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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria164
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review156
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems119
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review105
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts102
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach86
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces74
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine70
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards69
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia67
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges67
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation65
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces65
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil62
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany60
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review56
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting53
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves46
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa45
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model44
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors43
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control43
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows43
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review42
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions42
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality41
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia40
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations39
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 forests39
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China39
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data37
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions37
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective36
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems36
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets34
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies34
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality34
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management33
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia33
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance32
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants32
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast32
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam32
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review31
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model31
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design31
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries31
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees31
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)31
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media30
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?30
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms30
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China29
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees29
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets28
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems28
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia28
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises28
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia27
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin27
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador27
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks26
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea26
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs26
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision26
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making26
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings26
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica26
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size25
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees25
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs25
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning25
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services24
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios24
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats24
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems23
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services23
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review22
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management22
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland22
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation22
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services22
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions22
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services22
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services21
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran21
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services21
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?21
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration21
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan21
Understanding spatial patterns of ecosystem service supply and demand in Savannakhet Province, Laos20
Governing high-integrity markets for ecosystem services20
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review20
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors20
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland20
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches20
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?19
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks19
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA19
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services19
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services18
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services18
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area18
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map18
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA18
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services18
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services18
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya18
Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow18
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services18
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia18
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy18
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats17
A dynamic hydro-economic model to assess the effectiveness and economic benefits and costs of wetland restoration and creation17
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA17
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]17
A scoping review of the Cryosphere’s ecosystem services, disservices, and related indicators17
Systematic review of ecosystem services flow measurement: Main concepts, methods, applications and future directions17
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]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
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images16
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management16
Linking ecosystem condition and ecosystem services: A methodological approach applied to European agroecosystems16
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review16
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services16
Accounting for water-related ecosystem services to provide information for water policy and management: An Australian case study15
Integrating perceptions of ecosystem services in adaptive management of country parks: A case study in peri-urban Shanghai, China15
Virtual spill-over effects: What social media has to do with relational values and global environmental stewardship15
Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls15
One-question interviews elucidate nuances in diverse values of coral reefs in West Hawaiʻi15
Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century15
Capturing multiple forest ecosystem services for just benefit sharing: The Basket of Benefits Approach15
Ecosystem service flows: A systematic literature review of marine systems15
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain15
Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea14
Uncertainties in ecosystem services assessments and their implications for decision support – A semi-systematic literature review14
Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States14
Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs14
Progress on ecosystem accounting in Europe14
A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands14
Capital assets underpinning economic well-being – The example of whale ecosystem services in Arctic coastal communities14
Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning14
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)14
Landscape features shape people’s perception of ecosystem service supply areas13
The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes13
Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality13
Assessing ecosystem service outcomes from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: Future deforestation threats and spatial targeting13
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward13
The monetary value of 16 services protected by the Australian National Biosecurity System: Spatially explicit estimates and vulnerability to incursions13
Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration13
Classifying the content of social media images to support cultural ecosystem service assessments using deep learning models13
Linking landscape dynamics to the relationship between water purification and soil retention12
Ecosystem accounting: Past scientific developments and future challenges12
Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems12
Assessing ecosystem services and their spillover effects to inform cost-benefit sharing and horizontal eco-compensation mechanisms in the Qilian Mountains, China12
Establishing the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting as a global standard12
Who should control the provider of ecosystem services in buyer-driven governance? A choice experiment on orchards in Germany12
Payments for ecosystem services in Mexico: Two decades of progress and challenges between research and practice12
Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices12
Nature-based solutions for urban challenges: A simple framework based on ecosystem services for a World Heritage City12
Mapping emergent costs and benefits of ecosystem service flows in Senegal’s small-scale fishery supply chain12
An assessment of the ecosystem services of marine zooplankton and the key threats to their provision12
The impact of payment for ecosystem service schemes on participants’ motivation: A global assessment11
The future of crowd-sourced cultural ecosystem services assessments11
Mitigating GHG emissions: A global ecosystem service provided by obligate scavenging birds11
Integrating local and ecological knowledge to assess the benefits of trees for ecosystem services: A holistic process-based methodology11
The value of ecosystem services in China: A systematic review for twenty years11
How remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions11
Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services11
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue10
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests10
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
Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case10
Stakeholder perspectives on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps10
Ecosystem service tradeoff and synergy mechanisms in the Central Asian terminal lake basin based on Bayesian Networks10
Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation10
Ecosystem accounting for water resources at the catchment scale, a case study for the Peloponnisos, Greece10
Mountain ecosystem services under a changing climate: A global perspective10
Reckoning with historical injustices: Relational values in ecosystem services and environmental justice in the Mapuche-forestry conflict in Chile10
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland10
Spatiotemporally explicit prediction of future ecosystem service provisioning in response to climate change, sea level rise, and adaptation strategies10
The application of ecosystem accounting principles at the local scale for a protected landscape: A case study of the Sleza Landscape Park in Poland10
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science9
Ecosystem extent accounts for Europe9
‘Uncertainty audit’ for ecosystem accounting: Satellite-based ecosystem extent is biased without design-based area estimation and accuracy assessment9
A framework based on payments for ecosystem services to support the delivery of high integrity carbon and biodiversity credits9
Valuing and accounting for water-related ecosystem services for water pricing and management: An Australian case study9
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach9
Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia9
Basin-scale riverine ecosystem services vary with network geometry9
Mitigating typhoon damage with wetlands: estimating the typhoon protection value of intertidal and inland wetlands in China9
Ecosystem services footprint of international trade: Economic value of ecosystem services lost due to crop production9
The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions9
Evolution and new potentials of landscape commons: Insights from Japan and Slovenia9
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland9
Misconceptions about the valuation of ecosystem services9
Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal8
Cost-Benefit analysis of urban nature-based solutions: A systematic review of approaches and scales with a focus on benefit valuation8
The geosystem services concept – What is it and can it support subsurface planning?8
Impacts of landscape configurations on ecosystem services and their trade-offs across different landscape compositions8
Network analysis of water-related ecosystem services in search of solutions for sustainable catchment management: A case study in Sutlej-Beas River systems, India8
Reducing uncertainty in ecosystem service modelling through weighted ensembles8
Challenges and opportunities for the Ecosystem Services approach: Evaluating experiences of implementation in Sweden8
An innovative approach to combine solar photovoltaic gardens with agricultural production and ecosystem services8
Using the Ecosystem Services assessment tool TESSA to balance the multiple landscape demands of increasing woodlands in a UK national park8
Investing in forests Enhances ecosystem services and economic Growth in Cambodia: Evidence from the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling (IEEM) approach8
Aligning Indigenous values and cultural ecosystem services for ecosystem accounting: A review8
Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature’s thermodynamic costs8
Modeling water regulation ecosystem services: A review in the context of ecosystem accounting8
A review of studies assessing ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue infrastructure8
Understanding the sentiment associated with cultural ecosystem services using images and text from social media8
MARCHI: A serious game for participatory governance of ecosystem services in multiple-use protected areas8
Quantification of the flood mitigation ecosystem service by coupling hydrological and hydrodynamic models8
The economic value of human-honeyguide mutualism in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique8
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