Regional Environmental Change

Papers
(The median citation count of Regional Environmental Change 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Effects of agro-climatic indices on wheat yield in arid, semi-arid, and sub-humid regions of Iran83
Climate change in action: local elevational shifts on Iberian amphibians and reptiles58
Rainfall changes perceived by farmers and captured by meteorological data: two sides to every story55
Maize yield under a changing climate in Uganda: long-term impacts for climate smart agriculture47
Addressing the climate adaptation tracking gap: an assessment method and its application to the Caribbean region41
The role of household labour for sustainable intensification in smallholder systems: a case study in cocoa farming systems38
Searching for synergies for low emission development, the case for dairy subsector in Kenya37
Biogeochemical plumbing of pioneer mangrove intertidal flats in French Guiana35
Innovation in coastal governance: management and expectations of the UK’s first sandscaping scheme34
Changes in evaporation patterns and their impact on Climatic Water Balance and river discharges in central Poland, 1961–202034
Exploring the role of smallholder perceptions in shaping land-use decisions in a tropical agro-forest frontier in southern Mexico34
Facing up to drought events: Understanding the potentials and challenges within farming systems32
Large-scale forest protection: the successful case of the Kayapo people in the Brazilian Amazon31
Climate-related loss and damage in contexts of agrarian change: differentiated sense of loss from extreme weather events in northeast Cambodia30
Assessment of climate change impact and adaptation strategy for millet in the Sudano-Sahelian region of Niger27
“We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia27
The impact of urban growth boundary on urban sprawl: evidence from China27
Estimates of carbon stocks in sandy soils cultivated under local management practices in Senegal’s groundnut basin26
Wetland changes and their impacts on livelihoods in Chiang Saen Valley, Chiang Rai Province, Thailand25
Integrated energy-water-land nexus planning in the Colorado River Basin (Argentina)25
Correction to: Integrated flood vulnerability assessment of villages in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji25
Post-cyclone resilience of an agroforest-based food system in the Pacific Islands24
Sixteen ways to adapt: a comparison of state-level climate change adaptation strategies in the federal states of Germany24
Implications of regional agricultural land use dynamics and deforestation associated with sugarcane expansion for soil carbon stocks in Brazil23
Grassland contribution to soil organic carbon stock under climate change scenarios in Basque Country (Spain)23
Too expensive to keep — bidding farewell to an iconic mountain glacier?22
Brazil’s Amazonian deforestation: the role of landholdings in undesignated public lands22
Situating climate change narrative for conceptualizing adaptation strategies: a case study of coffee growers in South India22
Quantifying drivers of change in social-ecological systems: land management impacts wildfire probability in forests of the western US22
Roadless areas in Brazil: land cover, land use, and conservation status21
Affecting behavioural change through empowerment: conceptual insights from theory and agricultural case studies in South Asia21
Knowledge systems approaches for enhancing project impacts in complex settings: community fire management and peatland restoration in Indonesia21
Perceptions and attitudes towards climate change in fishing communities of the Sudd Wetlands, South Sudan21
(Climate) Migrants welcome? Evidence from a survey experiment in Austria20
Climate impact chains for envisaging climate risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation issues20
Is the vegetation archetype of the Garden of Eden located in the Irano-Turanian region and safe against climate change?20
Can the cropping systems of the Nile basin be adapted to climate change?19
Evolution of the French Guiana coast from Late Pleistocene to Holocene based on chenier and beach sand dating19
Assessment of hydro-climatic trends in a drought-prone region of Maharashtra (India) with reference to rainfed agriculture19
Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research18
Plant community predictions support the potential for big sagebrush range expansion adjacent to the leading edge18
Climate change–driven agricultural frontiers and their ecosystem trade-offs in the hills of Nepal18
Climate, flood, and attitudes toward violence: micro-level evidence from Karamoja, Uganda18
Ecosystem-based adaptation in Africa: integrating mitigation and adaptation18
Climate change impacts on wind power generation for the Italian peninsula18
What motivates and hinders municipal adaptation policy? Exploring vertical and horizontal diffusion in Hessen and Finland18
Substantial warming of Central European mountain rivers under climate change17
Co-producing representations of summer rainfall in Bangladesh17
Farmers’ preference and willingness to pay for weather forecast services in Benin (West Africa)17
Characterization of land cover-specific fire regimes in the Brazilian Amazon17
Shifting climate zones and expanding tropical and arid climate regions across Kenya (1980–2020)17
Correction: Sensitivity of fishery resources to climate change in the warm-temperate Southwest Atlantic Ocean17
Compound hazards of climate change, forestry, and other encroachments on winter pasturelands: a storyline approach in a forest reindeer herding community in Northern Sweden16
Transformative adaptation through nature-based solutions: a comparative case study analysis in China, Italy, and Germany16
Ecosystem services as systemic enablers for transformation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: an analytical synthesis16
Controlling the water: citizens’ place–related adaptation to landslides in mid-Norway15
Agricultural resilience and adaptive capacity during severe drought in the Western Cape, South Africa15
Long-term reclamation of tidal flats of Chongming Island and ecological security of Yangtze estuary, China15
Causes of tea land dynamics in Sri Lanka between 1995 and 203015
Braided motivations for Iceland’s first wave of mass emigration to North America after the 1875 Askja eruption15
Large differences between observed and expected Ecuadorian deforestation from 2001 to 2009: a counterfactual simulation approach15
Consequence of habitat specificity: a rising risk of habitat loss for endemic and sub-endemic woody species under climate change in the Hyrcanian ecoregion15
Elevation and local climate variation control changes in Aleppo pine growth responses to hydroclimate and drought in semi-arid Spain15
Unveiling the potential of biomarkers in the context of climate change: analysis of knowledge landscapes, trends, and research priorities15
Supporting adaptive pathways planning using archetypes for climate adaptation14
A remote sensing-based classification approach for river mouths of the Amazon-influenced Guianas coast14
Climate change impacts on potential maize yields in Gambella Region, Ethiopia14
Correction to: “We cannot escape this”: discussing leverage points for sustainability across scales with the example of Ouvéa, Kanaky New Caledonia14
Cycles of marine biotoxins in bivalves and their spatial distribution along the continental Portuguese coast: are trends related to global change already discernible?14
Linking the diversity and structure of French avian communities with landscape parameters, climate and NPP flows14
Understanding immobility of a highly vulnerable coastal village in the Indian Sundarban14
What is a good grassland? Contrasting perspectives on greening of the Tibetan Plateau14
Land sharing strategies for addressing the trade-off between carbon storage and crop production in France14
Increasing overall agricultural productivity in the Yellow River Delta Eco-economic Zone in China14
A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans13
The impacts of agricultural and urban land-use changes on plant and bird biodiversity in Costa Rica (1986–2014)13
Critical habitats: climate change and habitat loss as drivers of change in the geographic ranges of Neotropical woodcreepers (Aves: Furnariidae) in Mexico13
Small islands and climate change: analysis of adaptation policy in the Cayman Islands13
Correction: Venice and its lagoon fin de siecle13
European beewolf (Philanthus triangulum) will expand its geographic range as a result of climate warming13
Correction to: Translating and embedding equity-thinking into climate adaptation: an analysis of US cities13
Forest expansion in abandoned agricultural lands has limited effect to offset carbon emissions from Central-North Spain13
Leveraging atmospheric moisture recycling in Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries for irrigation and afforestation planning12
Projected climate in coffee-based farming systems: implications for crop suitability in Uganda12
“Listen to us”: small-scale farmers’ understandings of social-ecological changes and their drivers in Important Agricultural Heritage Systems12
Interventions to control forest loss in a swidden cultivation landscape in Nan Province, Thailand12
Assessment of agricultural water protection strategies at a catchment scale: case of Finland12
Effects of climate change-induced water temperature changes on the distribution of tidal river fish fauna in the Japanese archipelago12
Conversion to community-supported agriculture—pathways, motives and barriers for German farmers12
Is food self-sufficiency possible for Reunion Island?12
Nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation are not located where they are most needed across the Alps12
Deforestation and trends of change in protected areas of the Usumacinta River basin (2000–2018), Mexico and Guatemala12
Prediction of mangrove recovery in natural protected areas of the Yucatan Peninsula12
Examining the presence and effects of coherence and fragmentation in the Gulf of Maine fishery management network12
Farmers’ action space to adopt sustainable practices: a study of arable farming in Saxony12
Water on fire: losses and the post-war future of ecosystem services from water resources of Ukraine12
“Here, I will stay until I die”—exploring the relationship between place attachment, risk perception, and coping behavior in two small Norwegian communities12
Formal/informal interactions in climate risk governance: insights from Bhubaneswar, India11
Inferring the impacts of climate extreme in the Kabul River Basin11
Climate warming drives divergence of montane butterfly communities in Southern Italy11
Rotational pasture management to increase the sustainability of mountain livestock farms in the Alpine region11
Not all trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services are created equal: assessing their spatio-temporal variation in response to land cover change in the Colombian Andes11
Technology needs assessment for climate change adaptation: Experiences of Mauritius and Seychelles11
Marine heatwaves threaten key foraging grounds of sea turtles in Southeast Asian Seas11
The presence, maintenance, and adaptation of Indigenous and local knowledge about climate-related hazards in Nordic contexts11
Quantifying the spatiotemporal patterns and environmental impacts of surface coal mining in the Xilingol Steppe, Inner Mongolia11
Spatiotemporal characteristics of drought under different vegetation types and responses to climatic factors in Jilin Province, China11
Relative importance of local and regional/global drivers of mangrove degradation and deforestation in Madagascar11
The vegetation cover dynamics and potential drivers of habitat change over 30 years in the Free State National Botanical Garden, South Africa11
Governance drivers hinder and support a paradigm shift in wildfire risk management in Italy11
Impacts of urbanization on mangrove forests and brachyuran crabs in Penang, Malaysia10
Forest regrowth in Tierra del Fuego, southern Patagonia: landscape drivers and effects on forest structure, soil, and understory attributes10
Towards a cultural lens for adaptation pathways to climate change10
Fighting against, and coping with, drought in Brazil: two policy paradigms intertwined10
Local reports of climate change impacts in Sierra Nevada, Spain: sociodemographic and geographical patterns10
The potential for enhancing soil carbon levels through the use of organic soil amendments in Queensland, Australia10
Crop diversity effects on temporal agricultural production stability across European regions10
Manure application in managed grasslands can contribute to soil organic carbon sequestration: evidence from field experiments across Japan10
Suggestions for marine protected area management in Australia: a review of temperature trends and management plans10
Effects of soil subsidence on plantation agriculture in Indonesian peatlands10
Eco-hydrological effects of agricultural water-saving in the Yinchuan Plain, Northwest China10
Learning from the past: common sense, traditional wisdom, and technology for flood risk reduction developed in Japan10
The role of multiple stressors in adaptation to climate change in the Canadian Arctic10
Climate change impacts on future driving and walking conditions in Finland, Norway and Sweden10
Rainfall and land use impacts on water quality and communities in the Waimanu River Catchment in the South Pacific: the case of Viti Levu, Fiji10
Strengthening climate research capacity in Africa: lessons from the ‘Climate impact research capacity leadership enhancement’ project10
Assessing effectiveness of agricultural adaptation strategies in context of crop loss: a case study of the Indian subcontinent10
Correction to: The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?9
Community priorities, values, and perceptions associated with ecosystem services provided by the socio-ecological landscapes of Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalaya9
Rethinking collaborative governance: contested legitimacy of the Melamchi inter-basin water transfer for municipal use in Nepal9
Venice and its lagoon fin de siecle9
Is climate change pushing gymnosperms against the wall in the northwestern Himalayas?9
Soil organic carbon in Andean high-mountain ecosystems: importance, challenges, and opportunities for carbon sequestration9
Water under the bridge: how place meanings shape second homeowners’ engagement in flood risk management in southern Denmark9
Climate-driven range shifts of Levaillant’s Woodpecker Picus vaillantii in the Western Mediterranean9
Evaluating the comprehensiveness of municipal climate change adaptation plans in Ontario, Canada9
Food systems in the face of climate change: reviewing the state of research in South Pacific Islands9
Adaptation strategies for dealing with global atmospheric change in Mediterranean agriculture: a triple helix approach to the Spanish case study9
Identifying synergies and hotspots of ecosystem services for the conservation priorities in the Asian Water Tower region9
Future changes in wind energy resources in Egypt under Paris climate agreements’ goals9
The extreme monsoon climate and associated ancient communities, kingdoms, irrigational advancement in Deccan India during the late Holocene8
Coastal marine habitats deterioration according to users’ perception: the case of Cap de Creus Marine Protected Area (NE Spain)8
Place attachment, storms, and climate change in the Faroe Islands8
Impact of shifting from rice to shrimp farming on migration aspirations in Bangladesh8
Perceptions and vulnerability to climate change among the urban poor in Kampala City, Uganda8
Ten years of Inuit co-management: advancing research, resilience, and capacity in Nunatsiavut through fishery governance8
Natural and anthropogenic factors influencing changes in peatland management in Poland8
Assessing the present and future landslide susceptibility in Indian Himalayan Region due to climate variability8
Projected population exposure to precipitation extremes in China by the end of the twenty-first century: trends, change points, and spatial variability8
Collateral damages of intensive farming in central Argentina: impacts of livestock intensification on the socio-ecosystem of the Paraná River Delta8
Crop diversification as landscape change: using land systems science to understand agricultural trajectories in North Carolina8
Landscape ecological risks assessment of the China-Vietnam border area: the perspective of production-living-ecological spaces8
Broadening the horizon in land use change modelling: Normative scenarios for nature positive futures in Switzerland8
Fungal communities and soil nutrients altered by shrub encroachment into grasslands, Inner Mongolia, China8
Do hurricanes or freezing events regulate the sustainability of subtropical mangroves on the Gulf of Mexico coast?8
Dewatering the Xingu River: hydrological alterations and biocultural connections among the Arara Indigenous People in the Volta Grande region, Brazilian Amazon8
Social perceptions regarding rivers associated with the sugar industry in Tucumán, Argentina8
Factors affecting small farm resilience to climate change in Hamedan Province, Iran: a structural model analysis8
Recreation and its synergies and trade-offs with other ecosystem services of Alpine and pre-Alpine grasslands8
Assessing carbon sequestration in a high-diversity restoration plantation in the Atlantic Forest of southwestern Brazil8
How to quantify the regional effects of ocean temperature rise due to climate change: implications of Octopus maya ecophysiology on food security of the Yucatan shelf artisanal fishermen8
Resilience and vulnerability: perspectives of key informants on the uncertain future of Pacific salmon in British Columbia8
Synergies and trade-offs in drought resilience within a multi-level UK food supply chain8
Reconstructed spatiotemporal changes of cropland in Vietnam from AD 1500 to 19508
The summer 2022 drought: a taste of future climate for the Po valley (Italy)?7
Multilevel governance in climate change adaptation in Bangladesh: structure, processes, and power dynamics7
Drivers and implications of land use/cover dynamics in land leased areas, western Ethiopia7
When does risk become residual? A systematic review of research on flood risk management in West Africa7
What is the evidence linking financial assistance for drought-affected agriculture and resilience in tropical Asia? A systematic review7
Spatial patterns and determinants of avocado frontier dynamics in Mexico7
Himalaya to Hengduan: dynamics of alpine treelines under climate change7
Reconstructing forest cover changes for the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River over the past millennium7
Future scenarios of land use change in the Gran Chaco: how far is zero-deforestation?7
Nitrogen-fixing trees increase organic carbon sequestration in forest and agroforestry ecosystems in the Congo basin7
The importance of diversity in local food systems: a network analysis of food-related interactions in the Indigenous food system on St. Paul Island, Alaska7
Phylogenetic diversity and conservation challenges in Brejos de Altitude: assessing threatened areas of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest7
Response of endangered bird species to land-use changes in an agricultural landscape in Germany7
Soil organic carbon storage and contribution of management strategies to the “4 per 1000” target in a wet savanna, Côte d’Ivoire7
Studies from global regions indicate promising avenues for maintaining and increasing soil organic carbon stocks7
Land in Central America will become less suitable for coffee cultivation under climate change7
Balancing disturbance risk and ecosystem service provisioning in Swiss mountain forests: an increasing challenge under climate change7
Coastal Melaleuca wetlands under future climate and sea-level rise scenarios in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam: vulnerability and conservation7
Water balance components and climate extremes over Brazil under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C of global warming scenarios7
Brazilian soybeans as feed for livestock in Europe: an insight into the nitrogen flows7
Environmental non-migration: framework, methods, and cases7
Balancing the push and pull factors of land-use change: a New Zealand case study7
Glacier tourism and climate change: effects, adaptations, and perspectives in the Alps7
Managing mixed stands can mitigate severe climate change impacts on French alpine forests6
The collapse of marine forests: drastic reduction in populations of the family Sargassaceae in Madeira Island (NE Atlantic)6
The interactions among landscape pattern, climate change, and ecosystem services: progress and prospects6
Carbon and nitrogen stocks in cultivation systems of a Quilombola community in the Brazilian Cerrado6
Which pathway to address interrelated challenges to farm sustainability in Thailand? Views of local actors6
Industrial metabolism and territorial development of the Maurienne Valley (France)6
Reconstruction of cropland areas for South Asia from AD 640 to 20166
Sea level rise threatens critical nesting sites of charismatic marine turtles in the Mediterranean6
The effectiveness of climate action and land recovery across ecosystems, climatic zones and scales6
Using a network governance framework to assess the wood energy industry in times of catastrophic wildfire in Northern California6
Climate change mitigation and green transformation in China6
Societal impacts of historical droughts in a warming world6
Forests protect aquatic communities from detrimental impact by volcanic deposits in the tropical Andes (Ecuador)6
Trajectories of socio-ecological change in mountains6
Extreme hydroclimatic events in rural communities of the Brazilian Amazon: local perceptions of change, impacts, and adaptation6
Determinants, outcomes, and feedbacks associated with microeconomic adaptation to climate change6
Rainfall anomalies and their impacts on Bhutan’s agro-ecological landscape6
Spared, shared and lost—routes for maintaining the Scandinavian Mountain foothill intact forest landscapes6
Identifying and mitigating risks to completion of small grant climate change adaptation projects: evidence from the Pacific6
Changes in vegetation greenness related to climatic and non-climatic factors in the Sudano-Sahelian region6
Dynamics of soil organic carbon in the steppes of Russia and Kazakhstan under past and future climate and land use6
Rainfed crop yield response to climate change in Iran6
Impact of surface-net solar radiation and soil temperature on tea production in India: a study of the Dooars region in West Bengal6
The climate change policy integration challenge in French Polynesia, Central Pacific Ocean6
Typologies of European farmers: approaches, methods and research gaps6
Building consensus and increasing self-efficacy: participatory scenarios as a tool for developing food security solutions in West Africa6
Impacts of climate change on semi-natural alpine pastures productivity and floristic composition5
Gender dimensions in the adoption of climate-smart agriculture technologies in response to climate change extremes in Benin5
Climate policy must account for community-specific socio-economic, health, and biophysical conditions—evidence from coastal Alaska5
Linking ecosystem services provisioning with demand for animal-sourced food: an integrated modeling study for Tanzania5
Agricultural diversification for crop yield stability: a smallholder adaptation strategy to climate variability in Ethiopia5
Land cover dynamics in the Paraguayan Pantanal in the timeframe 1987–20205
Dynamics of mud banks and sandy urban beaches in French Guiana, South America5
Effects of COVID-19 lockdown on the observed density of coral reef fish along coastal habitats of Moorea, French Polynesia5
Nature’s contribution to people provided by pastoral systems across European, African, and Middle East Mediterranean countries: trends, approaches and gaps5
Correction: A new framework for rapidly assessing national adaptation policies: an application to small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans5
Including the perspective of stakeholders in landscape planning through the Ecosystem Services co-production framework: an empirical exploration in Le Marche, Italy5
Contract farming and smallholder farmers’ resilience to climate change and variability in northern Ghana5
Gridded reconstruction of cropland cover changes in Northeast China from AD 1000 to 12005
Resilient Livelihood Styles: An enriched perspective on household livelihood resilience in the sensitive natural environments of Indonesia5
Digging in? Migration preferences in communities affected by climate change — evidence from Bangladesh5
Impacts of climate change on regional cattle trade in the central corridor of Africa5
Monitoring and assessment of glaciers and glacial lakes: climate change impact on the Mago Chu Basin, Eastern Himalayas5
Prediction of drought/flood intensities based on a 500-year time series in three different climate provinces of China5
Attitudes towards climate migrants in Aotearoa New Zealand: the roles of climate change beliefs and immigration attitudes5
Sustainable groundwater management and its implications for agricultural land repurposing5
Climate mobility and migrant health in West Africa: past norms, current challenges, and future projections5
Spatiotemporal variations of non-farming use of cropland in China under different SSP-RCP scenarios5
Reflections on land use and land cover change under different socio-economic regimes in the Polish Western Carpathians5
Predicted changes in distribution and richness of wild edible plants under climate change scenarios in northwestern Kenya5
Fallow Agriculture and Climatic Stress Independently Predict Migration During Syria’s 2006-10 Drought5
Through eagle eyes—the potential of satellite-derived LAI time series to estimate masting events and tree-ring width of European beech5
Cutting of dry forests in a semiarid region of northeastern Brazil5
Mapping cropland evolution based on biophysical data and cropping history in the Borana rangelands, Southern Ethiopia5
Sky glow disrupts the orientation of Australian flatback turtles Natator depressus on nesting beaches5
Biofilm dynamics and production in a tropical intertidal mudflat in French Guiana5
Shifting responsibility and denying justice: New Zealand’s contentious approach to Pacific climate mobilities5
Jellyfish sting web survey: clinical characteristics and management of Rhopilema nomadica envenomation in the Mediterranean Sea5
Drivers of shoreline change on Pacific coral reef islands: linking island change to processes5
The role of the environment within a constellation of interacting causal factors shaping mobility—the example of three oases in Northern Africa5
Shifts in the pelagic fishery dynamics in response to regional sea warming and fishing in the Northeastern Mediterranean5
A participatory approach for characterizing the resilience of rural water supply systems in semi-arid areas5
Solastalgia, place attachment and disruption: insights from a coastal community on the front line4
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