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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems	165
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria	146
Understanding the role of offshore energy structures in ecosystem service delivery: Applying global findings to the North Sea	100
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach	96
The power of social media text: Mapping the distribution and drivers of cultural ecosystem services in Taihu Lake wetland	94
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review	84
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges	83
Harnessing Machine learning to quantify ecosystem services in coastal Wetlands: A case study of the Bohai economic Rim	73
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces	62
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia	61
Ecosystem services of Mops plicatus, a high-altitude flying aerial-hawking bat of Southeast Asia	59
Connecting birds’ ecosystem services and human well-being: an integrative review	57
Valuing and mapping cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas: an integrated approach applied to recreational seascape tourism in Greece	55
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine	54
A systematic literature review on the valuation of mountain cultural ecosystem services	53
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany	48
Perspectives on abiotic ecosystem services provided by glacial lakes in high-mountain areas	48
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows	48
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces	48
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors	45
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting	45
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves	44
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil	44
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model	43
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation	43

Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review	42
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa	42
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control	42
Total economic Vulture: The value of ecosystem services provided by vultures in Southern Africa	40
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions	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
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia	39
Optimizing local regulating ecosystem services through nature-based urban retrofitting scenarios	39
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality	38
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations	36
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data	36
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review	35
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies	34
Digital windows into nature’s values: A critical review of cultural ecosystem services research with social media data	34
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective	33
Integrating ecosystem services supply and demand for extreme precipitation events: optimising gully watershed strategies	33
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions	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
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	31
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
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam	30
Enhancing multiple ecosystem services: Nature-based measures outperform technical interventions in river management	30
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia	30
Artificial Intelligence for ecosystem services science: The AI4ESS framework from a community perspective	30
Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services in Africa’s Great Green Wall	30
Ecosystem services and disservices of forests and greenspaces: A pan-European representative study of societal perceptions	29
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)	29
Nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and human well-being in global south mangroves: a review	29
Payment for Ecosystem Services 2.0: The Natural Capital Trust of Costa Rica	29
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants	28
The value of Australian aquatic ecosystem services	28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees	27
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?	27
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China	27
The soil health-yield trade-off: A critical gap in assessing regenerative organic agriculture	27
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems	27
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees	26
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms	26
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review	26
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia	26
Systematic review of natural capital valuation: Emergy accounting and ecosystem service valuation	26
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises	25
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets	25
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin	25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador	25
Valuing hunting as an ecosystem service: a national-level assessment using cost-based and benefit transfer methods in the Czech Republic	25
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia	24
Room for the River: An extended cost benefit analysis of integrated river-floodplain management for the Rhine in the Netherlands	24

State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs	24
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning	24
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats	23
What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media data	23
Effect of forest management on the ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve	23
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea	23
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings	22
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making	22
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size	22
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees	22
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica	21
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services	21
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks	21
A global synthesis of ecosystem services records and their associations with marine and coastal habitats	21
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios	21
Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services distribution in the southern part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil	20
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services	20
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran	20
Relational values in nature-based solutions and their role in transformative change: evidence from choice modelling	20
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland	20
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review	20
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems	20
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland	20
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services	20
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation	19
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan	19
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?	19
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management	19
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services	19
Quantifying co-production in agricultural landscapes to advance ecosystem service flow accounts	19
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services	18
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services	18
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration	18
Advancing a restorative blue Economy: A DPSIR–Ecosystem services framework for sustainable seaweed aquaculture	18
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services	18
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review	18
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions	18
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area	18