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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere322
The potential effects of microplastics on human health: What is known and what is unknown176
Wildfires in the Siberian taiga131
Nature and COVID-19: The pandemic, the environment, and the way ahead95
Building community resilience in a context of climate change: The role of social capital92
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda83
Recognize fish as food in policy discourse and development funding82
Principles for urban nature-based solutions82
Plastic pollution: A focus on freshwater biodiversity76
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe76
COVID-19: From health crises to food security anxiety and policy implications67
Freshwater systems and ecosystem services: Challenges and chances for cross-fertilization of disciplines64
The socioeconomic and environmental drivers of the COVID-19 pandemic: A review62
Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic57
The worst 2020 saline water intrusion disaster of the past century in the Mekong Delta: Impacts, causes, and management implications56
The potential of nature-based solutions to deliver ecologically just cities: Lessons for research and urban planning from a systematic literature review56
A review of public acceptance of nature-based solutions: The ‘why’, ‘when’, and ‘how’ of success for disaster risk reduction measures53
From land-use/land-cover to land system science51
Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science50
Combined effects of human pressures on Europe’s marine ecosystems50
Our evolved understanding of the human health risks of mercury50
Intensification, regulation and diversification: The changing face of inland aquaculture in China49
Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework49
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling46
Exploring sustainable solutions for the water environment in Chinese and Southeast Asian cities44
Reflections on 200 years of Nitrogen, 20 years later42
Incorporating stakeholders’ preferences into a multi-criteria framework for planning large-scale Nature-Based Solutions41
Nitrogen and the future of agriculture: 20 years on41
Governance models for nature-based solutions: Seventeen cases from Germany41
Representative boreal forest habitats in northern Europe, and a revised model for ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation38
Public perception of air pollution sources across Europe38
Driving factors for coordinating urbanization with conservation of the ecological environment in China35
Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts34
How does a nature-based solution for flood control compare to a technical solution? Case study evidence from Belgium34
Resilience: Now more than ever33
Development and modelling of realistic retrofitted Nature-based Solution scenarios to reduce flood occurrence at the catchment scale33
Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes33
Cities and the SDGs: Realities and possibilities of local engagement in global frameworks32
Rethinking resilience and development: A coevolutionary perspective31
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges30
Strictly protected areas are not necessarily more effective than areas in which multiple human uses are permitted30
In harm’s way: Non-migration decisions of people at risk of slow-onset coastal hazards in Bangladesh29
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future29
Balancing ecological conservation with socioeconomic development28
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives28
Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point28
Societal implications of a changing Arctic Ocean27
Disentangling the ecosystem service ‘flood regulation’: Mechanisms and relevant ecosystem condition characteristics27
Locally led adaptation: Promise, pitfalls, and possibilities27
Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches27
Conservation perspectives of small-scale private forest owners in Europe: A systematic review27
Reflecting on the Anthropocene: The Call for Deeper Transformations26
Indigenous knowledge: From local to global26
The impact of the rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide on stratospheric ozone26
Integrating justice in Nature-Based Solutions to avoid nature-enabled dispossession26
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing26
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services26
Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs26
Great Vasyugan Mire: How the world’s largest peatland helps addressing the world’s largest problems25
Thawing permafrost and methane emission in Siberia: Synthesis of observations, reanalysis, and predictive modeling25
The future of sustainability in the context of COVID-1925
The forest frontier in the Global South: Climate change policies and the promise of development and equity25
Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking24
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development24
Frontiers of protected areas versus forest exploitation: Assessing habitat network functionality in 16 case study regions globally24
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection24
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?24
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?24
Eutrophication: Early warning signals, ecosystem-level and societal responses, and ways forward23
Towards circular phosphorus: The need of inter- and transdisciplinary research to close the broken cycle23
Co-design of experimental nature-based solutions for decentralized dry-weather runoff treatment retrofitted in a densely urbanized area in Central America23
Urban nature at the fingertips: Investigating wild food foraging to enable nature interactions of urban dwellers22
Impacts of environmental change on biodiversity and vegetation dynamics in Siberia22
Introducing the Anthropocene: The human epoch22
Establishing a governance threshold in small-scale fisheries to achieve sustainability22
Structuring and advancing solution-oriented research for sustainability22
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops21
Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta21
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research21
Plant–pollinator interactions in urban ecosystems worldwide: A comprehensive review including research funding and policy actions20
Ecological and human dimensions of avocado expansion in México: Towards supply-chain sustainability20
Using Geodesign as a boundary management process for planning nature-based solutions in river landscapes20
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning20
Indigenous and local communities can boost seed supply in the UN decade on ecosystem restoration20
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean20
Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic20
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science20
The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota20
Convergences and divergences between scientific and Indigenous and Local Knowledge contribute to inform carnivore conservation20
Marine spatial planning: Coordinating divergent marine interests20
Disruption of the global nitrogen cycle: A grand challenge for the twenty-first century19
Ecological connectivity of the marine protected area network in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak: Current knowledge and management needs19
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations19
Compound urban crises19
Leverage points to foster human–nature connectedness in cultural landscapes19
Status and trends of mercury pollution of the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems in Poland19
Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods19
The policy consequences of defining rewilding19
A bibliometric review on the drivers of environmental migration19
How the Green Architecture of the 2023–2027 Common Agricultural Policy could have been greener19
Contemporary forest loss in Myanmar: Effect of democratic transition and subsequent timber bans on landscape structure and composition18
Misleading estimates of economic impacts of biological invasions: Including the costs but not the benefits18
Pollution in the Arctic Ocean: An overview of multiple pressures and implications for ecosystem services18
Promise and performance of agricultural nutrient management policy: Lessons from the Baltic Sea18
Links between food trade, climate change and food security in developed countries: A case study of Sweden18
Socioeconomic outcomes of agricultural land use change in Southeast Asia18
Planning and governing nature-based solutions in river landscapes: Concepts, cases, and insights18
Modeling place-based nature-based solutions to promote urban carbon neutrality18
Impacts of climate warming on reindeer herding require new land-use strategies17
Climate change accelerates winter transmission of a zoonotic pathogen17
Temporal trends in opportunistic citizen science reports across multiple taxa17
NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring17
Reinforcing nature-based solutions through tools providing social-ecological-technological integration17
Assessing the costs and environmental benefits of IMO regulations of ship-originated SOx and NOx emissions in the Baltic Sea16
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges16
What is biodiversity conservation?16
A transformative mission for prioritising nature in Australian cities16
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production16
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities16
Application of agroforestry business models to tropical peatland restoration16
Modification of the third phase in the framework for vertebrate species persistence in urban mosaic environments16
The forest restoration frontier16
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice16
Framework for the environmental impact assessment of operational shipping16
Crowded mountains: Long-term effects of human outdoor recreation on a community of wild mammals monitored with systematic camera trapping15
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 2: Anthropogenic perturbations15
The value of transhumance for biodiversity conservation: Vulture foraging in relation to livestock movements15
Community-based responses for tackling environmental and socio-economic change and impacts in mountain social–ecological systems15
A functional perspective on the analysis of land use and land cover data in ecology15
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities15
Accelerating the pace of ecotoxicological assessment using artificial intelligence15
Increased appreciation of forests and their restorative effects during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice15
Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability14
Bridging the science-practice gaps in nature-based solutions: A riverfront planning in China14
Impact of climate change on sensitive marine and extreme terrestrial ecosystems: Recent progresses and future challenges14
Illegal wildlife trade and other organised crime: A scoping review14
The efficacy of interventions to protect crops from raiding elephants14
Multilevel analysis of factors affecting participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program14
Economic incentives drive the conversion of agriculture to aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans: Livelihood and environmental implications of different aquaculture types14
Eutrophication and the disrupted nitrogen cycle13
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions13
How the loss of forest fauna undermines the achievement of the SDGs13
Social actors’ perceptions of wildlife: Insights for the conservation of species in Mediterranean protected areas13
Framing, deframing and reframing the Anthropocene13
Effect of forest management choices on carbon sequestration and biodiversity at national scale12
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 612
Reconciling humans and birds when designing ecological corridors and parks within urban landscapes12
Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil: The dark side of nature and the bright side of life12
Fishers’ knowledge detects ecological decay in the Mediterranean Sea12
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
Nutrient pathways and their susceptibility to past and future change in the Eurasian Arctic Ocean12
Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures12
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation12
Economic assessment of rewilding versus agri-environmental nature management12
Enlivening our cities: Towards urban sustainability and resilience12
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide12
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes12
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health12
An assessment of the environmental and socio-economic impacts of alien rabbits and hares12
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling12
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats11
Sustainability of wild plant use in the Andean Community of South America11
Smaller farm size and ruminant animals are associated with increased supply of non-provisioning ecosystem services11
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition11
Cascading loss and loss risk multipliers amid a changing climate in the Pacific Islands11
Scientific concept and practices of life community of mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, grasslands, and deserts in China11
Prevalence and drivers of poison use by South African commercial farmers and perceptions of alternative livestock protection measures11
Community perceptions of long-term mangrove cover changes and its drivers from a typhoon-prone province in the Philippines11
Why European biodiversity reporting is not reliable11
Strengthening the policy framework to resolve lax implementation of the Baltic Sea Action Plan for agriculture11
An Indigenous perspective on ecosystem accounting: Challenges and opportunities revealed by an Australian case study11
Semi-natural habitats in the European boreal region: Caught in the socio-ecological extinction vortex?11
Key periods of peatland development and environmental changes in the middle taiga zone of Western Siberia during the Holocene11
The legacy of large dams in the United States11
Ecosystem restoration as a boundary object, demonstrated in a large-scale landscape restoration project in the Dovre Mountains, Norway10
New frontiers in Japanese Forest Policy: Addressing ecosystem disservices in the 21st century10
Modelling the regional potential for reaching carbon neutrality in Finland: Sustainable forestry, energy use and biodiversity protection10
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance10
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector10
Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas10
Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime10
Development of science and policy related to acid deposition in East Asia over 30 years10
The Australian Indigenous-led bush products sector: Insights from the literature and recommendations for the future10
The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature10
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects10
What determines the success and failure of environmental crowdfunding?10
Risks to the stratospheric ozone shield in the Anthropocene10
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging10
Increasing risks for emerging infectious diseases within a rapidly changing High Asia10
Deoxygenation impacts on Baltic Sea cod: Dramatic declines in ecosystem services of an iconic keystone predator10
Balancing the trade-offs between land productivity, labor productivity and labor intensity10
People and biodiversity in the 21st century10
Declining bacteria, lead, and sulphate, and rising pH and oxygen in the lower Mississippi River9
Untangling unexpected terrestrial conservation challenges arising from the historical human exploitation of marine mammals in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean9
Can we take the pulse of environmental governance the way we take the pulse of nature? Applying the Freshwater Health Index in Latin America9
An Indigenous science of the climate change impacts on landscape topography in Siberia9
Increasing collaboration between China and India in the environmental sciences to foster global sustainability9
The politics of national SDG indicator systems: A comparison of four European countries9
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Psychosocial drivers of land management behaviour: How threats, norms, and context influence deforestation intentions9
“Reconnecting cities to the biosphere: Stewardship of green infrastructure and urban ecosystem services” - where did it come from and what happened next?9
Assessing the contribution of mobility in the European Union to rubber expansion9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management9
Utilizing historical maps in identification of long-term land use and land cover changes9
Mechanisms to exclude local people from forests: Shifting power relations in forest transitions9
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU9
The benefits of Q + PPGIS for coupled human-natural systems research: A systematic review9
Health and wellbeing implications of adaptation to flood risk9
The legacy from the 50 years of acid rain research, forming present and future research and monitoring of ecosystem impact9
Threats to land and environmental defenders in nature’s last strongholds9
Using crime script analysis to understand wildlife poaching in Vietnam9
Towards a holistic paradigm for long-term snow avalanche risk assessment and mitigation9
Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict9
Prioritizing the provision of urban ecosystem services in deprived areas, a question of environmental justice8
Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation8
Food resilience in a dark catastrophe: A new way of looking at tropical wild edible plants8
Supporting Nature-Based Solutions via Nature-Based Thinking across European and Latin American cities8
Five culturally protected water body practices in Fiji: Current status and contemporary displacement challenges8
The re-imagining of a framework for agricultural land use: A pathway for integrating agricultural practices into ecosystem services, planetary boundaries and sustainable development goals8
Ethical considerations for community-based participatory research with Sami communities in North Finland8
Nitrous oxide and methane in a changing Arctic Ocean8
Continuous integration in urban social-ecological systems science needs to allow for spacing co-existence8
How unnecessarily high abatement costs and unresolved distributional issues undermine nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea8
Microcredit programs may increase risk to pastoralist livelihoods in Inner Mongolia8
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
A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities8
Planning of Africa’s land/water future: Hard or soft landing?8
The ecology of COVID-19 and related environmental and sustainability issues8
Leave no one behind: A case of ecosystem service supply equity in Singapore8
Urban sustainability and resilience: What the literature tells us about “lock-ins”?8
Soil organic carbon storage in a mountain permafrost area of Central Asia (High Altai, Russia)8
Too much, too soon? Two Swedish case studies of short-term deadwood recruitment in riparian buffers8
Opportunities to tackle antibiotic resistance development in the aquatic environment through the Water Framework Directive8
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers8
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring8
Counterurbanization: A neglected pathway of forest transition8
A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective8
Analysis of satellite imagery using a simple algorithm supports evidence that Trichodesmium supplies a significant new nitrogen load to the GBR lagoon8
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting8
Marine resources and their value in Kadavu, Fiji8
Unpacking pathways to diversified livelihoods from projects in Pacific Island coastal fisheries8
Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens8
Typologies of collaborative governance for scaling nature-based solutions in two strategic South African river systems7
Solutions-oriented research for sustainability: Turning knowledge into action7
Biogeochemical consequences of a changing Arctic shelf seafloor ecosystem7
Which plants matter? A comparison of academic and community assessments of plant value and conservation status in the Moroccan High Atlas7
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–20197
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