Announcements

We are delighted to announce that Issue 2, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in February 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you.

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
“The Interplay Between Carbon Storage, Productivity, and Native Tree Density of Agroforestry Systems”
by Laurence Alexander, Sophie Manson, Vinni Jain, Made Setiawan, Made Dwi Sadnyana , Muhammad Syirazi, Zefanya Ajiningrat Wibowo, Desak Ketut Tristiana Sukmadewi and Marco Campera
Land 2025, 14(2), 344; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020344
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/344

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
“Connecting Natural and Planted Forests: New Ecological Functions in an Agricultural Landscape in Northern Spain”
by Javier Brazuelo Núñez, Carlos A. Rivas, Guillermo Palacios-Rodríguez and Rafael M. Navarro-Cerrillo
Land 2025, 14(2), 390; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020390
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/390

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
“The Effects of Rainfall and Terracing–Mulch Combinations on Soil Erosion in a Loess Hilly Area, China: Insights from Plot Simulations and WEPP Modeling”
by Michael Aliyi Ame, Wei Wei, Shuming Zhang, Wen Liu and Liding Chen
Land 2025, 14(2), 432; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020432
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/432

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
“Additionality in Theoretical von Thünenian Models of Deforestation and Conservation Payments”
by Thales A. P. West, Jill L. Caviglia-Harris and Philip Martin Fearnside
Land 2025, 14(2), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020272
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/272

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
“European Green Deal Strategies for Agriculture in Dynamic Urbanised Landscapes”
by Anne Gobin and Inge Uljee
Land 2025, 14(2), 424; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020424
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/424

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
“Long-Term Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity and Influencing Factors of Remotely Sensed Regional Heat Island Effect in the Central Yunnan Urban Agglomeration”
by Yunling He, Ning Pu, Xiaohua Zhang, Chunyan Wu and Wu Tang
Land 2025, 14(2), 232; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020232
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/232

Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
“Historical Roots of Heritage Horticulture in the Southern Coastal Plain of Israel”
by Motti Zohar, Yuval Ben-Bassat and Guy Bar-Oz
Land 2025, 14(2), 285; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020285
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/285

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
“Land Degradation-Based Approach for Assessing the Performance of the Natura 2000 Network in Mainland Spain”
by Mario Mingarro, María E. Sanjuan, Alberto Ruiz-Rancaño and Gabriel del Barrio
Land 2025, 14(2), 279; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020279
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/279

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
“Study on Spatial-Temporal Evolution Law of Green Land Use Efficiency in Resource-Based Cities”
by Yuling Wu and Min Luo
Land 2025, 14(2), 360; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020360
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/360

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
“Exploring Crop Production Strategies to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions Based on Scenario Analysis”
by Zhuoyuan Gu, Jing Xue, Hongfang Han and Chao Wang
Land 2025, 14(2), 256; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020256
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/256

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
“Geohazard Plugin: A QGIS Plugin for the Preliminary Analysis of Landslides at Medium–Small Scale”
by Marta Castelli, Andrea Filipello, Claudio Fasciano, Giulia Torsello, Stefano Campus and Rocco Pispico
Land 2025, 14(2), 290; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020290
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/290

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
“A Typological Analysis Method for Rural Dwellings: Architectural Features, Historical Transformations, and Landscape Integration: The Case of “Capo Due Rami”, Italy”
by Stefano Bigiotti, Mariangela Ludovica Santarsiero, Anna Irene Del Monaco and Alvaro Marucci
Land 2025, 14(2), 374; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020374
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/374

General:
“Interchangeability of Cross-Platform Orthophotographic and LiDAR Data in DeepLabV3+-Based Land Cover Classification Method”
by Shijun Pan, Keisuke Yoshida, Satoshi Nishiyama, Takashi Kojima and Yutaro Hashimoto
Land 2025, 14(2), 217; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020217
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/217

“Revaluating CUNA Places (CUltural Place of High Relevance for NAture): Rome as a Multifaced Example of Outstanding Values and Potentials”
by Giulia Caneva, Zohreh Hosseini, Flavia Bartoli, Giulia Capotorti, Fabio Attorre and Carlo Blasi
Land 2025, 14(2), 226; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020226
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/226

“Climate Influences on Day and Overnight Use at California State Beaches and Coastal Parks”
by Jeffrey S. Jenkins, Terence G. Young, Alexander M. Petersen, Felber J. Arroyave and Maria E. Medina-Chavarría
Land 2025, 14(2), 324; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020324
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/2/324