News

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 43 no.2, June 2025 - is out now. I hope you enjoy reading it. The robust volume of content submitted by our members shows the dedication and passion of you all for the field of landscape ecology which is so wonderful to see!

Featured in this issue:

IALE Leadership and Chapter Updates: Congratulations to our freshly elected Vice Presidents and thank you to all our candidates and all members who voted.

Updates from IALE CZ (Czech Republic): The annual conference of the IALE-CZ Chapter recently took place in Ostrava, focusing on the "Transformation of the Post-Industrial Landscape."

Updates from IALE UK: The 2025 Landscape Ecology UK Early Career Workshop, themed "The Restoration of Freshwater Habitats," recently brought together students, researchers, and practitioners in Oxfordshire.

Updates from IALE NA (North America): IALE-North America is inviting new members to its Awards, Communication, and Nominations Committees, and we're excited to celebrate our 40th Anniversary Meeting in Athens, Georgia in 2026, the site of our first meeting.

Updates from IRALE (IALE India): IALE India's 3rd National Conference on "Restoration for Landscape Integrity" recently convened in Madla, near Panna Tiger Reserve, bringing together 150 participants from diverse organizations.

Updates from IALE Africa: Opportunity to take part in Prof. Joy Obando Memorial Lecture Series.

And lots more!

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 43 no.1, March 2025 - is out now. I hope you enjoy reading it. The robust volume of content submitted by our members shows the dedication and passion of you all for the field of landscape ecology which is so wonderful to see! 

Featured in this issue:

• Registration is open for IALE North America's Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina in early April! 
  

• IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress - The call for abstracts has been extended until March 14, 2025. Despite this event being organized as a European conference, they welcome contributions and participation from beyond Europe.

• Call for papers in the Journal of European Landscapes - Due May 1

• Invitation to contribute to a special issue in Land on Applications of Trajectory Analysis to Describe Changes in a Time Series of Maps - Due July 31st

• Invitation to participate in the Landscape Ecology UK Conference 2025: Monitoring ecosystem recovery at the landscape scale - July 1-3

• Invitation to participate in the 24th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species - August 23-27, 2026 in Belfast

• Invitation to join Landscape Online's board and submit manuscripts

• Updates from our German, UK, and Czech chapters, our Peri-Urban Governance Working Group and our Spatial Analysis of Ecosystems Working Group, as well as lots of recent publications!

The last bulletin of 2024 is out now: 

IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 4, December 2024.

Featured in this issue:

• Season's greetings from our president Dr. Peilei Fan

• Obituary for Prof. Milan Ružička, one of the founders of IALE

• Call for abstracts for the Annual Meeting of the North American chapter of IALE in Raleigh North Carolina DUE December 16th

• Invitation to participate in the upcoming IALE 2025 European Landscape Ecology Congress September 2-5, 2025 in Bratislava, Slovakia

• Updates from the Urban and Peri-Urban Governance Working Group, updates from our Indian and Chinese chapters, a survey on peatland restoration and recent publications from some very productive chapters!

On behalf of the IALE Executive Committee, we are sending you our best wishes for the New Year.

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 2, June 2024 - is out now.

Featured in this issue:

• The 2025 IALE European Congress in Slovakia is seeking session proposals (due Sept. 30th)

• Consider participating in IRALE 2025 conference In Panna, Madhya Pradesh in February

• Submit a manuscript to a special issue on Forest Sustainability Agriculture in Landscape Ecology

• Guest editors and themes needed for special issues in Physical Transactions of the Royal Society B

• Updates from the our Czech, Indian, and European chapters

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 2, June 2024 - is out now.

Featured in this issue:

• A sneak peak at our host country and city for the 2027 IALE World Congress

• Invitation to participate in the upcoming 2025 IALE European Congress

• Call for abstracts for the 5th European Conference of the Ecosystem Services Partnership with the following theme “Ecosystem Services: One Planet, One Health”

• An invitation to submit a manuscript in Sustainability for a special section on Environmental Sustainability and Applications

• Updates from the spatial analysis of organisms in the environment Working Group

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 42 no. 1, March 2024 - is out now.

Featured in this issue:

• Location of the 12th IALE World Congress (in 2027)

• Which chapters and working groups received funding from IALE

• Upcoming conferences in Portugal and Slovakia

• Many new publications!

Also, if you have upcoming events that need to be pushed out to our members before the next quarterly bulletin (e.g. upcoming webinars, need for another contribution to a special issue), please consider sending them to me at davis.amelie@gmail.com and stating they are for quick release (i.e. not the Bulletin). I will collect these and email them to all our members every other week! We hope to get more timely information out for you all in this manner.

Happy New Year everyone!

As of January 2024, Springer Nature is proud to offer active IALE members a 50% discount off the article processing charge of their paper which has been accepted by Landscape Ecology, an open access journal.

How does it work?

• Please send your request for a single-use discount code to Vice-Secretary General Amelie Davis (davis DOT amelie AT gmail DOT com) only after your paper has been accepted by Landscape Ecology.
• She will verify your active membership status before forwarding the request to Springer Nature for processing.
• You will be contacted for the manuscript ID of your accepted paper to Landscape Ecology and then provided with a single-use discount code to be applied during the MyPublication process.
• Please send additional single-use discount code requests to Amelie after your paper has been accepted by Landscape Ecology and the previously issued single-use discount code has been redeemed.

The latest IALE Bulletin - Volume 41 no. 3/4 December 2023 - is now online.

Featured in this issue:

·       2023 IALE World Congress Report including a great story map about the meeting: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f22b36695306495d84725abfde856d0c

·       Updates from our Indian and Europe chapters

·       Call to host the next World Congress (Due 1 Jan 2024)

Happy New Year to all!!

Please check out the September newsletter from the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology:

https://www.landscape-ecology.org/resources/News/Attachments/IRALE%20News%2011_%20June%202022.pdf 

IALE, the International Association for Landscape Ecology (www.landscape-ecology.org), invites proposals to host the next IALE World Congress in 2027. The IALE World Congress is the premier event for landscape ecologists worldwide and regular attracts ~1000 attendees. The event lasts one week and must include plenaries, symposia, oral sessions, posters sessions, a social dinner and field trips.

Past locations include (see also our website for a more detailed overview of past events: https://www.landscape-ecology.org/World-Congress):

2003 – Darwin, Australia

2007 – Wageningen, The Netherlands

2011 – Beijing, China

2015 – Portland, Oregon, USA

2019 – Milan, Italy

2023 – Nairobi, Kenya

IALE is committed to providing the fullest support possible for hosting the event including loans, direct travel support for young scholars, processes and procedures developed over the past 30 years, including program assistance, registration and other. We encourage all interested parties to submit a proposal. Bids are due by January 5, 2024.

Criteria

All proposals must be routed through an IALE national or regional chapter. We will not accept bids directly from individuals, academic/research institutions or private companies. Guidelines for bid preparations (including details about the city, venue, transportation options, field trips, potential support, meeting sustainability efforts) are available on request.

Please provide your proposal as a PDF file to the IALE Secretary General Benjamin Burkhard.