Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio is 3. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects355
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement216
Economics of rewilding101
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective97
A multi-pronged approach to source attribution and apportionment of heavy metals in urban rivers91
Quantification of the effect of environmental changes on the brownification of Lake Kukkia in southern Finland83
At the frontier of climate change: Red alert from the European Alps, the Arctic and coral reefs83
Connecting biodiversity and human dimensions through ecosystem services: The Numto Nature Park in West Siberia75
Driving factors for coordinating urbanization with conservation of the ecological environment in China67
The scale identification associated with priority zone management of the Yangtze River Estuary61
Could ecological restoration reduce income inequality? An analysis of 290 Chinese prefecture-level cities60
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait59
Food resilience in a dark catastrophe: A new way of looking at tropical wild edible plants57
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features56
Hydromorphological and socio-cultural assessment of urban rivers to promote nature-based solutions in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic56
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies56
Whose waters, whose nutrients? Knowledge, uncertainty, and controversy over eutrophication in the Mar Menor54
Intermediaries and intermediation in building local transformative capacity for active and sustainable transport52
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers51
The emergence of marine recreational drone fishing: Regional trends and emerging concerns46
Potential for cascading impacts of environmental change and policy on indigenous culture46
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda41
Balancing the trade-offs between land productivity, labor productivity and labor intensity37
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland37
Nature-based solutions in spatial planning and policies for climate change adaptation: A literature review35
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods34
Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science34
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species33
Transforming urban planning processes and outcomes through creative methods33
News media and fisheries-independent data reveal hidden impacts of hurricanes30
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations30
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems29
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula29
In harm’s way: Non-migration decisions of people at risk of slow-onset coastal hazards in Bangladesh28
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia28
Drought hazards and stakeholder perception: Unraveling the interlinkages between drought severity, perceived impacts, preparedness, and management28
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice27
Conservation of blackwater rivers and streams of the coastal plains of United States: Knowledge and research needs27
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales27
Solutions-oriented research for sustainability: Turning knowledge into action27
People as solutions to sustainability27
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–201927
Contamination of tea leaves by anthraquinone: The atmosphere as a possible source27
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 Malawi26
Urban foraging in Brazilian public greenspaces26
Efficient protection of the Baltic Sea needs a revision of phosphorus metric26
Icy mountains in a warming world: Revisiting science from the end of the 1990s in the early 2020s26
Water and sectoral policies in agriculture–forest frontiers: An expanded interdisciplinary research approach25
Social actors’ perceptions of wildlife: Insights for the conservation of species in Mediterranean protected areas25
Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches24
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities24
The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota24
Economic incentives drive the conversion of agriculture to aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans: Livelihood and environmental implications of different aquaculture types24
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops24
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities23
An ecological economic comparison between integrated rice-fish farming and rice monocultures with low and high dikes in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam23
Reviewing the participatory management of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: What do we miss by ignoring local academic knowledge in Mexico?23
Response to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado23
Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species22
Publisher Correction: The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history22
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!22
It would feel weird to not drive my car! Exploring the role of habits in public policy acceptance of carbon taxations22
Shifts in urban ecology: From science to social project22
Community perceptions and socio-economic implications of conservation corridors and networks in the Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa22
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century22
Reflections on 200 years of Nitrogen, 20 years later21
Bridging local and scientific knowledge for area-based conservation of useful plants in Colombia21
Ecological and human dimensions of avocado expansion in México: Towards supply-chain sustainability21
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide21
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?20
Understanding feedback relationships between resources, functionings and well-being: A case study of seaweed farming and artisanal processing in Indonesia20
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector20
Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation20
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions20
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU20
The value of transhumance for biodiversity conservation: Vulture foraging in relation to livestock movements20
The importance of discourse when discussing microplastic pollution with oyster stakeholders in Massachusetts, USA20
Deoxygenation impacts on Baltic Sea cod: Dramatic declines in ecosystem services of an iconic keystone predator19
Unraveling the research trend of ecological civilization and sustainable development: A bibliometric analysis19
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers19
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems19
Ecosystems and urbanization: A colossal meeting of giant complexities19
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic19
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania19
Trajectories of socio-ecological systems: A case study in the tropical Andes19
Nutrient pathways and their susceptibility to past and future change in the Eurasian Arctic Ocean19
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology18
Modeling place-based nature-based solutions to promote urban carbon neutrality18
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities18
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?18
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences18
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling18
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice18
Increasing risks for emerging infectious diseases within a rapidly changing High Asia17
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation17
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 617
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system17
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice16
The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature16
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance16
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas16
Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world16
Pollution in the Arctic Ocean: An overview of multiple pressures and implications for ecosystem services16
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities16
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects16
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes16
Coupled human and natural systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework16
Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science16
What is a fire resilient landscape? Towards an integrated definition16
Forest biomass accumulation is an important source of acidity to forest soils: Data from Swedish inventories of forests and soils 1955 to 201016
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean15
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?15
Urban ecosystem services research in Russia: Systematic review on the state of the art15
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland15
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring15
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations15
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France15
Correction to: Development and modelling of realistic retrofitted Nature-based Solution scenarios to reduce flood occurrence at the catchment scale14
Correction: Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures14
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests14
Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation14
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond13
Modeling non-linear changes in an urban setting: From pro-environmental affordances to responses in behavior, emissions and air quality13
Socioeconomic benefits of conserving Iran’s water resources through modifying agricultural practices and water management strategies13
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective13
Preface13
Overlooked jaguar guardians: Indigenous territories and range-wide conservation of a cultural icon13
Reflections on Siberia’s “Gloomy River”13
How unnecessarily high abatement costs and unresolved distributional issues undermine nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea13
Indigenous Peoples’ rights in national climate governance: An analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)12
Marine conservation in Vanuatu: Local conceptualisation and ‘assemblage’12
Early lessons from COVID-19: An overview12
Ambio fit for the 2020s12
Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes 20 years later12
Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts12
How is gender investigated in African climate change research? A systematic review of the literature12
Are debt-for-nature swaps scalable: Which nature, how much debt, and who pays?12
Coherent at face value: Integration of forest carbon targets in Finnish policy strategies12
Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice12
Which plants matter? A comparison of academic and community assessments of plant value and conservation status in the Moroccan High Atlas12
A yearly maximum sea level simulator and its applications: A Stockholm case study12
Biogeochemical consequences of a changing Arctic shelf seafloor ecosystem11
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia11
The emergence of land systems as the nexus for sustainability transformations11
A bridge over sustainable water: Politicians’ perceptions about the preconditions for collective action11
Late Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic: Ecosystem interaction on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya11
A classification of cultivated pastures in the Brazilian Cerrado for sustainable intensification and savanna restoration11
Patterns of infringement, risk, and impact driven by coal mining permits in Indonesia11
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?11
Preferences for woodland activities and forest features as predictors of well-being after forest visits: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in Slovakia11
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)11
Shaping more resilient and just food systems: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic11
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide11
Incorporating uncertainty in Indigenous sea Country monitoring with Bayesian statistics: Towards more informed decision-making11
Resilience: Now more than ever11
Woodlot management and livelihoods in a tropical conservation landscape10
Microcredit programs may increase risk to pastoralist livelihoods in Inner Mongolia10
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions10
Perceptions of environmental problems and solutions in Florida across sectors: A survey of key stakeholders and the public10
Climate change and the planned relocation of people: A longitudinal analysis of Vunidogoloa, Fiji10
Population control by means of organised hunting effort: Experiences from a voluntary goose hunting arrangement10
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection10
Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society10
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration10
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania10
Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity10
Typologies of collaborative governance for scaling nature-based solutions in two strategic South African river systems10
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review10
The impacts of a global pandemic on the efficacy and stability of contemporary wildlife conservation: South Africa as a case study10
Links between food trade, climate change and food security in developed countries: A case study of Sweden9
Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe's restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment9
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden9
The Australian Indigenous-led bush products sector: Insights from the literature and recommendations for the future9
Local stakeholder perceptions of forest degradation: Keys to sustainable tropical forest management9
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu9
Opportunities to tackle antibiotic resistance development in the aquatic environment through the Water Framework Directive9
Participatory co-learning for human–wildlife coexistence: Reflections on a novel program applying systems thinking, nonviolent communication, and learning-based approaches9
Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems9
Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge9
Environmental and public health co-benefits of consumer switches to immunity-supporting food9
Combating climate change through sustainable cattle ranching in the global south: The role of societal corporatism9
Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict9
Introducing the Anthropocene: The human epoch9
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges9
Archetypal typology of European forest ecosystems integrating management intensity and naturalness9
A manifesto for coastal landscape governance: Reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance9
Complementary ecosystem services from multiple land uses highlight the importance of tropical mosaic landscapes9
Structuring and advancing solution-oriented research for sustainability9
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)8
Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens8
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean8
Understanding the social impacts of enforcement activities on illegal wildlife trade in China8
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges8
Claiming ecological grief: Why are we not mourning (more and more publicly) for ecological destruction?8
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation8
Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics8
Disturbance shapes the US forest governance frontier: A review and conceptual framework for understanding governance change8
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk8
Cacao agroforestry adoption by smallholder farmers and forest loss prevention in the Maya Golden Landscape, Belize8
Border militarization affects people’s interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest8
The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability8
Good eutrophication status is a challenging goal for coastal waters8
Continuous integration in urban social-ecological systems science needs to allow for spacing co-existence8
Correction: Tourists’ valuation of nature in protected areas: A systematic review8
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation8
Heavy rainfalls in Poland and their hyetographs8
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research8
Conservation funding from CBD COP15 and COP168
Sustainable Development Goals and risks: The Yin and the Yang of the paths towards sustainability8
Too much, too soon? Two Swedish case studies of short-term deadwood recruitment in riparian buffers8
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions8
Estimating the potential of wild foods for nutrition and food security planning in tropical areas: Experimentation with a method in Northwestern Colombia8
Correction to: Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring8
Illegal wildlife trade and other organised crime: A scoping review8
Reviewer Acknowledgements7
The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history7
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity7
Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too7
Impact of climate change on sensitive marine and extreme terrestrial ecosystems: Recent progresses and future challenges7
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment7
Expanding current definitions of environmental stewardship through organizational mission statement analysis7
Precarious livelihoods at the intersection of fishing and sand mining in Cambodia7
Spatial synergies for urban foraging: A South African example7
Assessing fisheries nutrient yields: The Northwest Atlantic, 1950–20147
Improving suitability of urban canals and canalized rivers for transportation, thermal energy extraction and recreation in two European delta cities7
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia7
Reviewer Acknowledgements7
Response to “Withering the coloniality of the forest transition?”7
Can triad forestry reconcile Europe’s biodiversity and forestry strategies? A critical evaluation of forest zoning7
Walking as a method for epistemic justice in sustainability7
How ecological research on human-dominated ecosystems incorporates agricultural and forestry practices: A literature analysis7
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions through five forms of scaling: Case of the Kiiminkijoki River basin, Finland7
Himalayan alpine ecohydrology: An urgent scientific concern in a changing climate7
Modelling the regional potential for reaching carbon neutrality in Finland: Sustainable forestry, energy use and biodiversity protection6
Mechanisms to exclude local people from forests: Shifting power relations in forest transitions6
The social–ecological ladder of restoration ambition6
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth6
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?6
Planning and governing nature-based solutions in river landscapes: Concepts, cases, and insights6
Frontiers of protected areas versus forest exploitation: Assessing habitat network functionality in 16 case study regions globally6
Revaluating forest drought experiments according to future precipitation patterns, ecosystem carbon and decomposition rate responses: A meta-analysis6
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual6
How the Green Architecture of the 2023–2027 Common Agricultural Policy could have been greener6
Co-design of experimental nature-based solutions for decentralized dry-weather runoff treatment retrofitted in a densely urbanized area in Central America6
Enlivening our cities: Towards urban sustainability and resilience6
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law6
Building a decision-support tool to inform sustainability approaches under complexity: Case study on managing wild ruminants6
Cities and the Biosphere6
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development6
Food web assessments in the Baltic Sea: Models bridging the gap between indicators and policy needs6
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