Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features171
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects137
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species136
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!93
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation85
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement79
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests61
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology55
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?52
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects52
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean52
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations51
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland50
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling48
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance47
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries47
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes44
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities43
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities43
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers42
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales42
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring42
Reviewing the participatory management of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: What do we miss by ignoring local academic knowledge in Mexico?42
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden39
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation39
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia39
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people36
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework35
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide34
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review33
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean32
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions31
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology31
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation31
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging30
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives30
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach30
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems30
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia29
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law29
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species29
Perspectives of climate change: A comparison of scientific understanding and local interpretations by different Western Siberian communities28
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development28
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing28
Revaluating forest drought experiments according to future precipitation patterns, ecosystem carbon and decomposition rate responses: A meta-analysis28
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity28
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes27
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?27
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science26
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers26
German fishery’s adaptation to historic events, Western Baltic Sea, 1890–195025
Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia25
Cold comfort: Arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords25
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions24
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation24
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot24
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region24
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)23
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality23
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals23
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition23
Leverage points for resilience: Introducing the pyramid framework for strategic adaptation planning and assessment22
Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime22
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health22
Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery22
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning22
Good ethics cannot stop me from exploiting: The good and bad of anthropocentric attitudes in a game environment22
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law21
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place21
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?20
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe20
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for20
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review20
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France20
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling20
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California19
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective18
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene18
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management18
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain18
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time17
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines17
Extinction alarm for trees17
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?17
Forest environmental frontiers around the globe: Old patterns and new trends in forest governance17
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore16
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming16
A transdisciplinary approach to nuclear waste management: Opening research with a Citizens’ Working Group16
More than greening: Using a novel index to assess restorative nature and vulnerability relationships16
Navigating the participatory turn in agricultural and food research: Best practice from citizen science16
Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta16
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas16
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia16
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico16
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic15
Response to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado15
Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas15
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France15
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas15
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century15
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future15
A changing Arctic Ocean15
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement15
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches15
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective15
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences14
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 614
Economics of rewilding14
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?14
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers14
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide14
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach14
Grain fields in sea-landscapes14
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults14
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector14
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland14
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–201914
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective14
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance14
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems14
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops13
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait13
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands13
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice13
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)13
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk13
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system13
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?13
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration13
Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland12
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation12
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania12
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges12
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)12
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia12
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges12
How is gender investigated in African climate change research? A systematic review of the literature12
Online citizen dialogue on biodiversity conservation and citizen participation: A cross-cultural deliberation between Taiwan and Japan12
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research12
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions11
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land11
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities11
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual11
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach11
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands10
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden10
Mechanisms to exclude local people from forests: Shifting power relations in forest transitions10
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure10
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth10
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change10
Nitrous oxide and methane in a changing Arctic Ocean10
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship10
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains10
Politics of delay hinder the implementation of EU Forest Strategy in Finland10
The value of estuarine producers to fisheries: A case study of Richmond River Estuary10
An assessment of the perceptions, knowledge, and socioeconomic factors associated with illegal orchid trade in Nepal: Implications for conservation10
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores10
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry10
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking10
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting9
Conservation perspectives of small-scale private forest owners in Europe: A systematic review9
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production9
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects9
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile9
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective9
Foraging supply chains: Investigating disaster for improved food provisioning9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected9
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea9
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies9
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–20399
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation9
The dynamic land-cover of the Altai Mountains: Perspectives based on past and current environmental and biodiversity changes9
New indicator of habitat functionality reveals high risk of underestimating trade-offs among sustainable development goals: The case of wild reindeer and hydropower9
Nonpoint source pollution measures in the Clean Water Act have no detectable impact on decadal trends in nutrient concentrations in U.S. inland waters9
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs8
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates8
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes8
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut8
Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia8
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland8
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research8
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions8
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure8
Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs8
Make flying-fox hunting sustainable again: Comparing expected demographic effectiveness and hunters’ acceptance of more restrictive regulations8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining8
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada8
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies8
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China8
Awareness of environmental legislation as a deterrent for wildlife crime: A case with Masaai pastoralists, poison use and the Kenya Wildlife Act8
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina8
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review7
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions7
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond7
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice7
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice7
A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective7
Food web restructuring across an urban estuarine gradient7
Ecosystem approach to harvesting in the Arctic: Walking the tightrope between exploitation and conservation in the Barents Sea7
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives7
People as solutions to sustainability7
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability7
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania7
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems7
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone7
Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes7
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research7
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula7
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities7
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU7
Estimation and use of recreational fishing values in management decisions7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota6
Misleading estimates of economic impacts of biological invasions: Including the costs but not the benefits6
Realizing ecological civilization6
Estimating the potential of wild foods for nutrition and food security planning in tropical areas: Experimentation with a method in Northwestern Colombia6
The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history6
Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics6
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu6
The impacts of a global pandemic on the efficacy and stability of contemporary wildlife conservation: South Africa as a case study6
In this current wildfire crisis, acknowledge widespread suffering6
Fractal approaches to scaling transformations to sustainability6
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions through five forms of scaling: Case of the Kiiminkijoki River basin, Finland6
The why, how, and what of indicator-based monitoring of nature-based solutions: Perspectives from EU and LAC city practitioners6
A manifesto for coastal landscape governance: Reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance6
Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity6
Border militarization affects people’s interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest6
Mapping, characterisation, and analysis of initiatives with transformative capacity: A scoping review6
The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability6
Reviewer Acknowledgements6
Societal value of seagrass from historical to contemporary perspectives6
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