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{"title":"Mapping emergent costs and benefits of ecosystem service flows in Senegal’s small-scale fishery supply chain","authors":"Charis Chalkiadakis ,&nbsp;John Virdin ,&nbsp;Menno-Jan Kraak ,&nbsp;Evangelia G. Drakou","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101767","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101767","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research aims to model and map flows of ecosystem contributions to society across distances and spatial scales in a marine social-ecological system (SES). We spatially assess Ecosystem Service (ES) flows from small-scale fisheries by considering environmental costs and benefits emerging across the fisheries supply chain, and by investigating the role and contributions of intermediaries from the point of supply up to reception of the final benefit. While the existing literature on fisheries SES has predominantly focused on either the supply or demand side, in limited cases researchers examine flows by considering their spatial attributes across different spatial scales. We address this gap by defining benefit flows within the fisheries SES through the development of an ES flow index, integrating socioeconomic and environmental system attributes. Also, geographical accessibility is embedded in the index to account for access to resources, i.e. the ability to benefit from things. ES flow is assessed through plural costs and benefits emerging across intermediate activities of the supply chain. Costs are assessed as carbon emissions from catching, processing, and transportation, while benefits are those accruing to beneficiaries through nutritional benefits to jobs generated. All data and the final index are developed in a spatially explicit manner which allows for visualizing the flow of ES to both adjacent and distant to the supplying ecosystem, beneficiaries. The maps reveal distinct patterns for coastal regions compared to the regions that receive benefits away from the coast, indicating a spatial variability with a dependence on the distance from the providing ecosystem. The results of the study have implications for understanding how access to marine natural resources can impact regional beneficiaries, while revealing potential ES supply-flow and flow-demand mismatches in the distribution of marine resources, particularly in areas with communities in need and limited infrastructure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101767"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144996125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A comprehensive framework for automated identification of cultural ecosystem services","authors":"Richard Kovárník,&nbsp;Jitka Janová,&nbsp;David Hampel","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101770","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101770","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Cultural ecosystem services (CES) represent intangible values, making them inherently challenging to analyze. In this study, we present a framework that combines web scraping, text mining, and statistical analysis to gain deeper insights into how people perceive valuable ecosystems and the benefits they derive from them. A total of 4,760 public reviews were collected from the Google Maps platform using dynamic web scraping techniques. Machine learning-based topic modelling was then applied to identify key themes related to CES in selected national parks and protected areas across the Czech Republic. Finally, we tested the hypothesis that the relative frequency of specific topics varies significantly between locations. The proposed approach proved effective in the automated evaluation of CES and in highlighting the distinctive features of the studied sites.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101770"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144988253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Benefits Knowledges Learning Framework: a tool for learning across diverse knowledge systems in ecosystem valuation","authors":"Kristin R. Hoelting ,&nbsp;Doreen E. Martinez ,&nbsp;Lucas S. Bair ,&nbsp;Rudy M. Schuster ,&nbsp;Michael C. Gavin","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101759","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101759","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainable and just environmental management depends on meaningful consideration of the plural values of nature, as they arise in association with diverse worldviews and understandings of well-being. To achieve value pluralism in decision-making, we must also attend to knowledge pluralism, in terms of recognizing the validity and decision relevance of a broader suite of knowledge forms that convey diverse understandings of well-being and benefit. In this article, we outline a social learning tool – the Benefits Knowledges Learning Framework – that supports expanded thinking about decision-relevant, actionable knowledge, and the associated spectrum of available opportunities to learn from these diverse knowledge forms across phases of decision-making. It does so through: 1) cultivation of reflexivity and mutual learning about the knowledge systems of diverse actors involved in the decision process; 2) identification of diverse benefits knowledge forms that are available to inform decision-making; and 3) identification of opportunities to learn from these knowledge forms. Diverse forms of benefits knowledge include both knowledge products (documentation) and knowledge practices (lived and embodied). The framework can be applied to retrospective case analysis to understand and learn from constraints and enabling factors in past decision processes. It can also be applied to assess on-going decision-making and identify current opportunities for improvement. The framework begins with a start-up phase that encourages those applying the framework to address any concerns raised by stakeholders and rightsholders and determine whether framework application is appropriate in a particular context.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101759"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144917706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reckoning with historical injustices: Relational values in ecosystem services and environmental justice in the Mapuche-forestry conflict in Chile","authors":"Sophie Johanna Lampert ,&nbsp;Anne Kathrine Kjær Bruun ,&nbsp;Rajiv Maher","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101758","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101758","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the longstanding conflict between the Mapuche people and the forestry industry in Chile through a dual framework of Environmental Justice (EJ) and historical analysis. By situating recognition, procedural, and distributive justice within the context of colonial legacies, we highlight how ahistorical EJ approaches fail to address socio-environmental trade-offs in settler colonial contexts. Our fieldwork, which included interviews and observations in Mapuche communities affected by forestry, reveals contrasting perceptions of ecosystem services (ES) among stakeholders. While forestry companies prioritize provisioning services like timber production, Mapuche communities emphasize relational values tied to native forests, such as spiritual fulfillment and cultural heritage preservation. These divergences underscore systemic recognition injustices and procedural exclusions that perpetuate distributive inequities. We argue that meaningful engagement with Indigenous knowledge and histories is crucial for fostering equitable ES governance. By integrating EJ perspectives into ES frameworks, our study contributes to the decolonization of ES research and offers insights into resolving socio-ecological conflicts in Indigenous territories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101758"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecosystem service tradeoff and synergy mechanisms in the Central Asian terminal lake basin based on Bayesian Networks","authors":"Jiaxin Li ,&nbsp;Wenwu Zhao ,&nbsp;Xiaofei Ma ,&nbsp;Geping Luo ,&nbsp;Paulo Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101768","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101768","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, the shrinkage of terminal lakes in Central Asia has triggered environmental degradation and disrupted the supply of critical ecosystem services (ES). Understanding the tradeoffs and synergies among ES in these basins is essential for promoting sustainable regional development and enhancing ecological resilience. This study quantified the spatiotemporal dynamics of five major ES: soil conservation, sand fixation, water yield, carbon storage, and habitat quality using process-based ecosystem models. A Bayesian Network model was constructed to disentangle the effects of natural and anthropogenic influences on ES and identify their dominant drivers. To further characterise ES interactions, we developed a directional tradeoff/synergy strength index that captures both the intensity and directionality of inter-ES relationships. The results revealed spatially heterogeneous tradeoff patterns, with certain ES pairs exhibiting strong conflicts despite sharing similar drivers. Scenario-based optimisation highlighted regional differences in ES priorities, for instance, balancing carbon storage and water yield in the Amu Darya Basin, and managing the interplay of sand fixation, water yield, and soil conservation in the Ili River Basin. These findings provide a decision-support basis for targeted ecosystem management in arid terminal lake regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101768"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144913159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The economic value of improving the ecological condition of the Saskatchewan River Delta, Canada","authors":"Elisabeta Lika ,&nbsp;Ken Belcher ,&nbsp;Tim Jardine ,&nbsp;Sabine Liebenehm ,&nbsp;Patrick Lloyd-Smith ,&nbsp;Graham Strickert","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101763","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101763","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>River deltas around the world have experienced ecological decline due to upstream development and human activities. However, assessing the monetized benefits of ecosystem restoration is challenging due to the less tangible nature of many values that people hold for these natural areas. This paper quantifies the non-use values for river delta ecological conservation using a stated preference survey. The empirical application is the Saskatchewan River Delta in Canada where we develop and administer a national survey to elicit people’s preferences for restoration scenarios with changing fish and wildlife population levels and changes in the extent of habitat in good ecological condition. We find that Canadians are willing to pay for river delta restoration improvements, and preferences for restoration options are heterogeneous across the population. Models with nonlinear attribute levels fit the choice data better than linear attribute specifications suggesting the presence of diminishing marginal willingness to pay as ecological improvements increase. The annual monetized benefits for Saskatchewan River Delta future scenarios are estimated to be $79 to $223 per household depending on the level of restoration efforts. This study contributes to the empirical evidence that the benefits of nature accrue to people that live far away from natural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101763"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144779847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mitigating typhoon damage with wetlands: estimating the typhoon protection value of intertidal and inland wetlands in China","authors":"Shufang Feng ,&nbsp;Ruiyan Peng ,&nbsp;Peihong Wang ,&nbsp;Benrong Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101761","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101761","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>For decades, China has been suffering from frequent typhoon strikes. To protect population and property in coastal areas from typhoon-induced losses, wetlands are of great importance. Wetlands mitigate the impact of typhoons by surge energy absorption and flood regulation. However, currently there are only a few comprehensive studies on the protection value of intertidal and inland wetlands against typhoons. In this study, we used two economic regression models to evaluate 92 typhoon cases that occurred in China from 2000 to 2020 and the economic losses they caused. The results indicate that both intertidal and inland wetlands can effectively reduce the economic losses. In addition, we compared the typhoon protection value of intertidal wetlands with that of inland ones. The results show that the average marginal values of intertidal and inland wetlands against typhoons are respectively CNY 23.652 million/km² and 1.261 million/km² (with median values of CNY 10.537 million/km² and 0.605 million/km², respectively). We also analyzed the typhoon protection value of wetlands at the city level. Although inland wetlands provide relatively lower value compared to intertidal wetlands, they still play an important role in mitigating the economic losses caused by typhoons and thus should not be overlooked. Wetland conservation is not only a cost-effective way to largely reduce typhoons damage, but also provides many other valuable ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101761"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144779848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing ecosystem services and their spillover effects to inform cost-benefit sharing and horizontal eco-compensation mechanisms in the Qilian Mountains, China","authors":"Haijiang Yang ,&nbsp;Xiaohua Gou ,&nbsp;Zhenlin Li ,&nbsp;Yuxin Wei ,&nbsp;Wenwei Shi ,&nbsp;Bing Xue ,&nbsp;Tek Maraseni","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101764","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101764","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Horizontal ecological compensation (HEC) offers many advantages over vertical ecological compensation by reducing government financial burdens, effectively addressing positive externalities and ecosystem service spillover effects, and fostering harmonious relations between upstream and downstream communities. However, a lack of reliable data remains a significant obstacle to its implementation. This study employs the InVEST model, the CASA model, the RWEQ model, and related statistical methods. Additionally, the Breaking Point Model and Field Strength Theory are used to assess eight key ecosystem services and their spillover effects at different spatial scales, with the aim of informing cost-benefit sharing and HEC mechanisms in and around the Qilian Mountains, China. Our results suggest that: (1) Soil conservation contributes the most to ecosystem services, accounting for 47.26%, followed by water retention (17.52%) and carbon sequestration (15.62%). (2) Forests (48.51%) and grasslands (39.22%) are the primary ecosystem types providing these services. (3) The ecosystem services exhibit significant internal coupling, peripheral coupling, and tele-coupling, creating spillovers at watershed, provincial, and even global scales. (4) In terms of the scope of the spillover effect, tourism and leisure lead, followed by sandstorm prevention, material production, water retention, soil conservation, flood regulation, carbon sequestration, and pollination services. From these data, we also constructed three HEC pathways: intra-provincial watersheds, inter-provincial HEC, and international HEC. Our findings are useful for developing a fair and well-functioning HEC mechanism that offers multiple environmental and social benefits, contributing to the realization of several UN Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) such as eliminating poverty (#1), zero hunger (#2), climate action (#13), and life on land (#15).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101764"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Governing high-integrity markets for ecosystem services","authors":"Mark S. Reed ,&nbsp;Julia M. McCarthy ,&nbsp;Eric A. Jensen ,&nbsp;Rosie Everett ,&nbsp;Hannah Rudman","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101760","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101760","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is growing global interest in the potential for ecosystem markets to facilitate climate and nature recovery. Yet, poorly designed and operated markets are prone to corporate “greenwashing” and negative consequences for nature and local communities. With the rapid scaling of ecosystem markets around the world, there is a need to systematically analyse ecosystem market governance principles, and identify the practical steps needed to implement these principles at national scales across multiple high-integrity ecosystem markets. The majority of principles published to date are designed to be applied at international scales or within single markets. However, national policy oversight is essential to ensure emerging ecosystem markets deliver natural capital outcomes and wider public benefits appropriate to the jurisdictions in which they operate.</div><div>This paper therefore analyses principles for the development and operation of high-integrity ecosystem markets, proposing how these could be operationalised in the UK, where governments are actively developing new governance regimes for rapidly proliferating voluntary markets and emission reduction or removal activities that occur within a company’s supply chain (“insetting”). The paper:<ul><li><span>1.</span><span><div>Provides the first comprehensive overview of compliance and voluntary carbon and other ecosystem markets operating in the UK in 2025, with a focus on new and emerging voluntary markets, alongside the first analysis of relevant ecosystem market actors in the UK.</div></span></li><li><span>2.</span><span><div>Conducts a comparative analysis of existing national and international principles, identifying 15 high-level principles for governance, measurement, reporting and verification, and delivering wider benefits of high-integrity ecosystem markets, that could be applied by relevant market actors to the range of ecosystem markets identified in the UK as well as to insetting activities; and.</div></span></li><li><span>3.</span><span><div>Proposes how these principles could be applied in an ecosystem markets governance hierarchy, showing policy, governance and market mechanisms and infrastructure that are being developed to implement the proposed principles in the UK, and discusses implications for international policy and markets.</div></span></li></ul>The principles focus on robust governance, transparent measurement and verification, and equitable environmental and social benefits, ensuring credible and lasting outcomes from ecosystem markets. Taken together, the proposed market principles and governance hierarchy could be used to ensure the development of high-integrity ecosystem markets across the UK and internationally, helping national governments to responsibly build and scale these markets, and market actors design codes, schemes and projects that achieve additional carbon, biodiversity, and community gains across multiple contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101760"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping ecosystem services to SDGs network: A toolkit to integrate ecosystem services into SDGs co-realization","authors":"Zihan Xu ,&nbsp;Yuqing Lin ,&nbsp;Huining Zheng ,&nbsp;Rixuan Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101765","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101765","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Ecosystem services (ESs) have a non-negligible contribution to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) realization. However, the complex trade-offs between the SDGs undermine the contribution. The contribution of ESs to the multiple SDGs co-realization needs to be further explored. Taking a typical ecologically fragile basin in the Loess Plateau as an example, this study combined the ESs supply and demand with the expert knowledge method to estimate the changes of SDG1,2,6,15 scores from 1990 to 2020. Network analysis was introduced to construct the SDGs network, integrating degree centrality and closeness centrality to identify SDGs of high importance in the network. The potential changes of SDGs networks in 2050 were simulated under different shared socioeconomic pathways and representative concentration pathways (SSPs-RCPs) scenarios. The results showed that the deficit risk of water yield and carbon sequestration increased. The four SDGs scores mainly showed a trend of decreasing and then increasing, with SDG6 showing the most drastic change. The synergies among changes in the four SDGs scores gradually strengthened in the northern basin. The proportion of sub-basins with SDG2,6 as the highest Node Importance increased from 18.75% and 0% to 26.67% and 40.00%, respectively. The role of SDG2,6 on the synergies among changes in SDGs scores strengthened. The four SDGs scores generally decreased under the different scenarios, with a particularly significant decrease in SDG15. The SSP1-RCP2.6 scenario had the least decrease in the four SDGs scores. The role of SDG15 on the synergies among changes in SDGs scores was strongest under most scenarios. The proportion of sub-basins with SDG15 as the highest Node Importance accounted for more than 58% under SSP1-RCP2.6 and SSP5-RCP8.5 scenarios. By integrating ESs supply and demand into SDGs network analysis, this study attempted to construct a toolkit for integrating ESs into SDGs co-realization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51312,"journal":{"name":"Ecosystem Services","volume":"75 ","pages":"Article 101765"},"PeriodicalIF":6.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144771951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}