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Dear IALE members,

We are pleased to share the highlights from the latest jammed packed December 2025 IALE Bulletin, covering key updates, organizational achievements, and important opportunities in the coming months:

• 2026 Funding Opportunities: IALE-World will issue small grants to our member chapters and working groups in 2026 to support conferences, communications, and travel, with particular attention given to professionals at early career stages and foreign scholars.
• Affiliated Journal Discount: Active IALE members can benefit from a 50% discount off the article processing charge (APC) for papers submitted to our affiliated journal, Landscape Ecology. Please email me (at davis DOT amelie AT gmail DOT com) asking for the voucher, along with your manuscript ID, to what chapter you belong, and when you joined. The request goes to Springer once we have verified your membership and takes approximately five business days.
• IALE-NA 40th Anniversary Meeting (April 26-30, 2026): Abstracts due 17 December!
• NASA-MSU Professional Enhancement Awards to attend theIALE-NA meeting (due 15 December 2025).
• • IRALE 2026 Conference (Feb. 26-28, 2026) will focus on “Social Inclusivity towards Landscape Integrity and Resilience” and will take place in Thekkady, Kumily, Kerala. Abstracts are due 15 December 2025.
• European Congress concluded and we have a summary of the 428 researchers and PhD students from 36 countries who met to discuss “Landscape Perspectives in a Rapidly Changing World”.
• The Historical Landscape Ecology Working Group has new leadership. They have launched a Google Group and are planning a hybrid seminar in early 2026 to strengthen active collaboration.
• The Landscape Planning Working Group was well represented at the European Congress and is working onorganizing thematic sessions at upcoming European and World Landscape Ecology congresses.
• A summary of key publications in our field. The work by Drs. Jianguo Wu, Alex Buyantuev, Ignacio Fernandez, Josh Gilman, G. Darrel Jenerette, and Xin Wang is entitled "Eighty-Six Milestones in Landscape Ecology: A Tribute to the Discipline’s 86th Anniversary". 

And others! Happy reading!!

We wish you all the best in the new year of 2026.

Sincerely,

Amelie (on behalf of the entire Executive Committee)

• IALE China: The Twelfth National Symposium on Landscape Ecology was held successfully in Kunming, Yunnan Province, from August 16-18, 2025. Over 600 participants from 200+ universities and research institutions attended to discuss the integration of big data and new methods in ecological studies.
• IALE India (IRALE): Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurthy was elected to the IUCN India Executive Committee, a recognition of his significant contributions to wildlife research and conservation policy.
• IALE North America (IALE NA): The 40th anniversary meeting will take place from April 26-30, 2026, in Athens, Georgia, where the organization was founded. The theme is "Landscape Ecology at 40: Learning from the Past, Shaping a Resilient Future." The call for workshops and symposia is open now!
• IALE UK Conference: Over 80 delegates attended the Landscape Ecology UK Conference in Edinburgh. The conference focused on monitoring and evidencing change at the landscape scale, with a high number of presenters from outside of academia. 
• Urban and Peri-Urban Governance Working Group: A workshop was held on August 29, 2025, in the Czech Republic, to explore how green-blue infrastructure can create age-inclusive urban open spaces in prefabricated housing estates. A key outcome will be a special issue of the journal Urban Studies.
• Call for Abstracts for the 24th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species. The deadline for submission is September 26, 2025.

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.