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Vol. 29 no. 2, June 2011

International Association for Landscape Ecology

available as pdf- le from the website of IALEwww.landscape-ecology.org

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ISSN 1570-6524

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Voting for the IALE Executive Committee was com -pleted in June 2011 and I am pleased to announce theresults below.

President: Felix Kienast, Switzerland(2011-2015)

Secretary General: Thomas Edwards, USA(2011-2015)

Treasurer: Ralf-Uwe Syrbe, Germany(2011-2015)

Bulletin Editor: Benjamin Burkhard, Germany

(2011-2015)

Vice-Presidents: Giovanni Zurlini, Italy(2011-2015)Jean Paul Metzger, Brazil(2011-2015)Sandra Luque, France(2009-2013, elected 2009)Boije Fu, China(2009-2013, elected 2009)

Thirty-four percent of the eligible IALE membersvoted in the election, a doubling of the number whocast ballots in the previous election. The new Boardmembers will formally assume their positions thisAugust at the World Congress in Beijing, China.

On behalf of the current IALE Executive Committee,I wish to thank all members who voted, especiallythank the members who were willing to run for thepositions and those retiring members for their effortsin the past. We also wish to acknowledge the work

PORTRAITS OF THE NEW IALE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

by Ralf Seppelt (Germany) and Dagmar Bankamp(Germany) for handling the details associated withthe election.

Thomas EdwardsInterim Secretary General

President2011-2015Felix KienastSwiss Federal Re -search Laboratory

WSL, Switzerland

BiographyProf. Felix Kienasthas over 25 yearsof exper ience inlandscape ecologyresearch. He is Ad -

junct Professor forLandscape Ecologyat ETH Zurich, Switzerland and senior scientist at theSwiss Federal Research Institute WSL. He has servedas IALE Bulletin/Web Editor and ad interim SecretaryGeneral. His research concentrates on GIS-assistedlandscape models designed for simulating potentialfuture landscape development and associated lands -cape services. Felix serves on the Editorial Boardsof Environmental Management and GAIA. Between1993 and 2010 he was Subject Editor with LandscapeEcology. His publication record consists of morethan 130 papers and communications in the eldof Landscape Ecology. He is editor of the Springer

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Landscape Series Book No. 8 entitled A ChangingWorld Challenges for Landscape Research.

Position statement I have seen IALE transform from a classic soci -ety with a unique world-wide theme - LandscapeEcology - into a multi-facetted professional societythat promotes new and challenging spatially relatedconcepts. Because of this rich scienti c tradition,Landscape Ecologists offer great ideas to shape futurelandscapes in a sustainable way. As President of IALEI would like to enhance the pro le of the Society bystrengthening our leading role in providing future

oriented landscape concepts. In order to increaseour visibility we need to increase membership andwork towards larger continental chapters with well-established formal structures and meetings. This is anecessary step to gain momentum in an increasinglyglobalized world with other Societies offering similarthemes. At the same time regional solutions shouldbe promoted in regional workshops and conferences.This amalgamation of regional, continental and globalchapters, each with different perspectives towards sol -ving common problems, is what makes IALE unique.

Secretary-General

2011-2015Thomas C. EdwardsUS Geological Sur -vey and Utah StateUniversity, Utah,USA

BiographyProf. Thomas Ed -wards currently is aSenior Research Eco -logist with the U.S.Geological Survey and Professor in the Departmentof Wildland Resources, Utah State University. Heteaches graduate level classes in The Design and Ana -lysis of Ecological Research, and Topics in SpatialEcology. Thomas Edwards' current research interestsinclude bioregional conservation planning, and thedevelopment of methods for assessing and monitoringbiological diversity at large landscape scales. Theseefforts include (i) a European-based effort of the jointeffects of climate and land change on biodiveristy in

western Europe, (ii) climate change effects on conifersof western North America, and (iii) impacts of urbandisturbance fronts in regions of high urban growthand development. He was Co-Chair of the 2009 USIALE Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah, and currentlyserves as the Secretary-General (Interim) for the IALEInternational Executive Committee.

Position Statement I view the position of Secretary-General as a nexusbetween the IALE Executive Committee, and thevarious IALE membership groups found around theworld. In addition to maintaining and keeping trackof the details associated with the IALE EC, such asmeeting notes, I would like to see the position workmore closely with the EC to increase communicationamong all IALE Chapters.

Treasurer2011-2015Ralf-Uwe SyrbeLeibniz Institute of Eco -logical and Regional De -velopment, Germany

BiographyDr. Ralf-Uwe Syrbe isa landscape ecology re -searcher with the LeibnizInstitute of Ecological and Regional Development(IOER) and teacher in the Anhalt University of Ap -plied Sciences (Bernburg). He studied Geography andMathematics at the Potsdam University, Germany.His PhD thesis focused on landscape assessment,fuzzy logic and GIS. Thereafter he coordinated aninterdisciplinary project on landscape regenerationand sustainable land use at the UFZ Centre for En -vironmental Research. He was a research associateat the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanitiesin Dresden from 1994 to 2007. The working groupNatural Balance and Regional Characteristics de -veloped evaluation methods for reporting and fore -casting the status, functionality and carrying capacityof landscape. His research emphasized landscapeclassi cation, monitoring, and landscape metrics.His current research involves landscape scenarios,ecosystem services, and landscape maintenance.

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The IALE Bulletin is distributed three times a year to the members of the IALE. The IALE - International Association for Landscape Ecologywas founded in 1982 to promote communication between scientists, planners and interdisciplinary scienti c research. IALE Executive Committee:President: K. Bruce Jones 2007-2011, US Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, Virginia, USA,kbjones@usgs .gov; Secretary General: Thomas C. Edwards, Jr., 5230 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-5230, USA,[email protected] ; Treasurer:Ralf-Uwe Syrbe 2007-2011, Leibniz-Institut fr kologische Raumentwicklung (IR), Weberplatz 1, D-01217 Dresden, Germany, [email protected] ; Past President: Bob Bunce 2007-2011; ALTERRA Green World Research, Wageningen UR, Postbox 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The

Netherlands, [email protected] ; Vice Presidents: Paul Opdam 2007-2011, Wageningen UR, Landscape Ct., Land Use Planning Group, POBox 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands, [email protected] ; Diane Pearson 2007-2011, Tropical Spatial Science Group, School of Science & Primary Industries, Faculty of Education, Health & Science, Charles Darwin University, Darwin 0909 Australia,[email protected] ; Bojie Fu 2009-2013, Bureau of Science & Technology for Resources & Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 52 SanliheRoad, Beijing, 100864, P.R. China; Sandra Luque 2005-2009, Cemagref - Institute for Agricultural and environmental engineering research,2, rue de la papeterie, BP 76, F-38402 St-Martin-dHres, cedex, France, [email protected] ; Bulletin Editor and Deputy SecretaryGeneral: Felix Kienast 1999-2011, Swiss Federal Institute of Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Division of Land Use Dynamics,Landscape Modelling, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland, [email protected] ; Chairman of Council: Bob Gardner 2007-2011, AppalachianEnvironmental Laboratory, Univ. of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD 21532, [email protected] .IALE on the Internet: IALE International:www.landscape-ecology.org

Position Statement Ralf-Uwe is a member of IALE since 1997, and con -tributed to the foundation of the German IALE Chap -ter in 1999. He has been Treasurer of IALE since the2007 world congress. As treasurer for the next periodin of ce he wants to: (i) continue the present work;(ii) improve the facilities for IALE members; (iii)support the foundation and development of regionalIALE Chapters; (iv) foster fairness between gene -rations and population groups; (v) save and revaluetraditional landscape knowledge; and (vi) propagatelandscape knowledge beyond commercial constraints.

Bulletin Editor2011-2015Benjamin Burk-hardEcology Centre of the Christian Alb -rechts UniversityKiel, Germany

BiographyDr. Benjamin Burkhard has been working the last10 years at the Ecology Centre of the ChristianAlbrechts University Kiel, Germany. He is part of

different interdisciplinary research and developmentprojects, dealing for example with landscape ma -

nagement in Northern Finland, integrative coastalzone management in the North Sea, peri-urban landuse relations in Europe or changing water regimesat the Yangtze river in China. In these projects hehas been carrying out integrative landscape systemsanalyses and indicator applications, assessments of ecosystem services, resilience and adaptability. In theyear 2004, he received his doctoral degree in Ecology.Before that, he studied Geography at the Universitiesof Berlin, Germany and Uppsala, Sweden. BenjaminBurkhard got international working experience du -ring his research stays at the University of Salento,Italy (2007), at the University of Adelaide, Australia(2008) and during regular research and teaching staysin Finland, Austria and China. His teaching activitiesinclude courses in ecosystem analysis within inter -national Masters curricula at Kiel University and indifferent EU-Erasmus exchange activities. He is anactive member of IALE-D and IALE member since2006. Moreover, he is a founder member and part of the steering committee of the Ecosystem ServicesPartnership. Benjamin Burkhards publication recordincludes numerous papers, book chapters and com -munications, two edited special issues and numerousreviews for international highly ranked journals.

Position Statement As an active member in international research net -

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scales, be it more short-term such as human-inducedland change or longer-term as related to changingclimates. Human societies have been responding

to environmental changes (e.g., climate, drought)through multiple pathways, including collapse,migration, but also with creative invention throughtechnological solutions. Human responses to changemay in turn alter feedbacks between climate, ecolo -gical and social systems, producing a complex webof multidirectional connections in time and space. Iwill work to help IALE become the world-recognizedSociety that will enhance and encourage a diversity of approaches in the conceptualization and applicationof ecosystem services. Such social-ecological systemperspective represents the integration of the social/political and the ecological scales, and it emphasizesthe view that social and ecological systems are infact linked, and that the delineation between the twois arti cial and arbitrary.

Vice-President2011-2015Jean Paul MetzgerUniversity of So Paulo,

Brazil BiographyProf. Jean Paul Metzgeris an Associated Pro -fessor of Ecology at theUniversity of So Paulo.He obtained his MScand PhD in Landscape Ecology at the University of Toulouse, France, under the supervision of Henri D -camps (past-president of IALE from 1991-1995). Hecurrently works with landscape ecology and conser -vation in highly fragmented landscapes, particularlywithin the Atlantic Forest region. His main researchfocuses on connectivity issues, thresholds and time-lag responses to landscape change, and conservationplanning. He has established a strong LandscapeEcology laboratory at the University of So Pauloand has published over 60 papers in the last 14 yearsin various journals that include Landscape Ecology,Landscape and Urban Planning, Science, EcologicalApplications, Ecography, Oikos, Journal of Applied

the IALE bulletin and the website. I am convincedthat both media have high potential to reach a broadinternational audience in landscape science and from

other disciplines or interests.

Vice-President2011-2015Giovanni ZurliniUniversity of Salento -Lecce, Italy

BiographyProf. Giovanni (Gianni)Zurlini is full Professorof Ecology at the De -partment of Biologicaland Environmental Sciences and Technologies(DISTEBA) in the Faculty of Mathematical, Physicaland Natural Sciences at the University of Salento,Lecce (South Italy). He is member of IALE-Italy.Dr. Giovanni Zurlini received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of Utrecht (NL) in 1980 in Mathematicsand Natural Sciences, with a minor in QuantitativeEcology. He also has a Masters degree in Biology

(Ecology) from the University of Parma. He directsthe Landscape Ecology Laboratory working on theassessment of ecosystem goods and services, andecological risk assessment at landscape level. He isthe author or co-author of more than 200 scienti cpapers. He currently serves on the editorial board of four international academic journals like LandscapeEcology, Ecological Indicators, Living On-line Re -views, Landscape on-line, and is referee for a numberof international journals. He is member of the steeringcommittee of the Ecosystem Service (ES) Partner -ship, a network organization linking practitioners,researchers, and stakeholders around the world whoare working toward better understanding, modeling,valuation and management of ecosystem services andnatural capital.

Position Statement We in IALE have mixtures of skills that cross ecolo -gical, socio-demographic, and economic disciplineboundaries, leading our Society to a prominent po -sition for assessing ecosystem services at multiple


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Ecology, Biological Conservation, Global Environ -mental Change, Acta OEcologica, Biotropica, ForestEcology and Management and Ecological Modelling.

He has supervised 16 M.Sc. dissertations, 7doctoraltheses and 9 post-doctoral projects. Dr. Metzger isfounder and past-president of the Brazilian Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology(IALE-BR), and organized the rst Latin AmericaIALE Congress in 2009. He is currently member of the editorial boards of Landscape Ecology, BiologicalConservation, Biota Neotropica, and the BrazilianJournal of Nature Conservation, and is a past memberof the editorial board of Ecosystems.

Position Statement My main objective is to work with the IALE Exe -cutive Committee in order to strength LandscapeEcology teaching, research and application outsideits traditional axis of action (USA, Canada, Europeand Australia) and thus to promote the expansion of IALE activities to new regions, particularly to LatinAmerica. I will thus pursuit the main objectives of the IALE Latin American meeting of 2009: (i) toencourage research development and consolidationon Landscape Ecology in Latin America by approa -ching and integrating researchers; (ii) to facilitate

the creation of new IALE chapters in Latin America,establishing tools to integrate their actions; and (iii)to promote technical and scienti c exchange betweenNorthern and Southern researchers and educators.Additionally, I think that IALE can have a key-rolein disseminating Landscape Ecology principles byorganizing international summer schools with leadingresearches for graduate students and/or practitioners.

Elected in 2009 for four years (for position state-ments see IALE Bulletin Vol. 27, no. 1)

Vice-President2009-2013 (elected 2009)Sandra LuqueCemagref, France

Vice-President2009-2013 (elected 2009)Boije FuBureau of Science & Technologyfor Resources & Environment,China

Past President

2007-2011Bruce JonesUS Geological Survey,USA

Publicity Of cerEmilio Padoa SchioppaRULE - Research Unit of Landscape Ecology, Italy

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Paul OpdamVice President2007-2011,the Netherlands

Robert GardnerChairman of Council2007-2011,USA

THE 8TH IALE WORLD CONGRESS

AUGUST 18-23, 2011 - BEIJING, CHINA

Theme Landscape ecology for sustainable environment andculture

PlenariesUp to now, seven plenaries have been con rmed:Richard Forman, Paul Opdam, Jianguo Wu, Joan Nas -sauer, Bob Costanza, Gloria Pungetti and Bojie Fu.

SymposiumsTotally 35 symposiums have been con rmed ( http:// www.iale2011.org/page.asp?id=99 ).

Training coursesFour training courses have been determined: Megacity Shanghai - Development of Sustainable

Urban Environment Research Methods and Career Development in

Landscape Ecology: Towards A New Synthesis

GUIDOS: Landscape pattern and connectivityanalysis

Spatial Modeling of Forest Landscape Dyna -mics under Climate Change: Introductions toLANIDIS-II with hands-on training

AbstractsBy now, ca. 750 abstracts have been received, resul -ting in ca. 550 oral presentations and ca. 150 posters.

Financial awardsIALE and China have offered 44 awards to studentsand young scientists from developing countries.

VenueChina National Convention Center (CNCC)Please check http://www.cnccchina.com/en/default.aspx for more information.

Thanks to those retiring members for their efforts!

Bob BuncePresident 2003-2007 and PastPresident 2007-2011,the Netherlands

Diane PearsonVice President 2007-2011,Australia

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Please check http://www.iale2011.org/page.asp?id=102 for more information.

Special events Thursday, Aug. 18, 14:00-16:00: Executive com -

mittee meeting Friday, Aug. 19, 18:00-19:00: URBIO group

meeting Friday, Aug. 19, 19:00-19:30: IALE council mee -

ting (national representatives and Friday, workinggroup leaders)

Friday, Aug. 19, 19:45-20:45: General Assembly Saturday, Aug. 20, 18:00-21:00: Congress dinner;

Social events; Introduction about Travel GrantAwardees; Introduction about the next IALEcongress and next IALE EC members.

Sunday, Aug. 21, whole day: Mid-CongressExcursions

Monday, Aug. 22, 16:00-17:00: Closing ceremo -ny; Summing up; Transition of the IALE Execu -tive Committee

Monday, Aug. 22, 17:30-18:30: New Executivecommittee meeting

ContactHomepage: http://www.iale2011.orgEmail: [email protected]

The International Association for Landscape Ecology(IALE) seeks proposals to host the 2015 IALE WorldCongress.

The minimum requirements for proposals are publis -hed on the website:http://www.landscape-ecology.org/meeting.html

Please send proposals no later than 31. July 2011 to:

Secretary General IALE InternationalThomas C. Edwards, Jr.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS TO HOST IALE WORLD CONGRESS 2015

USGS Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife ResearchUnitDepartment of Wildland ResourcesUtah State University, Logan, UT 84322-5290 [email protected]

Bulletin Deadline

Vol. 29 no.3: September 15, 2011

PLEASE: Send your contributions to the newBulletin Editor Benjamin Burkhard

[email protected]

ExcursionsOne-day tours on Aug. 21st: City 1: Badaling Great Wall & the Ming Tombs

City 2: Forbidden City & Hutong by pedicabs City 3: Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace,

Beijing Zoo & Capital Museum Rural 1: Countryside of Beijing: Ecofarms Rural 2: Recovered Yongding River Wetlands

-Chuandixia Village - Donglingshan MoutainForest Landscape

Rural 3: Wild-duck Wetlands Park, eco-friendlyand Clean Watershed, Ming Tombs FengshuiLandscape

Rural 4: Coast Wetland, Eco-City in Binhaixinqu,Binhaixinqu Urban Landscape

Post-Congress tours from Aug. 23rd: PT 1: Golden Triangle: Beijing - Xian - Shanghai

(23-27 August, 2011) PT 2: China Highlights: Beijing - Xian - Guilin

(23-26 August, 2011) PT 3: Yangtze River Cruise: Beijing - Chongqing

- Yangtze River Cruise - Yichang - Shanghai (23-28 August, 2011)

PT 4: Hani Terrace Discovery: Beijing - Kun -ming - Yuanyang Kunming Xishuangbanna

Lijiang

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