ReviewPloS one2019
Nature's contributions to people in mountains: A review.
Review in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Pooled it
- Widespread thermophilization but weak link to climate warming in Europe's summit plant communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- What makes a mountain?Ambio · 2026Article
- Contrasting patterns of alpine biodiversity across mountains and taxa worldwide.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Managing ecosystem service deficits through ecological-social prioritization.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The generations of cultural ecosystem services research.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2025Article
- Ethnobotanical Inventory of Plants Used by Mountainous Rural Communities in NW Portugal.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Multispectral analysis-ready satellite data for three East African mountain ecosystems.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Degeneration of foundation cushion species induced by ecological constraints can cause massive changes in alpine plant communities.Science China. Life sciences · 2024Article
- Plant trait and vegetation data along a 1314 m elevation gradient with fire history in Puna grasslands, Perú.Scientific data · 2024Article
- A detailed land use/land cover map for the European Alps macro region.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Distinct microbial communities across a climatically versatile summit in the Lesotho highlands.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Research on land-use evolution and ecosystem services value response in mountainous counties based on the SD-PLUS model.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
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- Think globally, measure locally: The MIREN standardized protocol for monitoring plant species distributions along elevation gradients.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- People's attitudes towards the agrifood system influence the value of ecosystem services of mountain agroecosystems.PloS one · 2022Article
- South American Camelids: their values and contributions to people.Sustainability science · 2022Article
- Human populations in the world's mountains: Spatio-temporal patterns and potential controls.PloS one · 2022Article
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Abstract
Mountains play a key role in the provision of nature's contributions to people (NCP) worldwide that support societies' quality of life. Simultaneously, mountains are threatened by multiple drivers of change. Due to the complex interlinkages between biodiversity, quality of life and drivers of change, research on NCP in mountains requires interdisciplinary approaches. In this study, we used the conceptual framework of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the notion of NCP to determine to what extent previous research on ecosystem services in mountains has explored the different components of the IPBES conceptual framework. We conducted a systematic review of articles on ecosystem services in mountains published up to 2016 using the Web of Science and Scopus databases. Descriptive statistical and network analyses were conducted to explore the level of research on the components of the IPBES framework and their interactions. Our results show that research has gradually become more interdisciplinary by studying higher number of NCP, dimensions of quality of life, and indirect drivers of change. Yet, research focusing on biodiversity, regulating NCP and direct drivers has decreased over time. Furthermore, despite the fact that research on NCP in mountains becoming more policy-oriented over time, mainly in relation to payments for ecosystem services, institutional responses remained underexplored in the reviewed studies. Finally, we discuss the relevant knowledge gaps that should be addressed in future research in order to contribute to IPBES.
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