Following to the 8th World Congress of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE) on "Landscape Ecology for Sustainable Environment and Culture" (18th - 23rd August 2011, Beijing, China), Sandra Luque (Irstea), has been coeditor and coauthor of a Special Issue of Landscape Ecology Journal on landscape connectivity. Also, Jana Verboom, Paul Opdam and Rene Jochem (Alterra) contributed to the article on "Landscape prerequisites for the survival of a modelled metapopulation and its neutral genetic diversity are affected by climate change".

Lake monitoring is currently mainly based on on-site sampling and laboratory analysis of samples. In lake-rich regions, however, only a small proportion of lakes can be monitored using conventional methods. Kari Kallio, Senior Researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), has investigated how the remote sensing of lakes from satellites or aircraft can improve the spatial and temporal representativeness of monitoring for his doctoral thesis.