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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	164
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	156
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	119
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review	105
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts	102
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	86
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	74
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	70
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards	69
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	67
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	67
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	65
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	65
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	62
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	60
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	56
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	53
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	46
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	45
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	44
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	43
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	43
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	43
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	42
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	42

Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	41
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	40
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	39
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	39
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	39
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	37
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	37
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems	36
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	36
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	34
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality	34
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets	34
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management	33
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia	33
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast	32
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam	32
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance	32
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants	32
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design	31
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries	31
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees	31
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)	31
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review	31
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model	31
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media	30
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 farms	30
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China	29
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees	29
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	28
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems	28
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia	28
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	28
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	27
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	27
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	27
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea	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
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision	26
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	26
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	26
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica	26
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks	26
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs	25
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	25
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	25
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees	25
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	24
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	24
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services	24

Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems	23
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services	23
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland	22
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation	22
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services	22
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions	22
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services	22
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review	22
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management	22
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran	21
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services	21
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?	21
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration	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
Understanding spatial patterns of ecosystem service supply and demand in Savannakhet Province, Laos	20
Governing high-integrity markets for ecosystem services	20
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review	20
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors	20
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland	20
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches	20
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 Networks	19
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA	19
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services	19