Ecosystem Services

2012 - 2025

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Volume 47, issue C, 2021

Value and benefit distribution of pollination services provided by bats in the production of cactus fruits in central Mexico

Constance J. Tremlett, Kelvin S.-H. Peh, Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez and Marije Schaafsma

Maintaining biodiversity promotes the multifunctionality of social-ecological systems: holistic modelling of a mountain system

Zhun Mao, Julia Centanni, Franck Pommereau, Alexia Stokes and Cédric Gaucherel

Mapping of the ecosystem services flow from three protected areas in the far-eastern Himalayan Landscape: An impetus to regional cooperation

Bandana Shakya, Kabir Uddin, Shaoliang Yi, Laxmi Dutt Bhatta, Mahendra Singh Lodhi, Naing Zaw Htun and Yongping Yang

A mixed-methods analysis for improving farmer participation in agri-environmental payments for ecosystem services in Vermont, USA

Gemma Del Rossi, Jory S. Hecht and Asim Zia

The importance of community perceptions and capacity building in payment for ecosystems services: A case study at Phu Kao, Thailand

Adcharaporn Pagdee and Jintana Kawasaki

Mapping Europe’s institutional landscape for forest ecosystem service provision, innovations and governance

Eeva Primmer, Liisa Varumo, Torsten Krause, Francesco Orsi, Davide Geneletti, Sara Brogaard, Ewert Aukes, Marco Ciolli, Carol Grossmann, Mónica Hernández-Morcillo, Jutta Kister, Tatiana Kluvánková, Lasse Loft, Carolin Maier, Claas Meyer, Christian Schleyer, Martin Spacek and Carsten Mann

Modeling the ecosystem services of native vegetation management practices at solar energy facilities in the Midwestern United States

Leroy J. Walston, Yudi Li, Heidi M. Hartmann, Jordan Macknick, Aaron Hanson, Chris Nootenboom, Eric Lonsdorf and Jessica Hellmann

How can National Forest Funds catalyse the provision of ecosystem services? Lessons learned from Costa Rica, Vietnam, and Morocco

Ludwig Liagre, Davide Pettenella, Alex Pra, Felipe Carazo Ortiz, Alberto Garcia Arguedas and Cuong Nguyen Chien

A multi-pressure analysis of ecosystem services for conservation planning in the Alps

Lukas Egarter Vigl, Thomas Marsoner, Uta Schirpke, Simon Tscholl, Sebastian Candiago and Daniel Depellegrin

Impacts of human appropriation of net primary production on ecosystem regulating services in Tibet

Yanjie Zhang, Ying Pan, Meng Li, Zhipeng Wang, Junxi Wu, Xianzhou Zhang and Yanan Cao

Comparing cost-effectiveness of paddy fields and seawalls for coastal protection to reduce economic damage of typhoons in China

Ruiying Geng, Xin Liu, Xin Lv, Zhiqiang Gao and Ning Xu

Urban natural resource accounting based on the system of environmental economic accounting in Northwest China: A case study of Xi’an

Yi Yang, Yuwei Jia, Sun Ling and Congxu Yao

Simulating PM2.5 removal in an urban ecosystem based on the social-ecological model framework

Xiangyu Luo, Peng Jiang, Jingyi Yang, Jing Jin and Jun Yang

Economic appraisal of ecosystem services and restoration scenarios in a tropical coastal Ramsar wetland in India

Michael Sinclair, M.K. Vishnu Sagar, Camilla Knudsen, Joseph Sabu and Andrea Ghermandi

Polarised views of urban biodiversity and the role of socio-cultural valuation: Lessons from Cape Town

Sanna Stålhammar

Exploring the rise of expenditure reviews as a tool for more effective biodiversity conservation and the protection of ecosystem services

Morrison Rachel, Bullock Craig and Lynn Deirdre

Socio-economic outcomes of ecological infrastructure investments

Laura Vang Rasmussen, Niels Fold, Rasmus Skov Olesen and Sheona Shackleton

Volume 46, issue C, 2020

Valuation of coral reefs in Japan: Willingness to pay for conservation and the effect of information

Kohei Imamura, Kohei Takenaka Takano, Naoki H. Kumagai, Yumi Yoshida, Hiroya Yamano, Masahiko Fujii, Tohru Nakashizuka and Shunsuke Managi

Accounting for land in the United States: Integrating physical land cover, land use, and monetary valuation

Scott A. Wentland, Zachary H. Ancona, Kenneth J. Bagstad, James Boyd, Julie L. Hass, Marina Gindelsky and Jeremy Moulton

Building resilient socio-ecological systems in Japan: Satoyama examples from Shiga Prefecture

Katsue Fukamachi

Incorporating insurance value into ecosystem services assessments: Mitigation of ecosystem users’ welfare uncertainty through biological control

Yoav Peled, Shiri Zemah-Shamir, Alvaro Israel, Mordechai Shechter, Eyal Ofir and Gideon Gal

Rapid urbanisation in Singapore causes a shift from local provisioning and regulating to cultural ecosystem services use

D.R. Richards, A. Law, C.S.Y. Tan, S.F.E.A. Shaikh, L. Roman Carrasco, W. Jaung and R.R.Y. Oh

A sustainability scoreboard for crop provision in Europe

Silvia Cerilli, Alessandra La Notte, Domenico Pisani, Sara Vallecillo and Francesco Nicola Tubiello

Environmental pressure of the European agricultural system: Anticipating the biophysical consequences of internalization

Ansel Renner, Juan José Cadillo-Benalcazar, Lorenzo Benini and Mario Giampietro

Testing the ecosystem service cascade framework for Atlantic salmon

Thomas A. Worthington, Ian Worthington, Ian P. Vaughan, Steve J. Ormerod and Isabelle Durance

The natural capital indicator framework (NCIF) for improved national natural capital reporting

A. Fairbrass, G. Mace, P. Ekins and B. Milligan

Distinguishing the impacts of land use and climate change on ecosystem services in a karst landscape in China

Jian Peng, Lu Tian, Zimo Zhang, Yan Zhao, Sophie M. Green, Timothy A. Quine, Hongyan Liu and Jeroen Meersmans

Disruption of traditional land use regimes causes an economic loss of provisioning services in high-mountain grasslands

María Durán, Rosa M. Canals, José L. Sáez, Vicente Ferrer and Fernando Lera-López

Ecosystem disservices matter when valuing ecosystem benefits from small-scale arable agriculture

S. Herd-Hoare and C.M. Shackleton

Global socio-economic impacts of changes in natural capital and ecosystem services: State of play and new modeling approaches

Onil Banerjee, Neville Crossman, Renato Vargas, Luke Brander, Peter Verburg, Martín Cicowiez, Jennifer Hauck and Emily McKenzie

A practice-oriented approach to foster private landowner participation in ecosystem service conservation and restoration at a landscape scale

Sara A. Mason, Lydia P. Olander, Robert K. Grala, Christopher S. Galik and Jason S. Gordon

Multi-scale evolution of ecosystem services’ supply in Sierra Nevada (Spain): An assessment over the last half-century

R. Moreno-Llorca, A.S. Vaz, J. Herrero, A. Millares, F.J. Bonet-García and D. Alcaraz-Segura

The value of coastal wetlands for storm protection in Australia

Obadiah J Mulder, Kenneth P Mulder, Ida Kubiszewski, Sharolyn J Anderson, Robert Costanza and Paul Sutton

Does river restoration increase ecosystem services?

Nina N. Kaiser, Christian K. Feld and Stefan Stoll

Biophysical and economic assessment of four ecosystem services for natural capital accounting in Italy

A. Capriolo, R.G. Boschetto, R.A. Mascolo, S. Balbi and F. Villa

Human perceptions of cultural ecosystem services of semi-natural grasslands: The influence of plant communities

Agnieszka Nowak-Olejnik, Ewelina Mocior, Joanna Hibner and Natalia Tokarczyk

Certification and labeling for conservation of ecosystem services in the Pampa Biome: Case study of the Aliança do Pastizal scheme

Alexandre Altmann and Airton Guilherme Berger Filho

Cultural ecosystem services in mountain regions: Conceptualising conflicts among users and limitations of use

Uta Schirpke, Rocco Scolozzi, Graeme Dean, Andreas Haller, Hieronymus Jäger, Jutta Kister, Barbara Kovács, Fausto O. Sarmiento, Birgit Sattler and Christian Schleyer

Use of structural equation modeling to explore influences on perceptions of ecosystem services and disservices attributed to birds in Singapore

Rachel A.T. Leong, Tze Kwan Fung, Uma Sachidhanandam, Zuzana Drillet, Peter J. Edwards and Daniel R. Richards

Promotion of afforestation in New Zealand’s marginal agricultural lands through payments for environmental services

Thales A.P. West, Juan J. Monge, Les J. Dowling, Steve J. Wakelin and Holly K. Gibbs

Global assessment of mountain ecosystem services using earth observation data

Adrienne Grêt-Regamey and Bettina Weibel

A systematic review of ecosystem services of Islas Marietas National Park, Mexico, an insular marine protected area

Alfonso Langle-Flores and Sandra Quijas

On the economic valuation of cultural ecosystem services: A tale of myths, vine and wine

Laura Onofri and Vasco Boatto

Finance for nature: A global estimate of public biodiversity investments

Andrew Seidl, Kelvin Mulungu, Marco Arlaud, Onno van den Heuvel and Massimiliano Riva

Ecosystem services and sustainable development: Perspectives f1 rom the food-energy-water Nexus

Mei-Hua Yuan and Shang-Lien Lo

Enhancing ecological value through sustainable food supply of grasslands in the Three-River-Source National Park, Tibet Plateau, China

Hui Yu, Genxu Wang, Yan Yang, Zhuoying Bai, Bintao Liu, Tongzuo Zhang, Youxue Xu and Yaqiong Lu

A multiple importance–satisfaction analysis framework for the sustainable management of protected areas: Integrating ecosystem services and basic needs

Junze Zhang, Nan Yin, Shuai Wang, Jianping Yu, Wenwu Zhao and Bojie Fu

Do ecosystem service frameworks represent people’s values?

Phoebe R. Maund, Katherine N. Irvine, Martin Dallimer, Robert Fish, Gail E. Austen and Zoe G. Davies

Volume 45, issue C, 2020

Adapting double-entry bookkeeping to renewable natural capital: An application to corporate net biodiversity impact accounting and disclosure

Joël Houdet, Helen Ding, Fabien Quétier, Prue Addison and Pravir Deshmukh

A network perspective for mapping freshwater service flows at the watershed scale

Zhuangzhuang Wang, Liwei Zhang, Xupu Li, Yingjie Li, Veronica F. Frans and Junping Yan

The role of reducing food waste for resilient food systems

Bojana Bajželj, Thomas E. Quested, Elin Röös and Richard P.J. Swannell

Balancing services from built and natural assets via river basin trade-off analysis

A.P. Hurford, M.P. McCartney, J.J. Harou, J. Dalton, D.M. Smith and E. Odada

Can’t see the (mangrove) forest for the trees: Trends in the legal and policy recognition of mangrove and coastal wetland ecosystem services in Australia

Justine Bell-James, Tessa Boardman and Rose Foster

Long-term impacts of increased timber harvests on ecosystem services and biodiversity: A scenario study based on national forest inventory data

Clemens Blattert, Renato Lemm, Esther Thürig, Golo Stadelmann, Urs-Beat Brändli and Christian Temperli

Assessing spatial equity in access to service-provisioning hotspots in data-scarce tropical forests regions under external pressure

Sara O.I. Ramirez-Gomez, Frank van Laerhoven, René Boot, Frank Biermann and Pita A. Verweij

Resident and stakeholder perceptions of ecosystem services associated with agricultural landscapes in New Hampshire

Jennifer A. Wilhelm, Richard G. Smith, Maria Christina Jolejole-Foreman and Stephanie Hurley

Cropland expansion outweighs the monetary effect of declining natural vegetation on ecosystem services in sub-Saharan Africa

Ayele Almaw Fenta, Atsushi Tsunekawa, Nigussie Haregeweyn, Mitsuru Tsubo, Hiroshi Yasuda, Katsuyuki Shimizu, Takayuki Kawai, Kindiye Ebabu, Mulatu Liyew Berihun, Dagnenet Sultan, Ashebir Sewale Belay and Jian Sun

Interactions between outdoor recreation and iconic terrestrial vertebrates in two French alpine national parks

Sandra Lavorel, Pierre-Louis Rey, Karl Grigulis, Mégane Zawada and Coline Byczek

Matches and mismatches between the supply of and demand for cultural ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing watersheds: A case study in the Guanting Reservoir basin, China

Shiting Meng, Qingxu Huang, Ling Zhang, Chunyang He, Luis Inostroza, Yansong Bai and Dan Yin

Participatory selection of soil quality indicators for monitoring the impacts of regenerative agriculture on ecosystem services

Raquel Luján Soto, Mamen Cuéllar Padilla and Joris de Vente

Land use intensification rather than land cover change affects regulating services in the mountainous Adige river basin (Italy)

Mattias Gaglio, Vassilis Aschonitis, Giuseppe Castaldelli and Elisa Anna Fano

Participation in payments for ecosystem services programs in the Global South: A systematic review

Kelly W. Jones, Kathryn Powlen, Ryan Roberts and Xoco Shinbrot

The 18 benefits of using ecosystem services classification systems

John Finisdore, Charles Rhodes, Roy Haines-Young, Simone Maynard, Jeffrey Wielgus, Anthony Dvarskas, Joel Houdet, Fabien Quétier, Karl A. Lamothe, Helen Ding, François Soulard, George Van Houtven and Petrina Rowcroft

Critical warning! Preventing the multidimensional apocalypse on planet Earth

Jacques Prieur

Grassland biomass balance in the European Alps: current and future ecosystem service perspectives

Hieronymus Jäger, Giovanni Peratoner, Ulrike Tappeiner and Erich Tasser

China’s PES-like horizontal eco-compensation program: Combining market-oriented mechanisms and government interventions

Jichuan Sheng, Wenge Qiu and Xiao Han

Valuing nature-based recreation using a crowdsourced travel cost method: A comparison to onsite survey data and value transfer

Michael Sinclair, Marius Mayer, Manuel Woltering and Andrea Ghermandi

Divergent socioeconomic-ecological outcomes of China’s conversion of cropland to forest program in the subtropical mountainous area and the semi-arid Loess Plateau

Qi Zhang, Ying Wang, Shiqi Tao, Richard E. Bilsborrow, Tong Qiu, Chong Liu, Srikanta Sannigrahi, Qirui Li and Conghe Song

A systematic review of cultural ecosystem services and human wellbeing

Aleksandra Kosanic and Jan Petzold

Connection as Country: Relational values of billabongs in Indigenous northern Australia

Shaina Russell and Emilie Ens

Marine conservation may not deliver ecosystem services and benefits to all: Insights from Chilean Patagonia

M.j Brain, L. Nahuelhual, S. Gelcich and F. Bozzeda

Ecosystem services from mountain forests: Local communities’ views in Kibira National Park, Burundi

Gaëlle Ndayizeye, Gerard Imani, Jacques Nkengurutse, Rosette Irampagarikiye, Noël Ndihokubwayo, Ferdinand Niyongabo and Aida Cuni-Sanchez

A social-ecological systems approach for the assessment of ecosystem services from beef production in the Canadian prairie

Sarah J. Pogue, Roland Kröbel, H. Henry Janzen, Aklilu W. Alemu, Karen A. Beauchemin, Shannan Little, Majid Iravani, Danielle Maia de Souza and Tim A. McAllister

Effects of mammal defaunation on natural ecosystem services and human well being throughout the entire Neotropical realm

Juliano André Bogoni, Carlos A. Peres and Katia M.P.M.B. Ferraz

Future trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services in Mediterranean forests under global change scenarios

Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Aitor Ameztegui, Miquel De Cáceres, Sergio de-Miguel, François Lefèvre, Lluís Brotons and Lluís Coll

The practice of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in the Tropical Andes: Evidence from program administrators

Jonathan Bauchet, Nigel Asquith, Zhao Ma, Claudia Radel, Ricardo Godoy, Laura Zanotti, Diana Steele, Benjamin Gramig and Andrea Estrella Chong

Using graph theory and social media data to assess cultural ecosystem services in coastal areas: Method development and application

A. Ruiz-Frau, A. Ospina-Alvarez, S. Villasante, P. Pita, I. Maya-Jariego and S. de Juan

Ecosystem services and ecosystem degradation: Environmentalist’s expectation?

Luisa E. Delgado and Víctor H. Marín

Impacts of alternative land-use policies on water ecosystem services in the Río Grande de Comitán-Lagos de Montebello watershed, Mexico

Daniela Ávila-García, Jordi Morató, Ana I. Pérez-Maussán, Patricia Santillán-Carvantes, Jannice Alvarado and Francisco A. Comín

Fostering resilient agro-food futures through a social-ecological systems framework: Public–private partnerships for delivering ecosystem services in Europe

Janet Dwyer, Chris Short, Marielle Berriet-solliec, Christophe Déprés, Francois-Gael Lataste, Kaley Hart and Jaroslav Prazan

Evaluating ecosystem service trade-offs along a land-use intensification gradient in central Veracruz, Mexico

Z. Carter Berry, Kelly W. Jones, Leon Rodrigo Gomez Aguilar, Russell G. Congalton, Friso Holwerda, Randall Kolka, Nathaniel Looker, Sergio Miguel Lopez Ramirez, Robert Manson, Alex Mayer, Lyssette Muñoz-Villers, Perla Ortiz Colin, Humberto Romero-Uribe, Leonardo Saenz, Juan Jose Von Thaden, Mariana Quetzalli Vizcaíno Bravo, Guadalupe Williams-Linera and Heidi Asbjornsen

Integrating physical and economic data into experimental water accounts for the United States: Lessons and opportunities

Kenneth J. Bagstad, Zachary H. Ancona, Julie Hass, Pierre D. Glynn, Scott Wentland, Michael Vardon and John Fay

The future(s) of digital agriculture and sustainable food systems: An analysis of high-level policy documents

Alana Lajoie-O'Malley, Kelly Bronson, Simone van der Burg and Laurens Klerkx

Contested governance of drinking water provisioning services in Nepal’s transboundary river basins

Kiran Kumari Bhattarai, Laxmi Prasad Pant and John FitzGibbon

Ecosystem services of high-altitude Afromontane palustrine wetlands in Lesotho

Peter Chatanga, Donovan C. Kotze, Tom W. Okello and Erwin J.J. Sieben

Integrating ecosystem services within spatial biodiversity conservation prioritization in the Alps

Cindy Ramel, Pierre-Louis Rey, Rui Fernandes, Claire Vincent, Ana R. Cardoso, Olivier Broennimann, Loïc Pellissier, Jean-Nicolas Pradervand, Sylvain Ursenbacher, Benedikt R. Schmidt and Antoine Guisan

Evaluating social perceptions of ecosystem services, biodiversity, and land management: Trade-offs, synergies and implications for landscape planning and management

Azadeh Karimi, Hossein Yazdandad and Nora Fagerholm

A visualization platform to analyze contextual links between natural capital and ecosystem services

G.N. Linney, P.A. Henrys, G.A. Blackburn, L.C. Maskell and P.A. Harrison

Climate change disproportionately affects visual quality of cultural ecosystem services in a mountain region

Nicole C. Inglis and Jelena Vukomanovic

Social-Network Analysis of local governance models for China's eco-compensation program

Cheng Chen, Bettina Matzdorf, Lin Zhen and Barbara Schröter