Ecosystem Services

2012 - 2026

Current editor(s): Leon C Braat

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Volume 81, issue C, 2026

Exploring preferences of forest ecosystem services across the EU: Personal and societal perspectives

Andrew David Harold Stratton, Silvia Baralla, Alexandru Giurca, Dalila Frasson, Lasse Læbo Matthiesen, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Rastislav Raši, Jan Schmidt, Dijana Vuletić, Gerhard Weiss, Ivana Zivojinovic, Niels Strange and Jette Bredahl Jacobsen

Machine learning assessment of visual perception in suburban forest trail landscapes: a case study of Guangzhou Tianlu Lake Forest Park

Zhihao Lan, Yuan Ma and Leyi Wang

The impact of climate-smart practices on ecosystem function/services in the agricultural landscape of central Ethiopia

Abera Assefa Biratu, Bobe Bedadi, Fitih Ademe Mamo, Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot, Tilahun Hordofa, Wuletawu Abera, Lulseged Tamene, Zenebe Adimassu, Desale Kidane Asmamaw, Anthony Egeru and Assefa M. Melesse

Benefit-cost analysis of small-scale active restoration in blue carbon ecosystems

Siegmund Nuyts, Paul E. Carnell, Teah Coate, Ivona Buljat, Peter I. Macreadie and Stacey M. Trevathan-Tackett

Estimating the impact of invasive pests and diseases on ecosystem services: Modelling carbon sequestration loss due to myrtle rust (Austropuccinia psidii exotic strains) in Australia

Thao P. Le, Meryl Theng, Chris M. Baker, Isobel R. Abell, Tom Kompas and Emma J. Hudgins

Bears as providers of ecosystem services

Clara Tattoni, Francesco Bisi, I. Mauricio Vela-Vargas, Ganesh Marin, Giacomo Cremonesi, Odbayar Tumendemberel, Jorge E. Araña, Adriano Martinoli, Damiano G. Preatoni and John L. Koprowski

Quantification of ecological benefits of inter-basin water diversion projects based on ecosystem service value

Zongkun Li, Baoxing Sun, Yadong Zhang, Wei Ge, Fengxiang Zhang and Weibing Du

The influence of tree canopy cover data choices on urban ecosystem accounting

Levi T. Sweet-Breu, Gregory S. Cermak, Lucila M. Corro, Peter C. Ibsen, Mehdi P. Heris, Raimundo Atal, Ryan A. McManamay, Jay E. Diffendorfer and Kenneth J. Bagstad

Perceived or physical features: Which better predicts cultural ecosystem benefits in urban green spaces?

Mengyun Chen, Guangsi Lin, Jiayi Kong and Xukai Zhao

A novel approach for assessing the importance of forest ecosystem services using indicators of potential and demand

Tina Simončič, Petra Grošelj, Adriano Mazziotta, Emin Zeki Başkent, Kyle Eyvindson, Henn Korjus, Eneli Põldveer, Sari Pynnönen, Grzegorz Rączka, Anna Repo and Andrej Bončina

Geospatial assessment of forest ecosystem services: operationalizing scale through spatially adaptive modelling

Irina Cristal, Stefanos Georganos, Blas Mola-Yudego, Jose Ramon Gonzalez-Olabarria and Jordi Garcia-Gonzalo

Impacts of climate change on honeybee pollination and crop production in China

Yongpeng Chen, Xianqiang Mao, Zhijun Zhao, Zaenhaer Duman, Yunjun Hu, Yifan Chang and Xiaopeng Si

Modelling ecosystem service trends under contrasting Dutch peatland and agricultural land-use futures

Maxime Osterrieth, Loc Huu Ho and Ruchita Ingle

Whales, their habitats and provided services: updated insights with stakeholder perspectives

Haley R. Dolton, Paola Parretti, Filipe Alves, Marc Fernandez, Gilberto Carreira, Ana Dinis and Mary Kelly-Quinn

Impacts of landscape restoration and long-term land use change on ecosystem services: Evidence from a case study in Ethiopia

Mulugeta Mokria, Niguse Hagazi, Gebrehiwot Hailemariam, Abrham Abiyu, Wolde Mekuria, Habtemariam Kassa, Malefia Tadele, Assefa Gedle and Peter Minang

Hydrologic ecosystem service valuation on Kauaʻi, Hawaiʻi: calculating watershed protection return on investment

Conrad Newfield, Nathan DeMaagd, Christopher A. Wada, Leah L. Bremer, Clay Trauernicht and Kimberly M. Burnett

A socio-ecological framework for integrating resident perceptions, stakeholder valuations, and canopy structural characteristics in urban forest ecosystem-service assessment

Snežana Štrbac, Lato Pezo, Biljana Lončar, Dragana Milutinović, Vukašin Rončević and Nikola Živanović

Riparian restoration benefits across space and time in subtropical Australia: From drinking water quality to wider society

Joseph M. McMahon, James C.R. Smart, Ben Stewart-Koster, Syezlin Hasan, James S. Shortle, William N. Venables, Andrew Smolders, Morag Stewart, Don Butler, Jon M. Olley, David P. Hamilton and Stuart Bunn

Young people's diverse perceptions of mountain ecosystems: Making nature's values visible

Johanna Trummer, Lucas Weinberg, Nina Liebhaber and Lars Keller

Potential of temperate agroforestry systems to deliver ecosystem services: An evidence map

Andrea Schievano, Camille Rubeaud, Margret Köthke, Beatrice Landoni, Damien Beillouin, Marta Pérez-Soba, Simona Bosco, Rui Catarino, Giovanni Tamburini, David Makowski and Sonja Kay

Payments for Ecosystem Services and crowding: exploring the driving conditions for success or failure

Lina M. Moros, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Adriana Molina-Garzón and Esteve Corbera

Integrating use intensity and experience quality to assess cultural ecosystem services: a multimodal framework from a peri-urban landscape

Qian Kuang, Jiaqi Chen, Yunyun Yu, Shenghong Wang, Tianhang Geng and Jun Liu

Environmental effects of an incentive-based program on deforestation and hydrological ecosystem services in peri-urban Mexico City

J. Mauricio Galeana-Pizaña, Pierre Mokondoko, Aldo Daniel Jiménez-Ortega and María Perevochtchikova

Forest restoration under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation: Implications for biodiversity and ecosystem service trade-offs

John Bergkvist, Nils Droste, Renats Trubins, Tristan R.M. Bakx and Cecilia Akselsson

Editorial to the special issue: Ecosystem services towards planning healthy and resilient landscapes

Damian Łowicki, Iwona Zwierzchowska, Junxiang Li and Davide Geneletti

Linking ecosystem service valuation with mobility data to reveal who benefits from urban parks

Emily Bortree, Grace Landers and Demian A. Willette

Volume 80, issue C, 2026

A global synthesis of ecosystem services records and their associations with marine and coastal habitats

Joana Martelo, Sandra A. Ferreira, Ronaldo Sousa, Sílvia B. Carvalho, Manuel Hidalgo, Henrique Cabral, Marina Dolbeth, Martin Lindegren, Ana Veríssimo, Anne E. Magurran, Bernardo Duarte, Sofia Henriques and Rita P. Vasconcelos

Ecosystem services provide for half of French agricultural production in annual cropping systems

Manon Dardonville, Julie Constantin and Olivier Therond

Environmental motivations in an ongoing PES program in the Colombian Amazon

Adriana Molina-Garzón, Lina M. Moros, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Ivan Savin and Esteve Corbera

Valuing and mapping cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas: an integrated approach applied to recreational seascape tourism in Greece

Valentini Stamatiadou, Antonios D. Mazaris, Paraskevi Sidera, Theodoros Chalazas, Adonis F. Velegrakis and Stelios Katsanevakis

Reconsidering ecosystem services marketization: subnational government behaviour and motivation in China

Zichang Xu, Hongwei Hu and Rong Tan

Artificial Intelligence for ecosystem services science: The AI4ESS framework from a community perspective

Thalia Ballell Carl, Vince van ’t Hoff,, Jan Haas, Pedro Cabral and Felicia O. Akinyemi

Systematic review of natural capital valuation: Emergy accounting and ecosystem service valuation

Yu Han, Yijia Wang, Chenxu Wang and Yanxu Liu

Integrating public perception and expert knowledge in mapping and assessing cultural ecosystem services in peri-urban landscape

Vita Žlender and Rok Brišnik

Farmers’ perceptions on the supply and demand of nature’s contributions to people related to cocoa production in the Amazon

Debora Larissa Carvalho Botelho, Rafael Cabral Borges, Erlane José Cunha, Rosa de Nazaré Paes da Silva and Tereza Cristina Giannini

Integrating historical data and multi-scenario simulation to reveal evolutionary trajectories of ecosystem service bundles in the Yellow River Basin

Luyao Dang, Wei Liu, Jinyan Zhan, Fen Zhao, Fan Zhang and Haohui Liu

Ecosystem services and disservices of wild and domestic mammals: Contrasting farmers' perceptions and tourists' demands in an African coexistence landscape

Magnus Dobler, Liana Kindermann, Steffanie Mantik, Ugo Arbieu, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Javier Revilla Diez, Lucas Rutina and Anja Linstädter

Cryosphere ecosystem services: A systematic review of assessment methods

Erika Filippelli, Guglielmina Adele Diolaiuti, Daniela Marzano and Antonella Senese

Quantifying and classifying cultural ecosystem Services in Coastal China: An integrated text mining approach

Xibao Xu, Ziyi Xiong, Yan Tan, Xiaolin Qin and Baoshi He

Connecting birds’ ecosystem services and human well-being: an integrative review

Catalina B. Muñoz-Pacheco, Bianca Pereira, Cristián Estades and Claudia Cerda

Ecosystem services of Mops plicatus, a high-altitude flying aerial-hawking bat of Southeast Asia

Supawan Srilopan, Christian C. Voigt and Sara Bumrungsri

A new framework for agroecological energy assessment: application to French agroecosystems

Alice Josserand, Olivier Therond, Manon Dardonville and Christian Bockstaller

Ecological inflation: a new paradox in the evaluation of ecosystem services

Lorenzo Federico, Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis, Tommaso Luzzati, Sara Villa and Emilio Padoa-Schioppa

In pursuit of the polar bear – An exploration of ecosystem services and disservices and adaptive management needs

David Cook, Laura Malinauskaite and Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir

Volume 79, issue C, 2026

Payment for ecosystem services of the Hyrcanian forests based on stakeholder preferences for flood risk mitigation

Hamid Amirnejad, Sareh Hosseini and Hossein Azadi

Historical perspective and proposal for a comprehensive framework for valuing all environmental services including ecosystem and geosystem services

Murray Gray and Nathan Fox

A call to consider the contributions of exported marine macrophyte biomass to ecosystem services

Carolyn J. Ewers Lewis, Rachel S. Smith and Cora A. Baird

Farm-scale ecosystem accounting in Brazil’s Amazonia

Fabiana de Souza Batista, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Lars Hein, Arnan Araza, Gerard H. Ros, Confidence Duku, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Edmar Almeida de Oliveira, Wesley Pacheco, Victor Hugo Pacheco and Douglas Sheil

Digital windows into nature’s values: A critical review of cultural ecosystem services research with social media data

Andrea Ghermandi, Fulvia Calcagni, Johannes Langemeyer and Uta Schirpke

Forest ecosystem services potential, synergies and trade-offs three decades after forest dieback in the Western Sudetes (Poland)

Agnieszka Kamińska, Adam Kaliszewski, Emilia Wysocka-Fijorek, Piotr Gołos, Krzysztof Stereńczak and Mariusz Ciesielski

Emergy-based accounting for historical and future water-related ecosystem services of tropical rainforest national park

Qing Yang, Yulong Chen, Gengyuan Liu, Yanwei Zhao and Zhifeng Yang

Linking environmental sustainability in forest companies to ecosystem services: A systematic review and outlook

Mahesh Tiwari, Jacek Siry, Jesse Abrams and Pete Bettinger

The power of social media text: Mapping the distribution and drivers of cultural ecosystem services in Taihu Lake wetland

Xiaoxia Wu, Yujun Wang, Qiong Liu and Minghao Ou

Quantifying co-production in agricultural landscapes to advance ecosystem service flow accounts

Yiyi Zhang, Lael Parrott and Brian Robinson

The objectives of urban forest strategies can influence ecosystem service supply and accessibility across urban landscapes

Marie C Dade, Chelsea K Andrews and Monique Burns

A global analysis of key design factors for sustainable payment for ecosystem services schemes

Mona Nazari, Nelson Grima, Giorgia Bottaro, Mireia Pecurul-Botines, Helga Pülzl and Harald Vacik

Exploring the disaster risk reduction and energy resilience benefits of coastal ecosystems and protected areas in Puerto Rico

Maxwell S. Perkins, Jonathan D. Bakker and Katie K. Arkema

What drives cultural ecosystem services in mountain protected areas? An AI-assisted answer using social media data

José Carlos Pérez-Girón, Carlos Javier Navarro, Akram Elghouat, Rohaifa Khaldi, Domingo López-Pacheco, Salvador Arenas-Castro, Ana del Águila, Ricardo Moreno-Llorca, Nuria Pistón, Luis F. Romero, Ana Sofía Vaz, Siham Tabik, Javier Martínez-López and Domingo Alcaraz-Segura

Estimating the value of ecosystem services: A machine learning approach for Missouri wetlands

Luke Maddock, Frank Nelson, Levi Altringer and Sophie C. McKee

Nature-based solutions, ecosystem services, and human well-being in global south mangroves: a review

Dinda Prayunita, Annisa Triyanti, Stefan C. Dekker, Peter P.J. Driessen and Ralph J.M. Temmink

A review and conceptual framework for a new era of forest management planning: integrating hybrid digital twin systems toward sustainable forest ecosystems

Emin Zeki Baskent, Andrej Bončina and José Guilherme Borges

Beyond a market discourse: is framing a solution to avoid motivational crowding out in payments for ecosystem services?

Adriana Bernal-Escobar, Estelle Midler and Stefanie Engel

Water purification ecosystem services in the Integrated Economic-Environmental Model (IEEM): An application to investing in water quality in Uruguay

Onil Banerjee, Martin Cicowiez, Kenneth J. Bagstad, Matías Piaggio, Renato Vargas and Pablo Kok

Tailoring ecosystem services assessment to target users and building a national platform: Stakeholder consultations case study in the Czech Republic

Jan Daněk, Kateřina Mácová, Bronislav Farkač and Davina Vačkářová

Meta-analytic value function and habitat risk-based assessment of ecosystem service values in a Natura 2000 area

M.I. Bastos, P.C. Roebeling, S. Villasante, F.L. Alves, L. Magalhães Filho and F.A. Matos

Turning an ecosystem disservice into a service: Exploring the willingness to adopt a novel use for an invasive plant

Enrique Estefania-Salazar, Eva Iglesias and Maria Loureiro

Modeling and mapping the efficiency of protected areas in the conservation of ecosystem services hotspots: The case of Brazilian Pampa

Cássia Fernanda Martins da Silva, Murillo César Céspedes Campos and Luiz Ubiratan Hepp

Assessing ecosystem services resilience to drought and its drivers in mediterranean forests using a counterfactual, process-based modelling approach

D’Adamo, Francesco, Miquel De Cáceres, Josep Maria Espelta, Jose Valentin Roces-Díaz, Adrià Descals, Miriam Selwyn, Francisco Lloret and Jordi Martínez-Vilalta

A systematic literature review on the valuation of mountain cultural ecosystem services

Bobby Thapa, Kc Anup, Adam Daigneault, Jonathan Malacarne, John Daigle and Aaron Weiskittel

The tool and the viewer: Plurality of values and hydrological modeling in the Huasco river basin

Anahí Ocampo-Melgar, Iñigo Bidegain, Pablo Madrid, Matías Peredo, Moira Hough and Claudia Cerda

Collective payments for ecosystem services: A framework for examining the interplay between objectives and collective elements

Vinzenz Grahl, Claudia Sattler and Bettina Matzdorf

Trade-offs and compromises in multifunctional landscapes: simultaneously maintaining high levels of pollinator communities, pollination service, and profit? – A modelling study

Eyal Goldstein, Yann Clough and Kerstin Wiegand

Towards a holistic approach to natural capital accounting: The CAN − Complementary Accounting Network- for marine and coastal resources

R. Kerry Turner, Valentina Di Gennaro, Alice Bartolini and Silvia Ferrini

Corrigendum to “A review and conceptual framework for a new era of forest management planning: integrating hybrid digital twin systems toward sustainable forest ecosystems”

Emin Zeki Başkent, Andrej Bončina and José Guilherme Borges

Exploring the economic trade-offs of carbon farming practices: A systematic literature review

Vincenzo Maggio, Antonio Tulone, Vito Armando Ludicina, Sara Paliaga, Adriano Biondo and Antonino Galati