Dear YESSers, here's an interesting call for papers:
About this Research Topic
Ongoing global environmental change is threatening biodiversity. Climate
change, land-use change, species invasions, fragmentation, and pollution
are affecting species survival, movement, and persistence. These pervasive
effects of global environmental changes are expected to continue in the
future as threats to biodiversity and extinction debt mounts up.
Indeed, if the loss of biodiversity continues at current rates, we are on
track for the first mass extinction event in 65 million years, and the
first whose root cause is the actions of a single biological species -
humankind. Besides species extinctions, we are facing general decreases in
species population sizes, shifts in species assemblages, and alterations of
key processes that maintain ecosystem functioning and the services they
provide, thus also impacting human livelihoods and well-being. The variety
of ecosystems, species and genes, has a stabilizing effect on ecosystem
functions over time and space. Changes in biodiversity are observed over a
broad range of ecosystems, including terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems,
from tropical to boreal regions, and also across scales of space and time
and disciplinary borders.
Conservation actions in the form of, for example, management policies or
protected areas, need to be spatially explicit. These spatially explicit
conservation assessments, however, require interdisciplinary approaches
that provide innovative understanding of biodiversity and the human
society. The obvious disciplines involved are often ecology and geography,
but remote sensing, sociology, political science, and governance also play
critical roles. We focus on spatially-explicit applications because they
address the processes underlying the observed patterns in species,
communities, and ecosystems. These spatial processes emerge between the
interaction of organisms and their biotic and abiotic environment. These
interactions can be exploitative such as via the use of resources, or by
direct or indirect behavioral interactions such as apparent or direct
competition, mutualism, etc. Spatial patterns and processes can be
described, measured, and understood through a set of techniques and data
emerging from both theoretical and empirical fields.
We welcome contributions that work towards spatially explicit conservation
efforts, with a particular focus on interdisciplinary approaches. Those
with a strong background in remote sensing, social science, or governance
are particularly encouraged to submit articles.
*Keywords*: Spatial ecology, conservation planning, biodiversity, ecosystem
function, social-ecological systems
*Important Note*: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within
the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as
defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide
an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any
stage of peer review.
More info:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/7104/spatially-explicit-conservation-a-bridge-between-disciplines
*André Mascarenhas*
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Center for ENvironmental and Sustainability rEsearch (FCT-UNL)
<http://cense.csites.fct.unl.pt>
Lab of Landscape Ecology (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
<http://tinyurl.com/HUGEOLAOEK>
Young Ecosystem Services Specialists
<https://www.es-partnership.org/services/networking/young-es-specialists-yess/>
