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| Category | Text Publication |
| Reference Category | Journals |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0204749 |
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| Title (Primary) | Where communities intermingle, diversity grows – The evolution of topics in ecosystem service research |
| Author | Droste, N.; D’Amato, D.; Goddard, J.J. |
| Source Titel | PLOS ONE |
| Year | 2018 |
| Department | OEKON |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Page From | e0204749 |
| Language | englisch |
| Supplements | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s001 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s002 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s003 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s004 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s005 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s006 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0204749.s007 |
| Abstract | We analyze how the content of ecosystem service research has evolved since the early 1990s. Conducting a computational bibliometric content analysis we process a corpus of 14,118 peer-reviewed scientific article abstracts on ecosystem services (ES) from Web of Science records. To provide a comprehensive content analysis of ES research literature, we employ a latent Dirichlet allocation algorithm. For three different time periods (1990–2000, 2001–2010, 2011–2016), we derive nine main ES topics arising from content analysis and elaborate on how they are related over time. The results show that natural science-based ES research analyzes oceanic, freshwater, agricultural, forest, and soil ecosystems. Pollination and land cover emerge as traceable standalone topics around 2001. Social science ES literature demonstrates a reflexive and critical lens on the role of ES research and includes critiques of market-oriented perspectives. The area where social and natural science converge most is about land use systems such as agriculture. Overall, we provide evidence of the strong natural science foundation, the highly interdisciplinary nature of ES research, and a shift in social ES research towards integrated assessments and governance approaches. Furthermore, we discuss potential reasons for observable topic developments. |
| Persistent UFZ Identifier | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=20925 |
| Droste, N., D’Amato, D., Goddard, J.J. (2018): Where communities intermingle, diversity grows – The evolution of topics in ecosystem service research PLOS One 13 (9), e0204749 10.1371/journal.pone.0204749 |
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