Entropy in Landscape Ecology, 4th Edition

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the opening of the fourth installment of the Entropy Special Issue on “Entropy in Landscape Ecology”. This follows the successful completion of three previous issues on this topic, in which 17 papers were published, which have been highly impactful in rekindling interest and research in spatial entropy in the context of landscape ecology. We are opening a fourth issue to further encourage the rapid advancement of research, theory, and methods to analyze spatial entropy in ecological systems. The first three installments of this Special Issue included many papers focused on applying entropy measures to landscapes and developing, refining and evaluating new measures. Recent attention has focused on the thermodynamic consistency, relevance, and rigor of spatial entropy measures, which we suggest should be the focus of papers in this new installment of the Special Issue. Specifically, along with papers on a broad range of applications from spatial entropy to landscape ecology, we particularly encourage those that investigate the thermodynamic links between entropy measures, information, landscape structure, complexity, dissipative structures, exergy, enthalpy, free energy, and ecosystem energetics. We encourage you to submit papers for this issue and look forward to working with you on this exciting topic.

Dr. Samuel A Cushman
Guest Editor

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