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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Opportunities for businesses to use and support development of SEEA-aligned natural capital accounts134
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems134
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach89
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review89
Understanding the role of offshore energy structures in ecosystem service delivery: Applying global findings to the North Sea87
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria84
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces80
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges78
Perspectives on abiotic ecosystem services provided by glacial lakes in high-mountain areas65
Harnessing Machine learning to quantify ecosystem services in coastal Wetlands: A case study of the Bohai economic Rim57
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces54
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine54
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia52
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany51
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review50
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors49
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation48
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa48
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control45
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves43
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows42
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting41
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective40
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model40
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil40
Total economic Vulture: The value of ecosystem services provided by vultures in Southern Africa39
Optimizing local regulating ecosystem services through nature-based urban retrofitting scenarios39
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review39
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia38
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies37
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data37
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 forests35
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations35
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality35
Opportunities for coastal wetland restoration for blue carbon with co-benefits for biodiversity, coastal fisheries, and water quality34
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions34
Integrating ecosystem services supply and demand for extreme precipitation events: optimising gully watershed strategies34
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants33
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions33
Insights into innovative contract design to improve the integration of biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural management33
Payment for Ecosystem Services 2.0: The Natural Capital Trust of Costa Rica33
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia33
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China33
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model32
Collective action across boundaries: Collaborative network initiatives as boundary organizations to improve ecosystem services governance31
The challenges of collective PES: Insights from three community-based models in Vietnam31
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast30
The value of Australian aquatic ecosystem services30
Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services in Africa’s Great Green Wall29
Valuing the invaluable: a review of economic valuations of forest biodiversity29
Ecosystem services and disservices of forests and greenspaces: A pan-European representative study of societal perceptions29
Enhancing multiple ecosystem services: Nature-based measures outperform technical interventions in river management29
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)29
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees28
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia28
Spatial prioritization to achieve the triple bottom line in Payment for ecosystem services design28
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review27
Measuring virtual flows of ecosystem services embedded in traded goods across an urban agglomeration in China27
The soil health-yield trade-off: A critical gap in assessing regenerative organic agriculture27
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?27
A tale of two samples: Understanding WTP differences in the age of social media27
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems27
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms26
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees26
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin25
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets25
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises25
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs25
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia25
Valuing hunting as an ecosystem service: a national-level assessment using cost-based and benefit transfer methods in the Czech Republic25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador25
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings24
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats23
Effect of forest management on the ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve23
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees23
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size23
Room for the River: An extended cost benefit analysis of integrated river-floodplain management for the Rhine in the Netherlands23
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning23
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica22
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services22
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making22
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems22
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea22
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks22
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios22
Relational values in nature-based solutions and their role in transformative change: evidence from choice modelling21
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services21
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland21
Nature-based solutions promote climate change adaptation safeguarding ecosystem services21
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran20
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions20
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland20
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?20
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation20
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review19
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration19
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management19
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services19
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services19
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan18
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services18
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review18
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services18
Place-based social-ecological research is crucial for designing collective management of ecosystem services18
Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services distribution in the southern part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil18
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors18
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services18
Understanding spatial patterns of ecosystem service supply and demand in Savannakhet Province, Laos17
Advancing a restorative blue Economy: A DPSIR–Ecosystem services framework for sustainable seaweed aquaculture17
Economic valuation of the contribution of a protected area to water quality in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, Brazil17
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks17
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches16
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services16
Systematic review of ecosystem services flow measurement: Main concepts, methods, applications and future directions16
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?16
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA16
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy16
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area16
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia16
Governing high-integrity markets for ecosystem services16
Valuing mangrove ecosystem services along the Brazilian Amazon coast15
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services15
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA15
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map15
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services15
A dynamic hydro-economic model to assess the effectiveness and economic benefits and costs of wetland restoration and creation14
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]14
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services14
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images14
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya14
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA14
The interaction of financial incentives and social norms to motivate conservation on the Tibetan Plateau14
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management14
Capital assets underpinning economic well-being – The example of whale ecosystem services in Arctic coastal communities14
Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow14
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats14
A scoping review of the Cryosphere’s ecosystem services, disservices, and related indicators14
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review14
Ecosystem service bundles associated with agrobiodiversity in agroforestry systems: A case study of two coffee-growing regions of Haiti14
Accounting for water-related ecosystem services to provide information for water policy and management: An Australian case study13
Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea13
Enhancing engagement: A European meta-analysis of forest owner preferences in voluntary agreements for the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services13
Capturing multiple forest ecosystem services for just benefit sharing: The Basket of Benefits Approach13
One-question interviews elucidate nuances in diverse values of coral reefs in West Hawaiʻi13
Integrating perceptions of ecosystem services in adaptive management of country parks: A case study in peri-urban Shanghai, China13
Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs13
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)13
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]13
Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls13
Progress on ecosystem accounting in Europe13
Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning12
Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration12
Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century12
The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes12
The monetary value of 16 services protected by the Australian National Biosecurity System: Spatially explicit estimates and vulnerability to incursions12
Landscape features shape people’s perception of ecosystem service supply areas12
Economic valuation of pest regulation benefits provided by arthropods in the UK12
Ecosystem accounting: Past scientific developments and future challenges12
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward12
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain12
Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States12
Uncertainties in ecosystem services assessments and their implications for decision support – A semi-systematic literature review11
Mapping emergent costs and benefits of ecosystem service flows in Senegal’s small-scale fishery supply chain11
Valuation of blue carbon and ecological co-benefits in temperate seagrass meadows in the Atlantic Virginia Coast Reserve11
A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands11
Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems11
Relationships between ecosystem services and human well-being from a water–energy–food nexus perspective: A case study of Jiziwan, Yellow River Basin, China11
Who should control the provider of ecosystem services in buyer-driven governance? A choice experiment on orchards in Germany11
Nature-based solutions for urban challenges: A simple framework based on ecosystem services for a World Heritage City11
An assessment of the ecosystem services of marine zooplankton and the key threats to their provision10
The impact of payment for ecosystem service schemes on participants’ motivation: A global assessment10
Reckoning with historical injustices: Relational values in ecosystem services and environmental justice in the Mapuche-forestry conflict in Chile10
Using geo-data and social media images to explore the supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services for terraces in China10
Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices10
Linking landscape dynamics to the relationship between water purification and soil retention10
Advancing global forest sustainability by linking household dependence to provisioning ecosystem services in Ethiopia10
Systematic conservation planning for people and nature: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and equitable benefit sharing10
Payments for ecosystem services in Mexico: Two decades of progress and challenges between research and practice10
Integrating local and ecological knowledge to assess the benefits of trees for ecosystem services: A holistic process-based methodology10
How remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions10
The future of crowd-sourced cultural ecosystem services assessments10
Redesigning a transboundary and spatially targeted PES scheme to sustain clean water provision across metacoupled systems in the Xin’an River Watershed, China10
Mitigating GHG emissions: A global ecosystem service provided by obligate scavenging birds10
Advancing the global statistical standard for urban ecosystem accounts10
Assessing ecosystem services and their spillover effects to inform cost-benefit sharing and horizontal eco-compensation mechanisms in the Qilian Mountains, China10
The application of ecosystem accounting principles at the local scale for a protected landscape: A case study of the Sleza Landscape Park in Poland9
Brazil’s environmental rollback threatens global ecosystem services9
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue9
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests9
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland9
Ecosystem extent accounts for Europe9
Ecosystem service tradeoff and synergy mechanisms in the Central Asian terminal lake basin based on Bayesian Networks9
Mountain ecosystem services under a changing climate: A global perspective9
Ecosystem accounting for water resources at the catchment scale, a case study for the Peloponnisos, Greece9
Trends in valuation approaches for cultural ecosystem services: A systematic literature review9
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science9
Water security in a semiarid environment: An approach to assess costs and benefits of high-Andean nature-based solutions9
‘Uncertainty audit’ for ecosystem accounting: Satellite-based ecosystem extent is biased without design-based area estimation and accuracy assessment9
The role of Earth observation in ecosystem accounting: A review of advances, challenges and future directions9
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach9
A scenario-based approach to valuation of the Erosion Prevention Service in the Himalayan region9
Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case9
Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation9
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland9
Quantifying and integrating ecosystem services in forest management planning9
A framework based on payments for ecosystem services to support the delivery of high integrity carbon and biodiversity credits9
Integrated valuation of instrumental and relational values of marine protected areas in the United Arab Emirates9
Evolution and new potentials of landscape commons: Insights from Japan and Slovenia9
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