Abstract
The relevance of forests to sustain human well-being and the serious threats they face have led to a notable increase of research works on forest ecosystem services during the last few years. This paper analyses the worldwide research dynamics on forest ecosystem services in the period from 1998 to 2017. A bibliometric analysis of 4284 articles was conducted. The results showed that the number of published research articles has especially increased during the last five years. In total, 68.63% of the articles were published in this period. This research line experiences a growing trend superior to the general publishing trend on forest research. In spite of this increase, its relative significance within the forest research is still limited. The most productive subject areas corresponded to Environmental Science, Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Social Sciences Economic topics are understudied. The scientific production is published in a wide range of journals. The three first publishing countries are United States, China and the United Kingdom. The most productive authors are attached to diverse research centres and their contributions are relatively recent. A high level of international cooperation has been observed between countries, institutions and authors. The findings of this study are useful for researchers since they give them an overview of the worldwide research trends on forest ecosystem services.
Highlights
Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions to human well-being by ecosystems and these benefits mainly refer to provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services needed to maintain other services [1,2]
The forest ecosystem services (FES)/F column shows the annual number of FES articles divided by grown from 0.14% in 1998 to 3.71% in 2017
This paper shows the dynamics followed by articles which have implemented growth conditioned byframework the applied sample the is ecosystem service in the forestselection research. method
Summary
Ecosystem services are the direct and indirect contributions to human well-being by ecosystems and these benefits mainly refer to provisioning, regulating, cultural and supporting services needed to maintain other services [1,2]. Provisioning services refer to all economic activities derived from physical goods provided by an ecosystem like food, raw materials and drinking water. Regulating services refer to the indirect benefits provided by an ecosystem like climate regulation, prevention of soil erosion and air purification. Supporting services refer to the rest of functions that make the ecosystems possible to provide all above-mentioned benefits [3]. These diverse services are interrelated in many different ways, ranging from synergistic to tolerant, conflictive and mutually exclusionary ones. The concept of ecosystem services is multidisciplinary by nature and exhaustive analyses require collaboration between different disciplines, inherently combining the natural and social sciences [4]
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