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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Urban ecosystem services research in Russia: Systematic review on the state of the art250
Pervasive Indigenous and local knowledge of tropical wild species145
It would feel weird to not drive my car! Exploring the role of habits in public policy acceptance of carbon taxations117
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean113
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement102
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests90
Economics of rewilding78
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults73
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers68
Exploring the dynamic functions of pastoral traditional knowledge66
Intermediaries and intermediation in building local transformative capacity for active and sustainable transport61
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods53
Conservation of blackwater rivers and streams of the coastal plains of United States: Knowledge and research needs49
Could ecological restoration reduce income inequality? An analysis of 290 Chinese prefecture-level cities46
Economic valuation of a holistic rewilding approach in multifunctional landscapes: Evidence from the German Oder Delta44
Nutrient pathways and their susceptibility to past and future change in the Eurasian Arctic Ocean44
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology42
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?42
Reviewing the participatory management of UNESCO Biosphere Reserves: What do we miss by ignoring local academic knowledge in Mexico?38
Navigating tensions in climate change-related planned relocation38
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector37
Shifts in urban ecology: From science to social project37
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France36
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features36
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas36
The importance of discourse when discussing microplastic pollution with oyster stakeholders in Massachusetts, USA35
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations35
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective34
People as solutions to sustainability32
Community perceptions and socio-economic implications of conservation corridors and networks in the Vhembe District, Limpopo, South Africa32
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland32
Bridging local and scientific knowledge for area-based conservation of useful plants in Colombia30
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula29
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems29
Quantification of the effect of environmental changes on the brownification of Lake Kukkia in southern Finland28
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic28
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems28
An ecological economic comparison between integrated rice-fish farming and rice monocultures with low and high dikes in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam28
Contamination of tea leaves by anthraquinone: The atmosphere as a possible source27
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide26
Economic incentives drive the conversion of agriculture to aquaculture in the Indian Sundarbans: Livelihood and environmental implications of different aquaculture types26
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species26
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance26
Understanding feedback relationships between resources, functionings and well-being: A case study of seaweed farming and artisanal processing in Indonesia26
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 Malawi26
News media and fisheries-independent data reveal hidden impacts of hurricanes26
Understanding the changing role of global public health in biodiversity conservation26
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities25
Water and sectoral policies in agriculture–forest frontiers: An expanded interdisciplinary research approach25
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions25
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales25
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!25
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective25
The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice25
Publisher Correction: The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history24
Correction: Wetscapes: Restoring and maintaining peatland landscapes for sustainable futures24
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia23
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond23
Trajectories of socio-ecological systems: A case study in the tropical Andes23
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities23
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects23
In harm’s way: Non-migration decisions of people at risk of slow-onset coastal hazards in Bangladesh22
Monitoring a changing Arctic: Recent advancements in the study of sea ice microbial communities22
A multi-pronged approach to source attribution and apportionment of heavy metals in urban rivers22
Response to “Practice what you preach: Ensuring scientific spheres integrate Indigenous Peoples’ and Local Communities’ rights and agency too” by Lopez-Maldonado22
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice22
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers22
Deoxygenation impacts on Baltic Sea cod: Dramatic declines in ecosystem services of an iconic keystone predator21
Efficient protection of the Baltic Sea needs a revision of phosphorus metric21
Connecting biodiversity and human dimensions through ecosystem services: The Numto Nature Park in West Siberia21
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?21
The biodiversity effect of reduced tillage on soil microbiota20
Hydromorphological and socio-cultural assessment of urban rivers to promote nature-based solutions in Jarabacoa, Dominican Republic20
Increasing risks for emerging infectious diseases within a rapidly changing High Asia20
The emergence of marine recreational drone fishing: Regional trends and emerging concerns20
Impact of urbanization trends on production of key staple crops19
Urban foraging in Brazilian public greenspaces19
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes19
Potential for cascading impacts of environmental change and policy on indigenous culture19
Pollution in the Arctic Ocean: An overview of multiple pressures and implications for ecosystem services18
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait18
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies18
Modeling place-based nature-based solutions to promote urban carbon neutrality18
Drought hazards and stakeholder perception: Unraveling the interlinkages between drought severity, perceived impacts, preparedness, and management18
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century18
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU17
Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world17
Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring17
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice17
Unraveling the research trend of ecological civilization and sustainable development: A bibliometric analysis16
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects16
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland16
The scale identification associated with priority zone management of the Yangtze River Estuary16
Nature-based solutions in spatial planning and policies for climate change adaptation: A literature review16
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences16
Whose waters, whose nutrients? Knowledge, uncertainty, and controversy over eutrophication in the Mar Menor15
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania15
The need to understand the stability of arctic vegetation during rapid climate change: An assessment of imbalance in the literature15
Formulation of Water Sustainability Index for India as a performance gauge for realizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 615
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?15
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities14
Social actors’ perceptions of wildlife: Insights for the conservation of species in Mediterranean protected areas14
Balancing the trade-offs between land productivity, labor productivity and labor intensity14
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations14
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system14
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–201914
Recognizing Indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ rights and agency in the post-2020 Biodiversity Agenda14
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation14
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling14
The value of transhumance for biodiversity conservation: Vulture foraging in relation to livestock movements14
Strategic environment analysis for Arctic collaborative governance based on data-driven triple bottom line perspective13
Food resilience in a dark catastrophe: A new way of looking at tropical wild edible plants13
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework13
Pro-environmental habits: An underexplored research agenda in sustainability science13
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach13
What is a fire resilient landscape? Towards an integrated definition13
Navigating causal reasoning in sustainability science13
Too much, too soon? Two Swedish case studies of short-term deadwood recruitment in riparian buffers12
Which plants matter? A comparison of academic and community assessments of plant value and conservation status in the Moroccan High Atlas12
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges12
Cacao agroforestry adoption by smallholder farmers and forest loss prevention in the Maya Golden Landscape, Belize12
The coalitional politics of the European Union’s environmental forest policy: Biodiversity conservation, timber legality, and climate protection12
The costs of subsidies and externalities of economic activities driving nature decline12
Perceptions of environmental problems and solutions in Florida across sectors: A survey of key stakeholders and the public12
Climate change and the planned relocation of people: A longitudinal analysis of Vunidogoloa, Fiji12
How unnecessarily high abatement costs and unresolved distributional issues undermine nutrient reductions to the Baltic Sea12
Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe's restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment12
Preface12
Damming induces convergence of riverscapes in the Nile, Yangtze, and Amazon Basin: The importance of localized watershed management12
Correction: Tourists’ valuation of nature in protected areas: A systematic review12
Opportunities to tackle antibiotic resistance development in the aquatic environment through the Water Framework Directive12
Ambio fit for the 2020s12
Complementary ecosystem services from multiple land uses highlight the importance of tropical mosaic landscapes12
A classification of cultivated pastures in the Brazilian Cerrado for sustainable intensification and savanna restoration12
Diverse experiences, diverse adaptations: A multidimensional look at climate change responses12
Environmental and public health co-benefits of consumer switches to immunity-supporting food11
Late Holocene environmental change and anthropogenic: Ecosystem interaction on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya11
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)11
Stratification of stakeholders for participation in the governance of coastal social-ecological systems11
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu11
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania11
Population control by means of organised hunting effort: Experiences from a voluntary goose hunting arrangement11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Sustainable Development Goals and risks: The Yin and the Yang of the paths towards sustainability11
The impacts of a global pandemic on the efficacy and stability of contemporary wildlife conservation: South Africa as a case study11
How is gender investigated in African climate change research? A systematic review of the literature11
Modeling non-linear changes in an urban setting: From pro-environmental affordances to responses in behavior, emissions and air quality11
A yearly maximum sea level simulator and its applications: A Stockholm case study11
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review11
Overlooked jaguar guardians: Indigenous territories and range-wide conservation of a cultural icon11
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation10
Shine a light: Under-ice light and its ecological implications in a changing Arctic Ocean10
Participatory co-learning for human–wildlife coexistence: Reflections on a novel program applying systems thinking, nonviolent communication, and learning-based approaches10
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation10
Coherent at face value: Integration of forest carbon targets in Finnish policy strategies10
Combating climate change through sustainable cattle ranching in the global south: The role of societal corporatism10
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk10
Typologies of collaborative governance for scaling nature-based solutions in two strategic South African river systems10
Marine conservation in Vanuatu: Local conceptualisation and ‘assemblage’10
Biogeochemical consequences of a changing Arctic shelf seafloor ecosystem10
Reflections on Siberia’s “Gloomy River”10
Incorporating uncertainty in Indigenous sea Country monitoring with Bayesian statistics: Towards more informed decision-making10
Microcredit programs may increase risk to pastoralist livelihoods in Inner Mongolia10
Conservation funding from CBD COP15 and COP1610
Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge10
Participatory monitoring in community-based fisheries management through a gender lens10
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden10
Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics10
Archetypal typology of European forest ecosystems integrating management intensity and naturalness9
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)9
Shaping and enhancing resilient forests for a resilient society9
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?9
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration9
Are debt-for-nature swaps scalable: Which nature, how much debt, and who pays?9
A manifesto for coastal landscape governance: Reframing the relationship between coastal and landscape governance9
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions9
Border militarization affects people’s interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest9
Preferences for woodland activities and forest features as predictors of well-being after forest visits: Evidence from a nationally representative survey in Slovakia9
Understanding the social impacts of enforcement activities on illegal wildlife trade in China8
Indigenous Peoples’ rights in national climate governance: An analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)8
Illegal wildlife trade and other organised crime: A scoping review8
Integrating knowledge on green infrastructure, health and well-being in ageing populations: Principles for research and practice8
Twenty years after storm Gudrun: A lasting impact on forest science that highlights the critical role of forest monitoring8
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges8
Correction to: Substances of emerging concern in Baltic Sea water: Review on methodological advances for the environmental assessment and proposal for future monitoring8
A bridge over sustainable water: Politicians’ perceptions about the preconditions for collective action8
Disturbance shapes the US forest governance frontier: A review and conceptual framework for understanding governance change8
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands8
Local stakeholder perceptions of forest degradation: Keys to sustainable tropical forest management8
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia8
Heavy rainfalls in Poland and their hyetographs8
Patterns of infringement, risk, and impact driven by coal mining permits in Indonesia8
The role of a changing Arctic Ocean and climate for the biogeochemical cycling of dimethyl sulphide and carbon monoxide8
Links between food trade, climate change and food security in developed countries: A case study of Sweden8
Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict8
Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity8
Reviewer Acknowledgements7
The interplay between the urban development of Rome (Italy) and the Tiber River floods: A review of two millennia of socio-hydrological history7
Precarious livelihoods at the intersection of fishing and sand mining in Cambodia7
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species7
Evaluating plans for sustainable development in Arctic cities7
The role of conservation in United States’ agricultural policy from the Dust Bowl to today: A critical assessment7
Earth stewardship: Shaping a sustainable future through interacting policy and norm shifts7
Translocation of deadwood in ecological compensation: A novel way to compensate for habitat loss7
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden7
Examining the co-occurrences of human threats within terrestrial protected areas7
Building a decision-support tool to inform sustainability approaches under complexity: Case study on managing wild ruminants7
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging7
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment7
Walking as a method for epistemic justice in sustainability7
Impacts of climate-induced drought on lake and reservoir biodiversity and ecosystem services: A review7
Conceptualizing the human drivers of low tree diversity in planted urban landscapes7
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach7
Mapping, characterisation, and analysis of initiatives with transformative capacity: A scoping review7
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands7
Rewilding’s social–ecological aims: Integrating coexistence into a rewilding continuum7
Climate change, cultural continuity and ecological grief: Insights from the Sámi Homeland7
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity7
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes7
In this current wildfire crisis, acknowledge widespread suffering7
How the Green Architecture of the 2023–2027 Common Agricultural Policy could have been greener6
Urban sustainability and resilience: What the literature tells us about “lock-ins”?6
Identifying leverage points for sustainable nutrient policy integration in Canada6
Coastal cultural ecosystem services and adolescents’ subjective well-being6
Assessing fisheries nutrient yields: The Northwest Atlantic, 1950–20146
Nitrous oxide and methane in a changing Arctic Ocean6
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land6
Himalayan alpine ecohydrology: An urgent scientific concern in a changing climate6
Why does rangeland integration by transfer fail to overcome the tragedy of anticommons?6
Reviewer Acknowledgements6
Urban nature at the fingertips: Investigating wild food foraging to enable nature interactions of urban dwellers6
Increased appreciation of forests and their restorative effects during the COVID-19 pandemic6
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential6
An integrated agroforestry-bioenergy system for enhanced energy and food security in rural sub-Saharan Africa6
Analysis of the watershed social–ecological system trajectory in Copalita-Huatulco, Mexico: The impact of drivers on hydrological ecosystem services6
A bacteria-based index of biotic integrity assesses aquatic ecosystems effectively in rewetted long-term dry river channel after water replenishment6
How ecological research on human-dominated ecosystems incorporates agricultural and forestry practices: A literature analysis6
Correction: Crafting the success and failure of decentralized marine management6
Food web assessments in the Baltic Sea: Models bridging the gap between indicators and policy needs6
Development of science and policy related to acid deposition in East Asia over 30 years6
Expanding current definitions of environmental stewardship through organizational mission statement analysis6
Misleading estimates of economic impacts of biological invasions: Including the costs but not the benefits6
Mainstreaming nature-based solutions through five forms of scaling: Case of the Kiiminkijoki River basin, Finland6
Towards a holistic paradigm for long-term snow avalanche risk assessment and mitigation6
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law6
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual6
Modelling the regional potential for reaching carbon neutrality in Finland: Sustainable forestry, energy use and biodiversity protection6
Improving suitability of urban canals and canalized rivers for transportation, thermal energy extraction and recreation in two European delta cities6
The metacoupled Arctic: Human–nature interactions across local to global scales as drivers of sustainability6
Tourists’ valuation of nature in protected areas: A systematic review6
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