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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement216
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects157
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation152
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries101
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species94
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers67
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities66
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!62
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features61
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland60
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations59
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean57
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia56
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities55
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance53
Wolves on the phone: Public calls reveal a rise in urban concerns as wolves recolonize human-dominated areas53
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests52
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?51
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes50
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology50
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales50
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects43
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling42
Reviewing the participatory management of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: What do we miss by ignoring local academic knowledge in Mexico?42
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework40
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions40
Beyond life cycle thinking: A perspective37
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden36
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean36
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review34
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people33
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation33
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation32
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology32
Institutional network relationships and environmental governance in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon31
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes31
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives31
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing31
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species31
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach31
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems31
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity30
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia29
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science29
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging28
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?28
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law28
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot27
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development27
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality27
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region26
Cold comfort: Arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords25
Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia25
German fishery’s adaptation to historic events, Western Baltic Sea, 1890–195024
Toxic tides of change: Ocean pollution as a cultural tipping point24
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation24
Good ethics cannot stop me from exploiting: The good and bad of anthropocentric attitudes in a game environment24
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)24
Leverage points for resilience: Introducing the pyramid framework for strategic adaptation planning and assessment24
Community-based approach to detect and predict conflicts with large carnivores in human-dominated landscape24
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers23
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals22
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions22
The best laid plans: How do adopted city sustainability goals influence site-level action in urban forestry?21
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law21
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place21
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning20
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health20
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe20
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition19
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling19
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?19
Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries19
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for18
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain18
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California18
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time18
Extinction alarm for trees18
From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm18
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene18
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management18
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review18
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective17
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico17
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore17
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?17
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France17
More than greening: Using a novel index to assess restorative nature and vulnerability relationships17
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines17
A transdisciplinary approach to nuclear waste management: Opening research with a Citizens’ Working Group17
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia16
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches16
The role of collective grieving in supporting wellbeing and capacity for climate action16
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming16
Navigating the participatory turn in agricultural and food research: Best practice from citizen science16
Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas16
Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta16
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach15
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas15
A changing Arctic Ocean15
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century15
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future15
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system15
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective15
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
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers14
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?14
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas14
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences14
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems14
Response to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado14
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance13
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France13
Economics of rewilding13
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective13
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults13
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
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector13
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops13
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide13
Grain fields in sea-landscapes13
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 613
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement13
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)12
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration12
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk12
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation12
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic12
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?12
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania12
Preferences of experts and the general public about wildlife management in Spain11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
Online citizen dialogue on biodiversity conservation and citizen participation: A cross-cultural deliberation between Taiwan and Japan11
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)11
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges11
Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland11
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden11
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands11
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia11
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges11
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land11
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies10
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual10
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions10
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands10
Maximising biodiversity potential in Europe’s mines and quarries: A key role for EU Nature Restoration Regulation targets10
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden10
Plastic pollution in the Amazon: The first comprehensive and structured scoping review10
Politics of delay hinder the implementation of EU Forest Strategy in Finland10
An assessment of the perceptions, knowledge, and socioeconomic factors associated with illegal orchid trade in Nepal: Implications for conservation10
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach10
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change10
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores10
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile9
Foraging supply chains: Investigating disaster for improved food provisioning9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective9
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats9
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–20399
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation9
Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs9
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies9
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains9
Tea for two: India’s commodity agroforests as coexistence landscapes for the endangered Asiatic wild dogs and people9
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting9
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure9
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects9
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry9
Nonpoint source pollution measures in the Clean Water Act have no detectable impact on decadal trends in nutrient concentrations in U.S. inland waters9
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions9
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands9
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship9
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea9
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production9
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles9
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada9
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure9
Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes8
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina8
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation8
Bibliometric and literature review of research on nature-based solutions and climate change: Implications for policy and practice8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower8
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review8
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut8
A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective8
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs8
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research8
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates8
Awareness of environmental legislation as a deterrent for wildlife crime: A case with Masaai pastoralists, poison use and the Kenya Wildlife Act8
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China8
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes8
Values of protected area landscapes shape the behaviors of subsistence users in Interior Alaska8
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland8
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research8
Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests7
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone7
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond7
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula7
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities7
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives7
Climate Relief Maps: A methodological framework for exploring everyday experiences of climate change through an intersectional lens7
People as solutions to sustainability7
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems7
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations7
Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world7
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining7
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU7
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice7
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions7
A manifesto for coastal landscape governance: Reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance6
Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics6
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?6
Landscape governance as a matter of concern: A relational framework6
Border militarization affects people’s interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest6
Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge6
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu6
Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict6
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities6
Marine conservation in Vanuatu: Local conceptualisation and ‘assemblage’6
Assessing the implications of organised illegal and informal mining activities on the environment in South Africa6
Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe's restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment6
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries6
Indigenous Peoples’ rights in national climate governance: An analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)6
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania6
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice6
The why, how, and what of indicator-based monitoring of nature-based solutions: Perspectives from EU and LAC city practitioners6
Incorporating uncertainty in Indigenous sea Country monitoring with Bayesian statistics: Towards more informed decision-making6
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
Publisher Correction: Business-as-usual trends will largely miss 2030 global conservation targets5
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