Announcements

We are delighted to announce that Issue 3, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in March 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
1. “Exploring the Multifaceted Aspects of Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo L.) Forests in Portugal”
by Maria Nazaré Coelho Pinheiro, Filomena Gomes, Goreti Botelho, Ivo Rodrigues, Ruslan Mariychuk and Lyudmyla Symochko
Land 2025, 14(3), 468; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030468
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/468

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
2. “Legacy Vegetation and Drainage Features Influence Sediment Dynamics and Tidal Wetland Recovery After Managed Dyke Realignment”
by Samantha Crowell, Megan Elliott, Kailey Nichols, Danika van Proosdij, Emma Poirier, Jennie Graham, Tony Bowron and Jeremy Lundholm
Land 2025, 14(3), 456; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030456
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/456

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
3. “Prediction Capability of Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in Badland Susceptibility Mapping: The Foglia River Basin (Italy) Case of Study”
by Margherita Bianchini, Stefano Morelli, Mirko Francioni and Roberta Bonì
Land 2025, 14(3), 651; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030651
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/651

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
4. “Risk Assessment and Dynamic Monitoring of China’s Agricultural Investment in Countries Along the Belt and Road Under the Guidance of Cultivated Land Resources”
by Yameng Wang, Guanglu, Mingyue Zhang, Songxiang Wang, Yuxin Han and Linyan Ma
Land 2025, 14(3), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030474
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/474

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
5. “Recognising the Fourth Nature: A Case Study of Spontaneous Urban Vegetation in Southwest Australian Cities”
by Katherine Stewart and Maria Ignatieva
Land 2025, 14(3), 467; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030467
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/467

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
6. “Global Climate Convergence from 1980 to 2022 Led to Significant Increase in Vegetation Productivity”
by Hongjuan Zhu and Chuanhua Li
Land 2025, 14(3), 570; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030570
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/570

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
7. “Adoption and Diversity of Agroforestry Systems in the Amazon Biome: A Bibliometric Overview”
by Daniela Pauletto, Marcelo Francia Arco-Verde, Ivan Crespo Silva, Lucas Sérgio de Sousa Lopes, Anselmo Junior Correa Araújo, Flávia Cristina Araújo Lucas, Seidel Ferreira dos Santos, Thiago Almeida Vieira, Carlos Tadeu dos Santos Dias and Lucieta Guerreiro Martorano
Land 2025, 14(3), 524; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030524
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/524

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
8. “A Compromise Programming Approach for Assessing Territorial Biophysical Suitability: A Case Study”
by António Xavier, Maria de Belém Costa Freitas and Carla Antunes
Land 2025, 14(3), 569; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030569
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/569

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
9. “Research on the Nonlinear Relationship Between Carbon Emissions from Residential Land and the Built Environment: A Case Study of Susong County, Anhui Province Using the XGBoost-SHAP Model”
by Congguang Xu, Wei Xiong, Simin Zhang, Hailiang Shi, Shichao Wu, Shanju Bao and Tieqiao Xiao
Land 2025, 14(3), 440; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030440
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/440

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
10. “Framework Construction and Application of Gross Ecosystem Product (GEP) in the Three-River-Source National Park (TRSNP) in China”
by Peihong Jia, Jing Chen, Diangong Gao, Yuxin Zhu and Xinyue Wang
Land 2025, 14(3), 642; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030642
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/642

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
11. “Adopting Land Cover Standards for Sustainable Development in Ghana: Challenges and Opportunities”
by Elisha Njomaba, Fatima Mushtaq, Raymond Kwame Nagbija, Silas Yakalim, Ben Emunah Aikins and Peter Surovy
Land 2025, 14(3), 550; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030550
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/550

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
12. “Participatory Land Planning, Community Land Trusts, and Managed Retreat: Transforming Informality and Building Resilience to Flood Risk in Puerto Rico’s Caño Martín Peña”
by Ivis García and Leslie Martínez-Román
Land 2025, 14(3), 485; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030485
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/485

General
13. “The New Zealand Biodiversity Factor—Residential (NZBF-R): A Tool to Rapidly Score the Relative Biodiversity Value of Urban Residential Developments”
by Jacqueline Theis, Christopher K. Woolley, Philip J. Seddon, Danielle F. Shanahan, Claire Freeman, Maibritt Pedersen Zari and Yolanda van Heezik
Land 2025, 14(3), 526; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030526
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/526

14. “Structural and Functional Connectivity of Thermal Refuges in a Desert City: Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization on Desert Wildlife”
by Amy E. Frazier, Brian Sehner and Barira Rashid
Land 2025, 14(3), 480; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030480
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/480

15. “Post-hoc Evaluation of Sample Size in a Regional Digital Soil Mapping Project”
by Daniel D. Saurette, Richard J. Heck, Adam W. Gillespie, Aaron A. Berg and Asim Biswas
Land 2025, 14(3), 545; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14030545
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/3/545