We're building a landscape ecology image library, and want you to contribute
Whether you're out in the field working or taking a leisure trip, you'll often be taking photos to record and share what you see and do. If you take any landscape photos, don't keep them to yourself or just share them on social media - contribute them to the landscape ecology image library we're building on Flickr!
Imagery is an important tool in landscape ecology. One of the founding fathers of landscape ecology, Carl Troll, started his explorations of spatial pattern and process through the use of aerial photography. More recently, imagery from satellites has become an important data source for landscape ecology investigation. But photos from the perspective of an observer on the ground - you with your camera - are also a vital tool for communicating important landscape ecology concepts like environmental change and cultural heritage.
We're building the landscape ecology image library as a resource - complementary to other data sources - to help illustrate landscape ecology concepts, conceptualise processes, capture change, and exemplify typical landscapes. Members of the Landscape Ecology UK committee have made a start on the library (as shown below), but to really grow it we need your help!
Submit your individual landscape images using our online form. Or if you have more than a few images to submit, email publicity@iale.uk for information on how you can submit multiple photos at once. Full details below.
Latest Additions to the Library
By contributing your landscape images you can help to:
Exemplify types of landscapes including lowland rural, forested, seascape and others.
Illustrate landscape ecology concepts and tools, like mapping, pattern-process interactions and cultural landscapes.
Highlight particular components of landscapes, such as fields, walls, rockpools and more.
Portray organsims of interest in landscapes, whether cows, ponies, or something more exotic.
Or you can just share pictures of your favourite landscapes to show off their beauty, whether in the UK and the rest of the world.
All images in the library will be freely available for anyone to share and adapt, under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA licence (e.g. Credit: ialeUK/James Millington 2020). This licence means anyone is free to share and adapt the image, but only if they provide proper attribution and distribute the image under the same license. By submitting your image via this form you are agreeing to make your image available under the terms of the licence, which can be read in full here.
If you don't want to submit your own photos but just enjoy or use what is already there, that's fine. But it would be great if you could submit your own photos, especially if using images others are providing. Tell others about the landscape ecology image library and encourage them to submit!
Submit your individual landscape images
How to submit your images
You can submit your landscape images individually using this form. If you have more than a few images to submit, email publicity@iale.uk for information on how you can submit multiple photos at once.
When submitting photos you will need to provide some information about the photo to help organise images in the library and enable others to find them easily - some of this info is required and some is optional.
Required Information
Name - the name of the author of the image (will appear in the credit for the image)
Email Address - email address of the author (this not published but retained for future communication with contributors)
Image Title - an informative but brief (max 100 characters) title describing what the image shows
UK - indicate ('Yes' or 'No') if the image was taken in the UK [it’s fine if an image isn’t from the UK!]
Image Year - four-digit year in which the image was taken (e.g. 2022, will appear in the credit for the image)
Album Names - the albums already existing in image library to which the image should belong (can be a single Album name, or multiple)
Optional Information
Tags: General - general descriptive keywords to help users find the
Tags: Landscape Ecology - keywords selected from the landscape ecology tags (listed below)
Description - a short description (max 100 words) to accompany the image
Latitude - latitude of the location shown in the image (or where image was taken) provided in decimal degrees (value between 90 and -90) [not required if this info is available in the image EXIF metadata]
Longitude - latitude of the location shown in the image (or where image was taken) provided in decimal degrees (value between 180 and -180) [not required if this info is available in the image EXIF metadata]
Tags: Landscape Ecology
The following, derived from Young et al. (2021), are valid values for Tags: Landscape Ecology:
Pattern–Process–Scale relationships of landscapes [Lsp-Pat-Proc]
Landscape Connectivity and Fragmentation [Lsp-Con-Frag]
Land Use and Land Cover Change [LUCC]
Landscape History and Legacy Effects [Lsp-History]
Landscape and Climate Change Interactions [Lsp-ClimateChg]
Ecosystem Services in Changing Landscapes [Lsp-ES],
Green Infrastructure [Lsp-GI]
Planning and Architecture [Lsp-Plan-Arch]
Management and Conservation [Lsp-Mgmnt-Cons]
Cultural Landscapes [Lsp-Cultural]
Invasives, Pests & Diseases [Lsp-Inv-Pest]