Pandemics and landscape ecology in a post-COVID world

inherently inter-disciplinary, could bring to our understanding of COVID spread and its consequences.In addition to drawing on previous research by landscape epidemiologists, Azevedo et al. (2020) highlighted the need to draw on expertise on links between social and ecological systems, and research within urban landscapes and on ecological goods and services.These are areas that many landscape ecologists have been doing work in, but Azevedo et al. (2020) stressed the importance of these areas to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.They highlighted the need for a landscape epidemiology approach to better link environmental and health research with a goal of increasing human and social systems.Their overall goal was to illustrate what landscape ecology as a discipline could learn from the COVID pandemic, and how the inherent interdisciplinarity, spatially explicit focus, and cross-scale perspective of our discipline could contribute to solutions to minimize disease spread and build a better world post-pandemic.The articles that comprise this Collection reflect many (but not all) of the themes highlights by Azevedo et al. (2020) early in the pandemic (https:// link.sprin ger.com/ colle ctions/ fbbjg hdeha).Emphasizing the ecological focus on landscape ecology, Azevedo et al. (2020) highlighted how concepts and tools from landscape ecology could aid in our understanding of how landscape change (including habitat loss and fragmentation, road building, disturbances, and climate change) could influence the spread of diseases.In this Collection,