Ambio - 50th Anniversary Collection of Thematic Articles
One of the main activities for our 50th volume was to highlight some of our most influential papers over the years in a collection of anniversary articles on ten themes:
Ozone layer
Acidification
Environmental contaminants
Eutrophication
Agricultural land-use
Biodiversity conservation
Climate change impacts
Urbanization
Anthropocene
Solutions-oriented research
For each theme, an Ambio editor provided a background and historical context for the original articles in an Editorial; one (or more) of the authors behind the selected articles provided a personal reflection on the impact the article had from a professional and/or scientific viewpoint in a Behind the paper; and, finally, one or more peers reflected on the legacy of the articles today in a Perspective, i.e. how have these articles helped reframe policy targets or new standards, what is the current status of the research field, and what are the next challenges?
Enjoy Ambio’s anniversary articles and videos below:
Introducing Ambio's 50th Anniversary (this opens in a new tab) by Bo Söderström
Ambio 50 years - Environmental pressures (this opens in a new tab) (ozone, acidification, contaminants, eutrophication) by Michael Tedengren
Ambio 50 years - Solutions-oriented research (this opens in a new tab) by Erik Andersson
Ambio 50 years - Global change (this opens in a new tab) by Angela Wulff
Ambio 50 years - Land use change (this opens in a new tab) by Angelina Sanderson Bellamy
Ambio 50 years - Ambio and Springer Nature (this opens in a new tab)
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: OZONE LAYER:
January 2021 - Vol 50-1
Editorial: When science and politics come together: From depletion to recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Claudia Mohr
Behind the paper: The impact of the rise in atmospheric nitrous oxide on stratospheric ozone (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Rolf Müller
Perspective: Reflection on two Ambio papers by P. J. Crutzen on ozone in the upper atmosphere (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Ole John Nielsen & Merete Bilde
Perspective: Risks to the Stratospheric Ozone Shield In The Anthropocene (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Susan Solomon
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: ACIDIFICATION:
February 2021 - Vol 50-2
Editorial: Acidification of inland waters (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Lars J. Tranvik
Behind the paper: The discovery and early study of acidification of lakes in Sweden (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Brodde Almer
Behind the paper: Tusen: A thousand lakes in the Norwegian landscape (this opens in a new tab)
Author: David F. Brakke
Perspective: Ambio’s Legacy on monitoring, impact, and management of acid rain (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Gene Likens
Perspective: The legacy from the 50 years of acid rain research, forming present and future research and monitoring of ecosystem impact (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Björn Olav Rosseland
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANTS:
March 2021 - Vol 50-3
Editorial: What did we know and which questions did we ask with regard to environmental contaminants in the early 1970s? (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Arne Jernelöv
Behind the paper: Afterthoughts from an environmental pollution discovery: Interview with Sören Jensen (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Sören Jensen
Behind the paper: The unlikely fate of a term paper (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Frank Wania
Behind the paper: Ecosystem approaches to mercury and human health: A way towards the future (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Donna Mergler
Perspective: Reflections about Three Influential Ambio Articles Impacting Environmental Biogeochemistry Research and Knowledge (this opens in a new tab)
Author: John W. Farrington
Perspective: Revisiting Old Lessons from Classic Literature on Persistent Global Pollutants (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Jonathan Martin
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: EUTROPHICATION:
April 2021 - Vol 50-4
Editorial: Eutrophication and the disrupted nitrogen cycle (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Michael Tedengren
Behind the paper: Assessing human effects on the Baltic Sea ecosystem (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Ragnar Elmgren
Behind the paper: Reflections on 200 years of Nitrogen, 20 years later (this opens in a new tab)
Author: James N. Galloway
Behind the paper: Globalization of nitrogen deposition and ecosystem response: A 20-year perspective (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Sharon J. Hall
Behind the paper: A tribute to tributaries: River studies elucidate links between human activity and nutrient export across a broad range of watersheds (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Nina Caraco
Perspective: Eutrophication – early warning signals, ecosystem-level and societal responses, and ways forward (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Erik Bonsdorff
Perspective: Disruption of the global nitrogen cycle: a grand challenge for the twenty-first century (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Jerry Melillo
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION:
May 2021, Volume 50, issue 5
Editorial: How to conserve biological diversity: Perspectives from Ambio (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Jeffrey A. McNeely
Behind the paper: Reserves, resilience and dynamic landscapes 20 years later (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Jan Bengsston, Per Angelstam, Thomas Elmqvist, Urban Emanuelsson, Carl Folke, Margareta Ihse, Frederik Moberg & Magnus Nyström
Behind the paper: Indigenous knowledge: From local to global (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Madhav Gadgil, Fikret Berkes & Carl Folke
Perspective: People and Biodiversity in the 21st Century (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Jeffrey Sayer, Christopher Margules & Jeffrey A. McNeely
Perspective: What is Biodiversity Conservation? (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Stuart L. Pimm
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
June 2021, Volume 50, Issue 6
Editorial: At the frontier of climate change: Red alert from the European Alps, the Arctic and coral reefs (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Angela Wulff
Behind the paper: The rise of the Arctic: Intergenerational personal perspectives (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Terry V. Callaghan & Margareta Johansson
Behind the paper: Global warming triggers coral reef bleaching tipping point (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Thomas J.F. Goreau & Raymond L. Hayes
Behind the paper: Icy mountains in a warming world: Revisiting science from the end of the 1990s in the early 2020s (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Wilfried Haeberli & Martin Beniston
Perspective: Impact of climate change on sensitive marine and extreme terrestrial ecosystems: Recent progresses and future challenges (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Deliang Chen
Perspective: A reflection on four impactful Ambio papers: the biotic perspective (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Anne D. Bjorkman & Angela Wulff
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: AGRICULTURAL LAND-USE
July 2021, Volume 50, issue 7
Editorial: Seeds of change: Establishing frameworks for understanding global environmental changes (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Angelina Sanderson Bellamy
Behind the paper: Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in soil: The dark side of nature and the bright side of life (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Lijbert Brussaard
Behind the paper: Amounts, dynamics and sequestering of carbon in tropical and subtropical soils: A memory (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Freddy & Nachtergaele
Behind the paper: From land-use/land-cover to land system science (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: B.L. Turner II, Eric F. Lambin & Peter H. Verburg
Perspective: The re-imagining of a framework for agricultural land-use: A pathway for integrating agricultural practices into ecosystem services, planetary boundaries and sustainable development goals (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: John C. Moore
Perspective: The emergence of land systems as a cause and consequence of global change and as the nexus of sustainability transformations (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Ariane de Bremond
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: URBANIZATION
September 2021, Volume 50, issue 9
Editorial: Enlivening our cities: Towards urban sustainability and resilience (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Zahra Kalantari
Behind the paper: Cities and the Biosphere (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Carl Folke, Åsa Gren, Jonas Larsson & Robert Costanza
Behind the paper:
Ecosystems and urbanization: A colossal meeting of giant complexities (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Henrik Ernston
Behind the paper: “Reconnecting cities to the Biosphere: Stewardship of green infrastructure and urban ecosystem services”: where did it come from and what happened next? (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Erik Andersson
Perspective: Urban sustainability science: prospects for innovations through a system’s perspective, relational and transformations’ approaches (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Niki Frantzeskaki, Timon McPhearson & Nadja Kabisch
Perspective: Continuous integration in urban social-ecological systems science needs to allow spacing co-existence (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Dagmar Haase
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: ANTHROPOCENE
October 2021, Volume 50, issue 10
Editorial: Closing the gap between knowing and causing the Anthropocene (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Wiebren J. Boonstra
Behind the paper: Resilience: Now more than ever (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Carl Folke, Stephen R. Carpenter, Thomas Elmqvist, Lance Gunderson & Brian Walker
Behind the paper: Introducing the Anthropocene: The human epoch (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Will Steffen
Behind the paper: Coupled Human and Natural Systems: The evolution and applications of an integrated framework (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Jianguo Liu, Thomas Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter, William W. Taylor, Marina Alberti, Peter Deadman, Charles Redman, Alice Pell, Carl Folke, Zhiyun Ouyang & Jane Lubchenco
Perspective: Framing, deframing and reframing the Anthropocene (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Noel Castree
Perspective: Reflecting on the Anthropocene: The Call for Deeper Transformations (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Karen O'Brien
READ THE ARTICLES PUBLISHED FOR THE THEME: SOLUTIONS-ORIENTED RESEARCH
January 2022, Volume 51, issue 1
Editorial: The role of science in finding solutions to wicked, systemic problems (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Erik Andersson
Behind the paper: Nitrogen and the future of agriculture: 20 years on (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Kenneth G. Cassman & Achim Dobermann
Behind the paper: Planning of Africa’s land/water future: Hard or soft landing? (this opens in a new tab)
Author: Malin Falkenmark
Behind the paper: Aquaculture and ocean stewardship (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Carl Folke & Nils Kautsky
Perspective: Solutions-oriented research for sustainability: Turning knowledge into action (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Maria Tengö & Erik Andersson
Perspective: Structuring and advancing solution-oriented research for sustainability (this opens in a new tab)
Authors: Daniel J. Lang & Arnim Wiek