Ecosystem Services

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecosystem Services is 8. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems153
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review147
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria117
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review96
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts94
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach83
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards69
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces67
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges65
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces64
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine61
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia58
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting56
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control55
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors55
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review54
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward52
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany52
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model51
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion43
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves41
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa41
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation40
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies39
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows39
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil39
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions38
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality38
Participatory ecosystem service assessment to enhance environmental decision-making in a border city of South Korea36
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China36
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions36
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review35
Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests35
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data34
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems34
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations33
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia33
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality33
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective32
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model31
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants31
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)30
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam30
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management30
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia30
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries30
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets29
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast29
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media29
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance29
Finance for nature: Bridging the blue-green investment gap to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework29
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design28
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?28
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees28
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review27
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia27
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China27
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees27
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms26
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises25
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia25
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs25
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador25
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets25
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats24
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings24
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios23
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees23
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision23
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica23
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size23
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning23
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs23
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks22
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making22
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea22
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services21
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland21
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services21
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland21
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran21
What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?21
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review21
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems21
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review20
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management20
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services20
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration20
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan20
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?20
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services20
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services19
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services19
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services19
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation19
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?19
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions19
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks18
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services18
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches18
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors18
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA18
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services18
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area17
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services17
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya17
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia17
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy17
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map17
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services17
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA17
Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow16
Linking ecosystem condition and ecosystem services: A methodological approach applied to European agroecosystems16
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management16
A dynamic hydro-economic model to assess the effectiveness and economic benefits and costs of wetland restoration and creation16
Systematic review of ecosystem services flow measurement: Main concepts, methods, applications and future directions16
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats16
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]16
Framework for integrated Ecosystem Services assessment of the costs and benefits of large scale landscape restoration illustrated with a case study in Mediterranean Spain16
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review16
Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century15
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services15
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]15
Integrating perceptions of ecosystem services in adaptive management of country parks: A case study in peri-urban Shanghai, China15
A scoping review of the Cryosphere’s ecosystem services, disservices, and related indicators15
Ecosystem service flows: A systematic literature review of marine systems15
Virtual spill-over effects: What social media has to do with relational values and global environmental stewardship15
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA15
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain14
Accounting for water-related ecosystem services to provide information for water policy and management: An Australian case study14
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)14
Capturing multiple forest ecosystem services for just benefit sharing: The Basket of Benefits Approach14
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images14
Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea14
Assessing ecosystem service outcomes from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: Future deforestation threats and spatial targeting14
Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs14
Capital assets underpinning economic well-being – The example of whale ecosystem services in Arctic coastal communities14
Progress on ecosystem accounting in Europe14
Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls14
Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning13
The monetary value of 16 services protected by the Australian National Biosecurity System: Spatially explicit estimates and vulnerability to incursions13
Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States13
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward13
The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes13
Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration13
Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality13
Ecosystem accounting: Past scientific developments and future challenges12
Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems12
Who should control the provider of ecosystem services in buyer-driven governance? A choice experiment on orchards in Germany12
Landscape features shape people’s perception of ecosystem service supply areas12
A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands12
Payments for ecosystem services in Mexico: Two decades of progress and challenges between research and practice12
Uncertainties in ecosystem services assessments and their implications for decision support – A semi-systematic literature review12
Classifying the content of social media images to support cultural ecosystem service assessments using deep learning models12
Nature-based solutions for urban challenges: A simple framework based on ecosystem services for a World Heritage City12
Establishing the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting as a global standard12
Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices11
Integrating local and ecological knowledge to assess the benefits of trees for ecosystem services: A holistic process-based methodology11
An assessment of the ecosystem services of marine zooplankton and the key threats to their provision11
The future of crowd-sourced cultural ecosystem services assessments11
Mitigating GHG emissions: A global ecosystem service provided by obligate scavenging birds11
Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services11
How remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions11
Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case10
Editorial special issue natural capital accounting: The content, the context, and the framework10
Spatiotemporally explicit prediction of future ecosystem service provisioning in response to climate change, sea level rise, and adaptation strategies10
The value of ecosystem services in China: A systematic review for twenty years10
Linking landscape dynamics to the relationship between water purification and soil retention10
Exploring perceptions of stakeholder roles in ecosystem services coproduction10
Systematic conservation planning for people and nature: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and equitable benefit sharing10
Trends in valuation approaches for cultural ecosystem services: A systematic literature review10
Ecosystem accounting for water resources at the catchment scale, a case study for the Peloponnisos, Greece10
Stakeholder perspectives on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps10
Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation10
The application of ecosystem accounting principles at the local scale for a protected landscape: A case study of the Sleza Landscape Park in Poland10
The impact of payment for ecosystem service schemes on participants’ motivation: A global assessment10
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland9
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests9
Evolution and new potentials of landscape commons: Insights from Japan and Slovenia9
Basin-scale riverine ecosystem services vary with network geometry9
‘Uncertainty audit’ for ecosystem accounting: Satellite-based ecosystem extent is biased without design-based area estimation and accuracy assessment9
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach9
Mountain ecosystem services under a changing climate: A global perspective9
Ecosystem extent accounts for Europe9
Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia9
A socioecological integrated analysis of the Barcelona metropolitan agricultural landscapes9
Challenges and opportunities for the Ecosystem Services approach: Evaluating experiences of implementation in Sweden9
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science9
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue9
The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions9
A framework based on payments for ecosystem services to support the delivery of high integrity carbon and biodiversity credits9
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland9
MARCHI: A serious game for participatory governance of ecosystem services in multiple-use protected areas8
A review of studies assessing ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue infrastructure8
Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal8
The economic value of human-honeyguide mutualism in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique8
The geosystem services concept – What is it and can it support subsurface planning?8
Modeling water regulation ecosystem services: A review in the context of ecosystem accounting8
Cost-Benefit analysis of urban nature-based solutions: A systematic review of approaches and scales with a focus on benefit valuation8
Misconceptions about the valuation of ecosystem services8
Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature’s thermodynamic costs8
Using the Ecosystem Services assessment tool TESSA to balance the multiple landscape demands of increasing woodlands in a UK national park8
Ecosystem services footprint of international trade: Economic value of ecosystem services lost due to crop production8
An innovative approach to combine solar photovoltaic gardens with agricultural production and ecosystem services8
Understanding the sentiment associated with cultural ecosystem services using images and text from social media8
How to reduce agri-environmental impacts on ecosystem services: the role of nudging techniques to increase purchase of plant-based meat substitutes8
Regional scale mapping of ecosystem services supply, demand, flow and mismatches in Southern Myanmar8
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