Landscape Ecology

Papers
(The median citation count of Landscape Ecology is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder75
Does land-use and land cover affect vector-borne diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis75
A framework for linking dispersal biology to connectivity across landscapes70
The relationship between spatial patterns of urban land uses and air pollutants in the Tehran metropolis, Iran56
Butterfly biodiversity in the city is driven by the interaction of the urban landscape and species traits: a call for contextualised management53
Propagule pressure and land-use are more important than climate for invasive bryophytes regional distributions47
Binary space partitioning generates hierarchical and rectilinear neutral landscape models suitable for human-dominated landscapes47
Floral resource discontinuity contributes to spatial mismatch between pollinator supply and pollination demand in a pollinator-dependent agricultural landscapes44
Handling ecosystem service trade-offs: the importance of the spatial scale at which no-loss constraints are posed44
Inferring future changes in gene flow under climate change in riverscapes: a pilot case study in fluvial sculpin39
Prolonged coastal inundation detected with synthetic aperture radar significantly retarded functional recovery of mangroves after major hurricanes39
Linking acoustic diversity to compositional and configurational heterogeneity in mosaic landscapes38
Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany37
Automated habitat monitoring systems linked to adaptive management: a new paradigm for species conservation in an era of rapid environmental change36
Drivers of invasion by laurel wilt of redbay and sassafras in the southeastern US34
How landscape and biotic interactions shape a Mediterranean reptile community32
Navigating agricultural landscapes: responses of critically endangered giant tortoises to farmland vegetation and infrastructure31
Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands31
Translating the landscape. The reciprocity of representations and other realities30
Aggregation of organically managed fields promotes aphid parasitism in cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions30
New methods for quantifying the effects of catchment spatial patterns on aquatic responses29
The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders28
Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology28
Estimating statewide carrying capacity of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using improved maximum clique algorithms28
Using Bayesian Belief Networks to assess the influence of landscape connectivity on ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes in the UK27
Management linked to ecological intensification supports insect pollinators in Iberian wood-pastures26
Lithology modulates the response of water limited Mediterranean ecosystems to aridification26
Floral identity and availability along with surrounding landscapes affect pollinator communities in eastern Tennessee26
Key attributes of greenspace pattern for heat mitigation vary with urban functional zones26
Potential risks to endemic conifer montane forests under climate change: integrative approach for conservation prioritization in southwestern China25
Spatial vulnerability assessment of silver fir and Norway spruce dieback driven by climate warming25
Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration25
Potential cougar habitats and dispersal corridors in Eastern North America24
The impact of typhoon on post-volcanic-eruption forest landscape recovery: a study in Changbai mountain through 300 years of historic landscape reconstruction24
Using neutral landscape models to evaluate the umbrella species concept in an ecotone23
Testing the effect of wetland spatiotemporal variability on amphibian occurrence across scales23
Scaling of classification systems—effects of class precision on detection accuracy from medium resolution multispectral data22
Problems seeded in the past: lagged effects of historical land-use changes can cause an extinction debt in long-lived species due to movement limitation22
Effects of spatial patterning within working pine forests on priority avian species in Mississippi22
Effects of compositional and configurational heterogeneity of the urban matrix on the species richness of woody plants in urban remnant forest patches22
The supply and demand of water purification service in an urbanizing basin on the Tibetan Plateau22
Socio-spatial factors influence climate change adaptation decisions of rural coastal landowners21
Species–genetic diversity correlations through the lens of spatial autocorrelation: insights from high Andean wetlands21
Dynamics in the landscape ecology of institutions: lags, legacies, and feedbacks drive path-dependency of forest landscapes in British Columbia, Canada 1858–202021
Amount and isolation of aquatic habitat drive anuran diversity in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado21
The discontinuum of river networks: the importance of geomorphic boundaries20
Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle20
Loss of winter wonderland: proximity to different road types has variable effects on winter soundscapes20
Southern spatial stories: interdisciplinary perceptions of shifting spatial awareness and values19
Housing or habitat: what drives patterns of avian species richness in urbanized landscapes?19
Legacy land use predicts occupancy patterns of prairie-associated herpetofauna in Western Arkansas19
The varying roles of ecosystem services in poverty alleviation among rural households in urbanizing watersheds19
The Portuguese forest and the Common Agricultural Policy19
Looking for a magic island in the sea of agriculture: factors affecting forest patch attractiveness for wild boar in human-dominated landscape19
Scale-dependent seasonal habitat selection by jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) in Panama18
Evaluating climate-driven fallowing for ecological connectivity of species at risk18
Simulation-based insights into community uniqueness within fragmented landscapes18
Scaling-up ecosystem functions of coastal heterogeneous sediments: testing practices using high resolution data18
Maintaining functional connectivity in grassland corridors between plantation forests promotes high-quality habitat and conserves range restricted grasshoppers18
A landscape connectivity approach to mitigating the urban heat island effect18
Uncertainties in research between urban landscape and air quality: summary, demonstration, and expectation18
Corridor width and orientation are complementary design variables for butterflies in conservation corridors18
Dredging fundamentally reshapes the ecological significance of 3D terrain features for fish in estuarine seascapes18
The influence of landscape context on the production of cultural ecosystem services17
Landscape floral resources provided by rapeseed correlate with next-year reproduction of cavity-nesting pollinators in a national participatory monitoring program17
The scale effects of landscape variables on landscape experiences: a multi-scale spatial analysis of social media data in an urban nature park context17
Large felid habitat connectivity in the transboundary Dawna-Tanintharyi landscape of Myanmar and Thailand17
Entropy in landscape ecology: a response to Stepinski17
Aiming for the optimum: examining complex relationships among sampling regime, sampling density and landscape complexity to accurately model resource availability17
Landscape features drive insectivorous bat activity in Indian rice fields17
Unraveling a paradox of habitat relationships: scale-dependent drivers of temporal occupancy-abundance relationships in a cooperatively breeding bird17
Landscape characteristics and predation risk influence spatial variation in auditory courtship of an upland game bird17
Forecasting natural regeneration of sagebrush after wildfires using population models and spatial matching16
Quantifying and predicting population connectivity of an outbreaking forest insect pest16
Landscape models can predict the distribution of aquatic insects across agricultural areas16
Native-exotic richness relationships in second-growth forests differ along a gradient of land-use history16
Floral resource maps: a tool to explain flower-visiting insect abundance at multiple spatial scales16
Impacts of agricultural intensification on soil erosion and sustainability of olive groves in Alentejo (Portugal)15
Pollination efficiency in farmland landscapes: exploring the relative roles of spillover, dilution and complementarity between habitats15
Climate and land change impacts on future managed wetland habitat: a case study from California’s Central Valley15
Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests15
Landscape resistance to gene flow in a snow leopard population from Qilianshan National Park, Gansu, China15
Effects of sample size, data quality, and species response in environmental space on modeling species distributions15
Landscape-based solutions are needed for meeting water challenges of China’s expanding and thirsty cities15
Predators do not benefit from crop diversity but respond to configurational heterogeneity in wheat and cotton fields15
River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China15
Dung beetle community patterns in Western Europe: responses of Scarabaeinae to landscape and environmental filtering14
Back and forth: day–night alternation between cover types reveals complementary use of habitats in a large herbivore14
Interactions between landscape and local factors inform spatial action planning in post-fire forest environments14
Wind erosion response to past and future agro-pastoral trajectories in the Sahel (Niger)14
Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds14
Does agricultural intensification cause tipping points in ecosystem services?14
Impacts of large-scale landscape restoration on spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau14
Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous-dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska14
Developing landscape-scale forest restoration targets that embrace spatial pattern14
What drives phylogenetic and trait clustering on islands?14
Spatial and temporal scales of landscape structure affect the biodiversity-landscape relationship across ecologically distinct species groups14
Responses of avian assemblages to spatiotemporal landscape dynamics in urban ecosystems13
Bee functional groups respond to vegetation cover and landscape diversity in a Brazilian metropolis13
Threshold and weighted-distance methods: a combined multiscale approach improves explanatory power of forest carabid beetle abundance in agricultural landscape13
Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale13
Management diversification increases habitat availability for multiple biodiversity indicator species in production forests13
Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network13
A three-step approach for assessing landscape connectivity via simulated dispersal: African wild dog case study13
Improved topographic ruggedness indices more accurately model fine-scale ecological patterns13
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 ecology13
Orchid bees respond to landscape composition differently depending on the multiscale approach13
Spatially explicit correlates of plant functional traits inform landscape patterns of resource quality13
Forest cover and non-forest landscape heterogeneity modulate pollination of tropical understory plants13
Landscape complementation is a driver of bumble bee (Bombus sp.) abundance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains13
Accounting for sex-specific differences in gene flow and functional connectivity for cougars and implications for management13
Cultural ecosystem services in an urban park: understanding bundles, trade-offs, and synergies13
Effects of counter-urbanization on Mediterranean rural landscapes13
Remote sensing in landscape ecology13
Integrating land use and climate change models with stakeholder priorities to evaluate habitat connectivity change: a case study in southern Québec12
Effect of landscape composition and configuration on biodiversity at multiple scales: a case study with amphibians from Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico12
Participatory landscape sustainability assessment: where do we stand? A systematic literature review12
Comparing floral resource maps and land cover maps to predict predators and aphid suppression on field bean12
Spatiotemporal patterns of rising annual plant abundance in grasslands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (USA)12
Habitat connectivity supports the local abundance of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) but also the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans12
Identifying habitat preferences and core areas of Amazon River dolphin activity using spatial ecology analysis12
Integrating landscape resistance and multi-scale predictor of habitat selection for amphibian distribution modelling at large scale12
Leaving disturbance legacies conserves boreal conifers and maximizes net CO2 absorption under climate change and more frequent and larger windthrow regimes12
Canopy gap patterns in Mediterranean forests: a spatio-temporal characterization using airborne LiDAR data12
Machine learning in landscape ecological analysis: a review of recent approaches11
Integrating remote sensing data on habitat suitability and functional connectivity to inform multitaxa roadkill mitigation plans11
Scaling spatial pattern metrics: impacts of composition and configuration on downscaling accuracy11
Insectivorous bats in Indian rice fields respond to moonlight, temperature, and insect activity11
Long-unburnt habitat is critical for the conservation of threatened vertebrates across Australia11
Sex-biased habitat selection by American marten in the Acadian Forest11
Contrasting effects of future wildfire and forest management scenarios on a fire excluded western US landscape11
A simplified perspective on the index of spatial autocorrelation11
Climate factors impact different facets of grassland biodiversity both directly and indirectly through soil conditions11
Impacts of the European Landscape Convention on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research11
Do provisioning ecosystem services change along gradients of increasing agricultural production?11
Climate change drives increased directional movement of landscape ecotones11
Sex-specific connectivity modelling for brown bear conservation in the Carpathian Mountains11
Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data11
Landscape simplification increases the risk of infestation by the polyphagous pest Helicoverpa armigera for walnut, a novel marginal host11
Landscape anthropization explains the genetic structure of an endemic Mexican bird (Thryophilus sinaloa: Troglodytidae) across the tropical dry forest biodiversity hotspot11
Pygmy rabbit habitat network reveals threats and opportunities for management and conservation11
Human impact on forests in early twentieth century Finland11
Patch size and connectivity predict remnant habitat occupancy by an endangered wetland specialist, the salt marsh harvest mouse11
Tigers on the edge: mortality and landscape change dominate individual-based spatially-explicit simulations of a small tiger population11
Examining primate community occurrence patterns in agroforest landscapes using arboreal and terrestrial camera traps11
Traits influence reptile responses to fire in a fragmented agricultural landscape10
The landscapes of livestock diversity: grazing local breeds as a proxy for domesticated species adaptation to the environment10
Combining landscape and genetic graphs to address key issues in landscape genetics10
Landscape spatial patterns in Mexico City and New York City: contrasting territories for biodiversity planning10
Recoupling cross-scale interactions in tall fescue-invaded tallgrass prairie10
Sustainable landscape pattern: a landscape approach to serving spatial planning10
Are wind turbines integrated into landscape? an analysis of its social perception in a spanish mediterranean area10
Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity shapes compensatory responses of a subalpine forest to severe bark beetle outbreak10
Assessing large landscape patterns of potential fire connectivity using circuit methods10
Decision-making criteria to shape mulching techniques for fire-prone landscapes9
Context matters: the landscape matrix determines the population genetic structure of temperate forest herbs across Europe9
Quantification of the spatial resilience of the Spanish rural landscape to fire occurrence analysed using the SISPARES network of plots9
Efficiency of spatial sampling designs in estimating abundance and species richness of carabids at the landscape level9
Scaling up tree growth to assess forest resilience under increasing aridity: the case of Iberian dry-edge pine forests9
Urban forests of Moscow: typological diversity, succession status, and fragmentation assessment9
Mapping, quantifying and comparing seascape heterogeneity of Southwest Indian Ridge seamounts9
Interplay between local and landscape-scale effects on the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous neotropical bats9
Movement of mud snails affects population dynamics, primary production and landscape heterogeneity in tidal flat ecosystems9
Weather and land cover create a predictable “stress-scape” for a winter-adapted bird9
Mapping and assessing freshwater ecosystem services supply and demand in Inner Mongolia (China)9
Large carnivore foraging contributes to heterogeneity in nutrient cycling9
Interactive effects of drought and edge exposure on old-growth forest understory species9
Crop mixtures outperform rotations and landscape mosaics in regulation of two fungal wheat pathogens: a simulation study9
Combining historical aerial photography with machine learning to map landscape change impacts on dry grasslands in the Central Alps9
Habitat loss for black flying foxes and implications for Hendra virus9
Evaluation of anthropogenic pressure on the occupancy patterns of large mammals in the Western and Eastern Ghats9
Exploring spatial correlations between ecosystem services and sustainable development goals: a regional-scale study from China9
Drought-induced forest dieback increases taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of saproxylic beetles at both local and landscape scales9
A new agent-based model provides insight into deep uncertainty faced in simulated forest management8
Assessing impacts of mining on provisioning ecosystem services in a culturally diverse landscape of Western Cape York, Australia8
Potential cheatgrass abundance within lightly invaded areas of the Great Basin8
Forest-sedgeland boundaries are historically stable and resilient to wildfire at Blakes Opening in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia8
Multivariate analysis of invasive plant species distributions in southern US forests8
Landscape conservation in the natural-rural interface. A social-ecological approach in Natural Parks of Andalusia (Spain)8
Savanna tree abundance and spatial patterns are strongly associated with river networks in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania8
Diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) community dissimilarity reveals how low landscape connectivity restricts the ecological value of urban ponds8
Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes8
Characterizing range-wide impacts of anthropogenic barriers on structural landscape connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai)8
Robustness of resistance surface optimisations: sampling schemes and genetic distance metrics affect inferences in landscape genetics8
Correction to: Spatial and temporal dynamics of Mexican spotted owl habitat in the southwestern US8
No single factor can explain the low regeneration of patchy coniferous plantations in northern China8
Effects of an early mass-flowering crop on wild bee communities and traits in power line corridors vary with blooming plants and landscape context8
Explaining land use and forest change: more theory or better methodology?8
Genetic diversity and spatial structures of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) reveal proxies of connectivity across Mongolia and northwestern China8
Different landscape features within a simplified agroecosystem support diverse pollinators and their service to crop plants8
Evaluating modelled wildlife corridors for the movement of multiple arboreal species in a fragmented landscape8
What determines the scale of landscape effect on tropical arboreal mammals?8
The quantity-quality and gain-loss conversion pattern of green vegetation during urbanization reveals the importance of protecting natural forest ecosystems7
Interdisciplinary landscape analysis with novel technologies7
UAVs improve detection of seasonal growth responses during post-fire shrubland recovery7
‘Scalescape’: an R package for estimating distance-weighted landscape effects on an environmental response7
Extending morphological pattern segmentation to 3D voxels7
The effects of landscape composition and configuration on forest Gross Primary Production (GPP) are affected by climate conditions: patterns and management implications7
Multi-scale spatial ecology analyses: a Kullback information approach7
Long-term vegetation responses to climate depend on the distinctive roles of rewilding and traditional grazing systems7
Evaluating the influences of urban expansion on multiple ecosystem services in drylands7
The impact of habitat fragmentation on domatia-dwelling mites and a mite-plant-fungus tritrophic interaction7
Modeling eighteen years of community science data reveals extensive recolonization of bobcats in Illinois, USA7
Quantifying cross-scale patch contributions to spatial connectivity7
Forest water use is increasingly decoupled from water availability even during severe drought7
Mixed-species system and native vegetation cover shape bee community in tomato crops7
A scale-linked conservation planning framework for freshwater ecosystems7
Spatial dynamics of soundscapes and biodiversity in a semi-arid landscape7
Insect community reassembly in a spatiotemporally heterogenous restoration landscape7
Number of forest fragments and understory plants exert opposite effects on multiple facets of bird diversity in eucalypt plantations7
Comparison of habitat suitability and connectivity modelling for three carnivores of conservation concern in an Iranian montane landscape7
Phenotypic and environmental correlates of natal dispersal movements in fragmented landscapes7
Can we have it all? The role of grassland conservation in supporting forage production and plant diversity7
Highland forest’s environmental complexity drives landscape genomics and connectivity of the rodent Peromyscus melanotis7
Multifunctional landscapes for enhanced ecosystem benefits and productive agriculture in the southeastern US7
Effects of temporal floral resource availability and non-crop habitats on broad bean pollination7
Independent, but not synergistic, effects of climate and landscape structure drive pollination and subsequent reproduction in a tropical plant, Heliconia tortuosa7
Considering urban uses at a fine spatial resolution to understand the distribution of invasive plant species in cities7
A quantifiable architecture for urban social-ecological complex landscape pattern7
Genetic signals of local adaptation in a desert rodent that occupies diverse climates and plant communities7
Rapid vegetation responses over the last seven decades revealed by an alpine ice core and land-cover patterns7
Behavioral responses to ecological disturbances influence predation risk for a capital breeder7
Exploring how disturbance and light availability shape the elevation ranges of multiple mountain tree and shrub species in the tropics6
The influence of landscape spatial configuration on nitrogen and phosphorus exports in agricultural catchments6
Adapting a multiscale approach to assess the compositional diversity of landscapes6
Multi-objective optimization for timber harvest management incorporating wildlife habitat goals6
Matrix dominance and landscape resistance affect genetic variability and differentiation of an Atlantic Forest pioneer tree6
Defining landscape-level forest types: application of latent Dirichlet allocation to species distribution models6
Impacts of future urban expansion on natural habitats will intensify in China: scenario analysis with the improved LUSD-urban model6
Impacts of anthropogenic land transformation on species-specific habitat amount, fragmentation, and connectivity in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage between 2000 and 6
How the relationship between vegetation cover and land-cover variance constrains biodiversity in a human dominated world6
The effects of climate change on the timing of peak fall foliage in Acadia National Park6
Pattern of tree species co-occurrence in an ecotone responds to spatially variable drivers6
Examining local and regional ecological connectivity throughout North America6
From the local landscape organization to land abandonment: an analysis of landscape changes (1956–2017) in the Aísa Valley (Spanish Pyrenees)6
Influence of landscape connectivity on newt’s response to a warmer climate6
A novel hierarchical framework to evaluate residential exposure to green spaces6
Integrating dispersal, breeding and abundance data with graph theory for the characterization and management of functional connectivity in amphibian pondscapes6
Bee movement between natural fragments is rare despite differences in species, patch, and matrix variables6
Evaluating connectivity models for conservation: insights from African lion dispersal patterns6
Landscape structure is a key driver of soil protist diversity in meadows in the Swiss Alps6
Holocene-era landscape conditions affect genetic connectivity in a sagebrush obligate species, the pygmy rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis)6
Habitat assessment for threatened species in the cross-border region of the Atlantic Forest6
Toward conciliation in the habitat fragmentation and biodiversity debate6
Influence of forest proportion and configuration at the watershed and riparian zone scales on sediment yield: a simulation experiment6
Embedding plural values in value chains to enhance sustainability in the management of cork oak landscapes6
Management strategy influences landscape patterns of high-severity burn patches in the southwestern United States6
Distribution of amphibians and reptiles in agricultural landscape across Europe6
Correction to: Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology6
Using a trait-based approach to asses fire resistance in forest landscapes of the Inland Northwest, USA6
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