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<strong><em>Land</em></strong><strong>&nbsp;| Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2025</strong>

Land | Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2025

29 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:

Cover Story:

Application of Standard Ecological Community Classification (CMECS) to Coastal Zone Management and Conservation on Small Islands

by Kathleen Sullivan Sealey and Jacob Patus

Land 202514(10), 1939; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14101939

Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/1939

 

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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(10), 2018; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102018
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2018

General
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 202514(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 202514(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 202514(10), 2016; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102016
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/10/2016