The Dynamics of Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Planning (Second Edition)
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 316
Special Issue Editor
Interests: landscape ecology; assessment of habitats for landscape ecological planning; biodiversity; historical structures of agricultural landscapes; agro-environmental policy; assessment of ecosystem services; agricultural research
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to present studies focused on the dynamics of biodiversity and landscape ecological methods for assessing ecosystems, their patterns, processes, condition, and the potential to provide ecosystem services that can be applied in landscape planning. Ecosystem processes are sensitive to changes or declines in biodiversity, therefore, the focus of the study may be to examine the links between functional diversity or ecosystem functions in relation to biodiversity decline or climate change and its mitigation.
Attention should also be paid to the management measures that can contribute to the maintenance of the biodiversity and to the mitigation of climate change, and, thus, to the provision of selected ecosystem services. The study may include evaluation of the current conservation status of habitats, evaluation of landscape changes and elaboration of landscape-ecological proposals for the management of habitats. In addition to the classical approach of biodiversity study, methods of studying the phenology of the Earth's surface using remote sensing can be developed.
Dr. Jana Spulerova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- land use
- changes biodiversity
- loss ecosystem
- function and services
- management measures
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