Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society 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
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America112
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications49
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California45
Individual knowledge acquisition by teachers to promote the ecological value of sacred Kaya forests in southern Kenya44
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada43
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system36
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions35
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi34
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations34
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain29
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region29
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review29
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease28
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation28
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature27
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA26
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia26
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis26
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions25
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands24
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean24
How is the governance of circular economy of water organized? A systematic review of the literature24
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam23
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature23
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world23
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations22
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance22
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes21
Climate change, nature degradation, and financial stability: a review of domino-effects between finance, climate, and the biosphere21
Home range size and space use patterns of African lions ( Panthera leo ) in Chizarira National Park, Zimbabwe21
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia20
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses20
Social-ecological uncertainty and the (in)capacity to adapt: stakeholders’ perceptions post-red tide/salmon farming crisis in Chiloé Island (Chile)20
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity20
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis20
Undisclosed transgressions? Lacking acknowledgements of large agrifood firms on their impacts on the planetary boundaries20
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe19
The Great Stink in the 21st century? Problematizing the sewage scandal in England and envisioning a new infrastructure ideal19
Using meaningful places as an indicator for sense of place in the management of social-ecological systems18
A need for assessing the resiliency of conservation funding18
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance17
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience17
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa17
Shifting baseline syndrome in the fishing community of Barcelona: insights from scientific and local ecological knowledge17
Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for natural disasters: an integrative framework16
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach16
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review16
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?16
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions15
Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups15
Everyday adaptation practices by coffee farmers in three mountain regions in Africa15
Fruit booms and investor mobility along the China-Myanmar and China-Laos borders15
What comes after crises? Key elements and insights into feedback amplifying community self-organization15
Causes of overgrazing in Inner Mongolian grasslands: Searching for deep leverage points of intervention15
Indigenous caretaking of beargrass and the social and ecological consequences of adaptations to maintain beargrass weaving practices15
Coping with conflicts in the co-production of solid waste management services: experience with a real-world lab in India15
Tradition and change: celebrating food systems resilience at two Indigenous Māori community events15
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)15
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future15
People think there's no nature in cities, but they want to know more15
Biocultural well-being: Indigenous Peoples’ values for conservation and equity15
Mi'kmaw lessons for realigning land relations in Bay of Fundy dykelands and tidal wetlands15
Unleashing eco-conscious travel: exploring the factors influencing green travel behavior in urban communities14
Engaging with justice in integrated landscape approaches14
Social-ecological determinants of contemporary megafauna distributions in Indian tropical dry woodlands14
Using machine learning to uncover synergies between forest restoration and livelihood support in the Himalayas14
“It’s like a connection between all of us”: Inuit social connections and caribou declines in Labrador, Canada14
Operationalizing the social-ecological systems framework in a protected area: a case study of Qilian Mountain National Park, Northwestern China14
Eliciting the plurality of causal reasoning in social-ecological systems research14
Narrating changes, recalling memory: accumulation by dispossession in food systems of Indigenous communities at the extremes of Latin America14
Understanding how governance emerges in social-ecological systems: insights from archetype analysis13
A synthesis on active citizenship in European nature conservation: social and environmental impacts, democratic tensions, and governance implications13
Equity in resilience: a case study of community resilience to wildfire in southwestern Oregon, United States13
Labrador Inuit resilience and resurgence: embedding Indigenous values in commercial fisheries governance13
Editorial: High Nature Value farming systems in Europe13
Who has the time? The temporality of tensions in the transboundary Red River basin13
Conservation with local people: medicinal plants as cultural keystone species in the Southern Alps13
Integrating public preferences with biophysical production possibilities: an application to ecosystem services from dam removal13
Food consumption and nutritional status of sedentarized Baka Pygmies in Southern Cameroon: wild foods are less important for those who farm13
Vertical agriculture’s potential implications for food system resilience: outcomes of focus groups in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia13
Keeping up with the landscapes: promoting resilience in dynamic social-ecological systems13
A method for benchmarking two different resilience assessment methods13
Operationalizing pathway diversity in a mosaic landscape13
Pathways to transformation: institutionalizing urban agriculture in a Montréal borough12
The invisible thread: women as tradition keepers and change agents in Spanish pastoral social-ecological systems12
Dangerous environments: environmental peacebuilding’s technomoral imaginary and its power-knowledge effects12
Demystifying food systems transformation: a review of the state of the field12
Resilient niches: how non-financial capitals helped to overcome the COVID-19 crisis in local food systems12
Relational values overshadow monetary value in territorial management by the Indigenous Oaxacan community of Capulálpam de Méndez12
Not too small to benefit society: insights into perceived cultural ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps12
Pathways to healing: Indigenous revitalization through family-based land management in the Klamath Basin12
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco12
Adaptive responses to inter-group competition over natural resources: the case of leakage12
COVID-19 impacts on food systems in fisheries-dependent island communities12
From stories to maps: translating participatory scenario narratives into spatially explicit information12
Livelihood vulnerability and human-wildlife interactions across protected areas12
Tracing a pollinator’s path12
Expanding use of space is an opportunity for sustainability but a threat to resilience12
Navigating ambiguous waters: a relational approach to nested conflicts in the Katari River Basin, Bolivia11
Coproduction mechanisms to weave Indigenous knowledge, artificial intelligence, and technical data to enable Indigenous-led adaptive decision making: lessons from Australia’s joint managed Kakadu Nati11
Manning the mangroves: gender, regional identities, and social history shape mangrove forest dependence and governance11
Biocultural ethics and Earth stewardship: a novel integration to revitalize multiple values of nature11
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization11
Development of a wetland management plan for Taiqu Saltpan, Taiwan, by stakeholder engagement and water gate operation11
Gathering Giizhik in a changing landscape11
Building resilience in Africa’s smallholder farming systems: contributions from agricultural development interventions—a scoping review11
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand11
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation11
Using public litigation records to identify priority science needs for managing public lands11
Enforcement, deterrence, and compliance in co-managed small-scale fisheries11
Navigating transdisciplinary waters to protect both sharks and bathers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: diverse stakeholders propose potential actions11
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries11
Assessing holistic agroecological resilience of agroecosystems from a landscape perspective: a systematic review10
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions10
Dimensions of integration for landscape connectivity planning: a framework for understanding challenges and opportunities10
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework10
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals10
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence10
The value and vanua of soil: bureaucratic practices, social life, and the colonial legacy of soil conservation in Fiji10
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin10
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood10
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China10
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.10
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models10
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance10
Braiding Inuit knowledge and Western science to understand light goose population dynamics under a changing climate9
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime9
Large-scale land acquisitions and land cover change in Ethiopia9
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned9
Nutrient deficit rather than distance of farming activities from the boundary of protected areas drives crop raids by elephants9
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches9
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon9
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry9
Hydrosocial power and territorial transformation: a case study of the Longaví River sub-basin in south-central Chile9
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin9
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage9
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica9
The dynamics and politics of integrating local knowledge systems in multistakeholder platforms9
“The future for pastoralists is dark unless something is done”: illuminating the constraints and opportunities for a climate-resilient future for Kenyan pastoralists8
Making sense of territorial changes: affective and moral dimensions of place attachments and meanings8
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science8
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event8
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises8
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier8
Negotiating informality and urban resilience: implications for equity8
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves8
Conceptualizing multidimensional barriers: a framework for assessing constraints in realizing recreational benefits of urban green spaces8
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure8
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States8
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management8
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia8
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California8
Threatened or thriving? Q methodology reveals stakeholder discourses of bats in an insular context8
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized8
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey8
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China8
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city8
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients8
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power8
Successful water governance pathways across problem contexts: a global qualitative comparative analysis8
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options8
Relational values of nature—a global empirical study of environmental students in 37 countries8
The values of wildlife revisited7
Resistance to change: A case study on framing and policy change of a controversial nature area7
Exploring evolving spiritual values of forests in Europe and Asia: a transition hypothesis toward re-spiritualizing forests7
Uncovering well-being ecosystem services bundles (WEBs) under conditions of social-ecological change in Brazil7
Biodiversity conservation through forest certification: key factors shaping national Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standard-development processes in Canada, Sweden, and Russia7
Assessing long-term conservation impacts on adaptive capacity in a flagship community-based natural resources management area in Botswana7
Teaching the “heads, hearts, and hands” of futures literacy in sustainability education using radical seeds of change7
Meaningful transdisciplinary collaborations for sustainability: local, artistic, and scientific knowledge7
From habitats to hashtags: examining online discussions about invasive species7
A comparative case study of multistakeholder responses following oil spills in Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, and Huntington Beach, California7
Assessing the distance effects on motivations of emergency volunteers responding to wildfire events in protected areas7
Novel pathways to value nature: how guided forest bathing promotes new relationships with nature7
Application of maximum entropy (MaxEnt) to understand the spatial dimension of human–wildlife conflict (HWC) risk in areas adjacent to Gonarezhou National Park of Zimbabwe7
A new framework for flood adaptation: introducing the Flood Adaptation Hierarchy7
The Chakana : a symbol of the Andean worldview in community water management, and a form of governance of life7
Unintended consequences of sustainable development initiatives: risks and opportunities in seagrass social-ecological systems7
Reviewing relational values for future research: insights from the coast7
Carbon emissions from land acquisitions in Laos7
Multistakeholder platforms for natural resource governance: lessons from eight landscape-level cases7
Incorporating place-based values into ecological restoration7
Games for experiential learning: triggering collective changes in commons management7
Geospatial patterns and models of subsistence land use in rural Interior Alaska7
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia7
Diverse values of nature and political ontology7
Creating a climate changed future with the sea level rise interactive-fiction game “Lagos2199”7
Co-creating a festival with and for rural commoning initiatives: a transdisciplinary place-based process7
Diverse values regarding nature are related to stable forests: the case of Indigenous lands in Panama6
Using Q-methodology to bridge different understandings on community forest management: lessons from the Peruvian Amazon6
Recreational angler and stakeholder perceptions of policy changes to recreational fishery management: the case of red snapper devolution in the Gulf of Mexico6
Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act6
Understanding stakeholder perceptions of environmental justice: a study of tourism in the Erhai Lake basin, Yunnan province, China6
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems6
Downstream impacts of the Madeira Hydroelectric Complex on várzea traditional agriculture and extractivism6
Evaluating the effects of alternative landscape management scenarios on three old-forest-associated predators over 100 years in the fire-prone forests of the Sierra Nevada, USA6
Indigenous sea gardens within the Pacific Northwest generate partial trophic niche and dietary fatty acid shifts in littleneck clams ( Leukoma staminea )6
Historical political ecology as qualitative social-ecological system analysis in the Maumee River Watershed6
Interactive governance of whale ecosystem services: governability assessment of three case studies in the Arctic6
Knowledge that affects: an assemblage approach6
A framework for co-production of knowledge in the context of Arctic research6
Localizing a just transition: a case study of St. George, Alaska6
Inequalities and solidarities: interactions and impacts of sea-level-rise adaptation policies6
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia6
The potential of collective action in promoting sustainable rangeland management: evidence from pastoral China6
Sustainability and resilience through connection: the economic metacommunities of the Western USA6
Environmental change and resource access in aquatic food systems: a Photovoice case study of Cambodian fisheries6
CBNRM, national parks, elites, and ethnography: a comment on (mis)representations6
Distributional range shift of a marine fish relates to a geographical gradient of emotions among recreational fishers6
How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA6
Hunting as land use: Understanding the spatial associations among hunting, agriculture, and forestry6
Effects of the COVID-19 lockdown in Hubei, China: cessation of incense burning reduces regional landscape fire6
Can we control marine invasive alien species by eating them? The case of Callinectes sapidus6
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services6
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery6
Assessing the institutional foundations of adaptive water governance in South India6
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor6
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed5
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management5
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina5
Transforming the economic landscape for global sustainability5
Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia5
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value5
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas5
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve5
Integrating scientific data, local knowledge, and expert knowledge to assess climate vulnerability in fisheries5
"Cities in the forest" and "cities of the forest": an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) spatial approach to analyzing the urbanization-deforestation relationship in a Brazilian Amazon state5
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity5
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance5
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia5
Editorial5
Visualizing seascapes as a method for engaging stakeholders in discussions about resilience5
Megabenthic biodiversity in culturally and ecologically important coastal regions of Northern Labrador5
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management5
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns5
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking5
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability5
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project5
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives5
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas5
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado5
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia5
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England5
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests5
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance5
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge5
Mobile apps increase the visibility of women’s work contributions in Mexican small-scale fisheries5
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation5
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan5
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network5
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