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Bulletin New IALE Working Group: Spatial Analysis of Organisms in the Environment ISSN 1570-6524 Vol. 34 no. 1, April 2016 available as pdf-file from the website of IALE www.landscape-ecology.org Bulletin New IALE Working Group: Spatial Analysis of Organisms in the Environment In natural ecosystems, organisms A prerequisite for exploring the ecological are distributed due to environmental information provided by spatial of spatial analysis in ecological studies. The conditions, disturbances, and interactions distributions of organisms is to precisely workingapplication-specific group will performapproaches the for following the use describe the spatial structure of point work: neighbours. The relationship between patterns with statistical methods. Over the • Reveal the importance of the topic specieswith their and conspecific their environment and heterospecific and past decades, statisticians have developed and increase the application of spatial interactions such as competition, structurally different summary statistics analysis among scientists working on facilitation, and regeneration may create for this purpose. Moreover, rapid advances ecological dynamics and processes in different types of spatial distributions in computer science and technology have terrestrial ecosystems of species in an ecosystem. The spatial resulted in an increased application of arrangement of organisms can be spatial statistics. In addition, development • Organize symposia at IALE World represented by point patterns where each of remote sensing and geographic or regional meetings where we point stands for the mapped location of an information system (GIS) technology has can explore opportunities for individual organism in a given area. joint research projects between patterns of organisms and has increased the statisticians and ecology scientists. Spatial ecology deals with the spatial possibilityled to the identification to identify how of human spatiotemporal activities distribution of organisms and a general • Set up workshops on related topics objective of spatial analysis is to reveal Consequently, ecologists have started to (e.g., application of MATLAB, ArcGIS, the relationship between observed introducehave influenced spatial animal variation and and plant complexity habitats. and R Software such as “Spatial spatial distributions of species and the of ecosystems into their analyses, including Statistics Tools” in ArcMap and mechanisms underlying these spatial changes of spatial patterns over time. “SPATSTAT” package in R to different distributions. The recent advances in topics of spatial ecology) analysing spatial patterns of organisms Therefore, the working group “Spatial in spatial ecology have greatly contributed Analysis of Organisms in the Environment” • Develop and prepare publications (e.g., to better understanding the distribution started by a graduate initiative in the special issues in journals, booklets) of organisms in space and time. IALE-Iran can serve as a forum to develop directly focusing on the topic Cape gannet colony at Lamberts Bay, South Africa (©Photo: Benjamin Burkhard 2015) 1 IALE BULLETIN Vol. 34 no. 1, April 2016 The Iranian chapter of IALE is going to List of initial WG members: hold the 2nd International Conference of IALE-Iran in October 2016 (The 1st Yousef Erfanifard, PhD (the WG leader) International Conference of IALE-Iran Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment, Shiraz University, was held in October 2013). The IALE-Iran Shiraz, Iran highly supports the WG to do the following activities in the conference: Sima Fakheran, PhD (the president of IALE-Iran) • set up a workshop on spatial analysis Dept. of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Resources, of plant ecosystems using R Software Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran • develop a special issue of Iranian Journal of Applied Ecology (IJAE) Arne Pommerening, PhD focusing on spatial analysis of Dept. of Forest Resource Management, Faculty of Forest terrestrial ecosystems Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU, Umea, Sweden Moreover, we plan to invite colleagues or the members who are interested to Joachim Saborowski, PhD participate in the conference and present Dept. of Ecosystem Modelling, University of Goettingen, their achievements by giving lectures or Goettingen, Germany conducting workshops. Hong Hai Nguyen, PhD The widespread application of spatial Faculty of Silviculture, Vietnam Forestry University, Hanoi, analysis in ecological studies makes it Vietnam possible to consider special parts in IALE World Congresses or related topics in IALE Annual Conferences and prepare All interested colleagues are warmly special issues to be published by technical welcome to contact: journals (e.g., Ecological Modelling, Spatial Yousef Erfanifard Statistics). ([email protected]) IALE FINANCIAL REPORT FOR 2015 The administrative management of the Item € In / Out account will be systematically. The initial (€ 7,485.03) and INGTherefore, Bank sinceN.V., Postbus2016 the 94780, only official 1090 bank GT Start 7,485.03 IALE finances for 2015 has been monitored AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, see the Income 26,096.85 23,243.03) highlight a positive balance of IALE web-page for details. €the 15,758.00. final budget In particular,(€ the income is Chapter fee 2015 12,023.65 related to membership fees, with a high In addition, since August 2015 the Bulletin Individual fee 2015 5,148.63 contribution given by the individual fees Editor is unable to cover the costs needed Late fee 2014 3,698,34 (€ 5,148.63), probably due to the for the Bulletin preparation from other Interests 226.23 2015 World Congress. In addition, this sources, resulting in additional expenses. year we have received a donation of WSL However, the IALE Executive Committee Donations 5,000.00 Switzerland from € 5,000. Total IALE 2015 has continued to use Skype calls to manage Expenses 10,338.85 expenses resulted in € 10,338.85. However, the society in order to save costs. In any Subscriptions to 3,444.75 at the moment we have not refunded the case, due to the good 2015 balance, we Landscape Ecology 2015 early registrations provided by have about € 15,000 available for proposals Directory IALE Europe and by the following IALE to support young scientists travel, new 2,228.00 Regional Chapters: Germany, Denmark, chapters, and working groups. Administration 2,609.33 Italy, and Czech Republic. These costs will Finally, I’d like to publically thank Ralf-Uwe costs be charged on the 2016 balance. This late Syrbe for his help and for his suggestions Congress travel 1,500.00 refund has been due to the closure of the given his long experience in managing support German account, in order to avoid the Balance 15,758.00 administrative costs for two bank accounts. byIALE Irene finances. Petrosillo (IALE International End 23,243.03 Treasurer) Budget available for 15,758.00 reservations 2 IALE BULLETIN Vol. 34 no. 1, April 2016 US IALE Congress 2016 Greetings from Asheville! The US-IALE 2016 Annual Meeting Chair); Kurt Riitters, Ph.D., Research Thank you to our sponsors! will be held April 3 - 7, 2016 at the Ecologist & Team Leader (Co-Chair); Asheville Renaissance Hotel in Asheville, Danny C. Lee, Ph.D., Center Director; North Carolina. Make plans now to join Steven P Norman, Ph.D., Research other landscape ecology practitioners, Ecologist; Stephanie Worley-Firley, professionals and students! The theme Biological Science Information Specialist of the meeting will simply be “Landscape Change.” With this simple zen-like Venue: The host hotel, the Asheville Renaissance Hotel, is one of the most characteristic and the inherent nature of centrally located Asheville, NC hotels and ourtheme, modern we strive world to incapture the Anthropocene the defining is just minutes away from Biltmore Estate epoch. Program highlights will include and the Blue Ridge Parkway. plenary sessions with featured speakers, symposia and contributed papers, in-depth www.renaissanceasheville.com networking events! US-IALE fosters landscape ecology in the workshops on key topics, field trips, and United States, providing a link among Organized by: the Eastern Forest practitioners in landscape ecology in the Environmental Threat Assessment Center U.S. and the international community, and the Southern Research Station of the and promoting interdisciplinary research USDA Forest Service. and communication among scientists, planners, and other professionals Local Organizers: William W. concerned with landscape ecology. Hargrove, Ph.D., Research Ecologist (Co- 2016 SIEP-IALE International Congress and Call for abstracts Challenges of Anthropocene and the role of Landscape Ecology ASTI 26-28 MAY 2016 FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT Tangible challenges, including climate the urban culture who has little interest changes and their landscape impacts from in countryside and nature but who also the urban at one end of the spectrum to decides its fate. a single species, that of humanity, is acting the natural at the other; biodiversity loss, The accelerating landscapes formation asFor a thepowerful first time evolutionary in the history force of in the seeking earth, even as projects for ecological networks are and transformation and the consumption to adapt the environment to its needs. being implemented; biological invasions of primary resources caused by human Humans are the leading agents in global and disturbance regimes; exceeding the activities generates further uncertainty that changes, and must assume responsibility limits of resource use, with a corresponding undermines the reliability of predictions,
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