Progress in regulating ecosystem services research: an implication for the Karst World Heritage sites

Abstract The purpose of this article is to review the progress in regulating ecosystem services research to provide guidance for karst World Natural Heritage sites (WNHSs). In this work, 176 publications in the field were collected from academic literature databases. This systematic review work analyzed existed knowledge and key scientific issues to be solved using the Search, Appraisal, Synthesis, and Analysis (SALSA) framework, and proposed the implications for karst WNHSs.