@misc{13540,
  abstract     = {{The IALE European Landscape Ecology Congress, held every four years, is a key event for the European landscape ecology community, bringing together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, students, and stakeholders for knowledge exchange and collaboration. The 2025 congress in Bratislava was especially significant, taking place near Piešťany where IALE was founded in 1982, symbolizing the organization’s evolution from Cold War-era cooperation to a global network. The 2025 meeting continued this legacy by promoting dialogue and action.
This editorial examines the 2025 congress, from IALE’s founding in Piešťany to its current role addressing environmental and societal crises. We review its historical context, in particular Eastern European contributions in former Czechoslovakia, and the ongoing influence of pioneers like Prof. Milan Ružička. We then analyze congress participants and their contributions using bibliometric analysis to reveal patterns and international trends. Finally, we reflect on the 2025 issue of Landscape Online, exploring how its publications align with and expand upon the key discussions and innovations that defined this year’s European Congress.}},
  author       = {{Rolf, Werner and Grădinaru, Simona R. and Halada, Ľuboš and Miklósová, Viktória and Raniak, Andrej and Schirpke, Uta}},
  booktitle    = {{Landscape Online}},
  issn         = {{1865-1542}},
  keywords     = {{Landscape Ecology, Landscape Research, Land Sciences, Landscape Drivers, Landscape Change, IALE, Europe}},
  publisher    = {{IALE-D }},
  title        = {{{From Drivers of Landscape Change to Pathways for Action in Landscape Ecology: Key Insights from IALE 2025 Bratislava in a Rapidly Changing World}}},
  doi          = {{10.3097/lo.2025.1145}},
  volume       = {{100}},
  year         = {{2025}},
}

@misc{12898,
  abstract     = {{In May 1999, about 30 people from Austria, Germany and Switzerland met in Basel (Switzerland) to found the German Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE-D) to bring together Germanspeaking researchers, planners and other people interested in landscape ecology. Now, twenty-five years later, we take this milestone as an opportunity to reflect on the evolution of the topics that have shaped the landscape ecology discourse within the IALE-D community. In this editorial, we (1) present the history of the IALE-D conferences, (2) reflect on the topics addressed by the conference contributions and how they have developed, and (3) offer some initial indications of changes in relevance with regard to technological advances, thematic foci, transdisciplinarity, sustainability issues, and cultural dimensions that can be observed over time. Furthermore, we provide an overview of the articles published in 2024 in Landscape Online, which mainly reflect two emerging topics, which follow the lines of the thematic development of the IALE-D conferences, that is, a focus on urban environments as well as on pressing issues related to global change.}},
  author       = {{Rolf, Werner and Schirpke, Uta}},
  booktitle    = {{Landscape Online}},
  issn         = {{1865-1542}},
  keywords     = {{Landscape Ecology, Landscape Research, Land Sciences, History, IALE}},
  publisher    = {{Landscape Online}},
  title        = {{{Reflections on twenty-five years of landscape ecology discussion in the German-speaking IALE community}}},
  doi          = {{10.3097/lo.2024.1131}},
  volume       = {{99}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}