Ecosystem Services

Papers
(The median citation count of Ecosystem Services is 8. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
The role of ecosystem services in the pursuit of the doughnut economy – Implications for meat and dairy agroecosystems165
Potential impacts of climate change on ecosystem services in Austria146
Understanding the role of offshore energy structures in ecosystem service delivery: Applying global findings to the North Sea100
Economic trade-offs of harvesting the ocean twilight zone: An ecosystem services approach96
The power of social media text: Mapping the distribution and drivers of cultural ecosystem services in Taihu Lake wetland94
Evaluation of main regulating, provisioning, and supporting ecosystem services of urban street trees: A literature review84
Value transfer in economic valuation of ecosystem services – Some methodological challenges83
Harnessing Machine learning to quantify ecosystem services in coastal Wetlands: A case study of the Bohai economic Rim73
Co-creating urban ecosystem accounting: Physical and monetary accounts of runoff retention service provided by urban green spaces62
Using crowdsourced imagery to assess cultural ecosystem services in data-scarce urban contexts: The case of the metropolitan area of Cali, Colombia61
Ecosystem services of Mops plicatus, a high-altitude flying aerial-hawking bat of Southeast Asia59
Connecting birds’ ecosystem services and human well-being: an integrative review57
Valuing and mapping cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas: an integrated approach applied to recreational seascape tourism in Greece55
Understanding the impact of the war on people-nature relationships in Ukraine54
A systematic literature review on the valuation of mountain cultural ecosystem services53
Quantifying and mapping forest-related environmental education and training in Saxony, Germany48
Perspectives on abiotic ecosystem services provided by glacial lakes in high-mountain areas48
Effects of ecological restoration projects on ecosystem services flows48
Spatial patterns and interactions among multiple cultural ecosystem services across urban greenspaces48
Conceptual integration of ecosystem services and natural capital within Irish national policy: An analysis over time and between policy sectors45
Dealing with negative monetary ecosystem services values in environmental and economic accounting45
Examining weak sustainability for storm protection by mangroves44
Measuring the natural capital of Amazonian forests: A case study of the National Forest of Carajás, Brazil44
Farming for nature in the Montado: the application of ecosystem services in a results-based model43
Ecosystem services governance: A cross-realm lever for sustainability transformation43
Indigenous and local values of nature through a gender lens: A literature review42
Towards a holistic understanding of non-native tree impacts on ecosystem services: A review of Acacia, Eucalyptus and Pinus in Africa42
A review of agroforestry biodiversity-driven provision of ecosystem services and implications for karst desertification control42
Total economic Vulture: The value of ecosystem services provided by vultures in Southern Africa40
Uncovering spatial patterns of ecosystem services and biodiversity through local communities' preferences and perceptions39
The influence of urbanization on local perception of the effect of traditional landscapes on human wellbeing: A case study of a pondscape in Chongqing, China39
The nexus between pressures and ecosystem services in floodplains: New methods to integrate stakeholders’ knowledge for water quality management in Serbia39
Optimizing local regulating ecosystem services through nature-based urban retrofitting scenarios39
Identifying the optimal landscape configuration for landscape multifunctionality38
Seagrass ecosystem services show complex spatial patterns and associations36
Mapping indicators of cultural ecosystem services use in urban green spaces based on text classification of geosocial media data36
Framing the relationship between justice and ecosystem services: A systematic review35
A functional connectivity approach for exploring interactions of multiple ecosystem services in the context of agricultural landscapes in the Canadian prairies34
Digital windows into nature’s values: A critical review of cultural ecosystem services research with social media data34
Integrating ecosystem services supply and demand for extreme precipitation events: optimising gully watershed strategies33
Integrated assessment of a payment for ecosystem services program in China from the effectiveness, efficiency and equity perspective33
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 forests32
Contribution of seagrass productivity to waste treatment in a highly oligotrophic urbanised coast32
Mapping the flows of ecosystem service values in the global land market: The winners and losers of large-scale land acquisitions32
Integration of the system of environmental economic accounting-ecosystem accounting (SEEA-EA) framework with a semi-distributed hydrological and water quality simulation model31
Valuing the invaluable: a review of economic valuations of forest biodiversity31
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 Vietnam30
Enhancing multiple ecosystem services: Nature-based measures outperform technical interventions in river management30
Factors affecting governance innovations for ecosystem services provision: Insights from two self-organized forest communities in Czechia and Slovakia30
Artificial Intelligence for ecosystem services science: The AI4ESS framework from a community perspective30
Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services in Africa’s Great Green Wall30
Ecosystem services and disservices of forests and greenspaces: A pan-European representative study of societal perceptions29
Forest ecosystem services in Norway: Trends, condition, and drivers of change (1950–2020)29
Nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and human well-being in global south mangroves: a review29
Payment for Ecosystem Services 2.0: The Natural Capital Trust of Costa Rica29
Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants28
The value of Australian aquatic ecosystem services28
Social inequality deeply affects people’s perception of ecosystem services and disservices provided by street trees27
Valuation of ecosystem services through offsets: Why are coastal ecosystems more valuable in Australia than in Brazil?27
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
Ecosystem services and cost-effective benefits from the reclamation of saline sodic land under different paddy field systems27
The role of urban landscape configuration in the provision of hydrological ecosystem services by trees26
Do agroecological practices enhance the supply of ecosystem services? A comparison between agroecological and conventional horticultural farms26
Participatory research on ecosystem services in the face of disputed values and other uncertainties: A review26
Prioritising investment in kelp forest restoration: A spatially explicit benefit-cost analysis in southern Australia26
Systematic review of natural capital valuation: Emergy accounting and ecosystem service valuation26
The importance of ecosystem services to support the governance of critical ecological assets25
Payment for ecosystem services in Peru: Assessing the socio-ecological dimension of water services in the upper Santa River basin25
Utilizing a crowdsourced phrasal lexicon to identify cultural ecosystem services in El Cajas National Park, Ecuador25
Valuing hunting as an ecosystem service: a national-level assessment using cost-based and benefit transfer methods in the Czech Republic25
The Navigate framework: How the ecosystem services and resilience concepts can help us navigate in the current crises25
Room for the River: An extended cost benefit analysis of integrated river-floodplain management for the Rhine in the Netherlands24
State-of-the art valuation of wetland ecosystem services in Small Island Developing States: A systematic review with an emphasis on future research needs24
Using ecological infrastructure to comprehensively map ecosystem service demand, flow and capacity for spatial assessment and planning24
Payments for Ecosystem Services opportunities for emerging Nature-based Solutions: Integrating Indigenous perspectives from Australia24
Capturing twenty years of change in ecosystem services provided by coastal Massachusetts habitats23
What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media data23
Effect of forest management on the ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve23
Valuation and mapping of the recreational diving ecosystem service of the Aegean Sea23
How ecosystem services are co-produced: a critical review identifying multiple research framings22
Opportunities for improved consideration of cultural benefits in environmental decision-Making22
Measuring uncertainty in ecosystem service correlations as a function of sample size22
Comparison of Ecosystem Services and Replacement Value calculations performed for urban trees22
A global synthesis of ecosystem services records and their associations with marine and coastal habitats21
Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica21
Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks21
EnhancES − An open source GIS-based toolbox for assessing, mapping and enhancing ecosystem services21
Potential impact of four invasive alien plants on the provision of ecosystem services in Europe under present and future climatic scenarios21
Legitimacy and limitations of valuing the oxygen production of ecosystems20
Urban greenery services for noise attenuation, pollutant filtration, and temperature lowering: Supply potential, demand, and budgets in Poznań, Poland20
A systematic review on subjective well-being benefits associated with cultural ecosystem services20
Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services distribution in the southern part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil20
A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services20
Obstacles and opportunities to implement the IPBES Framework in Iran20
Relational values in nature-based solutions and their role in transformative change: evidence from choice modelling20
Legal and political arguments on aquatic ecosystem services and hydropower development – A case study on Kemi River basin, Finland20
Regenerative organic agriculture and soil ecosystem service delivery: A literature review20
Valuation and management of desert ecosystems and their services19
Quantifying co-production in agricultural landscapes to advance ecosystem service flow accounts19
Collaborative models and uncertain water quality in payments for watershed services: China’s Jiuzhou River eco-compensation19
Analysis of provisioning ecosystem services and perceptions of climate change for indigenous communities in the Western Himalayan Gurez Valley, Pakistan19
How have measuring, mapping and valuation enhanced governance of ecosystem services?19
Navigating trade-offs in carbon storage, biodiversity, and wildfire risk in European landscape management19
Effects of climate-related environmental changes on non-material benefits from human-nature interactions: A literature review18
Watershed’s spatial targeting: Enhancing payments for ecosystem services to scale up agroecosystem restoration through nature-based solutions18
An evidence base of ecosystems services provided by diadromous fish in the European Atlantic Area18
On the importance of discrete choice experiment framings to derive accounting values for ecosystem and species appreciation services18
How much is enough? Applying the law of large numbers to the measurement of interactions between ecosystem services18
Spatially explicit ecosystem accounts for coastal wetland restoration18
Advancing a restorative blue Economy: A DPSIR–Ecosystem services framework for sustainable seaweed aquaculture18
Changes in authorship, networks, and research topics in ecosystem services18
Are productivity and biodiversity adequate predictors for rapid assessment of forest ecosystem services values?17
Cryosphere ecosystem services: A systematic review of assessment methods17
Economic valuation of the contribution of a protected area to water quality in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, Brazil17
Sustainability assessment of agricultural practices integrating both LCA and ecosystem services approaches17
Revealing driver-mediated indirect interactions between ecosystem services using Bayesian Belief Networks17
Differences in the experience of cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas by clusters of visitors16
Quantitative assessment of ecosystem services in diverse land uses within the forest-grassland transition zone of southern Great Plains, USA16
Comparing individual and collective valuation of ecosystem service tradeoffs: A case study from montane forests in southern California, USA16
Governing high-integrity markets for ecosystem services16
A review and conceptual framework for a new era of forest management planning: integrating hybrid digital twin systems toward sustainable forest ecosystems16
Green gentrification drives socio-cultural shifts from provisioning to cultural valuation of ecosystem services16
Understanding spatial patterns of ecosystem service supply and demand in Savannakhet Province, Laos16
Environmental motivations in an ongoing PES program in the Colombian Amazon15
Ecosystem services valuation for conservation and development decisions: A review of valuation studies and tools in the Far Eastern Himalaya15
Systematic review of ecosystem services flow measurement: Main concepts, methods, applications and future directions15
Ecosystem service bundles associated with agrobiodiversity in agroforestry systems: A case study of two coffee-growing regions of Haiti15
Valuing mangrove ecosystem services along the Brazilian Amazon coast15
A multiscale perspective on how much wetland restoration is needed to achieve targets for ecosystem services15
Competition between wild and honey bees: Floral resources as a common good providing multiple ecosystem services15
Monetizing ecosystem services of perennial wild plant mixtures for bioenergy15
Birdwatching preferences reveal synergies and tradeoffs among recreation, carbon, and fisheries ecosystem services in Pacific Northwest estuaries, USA15
Ecosystem service assessments across cascade levels: typology and an evidence map15
Implications of changes in land use for ecosystem service values of two highly eroded watersheds in Lake Abaya Chamo sub-basin, Ethiopia15
Linking landscape structure and ecosystem service flow15
Corrigendum to “Perceived urban ecosystem services and disservices in gentrifying neighborhoods: Contrasting views between community members and state informants” [Ecosyst. Serv. 65 (2024) 101571]15
Mapping ecosystem services in Colombia: Analysis of synergies, trade-offs and bundles in environmental management14
Exploring the disaster risk reduction and energy resilience benefits of coastal ecosystems and protected areas in Puerto Rico14
Combining scientific and local knowledge improves evaluating future scenarios of forest ecosystem services14
A dynamic hydro-economic model to assess the effectiveness and economic benefits and costs of wetland restoration and creation14
Policy-oriented ecosystem services research on tropical forests in South America: A systematic literature review14
A scoping review of the Cryosphere’s ecosystem services, disservices, and related indicators14
A global analysis of key design factors for sustainable payment for ecosystem services schemes14
Tradeoffs in people’s perceptions about ecosystem services and disservices related to bats: Implications for managing agroecosystems and conserving bats14
Historical perspective and proposal for a comprehensive framework for valuing all environmental services including ecosystem and geosystem services14
Water purification ecosystem services in the Integrated Economic-Environmental Model (IEEM): An application to investing in water quality in Uruguay14
The interaction of financial incentives and social norms to motivate conservation on the Tibetan Plateau14
One-question interviews elucidate nuances in diverse values of coral reefs in West Hawaiʻi13
Linking natural capital stocks with ecosystem services in the Northern Baltic Sea13
The close relationship between biophysical degradation, ecosystem services and family farms decline in Spanish agriculture (1992–2017)13
Accounting for water-related ecosystem services to provide information for water policy and management: An Australian case study13
Quantifying ecosystem services from trees by using i-tree with low-resolution satellite images13
Investing in nature-based solutions: Cost profiles of collective-action watershed investment programs13
Corrigendum to “Bats and rice: Quantifying the role of insectivorous bats as agricultural pest suppressors in rice fields” [Ecosyst. Serv. 66 (2024) 101603]13
The role of ecosystem services in the design of agroecological transitions in Spain13
Enhancing engagement: A European meta-analysis of forest owner preferences in voluntary agreements for the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services13
Integrating perceptions of ecosystem services in adaptive management of country parks: A case study in peri-urban Shanghai, China12
A new framework for agroecological energy assessment: application to French agroecosystems12
Aligning nature-based solutions with ecosystem services in the urban century12
Progress on ecosystem accounting in Europe12
Global assessment of ecosystem services and disservices associated with owls12
The monetary value of 16 services protected by the Australian National Biosecurity System: Spatially explicit estimates and vulnerability to incursions11
A global systematic review of the cultural ecosystem services provided by wetlands11
Economic values for ecosystem services: A global synthesis and way forward11
Using georeferenced text from social media to map the cultural ecosystem services of freshwater ecosystems11
Designing effective environmental policy mixes in the UN Decade on ecosystem restoration11
Economic valuation of pest regulation benefits provided by arthropods in the UK11
The development of governance innovations for the sustainable provision of forest ecosystem services in Europe: A comparative analysis of four pilot innovation processes11
Ecosystem accounting: Past scientific developments and future challenges11
Ecosystem service multifunctionality and trade-offs in English Green Belt peri-urban planning11
Who should control the provider of ecosystem services in buyer-driven governance? A choice experiment on orchards in Germany11
Relationships between ecosystem services and human well-being from a water–energy–food nexus perspective: A case study of Jiziwan, Yellow River Basin, China11
Trade-offs and compromises in multifunctional landscapes: simultaneously maintaining high levels of pollinator communities, pollination service, and profit? – A modelling study11
Co-benefits of nature for birds, people, and climate in the United States11
Landscape features shape people’s perception of ecosystem service supply areas11
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
An assessment of the ecosystem services of marine zooplankton and the key threats to their provision11
Estimating the value of ecosystem services: A machine learning approach for Missouri wetlands11
Beyond a market discourse: is framing a solution to avoid motivational crowding out in payments for ecosystem services?11
Advancing the global statistical standard for urban ecosystem accounts10
Payments for ecosystem services in Mexico: Two decades of progress and challenges between research and practice10
Farmers’ perceptions on the supply and demand of nature’s contributions to people related to cocoa production in the Amazon10
Assessing ecosystem services and their spillover effects to inform cost-benefit sharing and horizontal eco-compensation mechanisms in the Qilian Mountains, China10
The impact of payment for ecosystem service schemes on participants’ motivation: A global assessment10
Quantifying and classifying cultural ecosystem Services in Coastal China: An integrated text mining approach10
Linking landscape dynamics to the relationship between water purification and soil retention10
Integrating local and ecological knowledge to assess the benefits of trees for ecosystem services: A holistic process-based methodology10
The future of crowd-sourced cultural ecosystem services assessments10
Using geo-data and social media images to explore the supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services for terraces in China10
Valuation of blue carbon and ecological co-benefits in temperate seagrass meadows in the Atlantic Virginia Coast Reserve10
Nature-based solutions for urban challenges: A simple framework based on ecosystem services for a World Heritage City10
Advancing global forest sustainability by linking household dependence to provisioning ecosystem services in Ethiopia10
Mitigating GHG emissions: A global ecosystem service provided by obligate scavenging birds10
How remote sensing choices influence ecosystem services monitoring and evaluation results of ecological restoration interventions10
Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices10
A scenario-based approach to valuation of the Erosion Prevention Service in the Himalayan region9
Trends in valuation approaches for cultural ecosystem services: A systematic literature review9
Reckoning with historical injustices: Relational values in ecosystem services and environmental justice in the Mapuche-forestry conflict in Chile9
Estimating the value of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes amid intensification pressures: The Brazilian case9
Redesigning a transboundary and spatially targeted PES scheme to sustain clean water provision across metacoupled systems in the Xin’an River Watershed, China9
Systematic conservation planning for people and nature: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and equitable benefit sharing9
The application of ecosystem accounting principles at the local scale for a protected landscape: A case study of the Sleza Landscape Park in Poland9
Ecosystem accounting for water resources at the catchment scale, a case study for the Peloponnisos, Greece9
Multimethod valuation of peatland ecosystem services: Combining choice experiment, multicriteria decision analysis and deliberative valuation9
Brazil’s environmental rollback threatens global ecosystem services9
The benefits of ecological restoration exceed its cost in South Africa: An evidence-based approach8
A process perspective of conceptual innovation: Integrating equity in applications of the ecosystem services concept in Ireland8
Building the case for protecting urban nature: How urban planners use the ideas, rhetoric, and tools of ecosystem services science8
Mountain ecosystem services under a changing climate: A global perspective8
Ecosystem extent accounts for Europe8
The various faces of transdisciplinarity in research on ecosystem services: Editorial to Special Issue8
Water security in a semiarid environment: An approach to assess costs and benefits of high-Andean nature-based solutions8
In pursuit of the polar bear – An exploration of ecosystem services and disservices and adaptive management needs8
Integrated valuation of instrumental and relational values of marine protected areas in the United Arab Emirates8
Mapping cultural ecosystem services of the urban riverscapes: the case of the Vistula River in Warsaw, Poland8
Ecosystem service tradeoff and synergy mechanisms in the Central Asian terminal lake basin based on Bayesian Networks8
Quantifying and integrating ecosystem services in forest management planning8
Mind the income gap: Income from wood production exceed income from providing diverse ecosystem services from Europe’s forests8
Basin-scale riverine ecosystem services vary with network geometry8
‘Uncertainty audit’ for ecosystem accounting: Satellite-based ecosystem extent is biased without design-based area estimation and accuracy assessment8
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