Concern About Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, Habitat Degradation, and Landscape Change: Latest Advances and Prospects
A special issue of Conservation (ISSN 2673-7159).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 282
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Interests: climate change impacts on biodiversity; ecological niche modeling; landscape ecology; spatial ecology; fire regimes and biodiversity responses; habitat fragmentation and connectivity; conservation planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anthropogenic climate change, habitat fragmentation, land-use conversion, altered fire regimes, invasive species, and hydrological disruption are accelerating biodiversity loss worldwide. These processes are not isolated; rather, they interact synergistically, reshaping landscape structure, ecosystem processes, and species persistence.
Recent advances in remote sensing, ecological niche modeling, landscape connectivity analysis, conservation genomics, and spatial statistics now allow researchers to quantify biodiversity responses at unprecedented resolutions. However, integrating multi-scale drivers and translating findings into actionable conservation strategies remains a pressing challenge.
Understanding how climate variability, habitat degradation, and landscape transformation jointly influence biodiversity is essential for developing adaptive conservation frameworks, prioritizing restoration efforts, and improving resilience in socio-ecological systems.
This Special Issue will gather innovative research and comprehensive reviews that explore the interactions among climate change, habitat degradation, biodiversity loss, and landscape dynamics. Contributions should advance theoretical understanding, methodological development, or applied conservation strategies.
The topic directly aligns with the scope of Conservation, which emphasizes biodiversity protection, ecosystem management, ecological resilience, and science-based conservation policy. By integrating landscape ecology, climate science, conservation biology, and spatial modeling approaches, this Special Issue will contribute to bridging fundamental ecological research with practical conservation planning.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Climate-driven shifts in species distributions;
- Ecological niche modeling and future projections;
- Landscape fragmentation and connectivity analysis;
- Fire regimes and biodiversity responses;
- Hydrological change and freshwater biodiversity;
- Remote sensing applications in conservation;
- Conservation genomics and landscape genetics;
- Impacts of land-use change and urban expansion;
- Ecosystem resilience and adaptive management;
- Protected areas effectiveness under climate change;
- Restoration ecology and rewilding strategies;
- Multi-species conservation prioritization;
- Socio-ecological systems and conservation governance.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Armando Sunny
Prof. Dr. Javier Manjarrez
Prof. Dr. Hublester Dominguez-Vega
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- habitat degradation
- biodiversity loss
- landscape ecology
- ecological niche modelling
- connectivity analysis
- conservation planning
- land-use change
- ecosystem resilience
- remote sensing
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