Ecosystem Services

2012 - 2026

Current editor(s): Leon C Braat

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Volume 77, issue C, 2026

Impacts of glacier retreat on ecosystem services and mountain communities: A case study in eastern Himalayas

Pei Xia and Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Opportunities of ecosystem service assessments to inform the different phases of disaster risk management

Andrea Ortiz Vargas, Sally Janzen, Liliana Narvaez, Yvonne Walz and Zita Sebesvari

Operationalising the concept of critical natural capital to understand and manage nature dependency risk

Crystal Bradley, Sarah Clement, Michael Vardon, Ben Milligan and Kazuki Kagohashi

Advancing a restorative blue Economy: A DPSIR–Ecosystem services framework for sustainable seaweed aquaculture

Marianne Thomsen, Annette Bruhn, Jonne Kotta, Bela H. Buck, Jack R. Hall, Georg Martin, Antonio Agüera, Marie Maar, Manali Chakraborty, Maxime Ekoule, Ian Overton and Mausam Budhathoki

Economic valuation of the contribution of a protected area to water quality in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Flávio José Simioni, Tais Toldo Moreira, Lucas Meneguim Pereira, Sabrina Antunes Vieira, Philipe Ricardo Casemiro Soares, Viviane Aparecida Spinelli Shein and Everton Skoronski

An integrated method to account for river flood mitigation service in the SEEA-EA framework

Lijuan Wang, Hua Zheng, Yongzhe Chen, Xiaofei Hu and Zhiyun Ouyang

Advancing the global statistical standard for urban ecosystem accounts

Javier Babí Almenar, Chiara Cortinovis, Sara Vallecillo, Davide Geneletti, Bálint Czúcz, Federica Marando, Grazia Zulian, Anna M. Addamo, Alessandra La Notte and Renato Casagrandi

Optimizing local regulating ecosystem services through nature-based urban retrofitting scenarios

MariaElena Menconi, Marco Vizzari and David Grohmann

Valuing hunting as an ecosystem service: a national-level assessment using cost-based and benefit transfer methods in the Czech Republic

Eva Horváthová

Participatory approaches in aquatic ecosystem services valuation: insights from a systematic literature review and future research perspectives

Tigran Keryan, Verena Radinger-Peer, Brenda Maria Zoderer, Rafaela Schinegger and Vardan Asatryan

Quantifying and integrating ecosystem services in forest management planning

Emin Zeki Baskent and Ünal Satı Yılmaz

A scenario-based approach to valuation of the Erosion Prevention Service in the Himalayan region

Rahul Yadav, Shachi Pandey, Tara Chand and Raman Nautiyal

Brazil’s environmental rollback threatens global ecosystem services

Jaqueiuto S. Jorge and Adriano Caliman

Integrating ecosystem services supply and demand for extreme precipitation events: optimising gully watershed strategies

Zihan Xu, Ziliang Xi, Shouhong Zhang, Fan Zhang and Jiale Zhang

Volume 76, issue C, 2025

Echoes of the Oasis: Water-dependent cultural ecosystem services in the Middle Drâa valley, Morocco

Imane Mahjoubi, Catalina Osorio-Peláez, Blanka Mallow, Laura Scheef, Nils Kaczmarek, Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sanchez, Elisabeth Berger, Oliver Frör and Lisa Bossenbroek

Enhancing engagement: A European meta-analysis of forest owner preferences in voluntary agreements for the provision of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Samuel U. Ringier, Yohei Mitani, Janine Schweier and Henrik Lindhjem

Relationships between ecosystem services and human well-being from a water–energy–food nexus perspective: A case study of Jiziwan, Yellow River Basin, China

Weichen Zhang, Tiejun Liu, Xingqi Wang and Bojie Wang

The pluralistic natural capital values of a tropical city

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Justine Saunders, Peter Edwards, Daniel Richards, Jahson I. Alemu, Natasha Bhatia, Roman Carrasco, Zuzana Drillet, Tze Kwan Fung, Yan Feng Leon Gaw, Wanggi Jaung, Andrea Law, Rachel Ai Ting Leong, Aikeen Youu Ming Lim, Mahyar Masoudi, Yudhishthra Nathan, Rachel Rui Ying Oh, Wen Ting Ooi, Fairul Edros Ahmad Shaikh Shaikh, Xiao Ping Song, Claudia L.Y. Tan, Puay Yok Tan, Sergio Wicki, Lynn-Wei Wong, Yanyun Yan, Erik Yando, Alex Thiam Koon Yee, Jingyuan Zhang and Daniel A. Friess

Total economic Vulture: The value of ecosystem services provided by vultures in Southern Africa

Luke Brander, Lovelater Sebele, Fadzai Matsvimbo, Victoria Guisado Goñi and Florian Eppink

Economic valuation of pest regulation benefits provided by arthropods in the UK

Peter King, Theresa Robinson, Charlotte Howard, Tom D. Breeze and Martin Dallimer

Quantifying effects of demographic biases on estimation of cultural ecosystem services using social media in Japan

Michio Oguro and Rei Shibata

Using geo-data and social media images to explore the supply and demand of cultural ecosystem services for terraces in China

Song Chen, Xiyue Wang, Tianming Liu, Mingwei Xie and Qing Lin

Valuation of blue carbon and ecological co-benefits in temperate seagrass meadows in the Atlantic Virginia Coast Reserve

Kylor Kerns, Mark White, Mariana Camacho, Karen McGlathery and Chris Patrick

Analysis of spatiotemporal changes in ecosystem services distribution in the southern part of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil

Luana Meister and Marcia C.M. Marques

Ecosystem service bundles associated with agrobiodiversity in agroforestry systems: A case study of two coffee-growing regions of Haiti

Claude Patrick Millet, Wesly Jeune, Jephthé Samuel Guervil, Luc André St Armand, Jean Fritzner Amazan, Guerlande Duval, Reuben Bersonly Jean Louis, Brunet Robert, Valérie Poncet and Clémentine Allinne

Offshore cultural ecosystem services: evidence from open-sea research

Ashley Cahillane, Johanna Forster, Dorota Kołbuk and John Brannigan

Water security in a semiarid environment: An approach to assess costs and benefits of high-Andean nature-based solutions

Sebastián Vicuña, Carlos A. Bonilla, Aurora Gaxiola, Javier I. Rivera, Diego Gonzalez, Sebastián Aedo-Quililongo, Alejandra Vega, Pablo Pastén, Eduardo Bustos, Oscar Melo, Rodrigo Labatut, Juan Pablo Herane, Jorge Gironás, Francisco Suárez and Pablo A. Marquet

Monetising fisheries provisioning services from multispecies fisheries in ecosystem accounts: introducing rent revenue shares

Sean Pascoe and Gabriela Scheufele

The value of Australian aquatic ecosystem services

Laura Montano, Alice Harrison, Brad Henderson, Melinda A. Coleman, Vincent Raoult, Matthew D. Taylor, Troy Gaston, Patrick G. Dwyer, Robert Costanza, Andrew Dansie and William Glamore

Payment for Ecosystem Services 2.0: The Natural Capital Trust of Costa Rica

Marcello Hernández-Blanco, Robert Costanza and Monica Moritsch

Redesigning a transboundary and spatially targeted PES scheme to sustain clean water provision across metacoupled systems in the Xin’an River Watershed, China

Yu Tao, Xufei Chen, Steven G. Pueppke, Jiangxiao Qiu, Weixin Ou, Hongbo Yang and Jiaguo Qi

Assessing ecosystem services provision using Bayesian Belief Network in Southern Europe marine forests

Miguel Fernandes, João Seixo, João N. Franco and Maria A. Cunha-e-Sá

Integrated valuation of instrumental and relational values of marine protected areas in the United Arab Emirates

Jasper O. Kenter, Simon J. Pittman, Marina Antonopoulou, Balagopal Menon, Kostantinos A. Stamoulis, Maitha M. Al Hameli and Daniel Mateos-Molina

The interaction of financial incentives and social norms to motivate conservation on the Tibetan Plateau

John M. Kerr, Tsering Bum, Rain Wuyu Liu, Jinhua Zhao, Lu Zhi and Maria Knight Lapinski

Effect of forest management on the ecosystem services supply and multifunctionality in the Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve

Unai Ortega-Barrueta, Unai Sertutxa, Ibone Ametzaga-Arregi, Jorge Curiel Yuste, Raquel Esteban, Lorena Ruiz de Larrinaga, Francisco San Miguel-Oti and Lorena Peña

Relational values in nature-based solutions and their role in transformative change: evidence from choice modelling

Rodrigo Zilleruelo, John Rolfe, Jeremy De Valck and Gordon Dwane

Enhancing multiple ecosystem services: Nature-based measures outperform technical interventions in river management

Stefan Schmidt and Christian Albert

How to assess realized ecosystem services: Indicators, challenges in determining actual use, and suggestions

Haojie Chen

Perspectives on abiotic ecosystem services provided by glacial lakes in high-mountain areas

C. Viani, N. Colombo, M. Rogora, M. Giardino, M. Freppaz and I.M. Bollati

Volume 75, issue C, 2025

Economic valuation of ecosystem services and natural infrastructure: A quantitative review of the literature

Garrett O. Stanford, Susana Ferreira, Craig Landry and Ben Blachly

One-question interviews elucidate nuances in diverse values of coral reefs in West Hawaiʻi

Alison Adams, Shane Akoni Palacat-Nelsen and Rachelle K. Gould

The economic value of annual forest loss in the Colombian Amazon

Mauro A Reyes-Bonilla, Carlos Moreno Díaz, Nicolás Castaño, Dairon Cárdenas López, Marcela Núñez-Avellaneda, Edwin Agudelo Córdoba, Clara P. Peña-Venegas, Mariela Osorno-Muñoz, Natalia Atuesta-Dimian, Andrés Alberto Barona-Colmenares and Luis Fernando Jaramillo Hurtado

Reckoning with historical injustices: Relational values in ecosystem services and environmental justice in the Mapuche-forestry conflict in Chile

Sophie Johanna Lampert, Anne Kathrine Kjær Bruun and Rajiv Maher

The Benefits Knowledges Learning Framework: a tool for learning across diverse knowledge systems in ecosystem valuation

Kristin R. Hoelting, Doreen E. Martinez, Lucas S. Bair, Rudy M. Schuster and Michael C. Gavin

Governing high-integrity markets for ecosystem services

Mark S. Reed, Julia M. McCarthy, Eric A. Jensen, Rosie Everett and Hannah Rudman

Mitigating typhoon damage with wetlands: estimating the typhoon protection value of intertidal and inland wetlands in China

Shufang Feng, Ruiyan Peng, Peihong Wang and Benrong Peng

The economic value of improving the ecological condition of the Saskatchewan River Delta, Canada

Elisabeta Lika, Ken Belcher, Tim Jardine, Sabine Liebenehm, Patrick Lloyd-Smith and Graham Strickert

Assessing ecosystem services and their spillover effects to inform cost-benefit sharing and horizontal eco-compensation mechanisms in the Qilian Mountains, China

Haijiang Yang, Xiaohua Gou, Zhenlin Li, Yuxin Wei, Wenwei Shi, Bing Xue and Tek Maraseni

Mapping ecosystem services to SDGs network: A toolkit to integrate ecosystem services into SDGs co-realization

Zihan Xu, Yuqing Lin, Huining Zheng and Rixuan Zhang

Mapping emergent costs and benefits of ecosystem service flows in Senegal’s small-scale fishery supply chain

Charis Chalkiadakis, John Virdin, Menno-Jan Kraak and Evangelia G. Drakou

Ecosystem service tradeoff and synergy mechanisms in the Central Asian terminal lake basin based on Bayesian Networks

Jiaxin Li, Wenwu Zhao, Xiaofei Ma, Geping Luo and Paulo Pereira

Understanding spatial patterns of ecosystem service supply and demand in Savannakhet Province, Laos

Sandra Eckert, Phetsaphone Thanasack, Cornelia Hett and Julie G. Zaehringer

A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services

Richard Kovárník, Jitka Janová and David Hampel

Valuing and accounting for water-related ecosystem services for water pricing and management: An Australian case study

Yuqing Chen, Paul Wyrwoll, Peter Burnett, R. Quentin Grafton and Michael Vardon