25 July 2025
Land | Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2025

We are delighted to announce that Issue 6, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in June 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:

Cover Story:

Tree Canopies Drive δ13C and δ15N Patterns in Mediterranean Wood Pastures of the Iberian Peninsula
by Mercedes Ibañez, Salvador Aljazairi, María José Leiva, Cristina Chocarro, Roland A. Werner, Jaleh Ghashghaie and Maria-Teresa Sebastià
Land 2025, 14(6), 1135; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061135

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change
An Assessment of the N Load from Animal Farms in Saline Wetland Catchments in the Ebro Basin, NE Spain
by María Tierra, José R. Olarieta and Carmen Castañeda
Land 2025, 14(6), 1170; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061170

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
Ecological Risk Assessment of Watersheds Based on Adaptive Cycling Theory—A Case Study of Poyang Lake Ecological and Economic Zone
by Yixi Gu, Jiaxuan Wang, Xinyi Su and Kaili Zhang
Land 2025, 14(6), 1265; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061265

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
The “Soil of the Year” Campaign in Germany—Experiences from over 20 Years of Public Relations Work for Soil Awareness
by Sonja Medwedski, Gerhard Milbert, Maike Bosold, Jeannette Mathews and Klaus Kruse
Land 2025, 14(6), 1250; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061250

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
Rescaling and Transforming: “Umbrella Agreements,” Planning Deals, and the Israeli Planning Regime
by Sharon Eshel, Oren Yiftachel and Talia Margalit
Land 2025, 14(6), 1295; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061295  

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions
Urban Green Spaces and Climate Changes: Assessing Ecosystem Services for the Municipality of Sassari (Italy)
by Andrea De Montis, Antonio Ledda, Vittorio Serra, Alessandro Manunta and Giovanna Calia
Land 2025, 14(6), 1308; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061308

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices—Strategies to Conserve and Increase Soil Carbon in Hungary
by Eszter Tóth, Marianna Magyar, Imre Cseresnyés, Márton Dencső, Annamária Laborczi, Gábor Szatmári and Sándor Koós
Land 2025, 14(6), 1206; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061206

Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
Tree-Ring Chronological Investigation on the Oak Poles of the Prehistoric Settlement of “Gran Carro” in Lake Bolsena, Central Italy: Landscape and Human Occupation
by Manuela Romagnoli, Mara Sarlatto, Swati Tamantini, Giulia Galotta, Maria Cristina Moscatelli, Egidio Severi and Barbara Barbaro
Land 2025, 14(6), 1147; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061147

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
“Sacrificing Wilderness for Renewables? Land Artificialization from Inadequate Spatial Planning of Wind Energy in Evvoia, Greece”
by Vassiliki Kati, Konstantina Spiliopoulou, Apostolis Stefanidis and Christina Kassara
Land 2025, 14(6), 1296; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061296
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/6/1296 

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
Sparing or Sharing? Differential Management of Cultivated Land Based on the “Landscape Differentiation–Function Matching” Analytical Framework
by Guanyu Ding and Huafu Zhao
Land 2025, 14(6), 1278; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061278

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning
Social Intelligence Mining: Transforming Land Management with Data and Deep Learning
by Mohammad Reza Yeganegi, Hossein Hassani and Nadejda Komendantova
Land 2025, 14(6), 1198; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061198

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus
A Novel Framework to Represent Hypoxia in Coastal Systems
by Aavudai Anandhi, Ruth Book and Gulnihal Ozbay
Land 2025, 14(6), 1169; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061169

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring
Monitoring Slope Stability: A Comprehensive Review of UAV Applications in Open-Pit Mining
by Stephanos Tsachouridis, Francis Pavloudakis, Constantinos Sachpazis and Vassilios Tsioukas
Land 2025, 14(6), 1193; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061193

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture
A Bibliometric Analysis on Designing Urban Green and Blue Spaces Related to Environmental and Public Health Benefits
by Catarina de Sousa Silva, Simon Bell, Lenka Lackóová and Thomas Panagopoulos
Land 2025, 14(6), 1230; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061230

General
A Review of Plant-Mediated and Fertilization-Induced Shifts in Ammonia Oxidizers: Implications for Nitrogen Cycling in Agroecosystems
by Durga P. M. Chinthalapudi, William Kingery and Shankar Ganapathi Shanmugam
Land 2025, 14(6), 1182; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061182

Enhancing Stream Ecosystems Through Riparian Vegetation Management
by Jeong-Yun Gu, Jong-Won Lee, Sang-Woo Lee, Yujin Park and Se-Rin Park
Land 2025, 14(6), 1248; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061248  
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