Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features188
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species141
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects141
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement95
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests92
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology85
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance63
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries60
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales54
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers53
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities53
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities52
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation52
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!51
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland50
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations50
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?48
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects47
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes44
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia44
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean44
Reviewing the participatory management of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: What do we miss by ignoring local academic knowledge in Mexico?43
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden42
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling42
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions42
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring42
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation39
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review36
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean35
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people35
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide34
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework34
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation34
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology33
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives32
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach32
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species31
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity30
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing29
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science29
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes29
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems29
Revaluating forest drought experiments according to future precipitation patterns, ecosystem carbon and decomposition rate responses: A meta-analysis29
Perspectives of climate change: A comparison of scientific understanding and local interpretations by different Western Siberian communities28
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development28
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?28
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging28
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia27
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law27
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot26
Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia26
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality25
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health25
Good ethics cannot stop me from exploiting: The good and bad of anthropocentric attitudes in a game environment25
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region24
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation24
Leverage points for resilience: Introducing the pyramid framework for strategic adaptation planning and assessment23
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law23
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition23
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)23
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers23
Cold comfort: Arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords23
Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery23
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals22
German fishery’s adaptation to historic events, Western Baltic Sea, 1890–195022
Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime22
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place22
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning22
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions22
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe20
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling20
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California19
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?19
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain18
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time18
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective18
Forest environmental frontiers around the globe: Old patterns and new trends in forest governance18
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for18
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene17
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?17
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management17
Extinction alarm for trees17
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France17
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines17
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review17
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming16
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico16
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore16
Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta16
Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas16
More than greening: Using a novel index to assess restorative nature and vulnerability relationships16
Navigating the participatory turn in agricultural and food research: Best practice from citizen science15
A changing Arctic Ocean15
The role of collective grieving in supporting wellbeing and capacity for climate action15
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century15
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas15
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France15
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches15
A transdisciplinary approach to nuclear waste management: Opening research with a Citizens’ Working Group15
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective15
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic15
Response to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado15
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future15
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas15
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia15
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults15
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences15
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach14
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice14
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?14
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers14
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland14
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops14
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance14
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement14
Grain fields in sea-landscapes14
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–201913
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait13
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems13
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector13
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective13
Economics of rewilding13
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide13
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 613
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system13
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk12
Online citizen dialogue on biodiversity conservation and citizen participation: A cross-cultural deliberation between Taiwan and Japan12
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)12
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration12
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)12
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania12
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?12
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia12
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges12
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges11
How is gender investigated in African climate change research? A systematic review of the literature11
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation11
Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands11
The value of estuarine producers to fisheries: A case study of Richmond River Estuary10
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities10
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden10
Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking10
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies10
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective10
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands10
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change10
Politics of delay hinder the implementation of EU Forest Strategy in Finland10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands10
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production10
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure10
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship10
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach10
An assessment of the perceptions, knowledge, and socioeconomic factors associated with illegal orchid trade in Nepal: Implications for conservation10
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual10
Nitrous oxide and methane in a changing Arctic Ocean10
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions10
Foraging supply chains: Investigating disaster for improved food provisioning10
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land10
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth10
New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower9
Conservation perspectives of small-scale private forest owners in Europe: A systematic review9
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea9
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–20399
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects9
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
The dynamic land-cover of the Altai Mountains: Perspectives based on past and current environmental and biodiversity changes9
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry9
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected9
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting9
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores9
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation9
Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia8
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut8
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes8
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions8
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies8
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats8
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles8
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research8
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation8
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina8
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China8
Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs8
Nonpoint source pollution measures in the Clean Water Act have no detectable impact on decadal trends in nutrient concentrations in U.S. inland waters8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research8
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
Make flying-fox hunting sustainable again: Comparing expected demographic effectiveness and hunters’ acceptance of more restrictive regulations8
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada8
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure8
Awareness of environmental legislation as a deterrent for wildlife crime: A case with Masaai pastoralists, poison use and the Kenya Wildlife Act8
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
Estimation and use of recreational fishing values in management decisions8
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates8
Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world7
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond7
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice7
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania7
Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
People as solutions to sustainability7
A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective7
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula7
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?7
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities7
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice7
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability7
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems7
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining7
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review7
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone7
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations7
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities7
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU7
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions7
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
Values of protected area landscapes shape the behaviors of subsistence users in Interior Alaska7
Ecosystem approach to harvesting in the Arctic: Walking the tightrope between exploitation and conservation in the Barents Sea7
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland7
Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity6
The impacts of a global pandemic on the efficacy and stability of contemporary wildlife conservation: South Africa as a case study6
How is political trust associated with economic and environmental policy prioritization? A longitudinal analysis between 2017 and 20226
Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability6
Societal value of seagrass from historical to contemporary perspectives6
Climate change, cultural continuity and ecological grief: Insights from the Sámi Homeland6
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions through five forms of scaling: Case of the Kiiminkijoki River basin, Finland6
Misleading estimates of economic impacts of biological invasions: Including the costs but not the benefits6
Mapping, characterisation, and analysis of initiatives with transformative capacity: A scoping review6
The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history6
Reviewer Acknowledgements6
Marine resources and their value in Kadavu, Fiji6
Realizing ecological civilization6
Estimating the potential of wild foods for nutrition and food security planning in tropical areas: Experimentation with a method in Northwestern Colombia6
In this current wildfire crisis, acknowledge widespread suffering6
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