In Argentina ,agricultural expansion and intensification has stimulated the utilization of the ecosystem
services (ES) approach to understand the consequences of land-use and land-cover changes. However,
Argentina's increasing trends of environmental degradation and social conflict due to agriculture continue unabated. We qualitatively analyzed 24 published ES studies done in either the temperate Pampean
(context of consolidate dagriculture) or subtropical extra-Pampean regions (context of expanding agriculture), in order to identify country-level and context-specific research needs and gaps, and propose
ways to address them. We observed that ES studies in both contexts: (i) tended to focus much more on
the biophysical, supply-side of the ES cascade than on the assessment of cultural ES and benefits, (ii)
invested more effort in describing coarse ecological patterns/processes than in producinglocally-adapted
knowledge through stakeholder participation, and (iii) were poorly articulated with decision-making
processes regarding sustainable ecosystem management. Despitethis, some ES studies performed in the
context of expanding agriculture showed incipient efforts to recognize, disaggregate and involve stakeholders, and to understand ES values. To increase the applicability of ES knowledge indecision-
making, “strong” transdisciplinary approaches should be implemented so that changes in ES delivery and
values feedback on management decisions forreverting environmental degradation