OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystem Services is 19. 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.)

Article	Citations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	151
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	135
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas	112
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	103
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	83
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	78
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan	73
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	71
Ecosystem valuation and eco-compensation for conservation of traditional paddy ecosystems and varieties in Kerala, India	71
When are payment for ecosystems services suitable for coral reef derived coastal protection?: A review of scientific requirements	66
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	63
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	60
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	58
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	54
How integrating 'socio-cultural values' into ecosystem services evaluations can give meaning to value indicators	53
The importance of protected areas and Indigenous lands in securing ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Cerrado	52
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	51
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	51
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	50
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	49
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	48
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion	48
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	48
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	46
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward	46

Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	46
Value pluralism in ecosystem services assessments: Closing the gap between academia and conservation practitioners	43
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	41
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	39
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	39
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	38
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	37
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality	36
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China	35
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	35
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 forests	35
Lessons learned from implementing the ecosystem services concept in urban planning	35
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems	35
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	35
Participatory ecosystem service assessment to enhance environmental decision-making in a border city of South Korea	34
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	34
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast	33
Rapid ecosystem service assessment of a protected wetland in Myanmar, and implications for policy development and management	32
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model	32
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries	32
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)	32
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets	31
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam	31
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants	31
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia	31
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance	31
Finance for nature: Bridging the blue-green investment gap to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework	29
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media	29
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management	29
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms	29
Participatory GIS mapping highlights indirect use and existence values of coastal resources and marine conservation areas	29
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?	29
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees	28
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems	28
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review	28
Editorial: Mountain landscapes: Protected areas, ecosystem services, and future challenges	28
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees	28
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design	28
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China	27
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	26
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	26
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	26
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 crises	26
Wildfires impact on ecosystem service delivery in fire-prone maritime pine-dominated forests	26
Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure – Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo	26
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	26
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	25
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs	25
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	25

Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision	25
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	25
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	25
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	25
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica	25
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	25
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea	24
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks	24
Integrating Bayesian Networks into ecosystem services assessment to support water management at the river basin scale	24
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees	24
Local responses to design changes in payments for ecosystem services in Chiapas, Mexico	23
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation	23
What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?	23
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services	23
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran	23
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems	23
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration	22
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions	22
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services	22
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?	22
Internalizing externalities through net ecosystem service analysis–A case study of greenhouse vegetable farms in Beijing	21
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan	21
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services	21
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland	21
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review	21
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors	20
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services	20
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area	20
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy	20
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services	20
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches	20
The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks	20
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, USA	20
Reframing water-related ecosystem services flows	19
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services	19
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia	19
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA	19
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya	19
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map	19
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services	19