Ecosystem Services

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecosystem Services is 9. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems151
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review135
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas112
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts103
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review83
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach78
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan73
Ecosystem valuation and eco-compensation for conservation of traditional paddy ecosystems and varieties in Kerala, India71
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria71
When are payment for ecosystems services suitable for coral reef derived coastal protection?: A review of scientific requirements66
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards63
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia60
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges58
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces54
How integrating 'socio-cultural values' into ecosystem services evaluations can give meaning to value indicators53
The importance of protected areas and Indigenous lands in securing ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Cerrado52
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves51
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa51
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting50
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors49
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model48
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control48
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion48
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review46
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows46
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward46
Value pluralism in ecosystem services assessments: Closing the gap between academia and conservation practitioners43
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia41
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions39
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions39
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations38
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies37
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality36
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems35
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality35
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China35
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective35
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
Lessons learned from implementing the ecosystem services concept in urban planning35
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data34
Participatory ecosystem service assessment to enhance environmental decision-making in a border city of South Korea34
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast33
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)32
Rapid ecosystem service assessment of a protected wetland in Myanmar, and implications for policy development and management32
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model32
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries32
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia31
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance31
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets31
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam31
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants31
Participatory GIS mapping highlights indirect use and existence values of coastal resources and marine conservation areas29
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?29
Finance for nature: Bridging the blue-green investment gap to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework29
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media29
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management29
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms29
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees28
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees28
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems28
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review28
Editorial: Mountain landscapes: Protected areas, ecosystem services, and future challenges28
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China27
Wildfires impact on ecosystem service delivery in fire-prone maritime pine-dominated forests26
Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure – Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo26
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia26
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets26
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin26
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs26
Comparison of empirical and process-based modelling to quantify soil-supported ecosystem services on the Saclay plateau (France)26
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises26
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning25
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica25
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador25
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios25
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs25
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats25
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision25
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings25
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making25
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees24
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea24
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks24
Integrating Bayesian Networks into ecosystem services assessment to support water management at the river basin scale24
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services23
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran23
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems23
Local responses to design changes in payments for ecosystem services in Chiapas, Mexico23
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation23
What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?23
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?22
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration22
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions22
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services22
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services21
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland21
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review21
Internalizing externalities through net ecosystem service analysis–A case study of greenhouse vegetable farms in Beijing21
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan21
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy20
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services20
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches20
The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks20
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?20
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA20
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors20
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services20
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area20
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA19
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya19
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map19
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services19
Reframing water-related ecosystem services flows19
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services19
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia19
Systematic review of ecosystem services flow measurement: Main concepts, methods, applications and future directions18
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]18
Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow18
Linking ecosystem condition and ecosystem services: A methodological approach applied to European agroecosystems18
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats18
Landowner concerns related to availability of ecosystem services and environmental issues in the southern United States18
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA17
Environmental compensation for biodiversity and ecosystem services: A flexible framework that addresses human wellbeing17
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management17
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review17
Framework for integrated Ecosystem Services assessment of the costs and benefits of large scale landscape restoration illustrated with a case study in Mediterranean Spain17
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain17
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services17
Assigning value to cultural ecosystem services: The significance of memory and imagination in the conservation of Irish peatlands17
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]17
Virtual spill-over effects: What social media has to do with relational values and global environmental stewardship16
Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls16
Capturing multiple forest ecosystem services for just benefit sharing: The Basket of Benefits Approach16
Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs16
Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea16
Integrating ecosystem services into policymaking – A case study on the use of boundary organizations16
Capital assets underpinning economic well-being – The example of whale ecosystem services in Arctic coastal communities16
Progress on ecosystem accounting in Europe16
Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century15
Landscape features shape people’s perception of ecosystem service supply areas15
Ecosystem accounting: Past scientific developments and future challenges15
The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes15
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
Ecosystem services supply and demand response to urbanization: A case study of the Pearl River Delta, China15
A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands15
Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning15
Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration15
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images15
Ecosystem service flows: A systematic literature review of marine systems15
Assessing ecosystem service outcomes from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: Future deforestation threats and spatial targeting15
Classifying the content of social media images to support cultural ecosystem service assessments using deep learning models15
Types of collective action problems and farmers’ willingness to accept agri-environmental schemes in Switzerland15
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)15
Influence of human interventions on local perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provided by coastal landscapes: Case study of the Huiwen wetland, southern China15
Social cost-benefit analysis of investment in rehabilitation of multipurpose small reservoirs in northern Ghana using an ecosystem services-based approach14
The journey to monitoring ecosystem services: Are we there yet?14
Insectivorous bats provide significant economic value to the Australian cotton industry14
An assessment of the ecosystem services of marine zooplankton and the key threats to their provision14
How remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions14
The monetary value of 16 services protected by the Australian National Biosecurity System: Spatially explicit estimates and vulnerability to incursions14
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward14
Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices14
Establishing the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting as a global standard14
Increasing provision of ecosystem services through participation in a conservation program14
Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality14
Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems14
Ecosystem services in Antarctica: Global assessment of the current state, future challenges and managing opportunities14
Integrating local and ecological knowledge to assess the benefits of trees for ecosystem services: A holistic process-based methodology14
Linking landscape dynamics to the relationship between water purification and soil retention13
Mitigating GHG emissions: A global ecosystem service provided by obligate scavenging birds13
Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation13
The value of ecosystem services in China: A systematic review for twenty years13
The future of crowd-sourced cultural ecosystem services assessments13
Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case13
Strategies to reach global sustainability should take better account of ecosystem services13
Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services13
The impact of payment for ecosystem service schemes on participants’ motivation: A global assessment13
The application of ecosystem accounting principles at the local scale for a protected landscape: A case study of the Sleza Landscape Park in Poland13
Ecosystem services from (pre-)Alpine grasslands: Matches and mismatches between citizens’ perceived suitability and farmers’ management considerations13
Co-production processes underpinning the ecosystem services of glaciers and adaptive management in the era of climate change12
Interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services through global trade in wild species12
Exploring perceptions of stakeholder roles in ecosystem services coproduction12
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue12
Perceived benefits from reclaimed rural landscapes: Evidence from the lowlands of the Po River Delta, Italy12
Trends in valuation approaches for cultural ecosystem services: A systematic literature review12
Systematic conservation planning for people and nature: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and equitable benefit sharing12
Stakeholder perspectives on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps12
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach12
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science12
Ecosystem accounting for water resources at the catchment scale, a case study for the Peloponnisos, Greece12
Spatiotemporally explicit prediction of future ecosystem service provisioning in response to climate change, sea level rise, and adaptation strategies12
Editorial special issue natural capital accounting: The content, the context, and the framework12
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland12
Biological operability, a new concept based on ergonomics to assess the pertinence of ecosystem services optimization practices11
Potential distribution of oak forests in the central Himalayas and implications for future ecosystem services supply to rural communities11
The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions11
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland11
Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia11
Evolution and new potentials of landscape commons: Insights from Japan and Slovenia11
A socioecological integrated analysis of the Barcelona metropolitan agricultural landscapes11
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests11
‘Uncertainty audit’ for ecosystem accounting: Satellite-based ecosystem extent is biased without design-based area estimation and accuracy assessment11
Nature’s contribution to people as a framework for examining socioecological systems: The case of pastoral systems11
Basin-scale riverine ecosystem services vary with network geometry11
Challenges and opportunities for the Ecosystem Services approach: Evaluating experiences of implementation in Sweden10
Modeling water regulation ecosystem services: A review in the context of ecosystem accounting10
Misconceptions about the valuation of ecosystem services10
MARCHI: A serious game for participatory governance of ecosystem services in multiple-use protected areas10
Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal10
An innovative approach to combine solar photovoltaic gardens with agricultural production and ecosystem services10
Ecosystem services footprint of international trade: Economic value of ecosystem services lost due to crop production10
An adaptive social-ecological system management matrix for guiding ecosystem service improvements10
The geosystem services concept – What is it and can it support subsurface planning?10
Cost-Benefit analysis of urban nature-based solutions: A systematic review of approaches and scales with a focus on benefit valuation10
Ecosystem extent accounts for Europe10
The economic value of human-honeyguide mutualism in Reserva Especial do Niassa, Moçambique9
A mixed-methods approach to analyse recreational values and implications for management of protected areas: A case study of Cairngorms National Park, UK9
A matrix approach to tropical marine ecosystem service assessments in South east Asia9
Beyond nature conservation? Perceived benefits and role of the ecosystem services framework in protected landscape areas in the Czech Republic9
Using the Ecosystem Services assessment tool TESSA to balance the multiple landscape demands of increasing woodlands in a UK national park9
Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature’s thermodynamic costs9
Understanding the sentiment associated with cultural ecosystem services using images and text from social media9
Investing in forests Enhances ecosystem services and economic Growth in Cambodia: Evidence from the Integrated Economic-Environmental Modelling (IEEM) approach9
Regional scale mapping of ecosystem services supply, demand, flow and mismatches in Southern Myanmar9
A review of studies assessing ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue infrastructure9
Accounting for benefits from natural capital: Applying a novel composite indicator framework to the marine environment9
Network analysis of water-related ecosystem services in search of solutions for sustainable catchment management: A case study in Sutlej-Beas River systems, India9
Reducing uncertainty in ecosystem service modelling through weighted ensembles9
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