Ecosystem Services

2012 - 2026

Current editor(s): Leon C Braat

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Volume 78, issue C, 2026

Ecosystem services and food security: Local perception aligning with demands in the state of Amazonas, Brazil

Ana Luisa de Carvalho Cruz, David M. Lapola, Moara Almeida Canova, Tiago da Silva Jacaúna, Júlia Menin, Marko Monteiro, Giulia Melilli Serbin and Maíra C.G. Padgurschi

Understanding the role of offshore energy structures in ecosystem service delivery: Applying global findings to the North Sea

Megan Squire, Alethea Madgett, Daryl Burdon, Beth Scott, Joseph Marlow and Kate Gormley

The impact of cultural ecosystem service experiences on forest policy acceptance

Donghee Kim, Juyeon Kim, Haeun Kim, Jiwoo Choi, Bumsuk Seo and Heera Lee

A global spatial meta-regression analysis of mangrove valuation studies

Maria De Salvo, Laura Giuffrida, GIovanni Signorello and Luke M. Brander

Can protected area networks effectively conserve ecosystem services at the landscape scale? Evidence from Wuyishan Biodiversity Priority Conservation Area, China

Tianqi Fu, Yue Cao, Siren Lan, Le Yu and Lingyun Liao

Visitor perceptions and motivations as drivers of cultural ecosystem services in urban forests: A case study from Helsinki, Finland

Yuan Wang, Kati Vierikko, Johannes Langemeyer, Jenni Lehtimäki and D. Johan Kotze

Harnessing Machine learning to quantify ecosystem services in coastal Wetlands: A case study of the Bohai economic Rim

Ting Lu, Ya Ping Wang, Jiyuan Jin, Shibing Zhu, Jianhua Gao, Hu Ding, Qinglong Wu, Fu Wang and Chao Gao

Machine learning and spatial regression approaches to estimating willingness to pay for ecosystem services in Jakarta and Taoyuan

Shafira Wuryandani, Yu-Pin Lin, Pei-Chen Lin, Dirk S. Schmeller and Gerard H. Ros

Dual valuation of tree-covered areas: ecosystem services provision vs. their appreciation by residents

Patrycja Przewoźna, Adam Inglot, Karolina Zięba-Kulawik, Paweł Hawryło, Krzysztof Mączka, Marcin Mielewczyk, Piotr Matczak and Piotr Wężyk

Game Theoretical Analysis of Geosystem Service Management: A Systematic Literature Review

Syed-Mujtaba Masroor, Kris Welkenhuysen, Jacco Thijssen and Tine Compernolle

Digging for quality and quantity: A systematic review of economic valuation studies of ecosystem services in Peru

Ricardo Machuca Breña and Xun Zhou

The soil health-yield trade-off: A critical gap in assessing regenerative organic agriculture

Rodrigo Ferraz Ramos

Assessing the effect of microplastics on the marine ecosysteḿs carbon sequestration potential in life cycle assessment

Fei Song, Martin Dorber, Johan Berg Pettersen and Francesca Verones

Where is natural capital being used in policy-making? Results from an international review

Simone Martino, Ishaan Patil, Stanislav Martinat, Jose Antonio Ballesteros-Figueroa and Kerry A. Waylen

Assessing the impact of mining on Indigenous well-being: A case study from the Northern Territory, Australia

Samy Andres Leyton-Flor and Kamaljit Kaur Sangha

Valuing the invaluable: a review of economic valuations of forest biodiversity

Laqiqige Zhu and O’Hagan-Luff, Martha

Voluntary biodiversity credits: A review of concepts and a perspective on their application in European production forests

Aleksandra Holmlund, Francisco X. Aguilar, Anneli M. Ågren and Tomas Lundmark

Advancing global forest sustainability by linking household dependence to provisioning ecosystem services in Ethiopia

Negasi Solomon, Birhane Zeru, Meley Mekonen Rannestad, Yirga Gufi, Belay Manjur Gebru, Ashenafi Manaye, Kahsay Birhane and Emiru Birhane

Room for the River: An extended cost benefit analysis of integrated river-floodplain management for the Rhine in the Netherlands

Sien Kok, Lars Hein, le Clec’h, Solen, W.Ellis Penning and Anthonie D. Buijse

Valuing mangrove ecosystem services along the Brazilian Amazon coast

Philip Otieno, Margaret Owuor, Carla F. Pacheco, Gabriel C. Coppo, Thuareag Monteiro Santos, Tiago O. Ferreira and Angelo F. Bernardino

Ecosystem services and disservices of forests and greenspaces: A pan-European representative study of societal perceptions

Dennis Roitsch, Kiki Ekiawan Lamatungga, Jakob Derks, Rik De Vreese, Arjen Buijs, Ivana Živojinović, Helga Pülzl and Georg Winkel

Impact of land-use change on ecosystem services in Africa’s Great Green Wall

Yizhuo Wang, Catherine E. Scott and Martin Dallimer

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