OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Ecosystem Services is 18. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	156
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	142
Understanding the role of offshore energy structures in ecosystem service delivery: Applying global findings to the North Sea	95
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	95
The power of social media text: Mapping the distribution and drivers of cultural ecosystem services in Taihu Lake wetland	92
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	83
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	80
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	69
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	62
Harnessing Machine learning to quantify ecosystem services in coastal Wetlands: A case study of the Bohai economic Rim	57
Perspectives on abiotic ecosystem services provided by glacial lakes in high-mountain areas	56
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	54
A systematic literature review on the valuation of mountain cultural ecosystem services	53
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	53
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	52
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	48
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	48
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	46
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	44
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	44
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	43
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	43
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	43
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	42
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	42

Total economic Vulture: The value of ecosystem services provided by vultures in Southern Africa	41
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	40
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	39
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	38
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	37
Optimizing local regulating ecosystem services through nature-based urban retrofitting scenarios	37
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	37
Integrating ecosystem services supply and demand for extreme precipitation events: optimising gully watershed strategies	37
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	36
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	35
Digital windows into nature’s values: A critical review of cultural ecosystem services research with social media data	35
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	35
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	34
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	33
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast	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
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	32
Valuing the invaluable: a review of economic valuations of forest biodiversity	31
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance	31
Enhancing multiple ecosystem services: Nature-based measures outperform technical interventions in river management	30
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)	30
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia	29
Ecosystem services and disservices of forests and greenspaces: A pan-European representative study of societal perceptions	29
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants	29
Payment for Ecosystem Services 2.0: The Natural Capital Trust of Costa Rica	29
Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services in Africa’s Great Green Wall	29
The value of Australian aquatic ecosystem services	28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees	28
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees	28
The soil health-yield trade-off: A critical gap in assessing regenerative organic agriculture	28
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam	28
Nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and human well-being in global south mangroves: a review	28
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems	27
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?	27
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review	27
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms	27
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China	26
Valuing hunting as an ecosystem service: a national-level assessment using cost-based and benefit transfer methods in the Czech Republic	26
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	26
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia	26
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	26
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks	25
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	25
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	25
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	25
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	24
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees	24
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	23
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	23

Room for the River: An extended cost benefit analysis of integrated river-floodplain management for the Rhine in the Netherlands	22
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica	22
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	22
Effect of forest management on the ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve	22
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea	22
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems	21
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	21
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services	21
What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media data	21
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	21
Relational values in nature-based solutions and their role in transformative change: evidence from choice modelling	20
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?	20
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran	20
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan	20
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation	20
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services	20
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review	20
Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services distribution in the southern part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil	20
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review	19
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services	19
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services	19
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services	19
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management	19
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions	19
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA	18
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration	18
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland	18
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services	18
Economic valuation of the contribution of a protected area to water quality in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, Brazil	18
Quantifying co-production in agricultural landscapes to advance ecosystem service flow accounts	18
Advancing a restorative blue Economy: A DPSIR–Ecosystem services framework for sustainable seaweed aquaculture	18
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services	18
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland	18
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services	18
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?	18