Landscape Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Landscape Ecology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Defining landscape-level forest types: application of latent Dirichlet allocation to species distribution models167
A novel hierarchical framework to evaluate residential exposure to green spaces72
Landscape sustainability science (II): core questions and key approaches66
Native-exotic richness relationships in second-growth forests differ along a gradient of land-use history65
Recoupling cross-scale interactions in tall fescue-invaded tallgrass prairie64
Landscape-based solutions are needed for meeting water challenges of China’s expanding and thirsty cities55
Carrying out experiments in landscape ecology52
Butterfly biodiversity in the city is driven by the interaction of the urban landscape and species traits: a call for contextualised management50
Context matters: the landscape matrix determines the population genetic structure of temperate forest herbs across Europe48
Matrix dominance and landscape resistance affect genetic variability and differentiation of an Atlantic Forest pioneer tree45
The relative importance of forest cover and patch-level drivers for phyllostomid bat communities in the Amazonian Savannas44
Much more than forest loss: four decades of habitat connectivity decline for Atlantic Forest jaguars43
The relationship between spatial patterns of urban land uses and air pollutants in the Tehran metropolis, Iran42
Influence of the direct and indirect effects of habitat fragmentation, via microclimate change, on animal locomotion42
The invasive plant data landscape: a synthesis of spatial data and applications for research and management in the United States39
A dynamic dendritic connectivity assessment tool for the planning and design of barrier mitigation strategies in river networks39
Landscape resistance to gene flow in a snow leopard population from Qilianshan National Park, Gansu, China38
Matrix composition mediates effects of habitat fragmentation: a modelling study37
A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder36
Propagule pressure and land-use are more important than climate for invasive bryophytes regional distributions35
Prolonged coastal inundation detected with synthetic aperture radar significantly retarded functional recovery of mangroves after major hurricanes34
A multi-ecosystem prioritization framework to balance competing habitat conservation needs of multiple species in decline34
Monitoring changes in landscape structure in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage between 1992 and 2018: Identifying priority areas for conservation and restoration34
Contextualizing vulnerability of ecological systems to landscape alteration33
Evaluating connectivity models for conservation: insights from African lion dispersal patterns33
The secret life of wild animals revealed by accelerometer data: how landscape diversity and seasonality influence the behavioural types of European hares32
Curb your enthusiasm for explaining the complexity of landscape configurations in terms of thermodynamics31
Habitat loss for black flying foxes and implications for Hendra virus31
Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds31
Scale-dependent effects of terrestrial habitat on genetic variation in the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)30
What does framing theory add to our understanding of collective decision making in nitrogen management?29
Soundscape dynamics of a cold protected forest: dominance of aircraft noise28
Quantification of the spatial resilience of the Spanish rural landscape to fire occurrence analysed using the SISPARES network of plots28
Heterogeneity in soil chemistry relates to urbanization while soil homogeneity relates to plant invasion in small temperate deciduous forests27
Persistence of amphibian metapopulation occupancy in dynamic wetlandscapes26
Pollination efficiency in farmland landscapes: exploring the relative roles of spillover, dilution and complementarity between habitats26
A multi-scale landscape approach to understand dispersal of the mistletoe by birds in Mediterranean pine forests25
Staying connected: assessing the capacity of landscapes to retain biodiversity in a changing climate25
Floral resource discontinuity contributes to spatial mismatch between pollinator supply and pollination demand in a pollinator-dependent agricultural landscapes25
A global systematic review of forest management institutions: towards a new research agenda25
Forest landscape dynamics after intentional large-scale fires in western Patagonia reveal unusual temperate forest recovery trends25
Patchy range retractions in response to climate change and implications for terrestrial species conservation24
Interplay between local and landscape-scale effects on the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous neotropical bats24
Spatial variation in demographic processes and the potential role of hybridization for the future23
Forest heterogeneity outweighs movement costs by enhancing hunting success and reproductive output in California spotted owls23
Characterizing urban densification in the city of Wuhan using time-series building information22
Boreal forests will be more severely affected by projected anthropogenic climate forcing than mixedwood and northern hardwood forests in eastern Canada22
Using the risk of spatial extrapolation by machine-learning models to assess the reliability of model predictions for conservation22
Getting lost in the matrix? On how the characteristics and arrangement of linear landscape elements influence ecological connectivity21
Landscape spatial patterns in Mexico City and New York City: contrasting territories for biodiversity planning21
Connecting mountains and desert valleys for black bears in northern Mexico21
Floodplain trophic subsidies in a modified river network: managed foodscapes of the future?20
Predators do not benefit from crop diversity but respond to configurational heterogeneity in wheat and cotton fields20
Binary space partitioning generates hierarchical and rectilinear neutral landscape models suitable for human-dominated landscapes20
Relative effects of urbanisation, deforestation, and agricultural development on mosquito communities20
Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests20
Systematic acoustic surveys inform priority conservation areas for koalas in a modified landscape19
Impacts of agricultural intensification on soil erosion and sustainability of olive groves in Alentejo (Portugal)19
Inferring future changes in gene flow under climate change in riverscapes: a pilot case study in fluvial sculpin19
A network approach for analyzing arthropod diversity and natural patches prioritization in a fragmented agroecosystem19
Quantifying and predicting population connectivity of an outbreaking forest insect pest18
A framework for linking dispersal biology to connectivity across landscapes18
Landscape openness, not patch size or grassland amount, drives area sensitivity of songbirds in northern tall-grass prairies18
Correction: Living with wildlife: a review of advances in social-ecological analysis across landscapes18
Change in beta diversity of riverine fish during and after supra-seasonal drought18
Scope and its role in advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology18
Using a trait-based approach to asses fire resistance in forest landscapes of the Inland Northwest, USA17
Correction to: Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology17
Detecting social-ecological resilience thresholds of cultural landscapes along an urban–rural gradient: a methodological approach based on Bayesian Networks17
How to assess the temporal dynamics of landscape connectivity in ever-changing landscapes: a literature review16
Linking acoustic diversity to compositional and configurational heterogeneity in mosaic landscapes16
Comprehensively evaluating the performance of species distribution models across clades and resolutions: choosing the right tool for the job16
Forest area predicts all dimensions of small mammal and lizard diversity in Amazonian insular forest fragments16
Spatial scaling of land use/land cover and ecosystem services across urban hierarchical levels: patterns and relationships16
Indirect interactions between climate and cropland distribution shape fire size in West African grasslands16
Climate and land change impacts on future managed wetland habitat: a case study from California’s Central Valley16
Combining historical aerial photography with machine learning to map landscape change impacts on dry grasslands in the Central Alps16
The landscapes of livestock diversity: grazing local breeds as a proxy for domesticated species adaptation to the environment15
Are wind turbines integrated into landscape? an analysis of its social perception in a spanish mediterranean area15
Effects of sample size, data quality, and species response in environmental space on modeling species distributions15
Dispersal movement through fragmented landscapes: the role of stepping stones and perceptual range15
Landscape structure is a key driver of soil protist diversity in meadows in the Swiss Alps15
How the relationship between vegetation cover and land-cover variance constrains biodiversity in a human dominated world15
Does land-use and land cover affect vector-borne diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis15
Evaluating the supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services in the Tibetan Plateau of China15
Spatial characterization of social-ecological systems units for management in Tropical Dry Forests15
Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment15
Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity shapes compensatory responses of a subalpine forest to severe bark beetle outbreak15
Comparison and parallel implementation of alternative moving-window metrics of the connectivity of protected areas across large landscapes15
River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China15
Handling ecosystem service trade-offs: the importance of the spatial scale at which no-loss constraints are posed15
Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany15
Correction to: Examining local and regional ecological connectivity throughout North America15
A new frontier for landscape ecology and sustainability: introducing the world’s first atlas of urban agglomerations14
Using Bayesian Belief Networks to assess the influence of landscape connectivity on ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes in the UK14
Management strategy influences landscape patterns of high-severity burn patches in the southwestern United States14
Buddhist monasteries facilitated landscape conservation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau14
Back and forth: day–night alternation between cover types reveals complementary use of habitats in a large herbivore14
Automated habitat monitoring systems linked to adaptive management: a new paradigm for species conservation in an era of rapid environmental change14
Developing landscape-scale forest restoration targets that embrace spatial pattern14
Movement of mud snails affects population dynamics, primary production and landscape heterogeneity in tidal flat ecosystems14
Animals connect plant species and resources in a meta-ecosystem13
Wind erosion response to past and future agro-pastoral trajectories in the Sahel (Niger)13
Crop mixtures outperform rotations and landscape mosaics in regulation of two fungal wheat pathogens: a simulation study13
Spatial predictions for the distribution of woody plant species under different land-use scenarios in southwestern Ethiopia13
New methods for quantifying the effects of catchment spatial patterns on aquatic responses13
Embedding plural values in value chains to enhance sustainability in the management of cork oak landscapes13
The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders13
Drivers of species and genetic diversity within forest metacommunities across agricultural landscapes of different permeability12
Landscape complementation is a driver of bumble bee (Bombus sp.) abundance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains12
Spatial and temporal scales of landscape structure affect the biodiversity-landscape relationship across ecologically distinct species groups12
Forest connectivity boosts pollen flow among populations of the oil-producing Nierembergia linariifolia12
Deforestation scenarios show the importance of secondary forest for meeting Panama’s carbon goals12
Forest cover and non-forest landscape heterogeneity modulate pollination of tropical understory plants12
Mapping, quantifying and comparing seascape heterogeneity of Southwest Indian Ridge seamounts12
Translating the landscape. The reciprocity of representations and other realities12
Efficiency of spatial sampling designs in estimating abundance and species richness of carabids at the landscape level12
Navigating agricultural landscapes: responses of critically endangered giant tortoises to farmland vegetation and infrastructure12
Drivers of recent forest cover change in southern South America are linked to climate and CO212
Mosaic governance in Denmark: a systematic investigation of green volunteers in nature management in Denmark12
Large carnivore foraging contributes to heterogeneity in nutrient cycling12
Long-term stability of temperate Australian wet forest-moorland mosaics despite recurrent fires associated with late Holocene climate change11
Aggregation of organically managed fields promotes aphid parasitism in cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions11
Decision-making criteria to shape mulching techniques for fire-prone landscapes11
Condors in space: an individual-based population model for California condor reintroduction planning11
How did the animal come to cross the road? Drawing insights on animal movement from existing roadkill data and expert knowledge11
Adapting a multiscale approach to assess the compositional diversity of landscapes11
Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient11
Weather and land cover create a predictable “stress-scape” for a winter-adapted bird11
Factors affecting overwintering retreat-site selection in reptiles in an agricultural landscape11
Dung beetle community patterns in Western Europe: responses of Scarabaeinae to landscape and environmental filtering11
Landscape context importance for predicting forest transition success in central Panama11
Multi-objective optimization for timber harvest management incorporating wildlife habitat goals11
Examining local and regional ecological connectivity throughout North America10
Promoting sustainable landscape pattern for landscape sustainability10
A three-step approach for assessing landscape connectivity via simulated dispersal: African wild dog case study10
Scaling up tree growth to assess forest resilience under increasing aridity: the case of Iberian dry-edge pine forests10
Lacunarity as a tool for assessing landscape configuration over time and informing long-term monitoring: an example using seagrass10
Estimating statewide carrying capacity of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using improved maximum clique algorithms10
Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous-dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska10
Riparian land use and in-channel stressors drive fish community structure in the Yangtze River10
The importance of spatial configuration of neighbouring land cover for explanation of surface temperature of individual patches in urban landscapes10
Improved topographic ruggedness indices more accurately model fine-scale ecological patterns10
Influence of forest proportion and configuration at the watershed and riparian zone scales on sediment yield: a simulation experiment10
Integrating life cycle assessment into landscape studies: a postcard from Hulunbuir10
Drivers of invasion by laurel wilt of redbay and sassafras in the southeastern US10
Interactions between landscape and local factors inform spatial action planning in post-fire forest environments10
Modelling landscape permeability for dispersal and colonization of tigers (Panthera tigris) in the Greater Panna Landscape, Central India10
Influence of landscape connectivity on newt’s response to a warmer climate10
Drought-induced forest dieback increases taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of saproxylic beetles at both local and landscape scales10
Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands10
Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology10
Warming-induced shifts on Tibetan Plateau: the overlooked ants and their ecological impacts10
High-resolution images and drone-based LiDAR reveal striking patterns of vegetation gaps in a wooded spinifex grassland of Western Australia10
Making sense of breaks in landscape change10
Controls on spatial patterns of wildfire severity and early post-fire vegetation development in an Arizona Sky Island, USA10
Introducing a flat ontology into landscape research: a case study of water governance experiments in South Africa10
Integrating dispersal, breeding and abundance data with graph theory for the characterization and management of functional connectivity in amphibian pondscapes10
Exploring spatial correlations between ecosystem services and sustainable development goals: a regional-scale study from China10
Shaping the second-growth forest: fine-scale land use change in the Ohio Valley over 120 years10
Mapping and assessing freshwater ecosystem services supply and demand in Inner Mongolia (China)9
What drives phylogenetic and trait clustering on islands?9
Ecological niche modeling, niche overlap, and good old Rabinowitz’s rarities applied to the conservation of gymnosperms in a global biodiversity hotspot9
Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China9
Ecosystem services trade-offs in landscapes: trends, areas of greatest impact, and temporal evolution of the scientific field9
Interactive effects of drought and edge exposure on old-growth forest understory species9
The influence of landscape spatial configuration on nitrogen and phosphorus exports in agricultural catchments9
Evaluation of anthropogenic pressure on the occupancy patterns of large mammals in the Western and Eastern Ghats9
Impacts of large-scale landscape restoration on spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau9
How landscape and biotic interactions shape a Mediterranean reptile community9
Human infrastructure, surface water and tree cover are important drivers of bird diversity across a savanna protected area-mosaic landscape9
Does agricultural intensification cause tipping points in ecosystem services?9
Toward conciliation in the habitat fragmentation and biodiversity debate9
Responses of avian assemblages to spatiotemporal landscape dynamics in urban ecosystems9
Key attributes of greenspace pattern for heat mitigation vary with urban functional zones9
Bundling ecosystem services at a high resolution in the UK: trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes8
Re-integrating ecology into integrated landscape approaches8
Importance of habitat area, quality and landscape context for heteropteran diversity in shrub ecotones8
Using a novel land cover classification to identify multi-scale drivers of site occupancy for shrubland habitat conservation8
Integrating existing data to assess the risk of an expanding land use change on mammals8
Habitat assessment for threatened species in the cross-border region of the Atlantic Forest8
Early positive spatial selection effects of beta-diversity on ecosystem functioning8
Spatiotemporal patterns and environmental drivers of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) abundance along the Missouri River, USA8
Bee functional groups respond to vegetation cover and landscape diversity in a Brazilian metropolis8
In memoriam: Gary W. Barrett (1940–2022)8
Characterizing range-wide impacts of anthropogenic barriers on structural landscape connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai)8
Exploring how disturbance and light availability shape the elevation ranges of multiple mountain tree and shrub species in the tropics7
Omnidirectional connectivity for the Andean bear (Tremarctos ornatus) across the Colombian Andes7
Different landscape features within a simplified agroecosystem support diverse pollinators and their service to crop plants7
The species-specificity of energy landscapes for soaring birds, and its consequences for transferring suitability models across species7
Social factors influencing actor agency of nitrate management in local agricultural landscapes of Poland7
Explaining land use and forest change: more theory or better methodology?7
The dynamic matrix predicts population response to long-term experimental forest fragmentation7
Landscape configuration of an Amazonian island-like ecosystem drives population structure and genetic diversity of a habitat-specialist bird7
Potential cheatgrass abundance within lightly invaded areas of the Great Basin7
Simulating the response of a threatened amphibian to climate-induced reductions in breeding habitat7
Pattern of tree species co-occurrence in an ecotone responds to spatially variable drivers7
Diagnosis of the ecological condition of the drove road network in the Autonomous Community of Madrid (central Spain)7
From the local landscape organization to land abandonment: an analysis of landscape changes (1956–2017) in the Aísa Valley (Spanish Pyrenees)7
The importance of dynamic open-canopy woodlands for the conservation of a specialist butterfly species7
Urban wild bees benefit from flower-rich anthropogenic land use depending on bee trait and scale7
Management diversification increases habitat availability for multiple biodiversity indicator species in production forests7
Evaluating modelled wildlife corridors for the movement of multiple arboreal species in a fragmented landscape7
Floral identity and availability along with surrounding landscapes affect pollinator communities in eastern Tennessee7
Holocene-era landscape conditions affect genetic connectivity in a sagebrush obligate species, the pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis)7
Potential cougar habitats and dispersal corridors in Eastern North America7
Prediction-based approach for quantifying phenological mismatch across landscapes under climate change7
Making the connection: combining habitat suitability and landscape connectivity to understand species distribution in an agricultural landscape7
Can scale-dependent landcover relationships explain canid community composition independent of intraguild occupancy?7
Urban–rural interface dominates the effects of urbanization on watershed energy and water balances in Southern China7
The riverine thruway hypothesis: rivers as a key mediator of gene flow for the aquatic paradoxical frog Pseudis tocantins (Anura, Hylidae)7
Stay home, stay safe? High habitat suitability and environmental connectivity increases road mortality in a colonizing mesocarnivore7
Movement range corresponds to scale of effect for single scale models but not for individual variables within models7
Zooscape ecology: a conceptual analysis of zoos and landscape ecology7
Urban forests of Moscow: typological diversity, succession status, and fragmentation assessment7
Governing the landscape: potential and challenges of integrated approaches to landscape sustainability in Indonesia7
Producing landscapes of environmental justice: exploitation of woodlands and wetlands and deep historical geographies of justice on Gotland7
Sensitivity and future exposure of ecosystem services to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau of China7
Genetic diversity and spatial structures of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) reveal proxies of connectivity across Mongolia and northwestern China7
Spatially explicit correlates of plant functional traits inform landscape patterns of resource quality7
High-elevation landforms limit the movement of invasive small mammal species7
Day versus night use of forest by red and roe deer as determined by Corine Land Cover and Copernicus Tree Cover Density: assessing use of geographic layers in movement ecology7
Multi-scale waterfowl habitat conservation planning in Wisconsin, USA7
Effects of adaptive multiple paddock and continuous grazing on fine-scale spatial patterns of vegetation species and biomass in commercial ranches7
Management linked to ecological intensification supports insect pollinators in Iberian wood-pastures7
The disappearing Dry Chaco, one of the last dry forest systems on earth7
The impact of typhoon on post-volcanic-eruption forest landscape recovery: a study in Changbai mountain through 300 years of historic landscape reconstruction7
Local and landscape features constrain the trait and taxonomic diversity of urban bees7
Spatial vulnerability assessment of silver fir and Norway spruce dieback driven by climate warming7
Robustness of resistance surface optimisations: sampling schemes and genetic distance metrics affect inferences in landscape genetics7
Potential risks to endemic conifer montane forests under climate change: integrative approach for conservation prioritization in southwestern China6
Past is prologue: historic landcover patterns predict contemporary grassland loss in the U.S. Northern Great Plains6
Orchid bees respond to landscape composition differently depending on the multiscale approach6
Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes6
Assessing the relation between geodiversity and species richness in mountain heaths and tundra landscapes6
Multivariate analysis of invasive plant species distributions in southern US forests6
Forest-sedgeland boundaries are historically stable and resilient to wildfire at Blakes Opening in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia6
Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale6
Remote sensing in landscape ecology6
Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network6
Effect of disturbances and habitat fragmentation on an arboreal habitat specialist mammal using GPS telemetry: a case of the red panda6
Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration6
Effects of counter-urbanization on Mediterranean rural landscapes6
Agriculturally intensified landscapes are associated with reduced body condition of lady beetles6
How long does it take to establish a field boundary with a small proportion of weeds? An example in semi-arid conditions6
Identifying a green infrastructure to prioritise areas for restoration to enhance the landscape connectivity and the provision of ecosystem services6
Cultural ecosystem services in an urban park: understanding bundles, trade-offs, and synergies6
Ecological corridors and landscape planning: a model to select priority areas for connectivity maintenance6
Impacts of forest management on stand and landscape-level microclimate heterogeneity of European beech forests6
Agroecology landscapes6
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