Systematic knowledge of the development, trends, and limitations of wetland ecosystem services (WES) is extremely meaningful for the direction of WES studies and wetland management. A systematic literature review was conducted by collecting 1711 peer-reviewed articles through the Web of Science and ScienceDirect by searching the “topic” domain using the combined keywords “ecosystem service” OR “ecosystem services” and “wetland”. The results indicated that current studies focus on WES evaluation, driving factors, wetland management, and policy design, which accounted for 90.9% of the obtained articles. The driving factors are mainly multiple factors, land use change, policy and management, and climate change. Riverine wetlands, multiple wetland types, and lacustrine wetlands are the main wetland types in existing studies, and the evaluated WES types are mainly supporting and regulating services. The applied evaluation approaches mainly include the biophysical and qualitative methods, which accounted for 76.4% and 14.3% of the total studies, respectively. Two main limitations in WES studies are a lack of unified WES evaluation indicators and comprehensive WES studies. In the future, WES research should focus on generating unified WES evaluation indicators for comparison across different studies and up-scaling. Long-term program should be established to gather data for creating ecological production functions to determine the marginal influence of wetland land characteristics on the final WES to refine the management options. Stakeholders should also be involved in the process of designing payments for ecosystem services programs.

对湿地生态系统服务（WES）的发展，趋势和局限性的系统了解对于WES研究和湿地管理的方向极为重要。通过使用“生态系统服务”或“生态系统服务”和“湿地”的组合关键字搜索“主题”域，通过Web of Science和ScienceDirect收集了1711篇同行评审的文章，进行了系统的文献综述。结果表明，目前的研究集中在WES评估，驱动因素，湿地管理和政策设计方面，占获得论文的90.9％。驱动因素主要是多种因素，包括土地利用变化，政策和管理以及气候变化。河流湿地，多种湿地类型和湖滨湿地是现有研究中的主要湿地类型，评估的WES类型主要是支持和规范服务。应用的评估方法主要包括生物物理和定性方法，分别占总研究的76.4％和14.3％。WES研究的两个主要限制是缺乏统一的WES评估指标和全面的WES研究。将来，WES研究应着重于生成统一的WES评估指标，以便在不同研究之间进行比较并扩大规模。应建立长期计划以收集用于创建生态生产功能的数据，以确定湿地特征对最终WES的边际影响，以完善管理方案。利益相关者还应参与为生态系统服务计划设计付款的过程。