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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inferring future changes in gene flow under climate change in riverscapes: a pilot case study in fluvial sculpin80
Prolonged coastal inundation detected with synthetic aperture radar significantly retarded functional recovery of mangroves after major hurricanes71
Farm structure and environmental context drive farmers’ decisions on the spatial distribution of ecological focus areas in Germany70
Handling ecosystem service trade-offs: the importance of the spatial scale at which no-loss constraints are posed67
Binary space partitioning generates hierarchical and rectilinear neutral landscape models suitable for human-dominated landscapes54
Propagule pressure and land-use are more important than climate for invasive bryophytes regional distributions53
Butterfly biodiversity in the city is driven by the interaction of the urban landscape and species traits: a call for contextualised management51
The relationship between spatial patterns of urban land uses and air pollutants in the Tehran metropolis, Iran49
Does land-use and land cover affect vector-borne diseases? A systematic review and meta-analysis48
Automated habitat monitoring systems linked to adaptive management: a new paradigm for species conservation in an era of rapid environmental change46
A new fractal index to classify forest fragmentation and disorder43
A framework for linking dispersal biology to connectivity across landscapes43
Floral resource discontinuity contributes to spatial mismatch between pollinator supply and pollination demand in a pollinator-dependent agricultural landscapes42
How to assess the temporal dynamics of landscape connectivity in ever-changing landscapes: a literature review41
The wildland-urban interface in Poland reflects legacies of historical national borders40
Linking acoustic diversity to compositional and configurational heterogeneity in mosaic landscapes40
Drivers of invasion by laurel wilt of redbay and sassafras in the southeastern US40
Navigating agricultural landscapes: responses of critically endangered giant tortoises to farmland vegetation and infrastructure39
Aggregation of organically managed fields promotes aphid parasitism in cereal crops under Mediterranean conditions37
Translating the landscape. The reciprocity of representations and other realities37
New methods for quantifying the effects of catchment spatial patterns on aquatic responses37
Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology35
Estimating statewide carrying capacity of bobcats (Lynx rufus) using improved maximum clique algorithms35
Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands34
Using Bayesian Belief Networks to assess the influence of landscape connectivity on ecosystem service trade-offs and synergies in urban landscapes in the UK34
Key attributes of greenspace pattern for heat mitigation vary with urban functional zones29
How landscape and biotic interactions shape a Mediterranean reptile community29
Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient28
Spatial vulnerability assessment of silver fir and Norway spruce dieback driven by climate warming27
Lithology modulates the response of water limited Mediterranean ecosystems to aridification27
Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration27
Socio-spatial factors influence climate change adaptation decisions of rural coastal landowners26
Potential risks to endemic conifer montane forests under climate change: integrative approach for conservation prioritization in southwestern China26
Floral identity and availability along with surrounding landscapes affect pollinator communities in eastern Tennessee26
Effects of adaptive multiple paddock and continuous grazing on fine-scale spatial patterns of vegetation species and biomass in commercial ranches26
Management linked to ecological intensification supports insect pollinators in Iberian wood-pastures26
Potential cougar habitats and dispersal corridors in Eastern North America26
The impact of typhoon on post-volcanic-eruption forest landscape recovery: a study in Changbai mountain through 300 years of historic landscape reconstruction26
Novel pollen analogue technique shows bumblebees display low floral constancy and prefer sites with high floral diversity25
Testing the effect of wetland spatiotemporal variability on amphibian occurrence across scales24
The supply and demand of water purification service in an urbanizing basin on the Tibetan Plateau23
Rectifying I: three point and continuous fit of the spatial autocorrelation metric, Moran’s I, to ideal form23
Effects of spatial patterning within working pine forests on priority avian species in Mississippi23
Using neutral landscape models to evaluate the umbrella species concept in an ecotone23
Scaling of classification systems—effects of class precision on detection accuracy from medium resolution multispectral data23
Effects of compositional and configurational heterogeneity of the urban matrix on the species richness of woody plants in urban remnant forest patches22
Species–genetic diversity correlations through the lens of spatial autocorrelation: insights from high Andean wetlands22
Dynamics in the landscape ecology of institutions: lags, legacies, and feedbacks drive path-dependency of forest landscapes in British Columbia, Canada 1858–202022
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
Integrating ecosystem service supply and demand into ecological risk assessment: a comprehensive framework and case study21
Amount and isolation of aquatic habitat drive anuran diversity in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado21
Loss of winter wonderland: proximity to different road types has variable effects on winter soundscapes21
The Portuguese forest and the Common Agricultural Policy20
Southern spatial stories: interdisciplinary perceptions of shifting spatial awareness and values20
Jaguar distribution, biological corridors and protected areas in Mexico: from science to public policies20
Legacy land use predicts occupancy patterns of prairie-associated herpetofauna in Western Arkansas20
Linking genetic structure, landscape genetics, and species distribution modeling for regional conservation of a threatened freshwater turtle20
Uncertainties in research between urban landscape and air quality: summary, demonstration, and expectation19
The discontinuum of river networks: the importance of geomorphic boundaries19
Looking for a magic island in the sea of agriculture: factors affecting forest patch attractiveness for wild boar in human-dominated landscape19
Evaluating climate-driven fallowing for ecological connectivity of species at risk19
Maintaining functional connectivity in grassland corridors between plantation forests promotes high-quality habitat and conserves range restricted grasshoppers19
The varying roles of ecosystem services in poverty alleviation among rural households in urbanizing watersheds18
Scale-dependent seasonal habitat selection by jaguars (Panthera onca) and pumas (Puma concolor) in Panama18
Scaling-up ecosystem functions of coastal heterogeneous sediments: testing practices using high resolution data18
Corridor width and orientation are complementary design variables for butterflies in conservation corridors17
Insectivorous songbirds as early indicators of future defoliation by spruce budworm17
Aiming for the optimum: examining complex relationships among sampling regime, sampling density and landscape complexity to accurately model resource availability17
Housing or habitat: what drives patterns of avian species richness in urbanized landscapes?17
Fine temporal resolution satellite sensors with global coverage: an opportunity for landscape ecologists17
Dredging fundamentally reshapes the ecological significance of 3D terrain features for fish in estuarine seascapes17
A landscape connectivity approach to mitigating the urban heat island effect17
Simulation-based insights into community uniqueness within fragmented landscapes17
Large felid habitat connectivity in the transboundary Dawna-Tanintharyi landscape of Myanmar and Thailand16
Forecasting natural regeneration of sagebrush after wildfires using population models and spatial matching16
Entropy in landscape ecology: a response to Stepinski16
Landscape features drive insectivorous bat activity in Indian rice fields16
The influence of landscape context on the production of cultural ecosystem services16
Landscape characteristics and predation risk influence spatial variation in auditory courtship of an upland game bird16
Landscape floral resources provided by rapeseed correlate with next-year reproduction of cavity-nesting pollinators in a national participatory monitoring program16
The scale effects of landscape variables on landscape experiences: a multi-scale spatial analysis of social media data in an urban nature park context16
Floral resource maps: a tool to explain flower-visiting insect abundance at multiple spatial scales16
Landscape models can predict the distribution of aquatic insects across agricultural areas16
Unraveling a paradox of habitat relationships: scale-dependent drivers of temporal occupancy-abundance relationships in a cooperatively breeding bird15
Predators do not benefit from crop diversity but respond to configurational heterogeneity in wheat and cotton fields15
Climate and land change impacts on future managed wetland habitat: a case study from California’s Central Valley15
River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China15
Native-exotic richness relationships in second-growth forests differ along a gradient of land-use history15
Developing landscape-scale forest restoration targets that embrace spatial pattern15
Quantifying and predicting population connectivity of an outbreaking forest insect pest15
Landscape-based solutions are needed for meeting water challenges of China’s expanding and thirsty cities15
Landscape resistance to gene flow in a snow leopard population from Qilianshan National Park, Gansu, China15
Where nothing stands still: quantifying nomadism in Australian arid-zone birds15
Responses of avian assemblages to spatiotemporal landscape dynamics in urban ecosystems14
Pollination efficiency in farmland landscapes: exploring the relative roles of spillover, dilution and complementarity between habitats14
Effects of sample size, data quality, and species response in environmental space on modeling species distributions14
Forest cover and non-forest landscape heterogeneity modulate pollination of tropical understory plants14
Wind erosion response to past and future agro-pastoral trajectories in the Sahel (Niger)14
Impacts of agricultural intensification on soil erosion and sustainability of olive groves in Alentejo (Portugal)14
Back and forth: day–night alternation between cover types reveals complementary use of habitats in a large herbivore14
Dung beetle community patterns in Western Europe: responses of Scarabaeinae to landscape and environmental filtering14
Putting more fuel on the fire… or maybe not? A synthesis of spruce beetle and fire interactions in North American subalpine forests14
Interactions between landscape and local factors inform spatial action planning in post-fire forest environments14
Improved topographic ruggedness indices more accurately model fine-scale ecological patterns13
Spatial and temporal scales of landscape structure affect the biodiversity-landscape relationship across ecologically distinct species groups13
What drives phylogenetic and trait clustering on islands?13
Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale13
Future transitions from a conifer to a deciduous-dominated landscape are accelerated by greater wildfire activity and climate change in interior Alaska13
Bee functional groups respond to vegetation cover and landscape diversity in a Brazilian metropolis13
Spatially explicit correlates of plant functional traits inform landscape patterns of resource quality13
Governing the landscape: potential and challenges of integrated approaches to landscape sustainability in Indonesia13
Does agricultural intensification cause tipping points in ecosystem services?13
Impacts of large-scale landscape restoration on spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem services in the Chinese Loess Plateau13
A three-step approach for assessing landscape connectivity via simulated dispersal: African wild dog case study13
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
Landscape complementation is a driver of bumble bee (Bombus sp.) abundance in the Canadian Rocky Mountains13
Ecological corridors and landscape planning: a model to select priority areas for connectivity maintenance12
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
Spatiotemporal patterns of rising annual plant abundance in grasslands of the Willamette Valley, Oregon (USA)12
Threshold and weighted-distance methods: a combined multiscale approach improves explanatory power of forest carabid beetle abundance in agricultural landscape12
Management diversification increases habitat availability for multiple biodiversity indicator species in production forests12
Remote sensing in landscape ecology12
Canopy gap patterns in Mediterranean forests: a spatio-temporal characterization using airborne LiDAR data12
Comparing floral resource maps and land cover maps to predict predators and aphid suppression on field bean12
Habitat connectivity supports the local abundance of fire salamanders (Salamandra salamandra) but also the spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans12
Effects of counter-urbanization on Mediterranean rural landscapes12
Analysing and predicting wildlife–vehicle collision hotspots for the Swiss road network12
Cultural ecosystem services in an urban park: understanding bundles, trade-offs, and synergies12
Participatory landscape sustainability assessment: where do we stand? A systematic literature review12
Leaving disturbance legacies conserves boreal conifers and maximizes net CO2 absorption under climate change and more frequent and larger windthrow regimes12
Orchid bees respond to landscape composition differently depending on the multiscale approach12
Accounting for sex-specific differences in gene flow and functional connectivity for cougars and implications for management12
Machine learning in landscape ecological analysis: a review of recent approaches11
Insectivorous bats in Indian rice fields respond to moonlight, temperature, and insect activity11
Examining primate community occurrence patterns in agroforest landscapes using arboreal and terrestrial camera traps11
Finding shared solutions in landscape or natural resource management through social learning: A quasi-experimental evaluation in an Alpine region11
Integrating land use and climate change models with stakeholder priorities to evaluate habitat connectivity change: a case study in southern Québec11
A simplified perspective on the index of spatial autocorrelation11
Climate factors impact different facets of grassland biodiversity both directly and indirectly through soil conditions11
Scaling spatial pattern metrics: impacts of composition and configuration on downscaling accuracy11
Effect of landscape composition and configuration on biodiversity at multiple scales: a case study with amphibians from Sierra Madre del Sur, Oaxaca, Mexico11
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
Patch size and connectivity predict remnant habitat occupancy by an endangered wetland specialist, the salt marsh harvest mouse10
Integrating remote sensing data on habitat suitability and functional connectivity to inform multitaxa roadkill mitigation plans10
Tigers on the edge: mortality and landscape change dominate individual-based spatially-explicit simulations of a small tiger population10
If a tree falls in the forest: terrestrial habitat loss predicts caddisfly (Insecta: Trichoptera) assemblages and functional feeding group biomass throughout rivers of the North-central United States10
Sex-specific connectivity modelling for brown bear conservation in the Carpathian Mountains10
Long-unburnt habitat is critical for the conservation of threatened vertebrates across Australia10
Human impact on forests in early twentieth century Finland10
Impacts of the European Landscape Convention on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research10
Assessing large landscape patterns of potential fire connectivity using circuit methods10
Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data10
Sustainable landscape pattern: a landscape approach to serving spatial planning10
Do provisioning ecosystem services change along gradients of increasing agricultural production?10
Sensitivity to habitat fragmentation across European landscapes in three temperate forest herbs10
Pygmy rabbit habitat network reveals threats and opportunities for management and conservation10
Combining landscape and genetic graphs to address key issues in landscape genetics10
Sex-biased habitat selection by American marten in the Acadian Forest10
Traits influence reptile responses to fire in a fragmented agricultural landscape10
Contrasting effects of future wildfire and forest management scenarios on a fire excluded western US landscape10
Climate change drives increased directional movement of landscape ecotones10
The landscapes of livestock diversity: grazing local breeds as a proxy for domesticated species adaptation to the environment9
Scaling up tree growth to assess forest resilience under increasing aridity: the case of Iberian dry-edge pine forests9
Mapping, quantifying and comparing seascape heterogeneity of Southwest Indian Ridge seamounts9
Recoupling cross-scale interactions in tall fescue-invaded tallgrass prairie9
Drivers of species and genetic diversity within forest metacommunities across agricultural landscapes of different permeability9
Interplay between local and landscape-scale effects on the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of aerial insectivorous neotropical bats9
Weather and land cover create a predictable “stress-scape” for a winter-adapted bird9
Combining historical aerial photography with machine learning to map landscape change impacts on dry grasslands in the Central Alps9
Decision-making criteria to shape mulching techniques for fire-prone landscapes9
Crop mixtures outperform rotations and landscape mosaics in regulation of two fungal wheat pathogens: a simulation study9
Large carnivore foraging contributes to heterogeneity in nutrient cycling9
Landscape spatial patterns in Mexico City and New York City: contrasting territories for biodiversity planning9
Exploring spatial correlations between ecosystem services and sustainable development goals: a regional-scale study from China9
Fine-scale spatial heterogeneity shapes compensatory responses of a subalpine forest to severe bark beetle outbreak9
Are wind turbines integrated into landscape? an analysis of its social perception in a spanish mediterranean area9
Efficiency of spatial sampling designs in estimating abundance and species richness of carabids at the landscape level9
Context matters: the landscape matrix determines the population genetic structure of temperate forest herbs across Europe9
Drought-induced forest dieback increases taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of saproxylic beetles at both local and landscape scales9
Quantification of the spatial resilience of the Spanish rural landscape to fire occurrence analysed using the SISPARES network of plots9
The importance of spatial configuration of neighbouring land cover for explanation of surface temperature of individual patches in urban landscapes9
Habitat loss for black flying foxes and implications for Hendra virus9
Spatially explicit models predict coffee rust spread in fragmented landscapes8
Mapping and assessing freshwater ecosystem services supply and demand in Inner Mongolia (China)8
Potential cheatgrass abundance within lightly invaded areas of the Great Basin8
Different landscape features within a simplified agroecosystem support diverse pollinators and their service to crop plants8
Multi-scale waterfowl habitat conservation planning in Wisconsin, USA8
Genetic diversity and spatial structures of snow leopards (Panthera uncia) reveal proxies of connectivity across Mongolia and northwestern China8
Evaluation of anthropogenic pressure on the occupancy patterns of large mammals in the Western and Eastern Ghats8
Urban forests of Moscow: typological diversity, succession status, and fragmentation assessment8
Explaining land use and forest change: more theory or better methodology?8
Evaluating modelled wildlife corridors for the movement of multiple arboreal species in a fragmented landscape8
Multivariate analysis of invasive plant species distributions in southern US forests8
Forest-sedgeland boundaries are historically stable and resilient to wildfire at Blakes Opening in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, Australia8
Movement of mud snails affects population dynamics, primary production and landscape heterogeneity in tidal flat ecosystems8
Landscape configuration of an Amazonian island-like ecosystem drives population structure and genetic diversity of a habitat-specialist bird8
Interactive effects of drought and edge exposure on old-growth forest understory species8
Habitat quality, not habitat amount, drives mammalian habitat use in the Brazilian Pantanal8
Robustness of resistance surface optimisations: sampling schemes and genetic distance metrics affect inferences in landscape genetics8
Multi-scale spatial ecology analyses: a Kullback information approach7
Planning wetland protection and restoration for the safeguard of ecosystem service flows to beneficiaries7
Savanna tree abundance and spatial patterns are strongly associated with river networks in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania7
An experimental test of the habitat amount hypothesis reveals little effect of habitat area but transient or indirect effects of fragmentation on local species richness7
Long-term vegetation responses to climate depend on the distinctive roles of rewilding and traditional grazing systems7
A new agent-based model provides insight into deep uncertainty faced in simulated forest management7
Diving beetle (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) community dissimilarity reveals how low landscape connectivity restricts the ecological value of urban ponds7
The impact of habitat fragmentation on domatia-dwelling mites and a mite-plant-fungus tritrophic interaction7
Insect community reassembly in a spatiotemporally heterogenous restoration landscape7
Quantifying cross-scale patch contributions to spatial connectivity7
Evaluating the influences of urban expansion on multiple ecosystem services in drylands7
Large-scale afforestation for ecosystem service provisioning: learning from the past to improve the future7
What determines the scale of landscape effect on tropical arboreal mammals?7
Number of forest fragments and understory plants exert opposite effects on multiple facets of bird diversity in eucalypt plantations7
Correction to: Spatial and temporal dynamics of Mexican spotted owl habitat in the southwestern US7
Assessing impacts of mining on provisioning ecosystem services in a culturally diverse landscape of Western Cape York, Australia7
Rapid vegetation responses over the last seven decades revealed by an alpine ice core and land-cover patterns7
Comparison of habitat suitability and connectivity modelling for three carnivores of conservation concern in an Iranian montane landscape7
Consequences of ignoring variable and spatially autocorrelated detection probability in spatial capture-recapture7
Phenotypic and environmental correlates of natal dispersal movements in fragmented landscapes7
The role of land use and land cover change in climate change vulnerability assessments of biodiversity: a systematic review7
Genetic signals of local adaptation in a desert rodent that occupies diverse climates and plant communities7
No single factor can explain the low regeneration of patchy coniferous plantations in northern China7
Scaling spatial pattern in river networks: the effects of spatial extent, grain size and thematic resolution7
Landscape conservation in the natural-rural interface. A social-ecological approach in Natural Parks of Andalusia (Spain)7
Characterizing range-wide impacts of anthropogenic barriers on structural landscape connectivity for the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai)7
Effects of an early mass-flowering crop on wild bee communities and traits in power line corridors vary with blooming plants and landscape context7
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
Scale-dependent effects of terrestrial habitat on genetic variation in the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)6
Monitoring changes in landscape structure in the Adirondack-to-Laurentians (A2L) transboundary wildlife linkage between 1992 and 2018: Identifying priority areas for conservation and restoration6
Staying connected: assessing the capacity of landscapes to retain biodiversity in a changing climate6
Spatial scaling of land use/land cover and ecosystem services across urban hierarchical levels: patterns and relationships6
Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment6
A multi-scale landscape approach to understand dispersal of the mistletoe by birds in Mediterranean pine forests6
A multi-ecosystem prioritization framework to balance competing habitat conservation needs of multiple species in decline6
Carrying out experiments in landscape ecology6
Correction to: Advancing a science of scaling in landscape ecology6
Connecting mountains and desert valleys for black bears in northern Mexico6
Matrix dominance and landscape resistance affect genetic variability and differentiation of an Atlantic Forest pioneer tree6
How the relationship between vegetation cover and land-cover variance constrains biodiversity in a human dominated world6
Evaluating connectivity models for conservation: insights from African lion dispersal patterns6
A novel hierarchical framework to evaluate residential exposure to green spaces6
Indirect interactions between climate and cropland distribution shape fire size in West African grasslands6
Defining landscape-level forest types: application of latent Dirichlet allocation to species distribution models6
Heterogeneity in soil chemistry relates to urbanization while soil homogeneity relates to plant invasion in small temperate deciduous forests6
Using a trait-based approach to asses fire resistance in forest landscapes of the Inland Northwest, USA6
Curb your enthusiasm for explaining the complexity of landscape configurations in terms of thermodynamics6
Distribution of amphibians and reptiles in agricultural landscape across Europe6
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