
Land | Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2025
We are delighted to announce that Issue 10, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in October 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:
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 Cover Story: by Kathleen Sullivan Sealey and Jacob Patus Land 2025, 14(10), 1939; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101939 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1939 
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Section: “Land Systems and Global Change” 
1. “Living Labs for Future Healthy Soils: A Review” 
 by Alessio Lasina, Elisa Bianchetto, Laura Gennaro, Fernando Monroy, Sergio Pellegrini and Manuela Plutino
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1974; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101974
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1974
Section: “Landscape Ecology” 
2. “Application of Standard Ecological Community Classification (CMECS) to Coastal Zone Management and Conservation on Small Islands” 
 by Kathleen Sullivan Sealey and Jacob Patus
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1939; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101939
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1939
Section: “Land, Soil and Water” 
3. “Permafrost Degradation: Mechanisms, Effects, and (Im)Possible Remediation” 
 by Doriane Baillarget and Gianvito Scaringi
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1949; https://doi.org/10.3390/land1410194
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1949
Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues” 
4. “Reclaiming Territory Through Housing: Afro-Colombian Rural Movements and the Ethnogenesis of Habitat in the Post-Conflict Caribbean” 
 by Daniel Huertas Nadal
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2006; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102006
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2006
Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions” 
5. “Dry Deposition of Fine Particulate Matter by City-Owned Street Trees in a City Defined by Urban Sprawl” 
 by Siliang Cui and Matthew Adams
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1969; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101969
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1969
Section: “Land–Climate Interactions” 
6. “Constructing the Urban Landscape Through Heat Turbulence Fluxes as a Passive Form to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands” 
 by Monica Ballinas, Sean Rodolfo S. Vilchis-Martínez, Adriana Lira-Oliver, Juan Gerardo Oliva Salinas and Victor L. Barradas
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2013; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102013
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2013
Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing” 
7. “Land Use and Water Stress as Determinants of Ecosystem Resilience: A Panel Data Analysis of Biodiversity Loss Drivers in European Countries” 
 by Irina Georgescu and Mioara Băncescu
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1946; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101946
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1946
Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability” 
8. “Drought and Suboptimal Habitats Shape Norway Spruce Vulnerability to Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Białowieża Forest, Poland” 
 by Wojciech Kędziora, Katarzyna Szyc, Joaquim S. Silva and Roman Wójcik
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2014; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102014
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2014
Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning” 
9. “Evaluating GeoAI-Generated Data for Maintaining VGI Maps” 
 by Lasith Niroshan and James D. Carswell
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1978; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101978
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1978
Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus” 
10. “Revealing Multiscale Characteristics of Ecosystem Service Flows: Application to the Yangtze River Economic Belt” 
 by Yiyang Li, Hongrui Wang, Li Zhang, Yafeng Yang, Ziyang Zhao and Xin Jiang
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2076; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102076
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2076
Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring” 
11. “Comparative Assessment of Three Methods for Soil Organic Matter Determination in Calcareous Soils, Eastern Algeria” 
 by Hadjer Laoufi, Hakim Bachir, Samir Hadj-Miloud and Kerry Clark
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2030; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102030
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2030
Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture” 
12. “Strategic Land Assessment, Land Suitability, and Territorial Intelligence for Metropolitan Infrastructure: Rethinking Airport Location in the Madrid Region” 
 by Álvaro Luengo Cartagena and Roberto Díez-Pisonero
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2018; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102018
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2018
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13. “Development, Characteristics, and Implications of Landscape Performance Evaluation of Greenways in the United States” 
 by Juanyu Wu, Zhiying Xian, Yi Luo and Yongmei Xiong
 Land 2025, 14(10), 1968; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101968
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1968
14. “Effects of Biochar-Based Fertilizer on Root Zeta Potential, Nutrient Leaching and Yield in an Intensive Protected Cropping System” 
 by Kane Trubenbacher, Shahla Hosseini Bai, Lakmini Dissanayake, Negar Omidvar, Stephen Joseph and Michael B. Farrar
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2036; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102036
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2036
15. “Estimating Mercury and Arsenic Release from the La Soterraña Abandoned Mine Waste Dump (Asturias, Spain): Source-Term Reconstruction Using High-Accuracy UAV Surveys and Historical Topographic Data” 
 by Lorena Salgado, Arturo Colina, Alejandro Vega, Luis M. Lara, Eduardo Rodríguez-Valdés, José R. Gallego, Elías Afif Khouri and Rubén Forján
 Land 2025, 14(10), 2016; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102016
 Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2016
