SELINA has launched a new topical article collection in the open-access peer-reviewed journal One Ecosystem. The collection is designed to bring together scientific results from the project that focus on innovative methods, practical case studies and policy-relevant insights. It will continue to grow over the course of the project and beyond, as outcomes from collaborative work across the consortium become ready for public dissemination.
The collection already features two important contributions. The first is a review paper that provides best practice check-lists to strengthen ecosystem service assessments in Europe. These check-lists are intended to support practitioners in improving the quality and policy impact of their work, while helping to ensure greater uptake of ecosystem service approaches.
The second contribution is a data paper introducing the development of the SELINA Super-Query. This systematic literature search covers ecosystem condition, ecosystem services and ecosystem accounting, and is accompanied by an open-access database containing over 108,000 potentially relevant literature items. Together, the paper and database offer a valuable foundation for research, assessment and policy-making.
By choosing One Ecosystem as the publishing platform, SELINA ensures that its scientific results are openly accessible, widely discoverable and recognised by the international community. One Ecosystem is specifically designed to support a diverse range of research outputs, including data papers, software descriptions, case studies, monitoring schemes, ecosystem inventories, ecosystem services mapping and ecosystem service models. All publications in the journal are indexed in major global literature databases, including Scopus and Web of Science, ensuring broad visibility and impact.
The SELINA collection in One Ecosystem provides an important channel for sharing project results with the scientific community, practitioners and decision-makers. With further publications planned, it will serve as a growing resource for advancing the understanding and application of ecosystem services and natural capital in Europe and beyond.