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  • 22 Jul 2022 12:30 | Anonymous

    To the Landscape Ecologists of the World:

    We are incredibly excited to invite everyone to Nairobi for our 2023 World Congress! Whether you are a long-time member of
    the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) or you were invited to give a talk or you are simply passionate about
    landscapes and landscape change, all are welcome to learn and to connect and to share with us. As the pace and scale of global change continues to accelerate, the world needs landscape ecology more than ever. We are proud of our history bridging disciplines, seeking applied solutions, and connecting scientists and practitioners from across the globe. Our host committee and host city epitomize this commitment. Africa generally, and Kenya specifically, contain some of the most diverse landscapes in the world and truly represent our shared future with global changes expressed as local management challenges. No longer can we consider our landscapes - and their management needs, including for food security, biodiversity, and climate mitigation - as independent or isolated problems.All are connected by our global culture, economy, and climate. Therefore we need to learn and respond as a global community. Our solutions and adaptations must be global as well.

    Please join us for this exciting exchange of energy and information and reward yourself with the opportunity to explore and witness the incredible landscapes that Kenya provides!

    Rob Scheller
    IALE World President


  • 21 Jul 2022 23:29 | Anonymous


    The lastest IALE Bulletin - Volume 40 No. 2 | July 2022 - is online.

    Download the Bulletin here.

  • 4 Jul 2022 09:17 | Anonymous

    The 11th issues of PANORAMA - the  Newsletter of the Indian Regional Association for Landscape Ecology (IRALE) - is online.

    • Download IRALE News #11 here.
  • 1 Jul 2022 09:05 | Anonymous

    Irene Petrosillo is the editor of a new Special Issue in sustainability on the topic Landscape Management Impact on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Serviceshttps://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Landscape_Management_Biodiversity. Please find more information attached.

    SI_sustainability_LandscapeManagementImpactOnBiodiversityAndEcosystemServices.pdf

  • 30 Jun 2022 09:13 | Anonymous


    The IALE affiliated open access journal Land has received a new impact factor. According to the Journal Citation Reports/®/ in June 2022, the Impact Factor of Land is now 3.905. IALE congratulates the editorial board for their successful work in developing a journal on landscape ecological themes.

    Land (ISSN 2073-445X)  is an international and cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal of land system science, landscape, soil–sediment–water systems, urban study, land–climate interactions, water–energy–land–food (WELF) nexus, biodiversity research and health nexus, land modelling and data processing, ecosystem services, and multifunctionality and sustainability etc., published monthly online by MDPI.

    Land is affiliated to the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges (APCs).

  • 20 Jun 2022 12:06 | Anonymous
    ialeUK and UKCEH

    are organising a memorial symposium on Wednesday 7 September in Lancaster to celebrate Bob Bunces's academic contributions and remember how he influenced colleagues in the UK and beyond. The symposium aims to showcase academic contributions influenced or inspired by Bob Bunce.

    More information on iale.uk

  • 4 Jun 2022 12:00 | Anonymous

    Sonia Reyes, IALE-Chile President was nominated by the recently elected Chilean president as regional deputy of environmental issues in Santiago Metropolitan Region. Dr. Reyes-Packe will have the mission of leading the implementation of new climate change law, new ecological planning perspectives, and biodiversity protection actions among many other tasks. The nomination represents an acknowledgment of her excellent trajectory as a researcher and activist, including her involvement in the creation of the IALE chapter in Chile, as well as other links between science and social movements.

  • 2 Jun 2022 11:56 | Anonymous


    Dra. Dolors Armenteras, IALE-Colombia President and IALE Vicepresident, visited Chile for 10 days to participate in research about landscapes affected by Megafires and their change over time. Invited by Dr. Francisco de la Barrera and his research team, they traveled through a long gradient of burned landscapes to learn and explore future directions for research on the socio-ecological processes and patterns of wildfires in Latin America and the Global South. The visit included workdays at the Universidad de Concepcion to share with IALE-Chile members, co-researchers of De la Barrera Lab, and postgraduate students, offering the master class “Megafires in Amazonia” and having meetings.  

    The conclusion of the visit came up with a common understanding that landscapes of Latin America have particularities that require new and own approaches of research and management. In this direction, it is key to strengthen the collaboration among researchers and associative training for students in the Global South.

  • 31 May 2022 11:44 | Anonymous

    IALE-Chile invites to apply to the “Fieldwork training in landscapes of temperate forests: A trip to learn to share what and how we see”.

    The fieldwork training organized by IALE-Chile is oriented to national and international postgraduate students, and it will cover a gradient of landscapes of Southern Chile. The event covers 3 days of activities, visiting coastal landscapes, agricultural and forestry landscapes, and touristic and conservation landscapes.

    20 IALE-members will be selected to participate based on an application process. During the fieldwork, transportation, accommodation, and meals will be covered by IALE-Chile, thanks to IALE World funding. However, the participants must have the capacity to arrive in Chile on their own. Selected applicants must confirm their participation by paying a refundable fee. The event will take place in Temuco during the last week of September (fieldwork in Spanish). The exact days will be confirmed during the coming weeks. 

    The fieldwork will be supported by senior researchers covering the following topics: 1) Patterns and processes in coastal, agricultural, forestry, and conservation landscapes, 2) Techniques to evaluate landscapes in the field: UAV, Validation of Satellite Imagery, 3) Ecosystem services flow, supply and demand, and 4) Biodiversity in natural and anthropogenic landscapes.

    More information soon.

  • 20 May 2022 11:38 | Anonymous

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    We are sad to announce that Professor RGH Bunce (‘Bob’), a founding member of ialeUK and IALE-World president 2003 - 2007, died at Furness General Hospital on 23 April 2022.

    Bob was born in Dorset and educated at Wellington School before taking a degree at the University College of North Wales, Bangor in 1962 to study botany. A Doctorate on the ecology of Ysgoluon Duon (The Black Ladders) of Cadair Idris (Gwynedd) combined Bob’s interest in mountain ecology and rock climbing that never left him. In 1966 he joined the Nature Conservancy (NC) at Merlewood near Grange-over-Sands in Cumbria. Bob remained in and loved this beautiful corner of NW England for the rest of his life, a feeling  eloquently expressed in an article Bob wrote for the ialeUK Newsletter in 2017  (https://iale.uk/biodiversity-dry-stone-wall).

     One of Bob’s many lasting legacies will be the Countryside Survey (CS), the first of which was completed in 1978; it is still running today. The origins of the CS emerged from the decision at the NC to undertake a woodland classification of Great Britain, with the first test of the method in the Lake District in 1969. This became the basis for the Great Britain Woodland Survey in 1971 (now being repeated for the third time in 2020-2022, funded by the Woodland Trust). When the NC was split in 1974, Bob joined the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) as part of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE). It was here that the then Director of ITE, Martin Holgate, asked Bob to survey the vegetation of Great Britain which eventually emerged as the first CS in 1978. A significant element of the success of the CS was based on an understanding of two critically important principles: methods of environmental stratification (later the ‘ITE Land Classes’) and statistical sampling. CS benefitted from the advent of modern computing in the late 60s and Bob enthusiastically combined his considerable interest and understanding of statistics/sampling with digital computing, even if some of the early punch cards were used on occasions as ‘confetti’ for staff weddings!

     Many of Bob’s friends and colleagues will have first been  introduced to Bob at ialeUK conferences and meetings, introductions that often kindled a lifetime of teaching and research in landscape ecology. Whilst Bob was never backward in pointing out the deficiencies of, for example, the research design of a project this was always done with consideration and thought that helped to motivate rather than discourage. Sometimes it could be disquieting. At one meeting Bob famously pointed out after much muttering and hasty scribbles on a piece of paper, that the researcher appeared to have surveyed the major roads of Scotland rather than the actual distribution of the plant community of interest! Many of us have benefited enormously from the enhanced understanding that came from this unfailingly critical but fair-minded scrutiny. More generally, through the pages of The Guardian which he read daily without fail and Private Eye,  Bob applied this critical scrutiny and fair-mindedness to the wider world, where he would rail against the stupidity of political decisions that appeared to have no basis of evidence or resemblance to actual conditions on the ground. Many of us will remember the conference in Manchester to celebrate  25 years of ialeUK at which Bob reflected how pleased he was that ialeUK provided an encouraging and supportive network for early career researchers that almost always also included a memorable social event (https://iale.uk/conversation-bob-bunce-founding-member-ialeuk).

    The founding meeting of the UK chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) was at the University of Nottingham in 1992, convened by one of Bob’s close colleagues and friends, Professor Roy Haines-Young. The general theme of ‘Landscape Ecology in Britain’ set the scene for the annual conference of ialeUK on a range of themes including cultural landscapes, trees & woodlands, avifauna, ecosystem services, freshwater and marine environments, among others. Bob was one of the founding members of ialeUK going on to become chair  for many years and helping to shape the structure of what remains a thriving and influential organisation to this day.  He went on to become President of International IALE (2003 – 2007) at their international meeting in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

     Bob remained a fellow of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) after his retirement in 2000, becoming a Senior Researcher working with his close friend and colleague, Rob Jongman, at the research institute Alterra in Wageningen. He followed this with a teaching and research appointment as Professor of Environmental Sciences working with another close colleague and friend, Kalev Sepp, at the Estonian University of Life Sciences in Tartu. These two appointments reflected another important aspect of Bob’s life, a lifelong interest in the landscapes of Europe, especially Spain and specifically the Picos de Europa, where he led several botanical field classes with students and staff from the Charlotte Mason College, now part of the University of Cumbria Ambleside Campus.  He captured many of the landscapes he visited across Europe as a series of watercolour paintings, many of which survive and are greatly cherished by friends, family and colleagues.

    He was cremated at Beetham Crematorium, not far from his beloved village of Allithwaite and the wooded limestone hills of the southern Lake District. As we waited to be ushered into the crematorium on a beautiful sunny May afternoon the scene unfolding before the group of friends and family was a startling reflection of Bob’s life and interests. The resemblance to the  line drawings (by the late Chris Benefield, ITE Merlewood) that captured the typical landscape elements of each of the ITE Land Classes was startling. A farmer with his dog was letting a large herd of beef cattle into a field of lush, improved pasture that was devoid of botanical interest. The adjacent field of salad crops being artificially grown under plastic glistened in the afternoon sun. In the distance a very different landscape, the steep limestone crags of Hutton Roof, provided a stark contrast of diversity and richness. It was a fitting picture and memorial to Bob’s extraordinary life and achievements, although he would not have hesitated to explain to everyone present  what was wrong with the famed landscape unfolding before us!

    With Bob’s son, David, ialeUK is planning a one-day symposium in the NW of England in September in memory of Bob’s contribution to landscape ecology, followed by  excursion to the limestone hills of South Lakeland. Look out for details on the ialeUK website. 

    He is survived by his wife Freda and his son David.

    Geoffrey Griffiths (ialeUK)

    David Howard (ialeUK)

    Marc Metzger (ialeUK)


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