This year the ialeUK conference took place from 6^th-8^th September 2011 at the Telford Campus of the University of Wolverhampton (http://iale.org.uk/conference2011) and was on the theme of landscape ecology and ecosystem services.

Roads, motorways, railways, intensive agriculture and urban developments are breaking up Europe’s landscapes into ever-smaller pieces, with potentially devastating consequences for flora and fauna across the continent, according to a new joint report from the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN).

An important milestone has been achieved in the English Heritage 'Hoo Peninsula Historic Landscape Project', designed to substantially increase understanding of the Hoo Peninsula's historic landscape and enable better informed inputs to the future changes envisaged for this part of the Thames Estuary.

Two formerly widespread British nesting birds have now become so scarce their numbers will be monitored by a special panel of experts charting the UK's rarest breeding birds.

There is free access to Landscape Ecology until 31st December 2011. For more details see the journal website at:

http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/ecology/journal/10980