Ecology and Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecology and Society is 1. 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
Assessing the potential delivery of ecosystem services by farmlands under contrasting management intensities79
How coupled is coupled human-natural systems research?40
Creating a quiet buzz: opportunities and challenges for meaningful participation of boreal forest apiarists in the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services31
Managing contractual uncertainty for drinking water services in rural Mali28
Dynamics of pastoral traditional ecological knowledge: a global state-of-the-art review26
The Yamal Nenets’ traditional and contemporary environmental knowledge of snow, ice, and permafrost25
A tale of two cities: evidence from the Global South on established versus emerging cities’ approaches to adaptive and sustainable water governance23
Guardians of biodiversity: unraveling Guarani-Kaiowá biocultural memories and ecological wisdom in Atlantic rainforests20
Local ecological knowledge and multidisciplinary approach lead to discovery of hidden biodiversity in the deep ocean of Labrador, Canada20
Shaping garden landscape with medicinal plants by migrant communities in the Atlantic Forest, Argentina17
A demographic model to support customary management of a culturally important waterfowl species17
How policy interventions influence burning to meet cultural and small-scale livelihood objectives16
Which community network structures can support sustainability programs? The case of the Sustainable Cocoa Production Program in Indonesia16
Understanding local pig hunter values and practices as a means toward co-management of feral pigs ( Sus scrofa ; pua'a) in the Hawaiian Islands16
Working together to scale ecosystem restoration: collective approaches to community action in Aotearoa New Zealand14
Local understandings and global challenges: exploring sense of place in sustainability transitions14
Investigating the coordination between ecological and economic systems in China’s green development process: a place-based interdisciplinary evaluation14
The population ecology of sustainable agriculture knowledge networks: insights from California14
Characterizing the social-ecological system for inland freshwater salinization using fuzzy cognitive maps: implications for collective management14
Rights of the child as imperatives for transforming food systems13
The importance of geodiversity in understanding and conserving the Western Rift Valley Corridor13
Strong ethics and flexible actions, the properties of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), as key resources for socioecological resilience to the impacts of climate change: a case study of Baojiatu13
Understanding human-elephant interactions across time is key to illuminate pathways toward coexistence13
Carnivores’ contributions to people in Europe13
Ecosystem services in Sahelian village landscapes 1952–2016: estimating change in a data scarce region12
Forgotten forests: expanding potential land use in traditional Hawaiian agroecosystems, and the social-ecological implications12
What would attract women to forest-based climate action? Learning from decades of female participation in an infant and maternal health system in Indonesia12
Emergence of social-psychological barriers to social-ecological resilience: from causes to solutions12
A new adaptive cycle for Ecology and Society12
Using geotagged crowdsourced data to assess the diverse socio-cultural values of conservation areas: England as a case study12
Participation and marginalization in water governance: probing the agency of powerholders11
A multiple evidence-based approach to Métis community-based monitoring: a case study from the South Athabasca Oil Sands Area, Alberta, Canada11
Biocultural values of groundwater dependent ecosystems in Kona, Hawaiʻi11
Perceived changes in social-ecological resilience in fire-prone ecosystems in Colorado11
Toward a feminist political ecology of household food and water security during drought in northern Nicaragua11
Coupling social and ecological mechanisms with the Coleman boat11
A methodological guide for applying the social-ecological system (SES) framework: a review of quantitative approaches10
Inequalities in the adaptive cycle: reorganizing after disasters in an unequal world10
Conceptualizing trust and distrust as alternative stable states: lessons from the Flint Water Crisis10
Evidence of spatial competition, over resource scarcity, as a primary driver of conflicts between small-scale and industrial fishers10
Hidden benefits and risks of partial protection for coral reef fisheries10
Assessing spatiotemporal change in coral reef social-ecological systems10
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood10
Learning systems and learning paths in sustainability transitions10
Evolving adaptive governance: challenging assumptions through an examination of fisheries law in Solomon Islands9
Challenges to incorporating social and economic factors into cumulative effects assessments in Canada’s marine conservation areas9
Spatial assessment of risks faced by marine protected areas in Chilean Patagonia9
Eutrophication, water quality, and fisheries: a wicked management problem with insights from a century of change in Lake Erie9
Immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the use of wildlife as food among indigenous people and local communities in South America9
Studying human-nature relations in aquatic social-ecological systems using the social-ecological action situations framework: how to move from empirical data to conceptual models9
Biosphere Futures: a database of social-ecological scenarios9
Implications of Panarchy for ecosystem service research: the role of system dynamics in service delivery8
Comparing smoke emissions and impacts under alternative forest management regimes8
The role of religion in shaping the values of nature8
Unravelling cross-scale and cross-level challenges in Ethiopian forest and landscape restoration governance8
Cocina Colaboratorio: cooking transdisciplinary transformations of local food systems8
The management costs of alternative forest management strategies in the Lake Tahoe Basin8
Relational values and empathy are closely connected: A study of residents of Vermont's Winooski River watershed8
Land cover and socioeconomic factors explain avian diversity in a tropical megacity8
Forest management under uncertainty: the influence of management versus climate change and wildfire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, USA.8
The role of diverse cultural identities in the perceived value of urban forests in Melbourne, Australia, and implications for urban ecosystem research and practice8
Exploring linkages between protected-area access and Kenyan pastoralist food security using a new agent-based model8
Scale, evidence, and community participation matter: lessons in effective and legitimate adaptive governance from decision making for Menindee Lakes in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin8
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, USA8
Assessing the delivery of ecosystem services and benefits to human well-being of three contrasting MPAs in Spain7
From austericide to recommoning: counter-imaginaries for democratizing water governance7
A biocultural approach to navigating conservation trade-offs through participatory methods7
Ecological agriculture and rural revitalization: toward a post-productivist countryside in Nanjing, China7
Resilience in the times of COVID: what the response to the COVID pandemic teaches us about resilience principles7
Knowledge, perception, and awareness of society regarding (over)abundance of wild ungulate populations7
Linking institutional change mechanisms with forest management outcomes: evidence from community forestry in Nepal7
Governing wildfires: toward a systematic analytical framework7
Resilience principles and a leverage points perspective for sustainable woody vegetation management in a social-ecological system of southwestern Ethiopia7
Diverse actor perspectives on African urban food systems: lessons from participatory food system modeling in Worcester, South Africa6
Care-based leadership in a core-periphery network: a South African case study in collaborative watershed governance6
Extreme events, loss, and grief—an evaluation of the evolving management of climate change threats on the Great Barrier Reef6
Bringing the salmon home: a study of cross-cultural collaboration in the Syilx Okanagan Territory of British Columbia6
Collapse of the oyster population in Apalachicola Bay: cascading social impacts from an ecologically and culturally significant species6
Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease6
Water challenges at the U.S.-Mexico border: learning from community and expert voices6
From primary data to formalized decision-making: open challenges and ways forward to inform representations of farmers’ behavior in agent-based models6
Returning ecological wealth to nonhuman species through design: the case for ecosystemas6
The species-specific role of wildlife in the Amazonian food system6
Resilience-performance trade-offs in managing social-ecological systems6
Challenges and prospects of Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in Nepal as everyday adaptation6
Resiliency fatigue for rural residents following repeated natural hazard exposure6
Reflecting on arts-based participatory research: considerations for more equitable transdisciplinary collaborations6
Island and Indigenous systems of circularity: how Hawaiʻi can inform the development of universal circular economy policy goals6
Drivers of ecosystem service specialization in a smallholder agricultural landscape of the Global South: a case study in Ethiopia6
Integration of nature-based solutions (NBS) in local policy and planning toward transformative change. Evidence from Barcelona, Lisbon, and Turin6
Tales on co-response-ability in times of environmental polarization6
Citizens’ attitudes toward the protection of flying squirrels in urban areas5
The Great Green Wall in Senegal: questioning the idea of acceleration through the conflicting temporalities of politics and nature among the Sahelian populations5
Contextualizing patterns in short-term disaster recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: household vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and change5
Impacts of conservation activities on people who are incarcerated: a case study based on qualitative and quantitative analyses5
Technology adoption and weed emergence dynamics: social ecological modeling for maize-legume systems across Africa5
Small-scale fisheries and agricultural trade networks are socially embedded: emerging hypotheses about responses to environmental changes5
Panarchy: ripples of a boundary concept5
Operationalizing water-energy-food nexus research for sustainable development in social-ecological systems: an interdisciplinary learning case in Central Asia5
Spatial distribution of bat activity in agricultural fields: implications for ecosystem service estimates5
Perception matters: an Indigenous perspective on climate change and its effects on forest-based livelihoods in the Amazon5
Enhancing the role of International NGOs in promoting the implementation of ecosystem-based adaptation policies: insights from an International Union for Conservation and Foundation of Netherlands Vol5
Simulating wildlife habitat dynamics over the next century to help inform best management strategies for biodiversity in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California5
Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean5
Traditional agricultural practices and their contribution to habitat quality and carbon storage in arid Northwest Mexico: a social-ecological approach in the Rio Sonora sub-watershed5
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously5
Community knowledge as a cornerstone for fisheries management5
Assessing social-ecological fit of flood planning governance5
Wildfire risk governance from the bottom up: linking local planning processes in fragmented landscapes5
Place meaning, speculation, and emerging public perceptions of carbon-storing marine sediments in Dundalk Bay, Ireland5
A Chinese database on ecological thresholds and alternative stable states: implications for related research around the world5
A heuristic for innovative invasive species management actions and strategies5
Linking smallholders’ livelihood resilience with their adaptation strategies to climate impacts: insights from the Tibetan Plateau5
Fuzzy SETS: acknowledging multiple membership of elements within social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) theory5
Framing the regime shift concept: an epistemological analysis of a central ecological notion in the context of the North Sea cod crisis5
Holomua Marine Initiative: community-generated socio-cultural principles and indicators for marine conservation and management in Hawaiʻi5
Visualization of causation in social-ecological systems5
Frequency of disturbance mitigates high-severity fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin, California and Nevada4
Gender equity and collaborative care in Madagascar’s locally managed marine areas: reflections on the launch of a fisherwomen’s network4
Friend or foe? Attitudes of rice farmers toward wild animals in West Africa4
The ecological success of river restoration in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada: lessons learned4
Place-based knowledge transfer in a local-to-global and knowledge-to-action context: key steps and facilitative factors4
Pathways for FEW nexus collaboration in U.S. city resilience planning4
Water-related problématiques: five archetypical contexts of water governance4
Disjointed modes of building resilience to socio-environmental crises4
The evolution of social-ecological systems (SES) research: a co-authorship and co-citation network analysis4
The crises inherent in the success of the global food system4
How did we get here? The evolution of a polycentric system of groundwater governance4
Water quality and forest restoration in the Lake Tahoe basin: impacts of future management options4
Splitting stones4
Recognizing the importance of near-home contact with nature for mental well-being based on the COVID-19 lockdown experience4
Deriving scalable measures for restoration of communal grazing lands4
To split a stone4
Price volatility in fish food systems: spatial arbitrage as an adaptive strategy for small-scale fish traders4
Colonialism and the Blue Economy: confronting historical legacies to enable equitable ocean development4
Modeling the Risk Reduction Benefit of Forest Management Using a Case Study in the Lake Tahoe Basin4
Lack of benefit sharing undermines support for nature conservation in an Eastern Afromontane biodiversity hotspot4
Changing collaborative networks and transitions in rural sustainable development: qualitative lessons from three villages in China4
Speaking of nature: Relationships between how people think about, connect with, and act to protect nature4
The wisdom of hindsight: a comparative analysis of timelines of environmental governance of infrastructure across the Pan-Amazon4
A call for agile futures practice in service of transformative change: lessons from envisioning positive climate futures emerging from the pandemic4
Effects of long-term ecological research and cognitive biases on the evaluation of scientific information by public land managers in Oregon and Washington, USA4
The benefits of counting butterflies: recommendations for a successful citizen science project4
What shapes silvopastoralism in Mediterranean mid-mountain areas? Understanding factors, drivers, and dynamics using fuzzy cognitive mapping4
Transitioning toward “deep” knowledge co-production in coastal and marine systems: examining the interplay among governance, power, and knowledge4
Evaluation-perception of site attributes and plant species selection in the public urban green space of a compact city3
The good, the bad, and the unseen: wild mammal encounters influence wildlife preferences of residents across socio-demographic gradients3
Artistic practice, public awareness, and the ngahere: art–science–Indigenous Māori collaborations for raising awareness of threats to native forests3
Drought frequency, conservancies, and pastoral household well-being3
Identifying system archetypes in Nigeria’s rice agri-food system using fuzzy cognitive mapping3
What factors enable social-ecological transformative potential? The role of learning practices, empowerment, and networking3
Connecting local ecological knowledge and Earth system models: comparing three participatory approaches3
Responsibility as humans: meaning of traditional small grains cultivation in Japan3
Two of a kind? Large-scale land acquisitions and commodity frontier expansion in Argentina's Dry Chaco3
Equality and equity in Arctic communities: how household-level social relations support community-level social resilience3
An integrated climate-biodiversity framework to improve planning and policy: an application to wildlife crossings and landscape connectivity3
Waves and legacies: the making of an investment frontier in Niassa, Mozambique3
Pau-brasil and string instrument bows telecouple nature, art, and heritage3
Social-environmental index: combining social and biophysical indicators reveals limits to growth3
Trade-offs in adapting to changes in climate, land use, and water availability in California3
Developing a system model for articulating the social-ecological impacts of species reintroduction3
Double exposure to capitalist expansion and climatic change: a study of vulnerability on the Ghanaian coastal commodity frontier3
Exploring restoration efforts from a social lens: statistical models reveal relationships between salmon habitat restoration efforts and ecological and social characteristics of the Puget Sound basin,3
Water rights for groundwater environments as an enabling condition for adaptive water governance3
Closing integrative gaps in complex environmental governance systems3
Systemic analysis of a developing plant community on the island of Surtsey3
Sedentarization as an adaptation to socio-environmental changes? Everyday herding practices in pastoralist communities in southern Ethiopia3
Form and function in ecologizing spatial planning: learnings from Bogotá, Colombia3
Leverage points and levers of inclusive conservation in protected areas3
Market integration and cooperative resource harvesting among kin, clan, and neighbors in rural China3
Resilient and sustainable natural resource production: how are farmers and foresters coping?3
Resilience and coastal governance: knowledge and navigation between stability and transformation3
Translatability of water governance experiments across settings and scales3
Transboundary flows in the metacoupled Anthropocene: typology, methods, and governance for global sustainability3
A framework to guide research engagement in the policy process, with application to small-scale fisheries3
“Everyone decided to declare war on the forest”: between territorial peace and pacification in the Colombian Andean-Amazon3
Migration and collective action in the commons: application of social-ecological system framework with evidence from China3
Emotionally augmented mental models, connectivity and beaver reintroduction in Southwest England3
Commercial fisher perceptions illuminate a need for social justice considerations in navigating climate change impacts on fisheries systems3
Plastic pollution as a canvas for change: fostering collaboration for environmental solutions and actions through art and science3
How the qualities of actor-issue interdependencies influence collaboration patterns3
How do basin committees deal with water crises? Reflections for adaptive water governance from South America3
Indigenous food sovereignty through resurgent self-governance: centering Nuu-chah-nulth principles in sea otter management in Canada3
Human–elephant conflict mitigation as a public good: what determines fence maintenance?3
Fourteen propositions for resilience, fourteen years later3
Cree knowledge, fuzzy cognitive maps, and the social-ecology of moose habitat quality under an adapted forestry regime3
Moving beyond binary metrics of compliance in small-scale fisheries3
"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 state3
Trade-offs in the implementation of good practice in large carnivore conservation and management3
Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry3
Teaching the ecosystem service concept: experience from academia3
Megabenthic biodiversity in culturally and ecologically important coastal regions of Northern Labrador3
What’s the story? Using news articles to examine resilience pathways and domains in the southern New England American lobster ( Homarus americanus ) fishery3
Can a “doughnut” economic framework be useful to monitor the blue economy success? A fisheries example3
Visual representations in a choice experiment: valuing preferences for a local dam3
Motivations and sensitivities surrounding the illegal trade of sea turtles in Costa Rica3
Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions3
Caring for standing crops in the Himalayas: embedded notion of saving to save3
Voicing resilience through subjective well-being: community perspectives on responding to water stressors and COVID-192
Politics driving efforts to reduce biodiversity conservation in the United States2
Collective payments for ecosystem services: a counterpart of commodification and privatization trends in nature conservation?2
The impact of implicit social conflict on ecosystem conservation in protected areas: a case study of Patatso National Park2
Worldview violence and Non-Human People in (conservation) science2
Reviewing the relationship between neoliberal societies and nature: implications of the industrialized dominant social paradigm for a sustainable future2
African futures: a review of scenarios for Indigenous and local people and nature in Africa2
Stakeholder perceptions of wildfire management strategies as nature-based solutions in two Iberian biosphere reserves2
Leveraging emotion-behavior pathways to support environmental behavior change2
Drivers of social acceptability for bivalve aquaculture in Atlantic Canadian communities2
Toward a post-carbon society: supporting agency for collaborative climate action2
Resilient utopias2
A spatiotemporal analysis of ungulate–vehicle collision hotspots in response to road construction and realignment2
Coupled human-natural system impacts of a winter weather whiplash event2
Natural resource management confronts the growing scale and severity of ecosystem responses to drought and wildfire2
Health threats of climate change: from intersectional analysis to justice-based radicalism2
Power research in adaptive water governance and beyond: a review2
Innovation brokers in High Nature Value farming areas: a strategic approach to engage effective socioeconomic and agroecological dynamics2
How state-reinforced knowledge infrastructure influences adaptive urban water governance2
Examining the influence of sociodemographics, residential segregation, and historical redlining on eBird and iNaturalist data disparities in three U.S. cities2
Markets and misfits in adaptive water governance: how agricultural markets shape water conflict and cooperation2
Adjusted to reality? Mandate and functioning of the General Integral Commission of the Grande Tárcoles Rivershed in Costa Rica2
State role and involvement in determining wetland mitigation performance standards in the United States2
Climate change, degradation, and land acquisitions: evaluating inequalities among competing interests for suitable cropland in Ethiopia2
Working with or against multifunctional landscapes? A case study of land users’ local knowledge of grassland–forest transition zones in northeastern Germany2
Ecosystem Connectivity for Livable Cities: a Connectivity Benefits Framework for Urban Planning2
A scoping review of how the seven principles for building social-ecological resilience have been operationalized2
Ganawendan Ginibiiminaan (Take care of our Water!): mobilizing for Watersheds-at-risk with the Bad River Ojibwe2
Everyday adaptation, interrupted agency and beyond: examining the interplay between formal and everyday climate change adaptations2
Towards an incoherent convergence science: diverse economies, crises, and recoveries, and the hope for better futures2
Complex human-deer interactions challenge conventional management approaches: the need to consider power, trust, and emotion2
Climate–water crises: critically engaging relational, spatial, and temporal dimensions2
Constraints to effective comanagement of New Zealand's customary fisheries: experiences of the East Otago Taiāpure2
Harvesting change: unraveling social-ecological impacts of a food hub ( LebensMittelPunkt ) through a living lab approach2
Identifying opportunities and constraints to effective management of invasive Australian wattle (Acacia) species in grassland landscapes, South Africa2
Expert knowledge, collaborative concepts, and universal nature: naming the place of Indigenous knowledge within a public-sector cultural burning program2
Living community cookbook: transdisciplinary collaboration for constructing recipes with biocultural value2
Strategic spatial planning in emerging land-use frontiers: evidence from Mozambique2
The role of accountability in the emergence of adaptive water governance2
Why smallholders stop engaging in forest activities: the role of in-migration in livelihood transitions in forested landscapes of southwestern Ethiopia2
Theorizing how the Three Horizons approach supports transformative learning: insights from advancing climate action in a Canadian Biosphere Reserve2
Who’s setting the agenda? Philanthropic donor influence in marine conservation2
Migration in West Africa: a visual analysis of motivation, causes, and routes2
Integrating a “One Well-being” approach in elephant conservation: evaluating consequences of management interventions2
Transforming environmental peacebuilding: addressing extractivism in building climate resilient peace2
Mountains of inequality: encountering the politics of climate adaptation across the Himalaya2
Naming the unnamed: relational values as knowledge and power2
Conflict-related environmental degradation threatens the success of landscape recovery in some areas in Tigray (Ethiopia)2
Diverse fisher-trader relations shape responses of small-scale fisheries to global change2
Biocultural homogenization in elementary education degree students from contrasting ecoregions of Chile1
Community-led vertebrate pest management in urban areas: barriers and motivations1
Collective responsibility and environmental caretaking: toward an ecological care ethic with evidence from Bhutan1
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