Ambio

Papers
(The median citation count of Ambio is 3. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Time for change: Recommendations for action during the proposed EUDR postponement238
Discourse developments within the public agenda on Danish nature management 2016–2021: Animal welfare ethics as a barrier to rewilding projects175
Toward energy systems within the planetary boundaries161
A social-ecological engagement with reef passages in New Caledonia: Connectors between coastal and oceanic spaces and species113
The decision maker’s lament: If I only had some science!105
Input data resolution affects the conservation prioritization outcome of spatially sparse biodiversity features76
Cascading tipping points of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean75
From climate perceptions to actions: A case study on coffee farms in Ethiopia71
Protecting peatlands requires understanding stakeholder perceptions and relational values: A case study of peatlands in the Yorkshire Dales69
A synthesis of mercury research in the Southern Hemisphere, part 1: Natural processes63
The entangled Indigenous, rural, and urban realities in Amazônia’s governance61
The gendered costs of human–wildlife conflict: A global systematic review61
Wolves on the phone: Public calls reveal a rise in urban concerns as wolves recolonize human-dominated areas59
Improving biocultural diversity conservation: Integrating the multiple evidence base (MEB) approach and co-design58
The intricate diversity of human–nature relations: Evidence from Finland55
Foresight science in conservation: Tools, barriers, and mainstreaming opportunities55
Motivations underpinning honeybee management practices: A Q methodology study with UK beekeepers55
Social and knowledge diversity in forest education: Vital for the world’s forests54
A general procedure to identify indicators for evaluation and monitoring of nature-based solution projects53
Balancing landscape values and tourism choices: Integrating participatory mapping and the IPBES Values Typology52
Wilder rangelands as a natural climate opportunity: Linking climate action to biodiversity conservation and social transformation51
Small-scale fisheries in ecologically sensitive areas in Latin America and the Caribbean: Do marine protected areas benefit fisheries governance?47
Protected area designation and management in a world of climate change: A review of recommendations43
Global change effects on biogeochemical mercury cycling42
The forest beyond the trees: A network perspective on governing co-production of nature’s contributions to people40
Beyond life cycle thinking: A perspective39
Citizen eyes on elusive wildlife: Assessing public appreciation for urban wild mammals37
Governance hurdles for expansion of low trophic mariculture production in Sweden36
Enhancing the transformative potential of sustainability innovations: An application of the values-rules-knowledge framework35
Community experiences of landscape-based stormwater management practices: A review35
Unveiling urban governance diversity: Clustering cities based on mitigation actions34
Cascading climate effects in deep reservoirs: Full assessment of physical and biogeochemical dynamics under ensemble climate projections and ways towards adaptation34
Recurrent discharges of non-petroleum substances from chemical tankers in Swedish marine Natura 2000 sites are against the aims of EU Directives33
Beyond retreat: Land–seascape legacies of change and continuation33
Institutional network relationships and environmental governance in the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon33
Eco-pilgrimages: Linking humans, heritage, and hydrology33
Nature, smells, and human wellbeing31
SDGs at the halfway point: How the 17 global goals address risks and wicked problems30
Land sharing complements land sparing in the conservation of disturbance-dependent species29
Integrating blue: How do we make nationally determined contributions work for both blue carbon and local coastal communities?29
Epilogue: Immanence, relationality, connectivity29
Amazon environmental services: Why Brazil’s Highway BR-319 is so damaging27
Influence of prescribed burning on reindeer winter pastures at landscape scale in northern Sweden: A modelling approach26
Empowering Indigenous natural hazards management in northern Australia25
Polycentric and resilient perspectives for governing the commons: Strategic and law and economics insights for sustainable development25
Understanding ecological civilization in China: From political context to science25
Active afforestation of drained peatlands is not a viable option under the EU Nature Restoration Law25
Living with wolves: A worldwide systematic review of attitudes25
Nature under pressure in New Caledonia: Social crisis in a world key biodiversity hotspot24
Managing multi-functional peri-urban landscapes: Impacts of horse-keeping on water quality24
Usual suspects meet mission impossible: Nutrient losses and effects of mitigation measures on a coastal catchment in the Baltic Sea region22
Toward a critical theory of social–ecological resilience: Maize and cattle in Southern Province, Zambia21
Conceptualizing controversies in the EU circular bioeconomy transition21
Community-based approach to detect and predict conflicts with large carnivores in human-dominated landscape21
Snow leopards, prey, and pastoralists: Understanding the impacts of climate change on human–wildlife coexistence in Central Asia21
Deciphering the future of electric vehicles amid emissions and adoption drivers21
Leverage points for resilience: Introducing the pyramid framework for strategic adaptation planning and assessment21
German fishery’s adaptation to historic events, Western Baltic Sea, 1890–195021
What drives participation in community-based forest management? Insights from a global review21
Toxic tides of change: Ocean pollution as a cultural tipping point21
Restoring nature, enhancing active mobility: The role of street greenery in the EU’s 2024 restoration law21
A conceptual framework of indicators for the suitability of forests for outdoor recreation20
A relational turn in climate change adaptation: Evidence from urban nature-based solutions20
Good ethics cannot stop me from exploiting: The good and bad of anthropocentric attitudes in a game environment20
The best laid plans: How do adopted city sustainability goals influence site-level action in urban forestry?20
A system for the management of sandy shorelines under climate change: United States Virgin Islands (USVI)20
How contaminated with ammunition-derived lead is meat from European small game animals? Assessing and reducing risks to human health19
Assuming accuracy, pretending influence? Risks of measuring, monitoring and reporting sustainable development goals19
From paradigm blindness to paradigm shift? An integrative review and critical analysis of the regenerative paradigm18
Redefining urban spaces in stormwater assessment through ecosystem management: A narrative review18
Urbanisation-driven land degradation and socioeconomic challenges in peri-urban areas: Insights from Southern Europe18
When enough is enough: Introducing sufficiency corridors to put techno-economism in its place18
Effect of farm size on vulnerability in beekeeping: Insights from mediterranean Spain18
The practice of historical ecology: What, when, where, how and what for18
Macro-level determinants of nature connectedness: An exploratory analysis of 61 countries18
Are European Blue Economy ambitions in conflict with European environmental visions?18
Extinction alarm for trees18
Should Swedish sea level planners worry more about mean sea level rise or sea level extremes?18
Coastal erosion and climate change: A review on coastal-change process and modeling18
A multi-framework analysis of stakeholders’ perceptions in developing a localized blue carbon ecosystems strategy in Eastern Samar, Philippines17
Can dry rivers provide a good quality of life? Integrating beneficial and detrimental nature’s contributions to people over time17
Virtual landscape-scale restoration of altered channels helps us understand the extent of impacts to guide future ecosystem management17
A methodological approach for the analysis of ecosystem services from the local communities’ perspective17
Frozen infrastructures in a changing climate: Transforming human–environment-technology relations in the Anthropocene17
Regulation, the hybrid market, and species conservation: The case of conservation banking in California17
May a highly touristic tropical island sustain water resources? Navigating troubled waters to berth on a safe shore16
River basin governance enabling pathways for sustainable management: A comparative study between Australia, Brazil, China and France16
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 science15
Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas15
Mammal recovery inside and outside terrestrial protected areas15
The historical trajectory of a coffee agri-food system: A case study in Oaxaca, Mexico15
The role of collective grieving in supporting wellbeing and capacity for climate action15
Rethinking knowledge systems for agroforestry: Insights from the mental models of cacao farmers in Colombia15
“In the end, the story of climate change was one of hope and redemption”: ChatGPT’s narrative on global warming15
Global waste, local impact: International debris influx to Cozumel Island beaches15
Country-level factors in a failing relationship with nature: Nature connectedness as a key metric for a sustainable future15
Governance of forest resource use in western Nepal: Current state and community preferences14
The environmental impact assessment of China’s ecological migration from a social–ecological perspective14
Interventions to increase circularity and reduce environmental impacts in food systems14
Large net forest loss in Cambodia’s Tonle Sap Lake protected areas during 1992–201914
Correction to: Ranking ecosystem services delivered by trees in urban and rural areas14
Mining and the sustainable development goals: Prioritizing SDG targets for proper environmental governance13
How oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea proper has spread and worsened: The role of ammonium and hydrogen sulphide13
A dam or a polder? Stakeholders’ dispute over the “right” flood-protection measure in the Czech Republic13
Grain fields in sea-landscapes13
Business for ocean sustainability: Early responses of ocean governance in the private sector13
Global gateways as telecoupled human and natural systems: The emerging case of the Bering Strait13
The development of ecological civilization in China based on the economic–social–natural complex system13
Assessing the vulnerability of mountain value chains to environmental and social drivers in Europe: A land-use and stakeholder-based approach13
The future of the Black Sea: More pollution in over half of the rivers13
Economics of rewilding13
How is Gaia doing? Trends in global land degradation and improvement13
Historical perspectives on forestry science and monocultures: Ideas of rationality in Sweden during the early twentieth century13
What does “sustainable seafood” mean to seafood system actors in Japan and Sweden?13
A global analysis of bioeconomy visions in governmental bioeconomy strategies13
Evolving pathways towards water security in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta: An adaptive management perspective13
Meeting the challenges of wild boar hunting in a modern society: The case of France13
Correction to: Quantification of forest carbon flux and stock uncertainties under climate change and their use in regionally explicit decision making: Case study in Finland13
From nature experience to pro-conservation action: How generational amnesia and declining nature-relatedness shape behaviour intentions of adolescents and adults12
Rethinking desert definitions: Bridging the gap between science, policy, and conservation12
Navigating risk: A holistic framework for supporting rural livelihoods adaptation in Solomon Islands12
Online citizen dialogue on biodiversity conservation and citizen participation: A cross-cultural deliberation between Taiwan and Japan12
Advanced monitoring of harmful substances and their effects in the Baltic Sea is desired: A comment on Kanwischer et al. (2021)12
Dreaming of wetscapes: Waking to the realities of restoration12
High salinity in drinking water creating pathways towards chronic poverty: A case study of coastal communities in Tanzania12
Assessing alternative lake management actions for climate change adaptation12
Exploring community resilience through Arctic residents’ narratives in the Republic of Sakha (Russia)12
Improving strategic planning for nature: Panacea or pandora’s box for the built and natural environment?12
Preferences of experts and the general public about wildlife management in Spain12
Navigating local relevance in transdisciplinary research: Exploring climate and environmental change in the Tasiilaq region, East Greenland12
Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia11
Reducing mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants in India: Possibilities and challenges11
Erosion of traditional ecological knowledge under conditions of hydrosocial rupture: Insights from the Mekong floodplains communities11
Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands11
Rapid lake ice structure changes across Swedish lakes puts public ice safety at risk11
Leveraging collective action and environmental literacy to address complex sustainability challenges11
Exploring a green Swedish model: Coinciding and contradictory interests on a just climate transformation in Sweden11
Correction: Adapted forest management to improve the potential for reindeer husbandry in Northern Sweden11
Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research11
Reviewer Acknowledgements11
Maximising biodiversity potential in Europe’s mines and quarries: A key role for EU Nature Restoration Regulation targets11
A bibliometric review on the Water Framework Directive twenty years after its birth10
Reforming a pre-existing biodiversity conservation scheme: Promoting climate co-benefits by a carbon payment10
An assessment of the perceptions, knowledge, and socioeconomic factors associated with illegal orchid trade in Nepal: Implications for conservation10
Rutger Rosenberg: A pioneering marine ecologist10
Social–ecological system trajectories of peri-urban watersheds based on a spatial analysis of vulnerability components: A case study in Mexico City, 1999–203910
Tea for two: India’s commodity agroforests as coexistence landscapes for the endangered Asiatic wild dogs and people10
Shifted baselines: Using the adaptive cycle to assess the post-tsunami mangrove social-ecological system recovery in the Nicobar Islands10
Human–nature relationships: An introduction to social–ecological practice theory for human–wildlife interactions10
Empathy for wildlife: The importance of the individual10
Trends and gaps in biodiversity and ecosystem services research: A text mining approach10
Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure10
Modelling CO2 budget of mussel farms across the Mediterranean Sea10
Paradoxical tensions in exploiting data to implement circular economy in the textile industry10
Publisher Correction: How advocacy coalitions in Sweden explain the policy gap between Swedish and EU eel fishery policies10
Temperatures and hypolimnetic oxygen in German lakes: Observations, future trends and adaptation potential10
Forest fates: Unraveling the peri-urban social–ecological trajectories in Mexico City's conservation land10
Politics of delay hinder the implementation of EU Forest Strategy in Finland10
Farmer perceptions of the vulnerabilities of traditional livestock farming systems under global change10
Plastic pollution in the Amazon: The first comprehensive and structured scoping review10
Foraging supply chains: Investigating disaster for improved food provisioning10
Increasing exposure to global climate change and hopes for the era of climate adaptation: An aquatic perspective10
Urban dog densities reveal environmental inequities in Santiago, Chile9
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
Awareness of environmental legislation as a deterrent for wildlife crime: A case with Masaai pastoralists, poison use and the Kenya Wildlife Act9
Climate change and the Western Himalayan community: Exploring the local perspective through food choices9
Knowledge and uses of freshwater mussels in Europe9
Sustainable coffee: A review of the diverse initiatives and governance dimensions of global coffee supply chains9
Navigating towards strengthened climate service processes9
The sustainability of urbanized land: Impacts of the growth of urbanized land in prefecture-level cities in China9
Correction to: Potential of seagrass habitat restorations as nature-based solutions: Practical and scientific implications in Indonesia9
Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation9
From COVID-19 to Green Recovery with natural capital accounting9
Blue–green water utilization in rice–fish cultivation towards sustainable food production9
Integrating carbon sequestration and biodiversity impacts in forested ecosystems: Concepts, cases, and policies9
Integration matters: Combining socio-cultural and biophysical methods for mapping ecosystem service bundles9
Part of or apart from nature? Characteristics, environmental attitudes, and priorities of the nature (dis)connected9
Social-ecological system analysis of an invertebrate gleaning fishery on the island of Unguja, Zanzibar9
Bridging social and ecological science to create spatially explicit models of human-caused mortality of carnivores9
Mapping local knowledge supports science and stewardship9
Bibliometric and literature review of research on nature-based solutions and climate change: Implications for policy and practice8
Navigating social–ecological changes: A mixed-method analysis of extensive livestock systems in southern Patagonian forests, Argentina8
Smoke pollution must be part of the savanna fire management equation: A case study from Darwin, Australia8
An environmental justice perspective on ecosystem services8
How to integrate youth in regional sustainability transformation processes: Tools, structures, and effects8
Community-based natural resource management in Roatan: Strengths and challenges8
Upsetting offsetting? Nathan the Wise’s Ring Parable and three reasons why not to adopt the carbon offsetting logic to biodiversity8
Warranty for a better world? The politics of environmental knowledge in bioeconomic sustainability certificates8
Correction: Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries8
Values of protected area landscapes shape the behaviors of subsistence users in Interior Alaska8
Cultural ecosystem services in European grasslands: A systematic review of threats8
Exploring the performance of protected areas in alleviating future human pressure8
(Un)frozen foundations: A study of permafrost construction practices in Russia, Alaska, and Canada8
Climate Relief Maps: A methodological framework for exploring everyday experiences of climate change through an intersectional lens8
Climate, peace, and conflict—past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research8
Visiting mine reclamation: How field experience shapes perceptions of mining8
The role of ecology in speciation: Dolph Schluter Crafoord Laureate 20238
Mercury and artisanal and small-scale gold mining: Review of global use estimates and considerations for promoting mercury-free alternatives8
Perceptions of coastal vegetated ecosystems: A systematic review across geographical and sectoral dimensions8
Modeling fisheries and carbon sequestration ecosystem services under deep uncertainty in the ocean twilight zone8
Activities undertaken by Indigenous Australians as “caring for Country”: A systematic review7
Determining the transformative potential of circular agriculture initiatives7
Letting the plants speak: Law, landscape and conservation7
Understanding transformative capacity to boost urban climate adaptation: A Semi-Systematic Literature Review7
From chocolate to palm oil: The future of Indonesia’s cocoa plantations7
Barriers to evidence use for sustainability: Insights from pesticide policy and practice7
Bioeconomic opportunities in restored tropical forests7
Good data relations key to Indigenous research sovereignty: A case study from Nunatsiavut7
A joint climate and nature cure: A transformative change perspective7
Uplifting local ecological knowledge as part of adaptation pathways to wildfire risk reduction: A case study in Montseny, Catalonia (Spain)7
People as solutions to sustainability7
What is an emergency? Neonicotinoids and emergency situations in plant protection in the EU7
Attaining conservation goals for quinoa: Implications for public policy in Peru and beyond7
Wetscapes provide the physical basis to sustainable peatland livelihoods7
Long-term changes in herbivore community and vegetation impact of wild and domestic herbivores across Iceland7
Evidence-based legislation, strong institutions and consensus needed to mitigate the negative impacts of free-ranging dogs7
Reaping what we sow: Centering values in food systems transformations research7
A framework for assessing global health impacts of polar change: An urgent call for interdisciplinary research7
Uncovering the governance and financing mechanisms supporting urban nature-based solutions: Case Stiemer Valley, Genk7
Causes and consequences of tipping points in river delta social–ecological systems7
Marine conservation in Vanuatu: Local conceptualisation and ‘assemblage’6
Regenerating the food system: A proposed vision and guiding principles for regenerative, inclusive food systems (RIFS)6
An action framework for the participatory assessment of nature-based solutions in cities6
Effects of global shocks on the evolution of an interconnected world6
Tracing innovation pathways behind fisheries co-management in Vanuatu6
Reconsidering priorities for forest conservation when considering the threats of mining and armed conflict6
Designing gender-inclusive data systems in small-scale fisheries6
Can natural forest expansion contribute to Europe's restoration policy agenda? An interdisciplinary assessment6
Light at the end of the tunnel: Innovative opportunities for saving tropical biodiversity6
Has the IPCC’s revised vulnerability concept been well adopted?6
Reviewing the science on 50 years of conservation: Knowledge production biases and lessons for practice6
A sea of connections: Reflections on connectivity from/in Oceania6
The impacts of a global pandemic on the efficacy and stability of contemporary wildlife conservation: South Africa as a case study6
The why, how, and what of indicator-based monitoring of nature-based solutions: Perspectives from EU and LAC city practitioners6
Long-term sustainability of the water-agriculture-energy nexus in Brazil’s MATOPIBA region: A case study using system dynamics6
Indigenous Peoples’ rights in national climate governance: An analysis of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)6
Incorporating uncertainty in Indigenous sea Country monitoring with Bayesian statistics: Towards more informed decision-making6
Inevitable epistemological conflict: Reflections on a disagreement over the relationship between science and indigenous and local knowledge6
How to square the circle? A conceptual framework synergising strategies for circular agriculture to tackle climate change and enhance overall on-farm sustainability6
Grassland allergenicity increases with urbanisation and plant invasions6
Farmland biodiversity monitoring through citizen science: A review of existing approaches and future opportunities6
Conservation features of the terrestrial Antarctic Peninsula6
Correction: Proposed highway in the Peruvian Amazon threatens vulnerable indigenous communities and natural protected areas6
Landscape governance as a matter of concern: A relational framework6
Border militarization affects people’s interactions with nature in Białowieża Forest6
Assessing the implications of organised illegal and informal mining activities on the environment in South Africa6
Tourists’ valuation of nature in protected areas: A systematic review5
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