Ecosystem Services

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecosystem Services is 9. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems151
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria144
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review110
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts94
Innovations for securing forest ecosystem service provision in Europe – A systematic literature review92
A nature-based approach to mitigate flood risk and improve ecosystem services in Shiga, Japan80
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach76
Cultural ecosystem services: Linking landscape and social attributes to ecotourism in protected areas70
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine68
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges68
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia64
Linking management practices and soil properties to Ecosystem Services in Mediterranean mixed orchards62
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces59
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces59
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves56
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting55
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors53
Not just an engineering problem: The role of knowledge and understanding of ecosystem services for adaptive management of coastal erosion51
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil51
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review51
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation51
Traditional and modern ecosystem services thinking in nomadic Mongolia: Framing differences, common concerns, and ways forward49
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany48
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control41
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows41
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model41
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa39
Modelling the net environmental and economic impacts of urban nature-based solutions by combining ecosystem services, system dynamics and life cycle thinking: An application to urban forests38
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies38
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data38
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions38
Participatory ecosystem service assessment to enhance environmental decision-making in a border city of South Korea38
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality38
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China37
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia37
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective36
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions36
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review36
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality35
Assessment of ecosystem services and natural capital dynamics in agroecosystems35
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast34
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations34
Rapid ecosystem service assessment of a protected wetland in Myanmar, and implications for policy development and management33
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management33
Linking seagrass ecosystem services to food security: The example of southwestern Madagascar’s small-scale fisheries33
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants33
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model33
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)33
Participatory GIS mapping highlights indirect use and existence values of coastal resources and marine conservation areas32
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance32
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia31
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam30
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media30
Finance for nature: Bridging the blue-green investment gap to inform the post-2020 global biodiversity framework30
Valuing the economic impacts of seed dispersal loss on voluntary carbon markets30
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review29
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design29
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China29
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?29
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems29
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia28
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees28
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador27
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs27
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets27
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms27
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia27
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings26
Interactive spatial planning of urban green infrastructure – Retrofitting green roofs where ecosystem services are most needed in Oslo26
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin26
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats26
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises26
Assessing forest governance innovations in Europe: Needs, challenges and ways forward for sustainable forest ecosystem service provision26
Comparison of empirical and process-based modelling to quantify soil-supported ecosystem services on the Saclay plateau (France)26
Wildfires impact on ecosystem service delivery in fire-prone maritime pine-dominated forests26
Understanding the determinants of biodiversity non-use values in the context of climate change: Stated preferences for the Hawaiian coral reefs25
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica25
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning25
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios25
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea25
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees24
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size24
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making24
Local responses to design changes in payments for ecosystem services in Chiapas, Mexico23
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services23
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems23
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services23
What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?23
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks23
Integrating Bayesian Networks into ecosystem services assessment to support water management at the river basin scale23
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland22
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran22
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management22
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services22
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?22
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services22
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review22
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan21
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review21
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration21
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland21
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?20
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks20
Internalizing externalities through net ecosystem service analysis–A case study of greenhouse vegetable farms in Beijing20
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services20
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services20
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation20
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions20
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches20
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services20
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya19
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors19
The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks19
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services19
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map19
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA19
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia19
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area19
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services19
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services18
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy18
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]18
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services18
Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow18
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA18
Environmental compensation for biodiversity and ecosystem services: A flexible framework that addresses human wellbeing18
Reframing water-related ecosystem services flows18
Systematic review of ecosystem services flow measurement: Main concepts, methods, applications and future directions18
A dynamic hydro-economic model to assess the effectiveness and economic benefits and costs of wetland restoration and creation18
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review18
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management17
Assigning value to cultural ecosystem services: The significance of memory and imagination in the conservation of Irish peatlands17
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA17
Linking ecosystem condition and ecosystem services: A methodological approach applied to European agroecosystems17
A scoping review of the Cryosphere’s ecosystem services, disservices, and related indicators17
Framework for integrated Ecosystem Services assessment of the costs and benefits of large scale landscape restoration illustrated with a case study in Mediterranean Spain17
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services17
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats16
Integrating perceptions of ecosystem services in adaptive management of country parks: A case study in peri-urban Shanghai, China16
Virtual spill-over effects: What social media has to do with relational values and global environmental stewardship16
Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls16
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]16
Influence of human interventions on local perceptions of cultural ecosystem services provided by coastal landscapes: Case study of the Huiwen wetland, southern China16
Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs16
Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century15
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)15
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain15
Uncertainties in ecosystem services assessments and their implications for decision support – A semi-systematic literature review15
Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea15
Capturing multiple forest ecosystem services for just benefit sharing: The Basket of Benefits Approach15
Accounting for water-related ecosystem services to provide information for water policy and management: An Australian case study15
Progress on ecosystem accounting in Europe15
Ecosystem service flows: A systematic literature review of marine systems15
Capital assets underpinning economic well-being – The example of whale ecosystem services in Arctic coastal communities15
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images15
Landscape features shape people’s perception of ecosystem service supply areas15
Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States14
Types of collective action problems and farmers’ willingness to accept agri-environmental schemes in Switzerland14
Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning14
A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands14
The monetary value of 16 services protected by the Australian National Biosecurity System: Spatially explicit estimates and vulnerability to incursions14
The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes14
Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration14
Classifying the content of social media images to support cultural ecosystem service assessments using deep learning models14
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward14
Assessing ecosystem service outcomes from payments for hydrological services programs in Veracruz, Mexico: Future deforestation threats and spatial targeting14
Assessing the impact of grassland management on landscape multifunctionality14
Ecosystem accounting: Past scientific developments and future challenges14
The journey to monitoring ecosystem services: Are we there yet?14
Who should control the provider of ecosystem services in buyer-driven governance? A choice experiment on orchards in Germany13
Increasing provision of ecosystem services through participation in a conservation program13
Establishing the SEEA Ecosystem Accounting as a global standard13
An assessment of the ecosystem services of marine zooplankton and the key threats to their provision13
Social cost-benefit analysis of investment in rehabilitation of multipurpose small reservoirs in northern Ghana using an ecosystem services-based approach13
Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems13
The future of crowd-sourced cultural ecosystem services assessments13
Payments for ecosystem services in Mexico: Two decades of progress and challenges between research and practice13
Nature-based solutions for urban challenges: A simple framework based on ecosystem services for a World Heritage City13
Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services12
The value of ecosystem services in China: A systematic review for twenty years12
Interregional flows of multiple ecosystem services through global trade in wild species12
Linking landscape dynamics to the relationship between water purification and soil retention12
How remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions12
Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices12
Mitigating GHG emissions: A global ecosystem service provided by obligate scavenging birds12
Stakeholder perspectives on ecosystem services of mountain lakes in the European Alps12
The impact of payment for ecosystem service schemes on participants’ motivation: A global assessment12
Integrating local and ecological knowledge to assess the benefits of trees for ecosystem services: A holistic process-based methodology12
Ecosystem accounting for water resources at the catchment scale, a case study for the Peloponnisos, Greece12
Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation12
The application of ecosystem accounting principles at the local scale for a protected landscape: A case study of the Sleza Landscape Park in Poland11
Trends in valuation approaches for cultural ecosystem services: A systematic literature review11
Editorial special issue natural capital accounting: The content, the context, and the framework11
Spatiotemporally explicit prediction of future ecosystem service provisioning in response to climate change, sea level rise, and adaptation strategies11
Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case11
Systematic conservation planning for people and nature: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and equitable benefit sharing11
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland11
Co-production processes underpinning the ecosystem services of glaciers and adaptive management in the era of climate change11
Exploring perceptions of stakeholder roles in ecosystem services coproduction11
Mountain ecosystem services under a changing climate: A global perspective11
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach10
Biological operability, a new concept based on ergonomics to assess the pertinence of ecosystem services optimization practices10
Basin-scale riverine ecosystem services vary with network geometry10
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science10
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland10
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests10
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue10
Potential distribution of oak forests in the central Himalayas and implications for future ecosystem services supply to rural communities10
Evolution and new potentials of landscape commons: Insights from Japan and Slovenia9
The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions9
Challenges and opportunities for the Ecosystem Services approach: Evaluating experiences of implementation in Sweden9
The geosystem services concept – What is it and can it support subsurface planning?9
A review of studies assessing ecosystem services provided by urban green and blue infrastructure9
Misconceptions about the valuation of ecosystem services9
An adaptive social-ecological system management matrix for guiding ecosystem service improvements9
Differentiated payments for ecosystem services based on estimated prey consumption by lions within communal conservancies in northwest Namibia9
Ecosystem extent accounts for Europe9
Ecosystem services footprint of international trade: Economic value of ecosystem services lost due to crop production9
MARCHI: A serious game for participatory governance of ecosystem services in multiple-use protected areas9
Understanding the sentiment associated with cultural ecosystem services using images and text from social media9
Influence of seagrass meadows on nursery and fish provisioning ecosystem services delivered by Ria Formosa, a coastal lagoon in Portugal9
A framework based on payments for ecosystem services to support the delivery of high integrity carbon and biodiversity credits9
A socioecological integrated analysis of the Barcelona metropolitan agricultural landscapes9
‘Uncertainty audit’ for ecosystem accounting: Satellite-based ecosystem extent is biased without design-based area estimation and accuracy assessment9
Cost-Benefit analysis of urban nature-based solutions: A systematic review of approaches and scales with a focus on benefit valuation9
An innovative approach to combine solar photovoltaic gardens with agricultural production and ecosystem services9
Modeling water regulation ecosystem services: A review in the context of ecosystem accounting9
Why ecosystem services should be counterbalanced by nature’s thermodynamic costs9
0.055494070053101