Announcements
19 May 2026
Land | Invitation to Read Papers and Hot Topic Special Issues Related to Vegetation Biodiversity and Conservation
Biodiversity is truly the foundation of all life on Earth. This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB) 2026 introduces the theme “Acting locally for global impact”—a call for all of us to protect biodiversity and take care of our shared home, planet Earth.
We are delighted to share a collection of papers on vegetation biodiversity and conservation research that were published in our journal Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) in 2025. In addition, several Special Issues related to this topic are currently open for submission.
The following is a list of articles and Special Issues that we believe will interest you:
1. “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
2. “Scale-Dependent Diversity Patterns in Subalpine Grasslands: Homogenization vs. Complexity”
by Tsvetelina Terziyska, James Tsakalos, Sándor Bartha, Iva Apostolova and Desislava Sopotlieva
Land 2025, 14(4), 823; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040823
3. “Enhancing Climate Resilience and Food Security in Greece Through Agricultural Biodiversity”
by Efstratios Loizou, Konstantinos Spinthiropoulos, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis, Dimitrios Kalfas and George Tzilantonis
Land 2025, 14(4), 838; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040838
4. “Effects of Bothriochloa ischaemum on the Diversity of Pannonian Sandy Grasslands”
by Szilárd Szentes, Károly Penksza, Eszter Saláta-Falusi, László Sipos, Veronika Kozma-Bognár, Richárd Hoffmann and Zsombor Wagenhoffer
Land 2025, 14(5), 1107; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14051107
5. “Integrating Remote Sensing, Landscape Metrics, and Random Forest Algorithm to Analyze Crop Patterns, Factors, Diversity, and Fragmentation in a Kharif Agricultural Landscape”
by Surajit Banerjee, Tuhina Nandi, Vishwambhar Prasad Sati, Wiem Mezlini, Wafa Saleh Alkhuraiji, Djamil Al-Halbouni and Mohamed Zhran
Land 2025, 14(6), 1203; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14061203
6. “Modeling Plant Diversity Responses to Fire Recurrence in Disjunct Amazonian Savannas”
by Mariana Martins Medeiros de Santana, Rodrigo Nogueira de Vasconcelos, Salustiano Vilar da Costa Neto, Eduardo Mariano Neto and Washington de Jesus Sant’Anna da Franca Rocha
Land 2025, 14(7), 1455; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071455
7. “From Diversity to Homogenisation: Assessing Two Decades of Temperate Native Forest Replaced by Exotic Plantations in the Nahuelbuta Mountain Range”
by Rebeca Martínez-Retureta, Rosa Reyes-Riveros, Iongel Duran-Llacer, Lien Rodríguez-López, Clara Margarita Tinoco-Navarro and Norberto J. Abreu
Land 2025, 14(8), 1648; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081648
8. “Preliminary Evaluation of High-Diversity Herbaceous Seed Sowings in Different Substrates”
by Judit Doma-Tarcsányi, Attila Gergely, Ádám Serdült and Krisztina Szabó
Land 2025, 14(9), 1746; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091746
9. “Interactions Between Soil Texture and Cover Crop Diversity Shape Carbon Dynamics and Aggregate Stability”
by Vladimír Šimanský and Martin Lukac
Land 2025, 14(10), 2044; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14102044
10. “Integrating Microtopographic Engineering with Native Plant Functional Diversity to Support Restoration of Degraded Arid Ecosystems”
by Yassine Fendane, Mohamed Djamel Miara, Hassan Boukcim, Sami D. Almalki, Shauna K. Rees, Abdalsamad Aldabaa, Ayman Abdulkareem and Ahmed H. Mohamed
Land 2025, 14(12), 2445; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122445
Special Issues:
“Wetland Plant Diversity and Ecosystem FunctionWetland Plant Diversity and Ecosystem Function”
Guest Editors: Maria Sarika and Anastasios Zotos
Submission deadline: 30 June 2026
“Vegetation Facing Environmental Changes in Terrestrial Systems: Research and Management—Second Edition”
Guest Editor: Eusebio Cano Carmona
Submission deadline: 18 November 2026
