Landscape Ecology, an open access publication, is the flagship journal of a well-established and rapidly developing interdisciplinary science that focuses explicitly on the ecological understanding of spatial heterogeneity.  Landscape Ecology draws together expertise from both biophysical and socioeconomic sciences to explore basic and applied research questions concerning the ecology, conservation, management, design/planning, and sustainability of landscapes as coupled human-environment systems.  Landscape ecology studies are characterized by spatially explicit methods in which spatial attributes and arrangements of landscape elements are directly analyzed and related to ecological processes.

All manuscripts must show a keen awareness of the current literature and an immediate relevance to at least one of the following key topics:  (1) Flows and redistributions of organisms, materials, and energy in landscape mosaics; (2) Landscape connectivity and fragmentation; (3) Ecosystem services in dynamic landscapes (especially, tradeoffs and synergies); (4) Landscape history and legacy effects; (5) Landscape and climate change interactions (particularly, mitigation and adaptation); (6) Landscape sustainability and resilience (e.g., relationships between ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes); (7) Mechanisms and ecological impacts of land use change; (8) Scaling relations and hierarchical linkages of patterns and processes across landscapes; (9) Innovative methods in landscape analysis and modeling; and (10) Accuracy assessment and uncertainty analysis of landscape studies.

A valuable resource for both researchers and practitioners in ecology, conservation, ecosystem management, and landscape planning and design, Landscape Ecology is currently one of the leading journals across these fields.

Editor-in-Chief:
Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
School of Life Sciences, School of Sustainability & Julie A. Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Associate Editors:
Paul F.M. Opdam
Department of Land Use Planning & Alterra, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands
Reviews Editor:
G. Darrel Jenerette
University of California, USA
Book Review Editor:
Daniel M. Kashian
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
Past Editors-in-Chief:
Frank B. Golley, Founding Editor, 1987-1996
Robert H. Gardner, 1997-1999
David J. Mladenoff, 2000-2004
Advisory Board:
J. Breuste, University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
R. Hobbs, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
E. F. B. Lambin, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA and Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
S. Levin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
D.J. Mladenoff, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
B.L. Turner II, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
M.G. Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
J.A. Wiens, PRBO Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, USA
Editorial Board:
C. Albert, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Hannover, Germany 
H.D. Allen, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
D. Armenteras, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
P. Batary, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
M. Bélisle, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
D. Bender, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
A. F. Bennett, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia
M. Betts, Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
M. Bürgi, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
A. Buyantuev, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, USA 
J. Chen, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
S.S. Cilliers, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
R.C. Corry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
J.K. Costanza, North Carolina State University, NC, USA
G. Cumming, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
S. Cushman, US Forest Service, Missoula, USA
D. Donner, US Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI, USA
C. Echeverria, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
F. Eigenbrod, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
N. Fagerholm, University of Turku, Finland
S.L. Fei, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
I. Fernandez, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile
C. Fischer, Technische Universität München, Freising, Germany
G. Foody, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
A. Frazier, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
B. Fu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China
S.E. Gergel, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
B. Goodwin, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA
G. Guntenspergen, USGS / NRII, Duluth, MN, USA
E. Gustafson, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI, USA
F. Herzog, Agroscope, Regensdorf, Switzerland
C. He, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
H. He, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
G.M. Henebry, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
J. Hepinstall-Cymerman, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
C. Huebner, USDA Forest Seervice, Morgantown, WV, USA
R. John, University of South Dakota, USA
L.B. Johnson, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, USA
D.M. Kashian, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
T.H. Keitt, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
J. Krauss, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
R. Lafortezza, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
T. R. Lookingbill, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
S.S. Luque,National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA), St-Martin d'Hères Cedex, France
M. Mateo-Sanchez, Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
J.-P. Metzger, University of São Paulo, Brazil
E.S. Minor, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
M. A. Murphy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
M. Pappas, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
D. Pearson, Massey University, New Zealand
B. Peterman, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
B. Pijanowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
T. Pinto-Correla, University of Evora, Evora, Portugal
R.G. Pontius, Jr., Clark University, Worcester, MA, USA
S. Qureshi, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
K. Riitters, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
R.M. Scheller, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
S.W. Seagle, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA
R. Seppelt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany
W. Shen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
L. Smith, Jones Ecological Research Center, USA
M. Stenseke, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
D.M. Theobald, Conservation Science Partners, Fort Collins, CO, USA
J.R. Thompson, Harvard University, MA, USA
E.A. Treml, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
P.H. Verburg, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J.D. Wickham, Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC,USA
Y. Wiersma, Memorial University, St. John's NL, Canada
C. Wilsey, National Audubon Society, USA
T. Wiegand, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
C. Young, University of Wolverhampton, 
Wolverhampton, UK
W. Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China 
Y. Ziv, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
G. Zurlini, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy