU Awardees (Class of 2019)
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NASA MSU Awardees - Call of 2019 pictured with IALE-North America president Janet Silbernagel and Chair of the NASA-MSU Awards Committee Jianguo (Jack) Liu
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The 2019 NASA-MSU Awards Committee consists of Jianguo (Jack) Liu (Chair), Garik Gutman (NASA), Jennifer Carducci (MSU), Sue Nichols (MSU), and James Vatter (MSU).
Communications Committee News
The communications committee is happy to introduce our newest member, Dr. Carly Ziter, who is at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Ziter is the person behind our Twitter feed (@iale_na). She will mostly be posting Tweets relevant to the membership, including Tweets from other chapters of IALE. If you have a notice (e.g., student position, job, new paper) that you want to announce to the IALE-North America community, just tag us in your post and it will get re-posted! FYI – Conference hashtag for Toronto is #ialena2020.
This past year, the communications committee was mostly busy with updating our materials to reflect the name change for US-IALE to IALE North America. This includes the LISTSERV, the old one (USIALE-L) is no longer accepting new subscriptions, and all subscribers will be migrated to the new one (IALENA-L). Super huge thanks to Jeff Hollister at URI for facilitating this for us. If you recently tried to post to USIALE-L, you will have gotten a notice warning of the phase out; please start sending your posts to [email protected]
Yolanda Wiersma
Communications Committee Chair
This past year, the communications committee was mostly busy with updating our materials to reflect the name change for US-IALE to IALE North America. This includes the LISTSERV, the old one (USIALE-L) is no longer accepting new subscriptions, and all subscribers will be migrated to the new one (IALENA-L). Super huge thanks to Jeff Hollister at URI for facilitating this for us. If you recently tried to post to USIALE-L, you will have gotten a notice warning of the phase out; please start sending your posts to [email protected]
Yolanda Wiersma
Communications Committee Chair
Introducing Current Landscape Ecology Reports, aka CLER
How long does it take for a scientific discipline to become so well established and rich with findings that it can support a journal that is devoted to publishing only review papers? For landscape ecology it was 33 years, from the birth of IALE in 1983 to the birth of Current Landscape Ecology Reports in 2016. CLER is part of a family of journals published by Springer, all named "Current [insert discipline here] Reports." These journals provide up-to-date review papers in the discipline. At CLER our goal is to publish a small number of useful, impactful summaries of some of the most topical issues in landscape ecology. All papers are by invitation only, and are solicited by our Section Editors. CLER currently has 8 Sections: Landscape Change - Causes & Consequences (Section Editor - Karine Pigeon); Behavioral Landscape Ecology (Patrick Zollner, Jayme Prevedello and Tory Bennet); Interface of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology (Dolors Armenteras); Interface of Landscape Ecology and Natural Resource Management (Yolanda Wiersma and Nicola Koper); Landscape Ecology of Aquatic Systems (Kevin Hovel); Methodological Developments in Landscape Ecology and Related Fields (Marie-Josée Fortin); Spatial Scale - Measurement, Influence, and Integration (Amanda Martin and Jeff Holland); and Social Dimensions of Landscape Ecology (Sara Gagné). In addition to our Section Editors, CLER also has an advisory editorial board comprised of 23 highly-regarded landscape ecologists. As examples of the breadth of topics we've covered, our most recently published articles are on: temporal lags in ecological responses to landscape change (Koeler Lira et al.), recent advances in source-sink theory (Heinrichs et al.) and effects of landscape change on soundscapes (Proulx et al.). CLER downloads are increasing exponentially. Check us out!
Lenore Fahrig, Editor-in-chief for CLER, [email protected]
How long does it take for a scientific discipline to become so well established and rich with findings that it can support a journal that is devoted to publishing only review papers? For landscape ecology it was 33 years, from the birth of IALE in 1983 to the birth of Current Landscape Ecology Reports in 2016. CLER is part of a family of journals published by Springer, all named "Current [insert discipline here] Reports." These journals provide up-to-date review papers in the discipline. At CLER our goal is to publish a small number of useful, impactful summaries of some of the most topical issues in landscape ecology. All papers are by invitation only, and are solicited by our Section Editors. CLER currently has 8 Sections: Landscape Change - Causes & Consequences (Section Editor - Karine Pigeon); Behavioral Landscape Ecology (Patrick Zollner, Jayme Prevedello and Tory Bennet); Interface of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology (Dolors Armenteras); Interface of Landscape Ecology and Natural Resource Management (Yolanda Wiersma and Nicola Koper); Landscape Ecology of Aquatic Systems (Kevin Hovel); Methodological Developments in Landscape Ecology and Related Fields (Marie-Josée Fortin); Spatial Scale - Measurement, Influence, and Integration (Amanda Martin and Jeff Holland); and Social Dimensions of Landscape Ecology (Sara Gagné). In addition to our Section Editors, CLER also has an advisory editorial board comprised of 23 highly-regarded landscape ecologists. As examples of the breadth of topics we've covered, our most recently published articles are on: temporal lags in ecological responses to landscape change (Koeler Lira et al.), recent advances in source-sink theory (Heinrichs et al.) and effects of landscape change on soundscapes (Proulx et al.). CLER downloads are increasing exponentially. Check us out!
Lenore Fahrig, Editor-in-chief for CLER, [email protected]
Stay in Touch!
- Website: www.ialena.org
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/ialenorthamerica
- Twitter: @iale_na
- IALE Website: www.landscape-ecology.org
- IALE Current Newsletter: www.landscape-ecology.org/services/publications/iale-bulletin/new-iale-bulletin-out-now.html
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Landscape Ecology
This fall ETHZ & Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research WSL will run the second edition of our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Landscape Ecology, the discipline where natural and social sciences meet. The course features theory, methods and tools to solve landscape-related environmental problems. Building on introductory theory units, leading Landscape Ecology professors present case studies from around the world, highlighting innovative and collaborative approaches. For this year’s edition, we are excited to present a brand new case study on soundscapes in the Swiss Alps.
Head to our course page to find out more: https://www.edx.org/course/landscape-ecology-2
The course includes 14 weekly units on the Edx platform, starting on September 9th. We have put a lot of effort into improving our course and make it an even more exciting learning experience. Now we look forward to re-run the course with participants from all over the world!
Head to our course page to find out more: https://www.edx.org/course/landscape-ecology-2
The course includes 14 weekly units on the Edx platform, starting on September 9th. We have put a lot of effort into improving our course and make it an even more exciting learning experience. Now we look forward to re-run the course with participants from all over the world!