Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio is 5. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere265
Beyond ‘trees are good’: Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry110
Wildfires in the Siberian taiga105
The potential effects of microplastics on human health: What is known and what is unknown103
Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable development96
Nature and COVID-19: The pandemic, the environment, and the way ahead84
Planning nature-based solutions: Principles, steps, and insights80
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda74
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding72
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital61
Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity61
COVID-19: From health crises to food security anxiety and policy implications58
Principles for urban nature-based solutions58
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe57
Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines54
The loss of an indigenous constructed landscape following British invasion of Australia: An insight into the deep human imprint on the Australian landscape54
The socioeconomic and environmental drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review54
Efficiency of mitigation measures targeting nutrient losses from agricultural drainage systems: A review53
Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic46
The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review46
Mitigation of eutrophication caused by wastewater discharge: A simulation-based approach46
Intensification, regulation and diversification: The changing face of inland aquaculture in China45
The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications43
A review of public acceptance of nature-based solutions: The ‘why’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ of success for disaster risk reduction measures42
Reflections on 200 years of Nitrogen, 20 years later40
Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities40
From land-use/land-cover to land system science40
Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science39
Bioeconomy imaginaries: A review of forest-related social science literature38
Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework38
Combined effects of human pressures on Europe’s marine ecosystems37
Nitrogen and the future of agriculture: 20 years on36
Investing in climate change adaptation and mitigation: A methodological review of real-options studies34
Driving factors for coordinating urbanization with conservation of the ecological environment in China34
Governance models for nature-based solutions: Seventeen cases from Germany34
Contribution of women’s fisheries substantial, but overlooked, in Timor-Leste33
A consumer-driven bioeconomy in housing? Combining consumption style with students' perceptions of the use of wood in multi-storey buildings32
Incorporating stakeholders’ preferences into a multi-criteria framework for planning large-scale Nature-Based Solutions31
Potential impacts of a future Nordic bioeconomy on surface water quality31
Avoiding negativity bias: Towards a positive psychology of human–wildlife relationships31
Reviewing the interface of bioeconomy and ecosystem service research31
Resilience: Now more than ever30
Public perception of air pollution sources across Europe30
Representative boreal forest habitats in northern Europe, and a revised model for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation29
Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes29
A conceptual model of the social–ecological system of nature-based solutions in urban environments29
Depletion of coastal predatory fish sub-stocks coincided with the largest sea urchin grazing event observed in the NE Atlantic29
Understanding and managing the interactions of impacts from nature-based recreation and climate change28
Rethinking resilience and development: A coevolutionary perspective27
A schematic sampling protocol for contaminant monitoring in raptors26
Resource allocation in transboundary tuna fisheries: A global analysis26
Development and modelling of realistic retrofitted Nature-based Solution scenarios to reduce flood occurrence at the catchment scale26
How does a nature-based solution for flood control compare to a technical solution? Case study evidence from Belgium26
Antarctic krill fishery effects over penguin populations under adverse climate conditions: Implications for the management of fishing practices25
Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs25
Setting maximum levels for lead in game meat in EC regulations: An adjunct to replacement of lead ammunition24
Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches24
Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point24
Cities and the SDGs: Realities and possibilities of local engagement in global frameworks23
Our evolved understanding of the human health risks of mercury23
Changes in land-cover within high nature value farmlands inside and outside Natura 2000 sites in Europe: A preliminary assessment23
Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts23
The future of sustainability in the context of COVID-1923
Balancing ecological conservation with socioeconomic development23
Strictly protected areas are not necessarily more effective than areas in which multiple human uses are permitted22
In harm’s way: Non-migration decisions of people at risk of slow-onset coastal hazards in Bangladesh22
Living with floating vegetation invasions22
Nordic Bioeconomy Pathways: Future narratives for assessment of water-related ecosystem services in agricultural and forest management22
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling22
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future22
Assessment of semi-natural habitats and landscape features on Irish farmland: New insights to inform EU Common Agricultural Policy implementation22
How changing fire management policies affect fire seasonality and livelihoods22
Nitrogen fixation estimates for the Baltic Sea indicate high rates for the previously overlooked Bothnian Sea22
Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta21
Frontiers of protected areas versus forest exploitation: Assessing habitat network functionality in 16 case study regions globally21
Anthropogenic contaminants in freshwater from the northern Antarctic Peninsula region21
Usage, definition, and measurement of coexistence, tolerance and acceptance in wildlife conservation research in Africa21
Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking21
Establishing a governance threshold in small-scale fisheries to achieve sustainability20
Co-design of experimental nature-based solutions for decentralized dry-weather runoff treatment retrofitted in a densely urbanized area in Central America20
Societal implications of a changing Arctic Ocean20
Indigenous knowledge: From local to global20
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing20
Reflecting on the Anthropocene: The Call for Deeper Transformations20
Conservation perspectives of small-scale private forest owners in Europe: A systematic review20
Structuring and advancing solution-oriented research for sustainability19
Marine spatial planning: Coordinating divergent marine interests19
Factors influencing perceptions of aquatic ecosystems19
Disentangling the ecosystem service ‘flood regulation’: Mechanisms and relevant ecosystem condition characteristics19
The literature landscape on peace–sustainability nexus: A scientometric analysis19
Impacts of environmental change on biodiversity and vegetation dynamics in Siberia19
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development19
Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world’s largest peatland helps addressing the world’s largest problems19
Towards circular phosphorus: The need of inter- and transdisciplinary research to close the broken cycle19
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives18
Assessing the potential of bioeconomy in Slovakia based on public perception of renewable materials in contrast to non-renewable materials18
The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota18
Indigenous and local communities can boost seed supply in the UN decade on ecosystem restoration18
Convergences and divergences between scientific and Indigenous and Local Knowledge contribute to inform carnivore conservation18
Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students18
Contemporary forest loss in Myanmar: Effect of democratic transition and subsequent timber bans on landscape structure and composition18
Thawing permafrost and methane emission in Siberia: Synthesis of observations, reanalysis, and predictive modeling18
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean18
The impact of the rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide on stratospheric ozone17
Understanding non-compliance in small-scale fisheries: Shark fishing in Myanmar’s Myeik Archipelago17
Eutrophication: Early warning signals, ecosystem-level and societal responses, and ways forward17
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection17
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops17
Using Geodesign as a boundary management process for planning nature-based solutions in river landscapes17
Integrating justice in Nature-Based Solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession17
Status and trends of mercury pollution of the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems in Poland17
Introducing the Anthropocene: The human epoch17
Promise and performance of agricultural nutrient management policy: Lessons from the Baltic Sea17
The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity17
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?17
How effective are River Basin Management Plans in reaching the nutrient load reduction targets?17
Misleading estimates of economic impacts of biological invasions: Including the costs but not the benefits16
Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Pollution in the Arctic Ocean: An overview of multiple pressures and implications for ecosystem services16
Assumptions in ecosystem service assessments: Increasing transparency for conservation16
Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods16
The policy consequences of defining rewilding16
Disruption of the global nitrogen cycle: A grand challenge for the twenty-first century15
NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring15
Ecological connectivity of the marine protected area network in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak: Current knowledge and management needs15
Ecological and human dimensions of avocado expansion in México: Towards supply-chain sustainability15
Leverage points to foster human–nature connectedness in cultural landscapes15
Urban nature at the fingertips: Investigating wild food foraging to enable nature interactions of urban dwellers15
Application of agroforestry business models to tropical peatland restoration14
Assessing the costs and environmental benefits of IMO regulations of ship-originated SOx and NOx emissions in the Baltic Sea14
Streamwater responses to reduced nitrogen deposition at four small upland catchments in Norway14
Applying ecosystem services as a framework to analyze the effects of alternative bio-economy scenarios in Nordic catchments14
Prioritizing mangrove conservation across Mexico to facilitate 2020 NDC ambition14
Climate change accelerates winter transmission of a zoonotic pathogen14
Plant–pollinator interactions in urban ecosystems worldwide: A comprehensive review including research funding and policy actions14
Measuring the sustainability of Russia’s Arctic cities14
Compound urban crises14
Impacts of climate warming on reindeer herding require new land-use strategies14
Planning and governing nature-based solutions in river landscapes: Concepts, cases, and insights14
Changing diets and traditional lifestyle of Siberian Arctic Indigenous Peoples and effects on health and well-being14
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 2: Anthropogenic perturbations13
Multilevel analysis of factors affecting participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program13
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges13
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice13
Socioeconomic outcomes of agricultural land use change in Southeast Asia13
Modification of the third phase in the framework for vertebrate species persistence in urban mosaic environments13
Framing, deframing and reframing the Anthropocene13
Impact of climate change on sensitive marine and extreme terrestrial ecosystems: Recent progresses and future challenges13
Projected land-use changes in the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways: Insights and implications13
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations13
A bibliometric review on the drivers of environmental migration13
A functional perspective on the analysis of land use and land cover data in ecology13
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning13
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges13
Transitioning towards human–large carnivore coexistence in extensive grazing systems13
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services13
Framework for the environmental impact assessment of operational shipping12
Reinforcing nature-based solutions through tools providing social-ecological-technological integration12
Climate effects on land management and stream nitrogen concentrations in small agricultural catchments in Norway12
The value of transhumance for biodiversity conservation: Vulture foraging in relation to livestock movements12
Eutrophication and the disrupted nitrogen cycle12
The efficacy of interventions to protect crops from raiding elephants12
The forest restoration frontier12
Links between food trade, climate change and food security in developed countries: A case study of Sweden12
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions12
A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities12
Community-based responses for tackling environmental and socio-economic change and impacts in mountain social–ecological systems12
Ecosystem approaches to mercury and human health: A way toward the future12
Socioeconomic benefits of conserving Iran’s water resources through modifying agricultural practices and water management strategies12
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities12
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?11
Economic incentives drive the conversion of agriculture to aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans: Livelihood and environmental implications of different aquaculture types11
Temporal trends in opportunistic citizen science reports across multiple taxa11
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil: The dark side of nature and the bright side of life11
Social actors’ perceptions of wildlife: Insights for the conservation of species in Mediterranean protected areas11
Reconciling humans and birds when designing ecological corridors and parks within urban landscapes11
“It’s on the ‘nice to have’ pile”: Potential principles to improve the implementation of socially inclusive Green Infrastructure11
Social dimensions of a forest-based bioeconomy: A summary and synthesis11
Accelerating the pace of ecotoxicological assessment using artificial intelligence11
Prevalence and drivers of poison use by South African commercial farmers and perceptions of alternative livestock protection measures10
Key periods of peatland development and environmental changes in the middle taiga zone of Western Siberia during the Holocene10
Why European biodiversity reporting is not reliable10
Climate change, risk perception, and protection motivation among high-altitude residents of the Mt. Everest region in Nepal10
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research10
Sediment transport under increasing anthropogenic stress: Regime shifts within the Yellow River, China10
An assessment of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of alien rabbits and hares10
How the loss of forest fauna undermines the achievement of the SDGs10
Enlivening our cities: Towards urban sustainability and resilience10
Forests in common: Learning from diversity of community forest arrangements in Europe10
Modeling place-based nature-based solutions to promote urban carbon neutrality10
People and biodiversity in the 21st century10
Community perceptions of long-term mangrove cover changes and its drivers from a typhoon-prone province in the Philippines10
The legacy of large dams in the United States10
Bridging the science-practice gaps in nature-based solutions: A riverfront planning in China10
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide10
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities10
Is small hydropower beautiful? Social impacts of river fragmentation in China’s Red River Basin9
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition9
Fishers’ knowledge detects ecological decay in the Mediterranean Sea9
Nutrient pathways and their susceptibility to past and future change in the Eurasian Arctic Ocean9
What is biodiversity conservation?9
Untangling unexpected terrestrial conservation challenges arising from the historical human exploitation of marine mammals in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean9
Locally led adaptation: Promise, pitfalls, and possibilities9
Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime9
Economic assessment of rewilding versus agri-environmental nature management9
New frontiers in Japanese Forest Policy: Addressing ecosystem disservices in the 21st century9
The Australian Indigenous-led bush products sector: Insights from the literature and recommendations for the future9
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice9
Strengthening the policy framework to resolve lax implementation of the Baltic Sea Action Plan for agriculture9
Parks under attack: Brazil’s Iguaçu National Park illustrates a global threat to biodiversity9
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health9
Using crime script analysis to understand wildlife poaching in Vietnam9
Smaller farm size and ruminant animals are associated with increased supply of non-provisioning ecosystem services9
Risks to the stratospheric ozone shield in the Anthropocene9
Illegal wildlife trade and other organised crime: A scoping review9
What determines the success and failure of environmental crowdfunding?9
Sustainability of wild plant use in the Andean Community of South America9
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production9
The legacy from the 50 years of acid rain research, forming present and future research and monitoring of ecosystem impact8
An Indigenous perspective on ecosystem accounting: Challenges and opportunities revealed by an Australian case study8
An Indigenous science of the climate change impacts on landscape topography in Siberia8
Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability8
Catchment effects of a future Nordic bioeconomy: From land use to water resources8
Phosphorus retention, erosion protection and farmers’ perceptions of riparian buffer zones with grass and natural vegetation: Case studies from South-Eastern Norway8
A photovoice assessment for illuminating the role of inland fisheries to livelihoods and the local challenges experienced through the lens of fishers in a climate-driven lake of Malawi8
The benefits of Q + PPGIS for coupled human-natural systems research: A systematic review8
Can we take the pulse of environmental governance the way we take the pulse of nature? Applying the Freshwater Health Index in Latin America8
Threats to land and environmental defenders in nature’s last strongholds8
Ecosystem restoration in fire-managed savanna woodlands: Effects on biodiversity, local livelihoods and fire intensity8
Modeling eelgrass spatial response to nutrient abatement measures in a changing climate8
Operationalizing ecosystem service bundles for strategic sustainability planning: A participatory approach8
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes8
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 68
Assessing the contribution of mobility in the European Union to rubber expansion8
Comparing nutrient reference concentrations in Nordic countries with focus on lowland rivers8
Forest bioeconomy in the media discourse in Spain8
Ecosystem restoration as a boundary object, demonstrated in a large-scale landscape restoration project in the Dovre Mountains, Norway8
Modelling the regional potential for reaching carbon neutrality in Finland: Sustainable forestry, energy use and biodiversity protection8
Achieving biodiversity net gain in a neoliberal economy: The case of England8
Food resilience in a dark catastrophe: A new way of looking at tropical wild edible plants8
The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature8
Declining bacteria, lead, and sulphate, and rising pH and oxygen in the lower Mississippi River8
Opinions of 12 to 13-year-olds in Austria and Australia on the concern, cause and imminence of climate change7
Solutions-oriented research for sustainability: Turning knowledge into action7
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring7
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects7
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU7
Deoxygenation impacts on Baltic Sea cod: Dramatic declines in ecosystem services of an iconic keystone predator7
Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation7
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance7
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