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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features268
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects158
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species127
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers122
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!89
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement82
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities71
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities71
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology55
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests50
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales49
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia47
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean47
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation47
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance44
Reviewing the participatory management of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: What do we miss by ignoring local academic knowledge in Mexico?43
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland42
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects41
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring41
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?40
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling40
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries39
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review38
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations38
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation38
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes38
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions37
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden35
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework33
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people32
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean31
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide31
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity30
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development29
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology29
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems29
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives29
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes29
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species28
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia28
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach28
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing27
Perspectives of climate change: A comparison of scientific understanding and local interpretations by different Western Siberian communities27
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging27
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation27
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law27
Ecosystem restoration as a boundary object, demonstrated in a large-scale landscape restoration project in the Dovre Mountains, Norway26
Revaluating forest drought experiments according to future precipitation patterns, ecosystem carbon and decomposition rate responses: A meta-analysis26
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers26
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?26
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science26
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
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot25
Cold comfort: Arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords25
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law25
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals24
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region24
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition24
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions24
A theory of scaling for community-based fisheries management23
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling23
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place23
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation23
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health23
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality23
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)22
Rapid adaptation to crisis events: Insights from the bait crisis in the Maine lobster fishery22
Environmental justice and REDD+ safeguards in Laos: Lessons from an authoritarian political regime22
Good ethics cannot stop me from exploiting: The good and bad of anthropocentric attitudes in a game environment21
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?21
Transformative low-carbon urban innovations: Operationalizing transformative capacity for urban planning21
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe21
Correction to: Assessing the contribution of mobility in the European Union to rubber expansion20
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review20
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene20
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time20
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California19
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France19
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?19
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain19
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for18
Forest environmental frontiers around the globe: Old patterns and new trends in forest governance17
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management17
Extinction alarm for trees17
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective17
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines16
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia16
Navigating the participatory turn in agricultural and food research: Best practice from citizen science16
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico16
More than greening: Using a novel index to assess restorative nature and vulnerability relationships16
Strengthening the policy framework to resolve lax implementation of the Baltic Sea Action Plan for agriculture16
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore16
Economics of rewilding15
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas15
Air pollution perception in ten countries during the COVID-19 pandemic15
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future15
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches15
South-Siberian mountain mires: Perspectives on a potentially vulnerable remote source of biodiversity15
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming15
Seasonal nitrogen fluxes of the Lena River Delta15
A changing Arctic Ocean15
Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas15
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach14
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century14
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait14
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system14
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers14
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France14
A photovoice assessment for illuminating the role of inland fisheries to livelihoods and the local challenges experienced through the lens of fishers in a climate-driven lake of Malawi14
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas14
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults14
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective14
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice14
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems14
Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation14
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic14
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement13
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide13
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance13
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector13
Response to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado13
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences13
Grain fields in sea-landscapes13
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops13
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective13
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?13
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 613
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania12
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)12
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges12
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands12
Microcredit programs may increase risk to pastoralist livelihoods in Inner Mongolia12
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk12
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration12
How is gender investigated in African climate change research? A systematic review of the literature12
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–201912
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?12
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland12
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation12
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)12
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach11
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden11
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change11
How unnecessarily high abatement costs and unresolved distributional issues undermine nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea11
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges11
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth11
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden11
Correction to: Using Geodesign as a boundary management process for planning nature-based solutions in river landscapes11
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions11
The value of estuarine producers to fisheries: A case study of Richmond River Estuary11
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores10
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities10
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–203910
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship10
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
Nitrous oxide and methane in a changing Arctic Ocean10
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands10
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure10
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains10
Mechanisms to exclude local people from forests: Shifting power relations in forest transitions10
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands10
Siberian environmental change: Synthesis of recent studies and opportunities for networking10
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry10
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies9
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
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects9
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting9
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea9
Conservation perspectives of small-scale private forest owners in Europe: A systematic review9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected8
Hunters who will not report illegal wolf killing: Self-policing or resistance with political overtones?8
Institutional effects on ecological outcomes of community-based management of fisheries in the Amazon8
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone8
Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia8
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut8
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
Can a key boreal Calanus copepod species now complete its life-cycle in the Arctic? Evidence and implications for Arctic food-webs8
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes8
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure8
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles8
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies8
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions8
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research8
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina8
Awareness of environmental legislation as a deterrent for wildlife crime: A case with Masaai pastoralists, poison use and the Kenya Wildlife Act8
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats8
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada8
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile8
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China8
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation8
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
Make flying-fox hunting sustainable again: Comparing expected demographic effectiveness and hunters’ acceptance of more restrictive regulations8
Nonpoint source pollution measures in the Clean Water Act have no detectable impact on decadal trends in nutrient concentrations in U.S. inland waters8
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland7
Food web restructuring across an urban estuarine gradient7
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations7
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU7
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities7
The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota7
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula7
Hydromorphological and socio-cultural assessment of urban rivers to promote nature-based solutions in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic7
Social actors’ perceptions of wildlife: Insights for the conservation of species in Mediterranean protected areas7
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
Ecosystem approach to harvesting in the Arctic: Walking the tightrope between exploitation and conservation in the Barents Sea7
Degrading permafrost river catchments and their impact on Arctic Ocean nearshore processes7
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions7
Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world7
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability7
People as solutions to sustainability7
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond7
A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective7
Estimation and use of recreational fishing values in management decisions7
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives7
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research7
Deoxygenation impacts on Baltic Sea cod: Dramatic declines in ecosystem services of an iconic keystone predator7
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?7
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities7
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems7
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review7
The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history6
An integrated agroforestry-bioenergy system for enhanced energy and food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa6
How ecological research on human-dominated ecosystems incorporates agricultural and forestry practices: A literature analysis6
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions through five forms of scaling: Case of the Kiiminkijoki River basin, Finland6
Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge6
Estimating the potential of wild foods for nutrition and food security planning in tropical areas: Experimentation with a method in Northwestern Colombia6
Reviewer Acknowledgements6
How is political trust associated with economic and environmental policy prioritization? A longitudinal analysis between 2017 and 20226
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