Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes	130
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First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes	93
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions	88
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks	83
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs	80
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade	76
Editorial Board	70
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies	66
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles	65
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models	63
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians	62
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests	62
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas	62
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people	61
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation	57
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies	55
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night	55
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?	54
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands	54
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats	54
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway	53
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	51
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]	50

Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity	50
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe	50
Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches	48
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages	48
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population	47
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps	47
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning	46
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data	46
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition	45
The application of reflexivity for conservation science	43
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna	42
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	41
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity	41
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices	41
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'	40
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density	39
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion	39
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area	39
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert	38
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)	37
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa	37
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes	37
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion	37
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland	37
Editorial Board	37
Corrigendum to “Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits” [Biol. Conserv. 306 (2025) 111155]	37
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains	37
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent	37
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia	36
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses	36
Overlooked jewels: Existing habitat patches complement sown flower strips to conserve pollinators	36
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts	36
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation	36
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes	35
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia	35
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?	34
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries	34
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases	34
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists	34
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality	34
Editorial Board	33
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?	33
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]	33
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	33
Editorial Board	32
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s	32
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]	32
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback	32
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew	32
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]	32

Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk	32
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation	31
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic	31
Proportional sampling strategy often captures more genetic diversity when population sizes vary	31
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway	31
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review	31
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 110559	31
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon	31
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections	30
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology	30
A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies	30
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible	30
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity	30
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island	29
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion	29
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence	29
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation	29
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?	29
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran	29
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management	29
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	29
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	28
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers	28
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits	28
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands	28
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent	28
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization	28
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration	28
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities	28
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison	27
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable	27
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework	27
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations	27
Editorial Board	26
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens	26
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx	26
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss	26
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Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people	26
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade	26
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species	25
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve	25
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure	25
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline	25
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats	25
Editorial Board	25
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective	24
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks	24
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages	24
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being	24
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings	24
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees	24
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years	24
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?	24
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions	24
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world	24
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas	24
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world	23
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators	23
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models	23
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments	23
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests	23
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves	23
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium	23
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)	23
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers	23
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy	23
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris	23
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina	23
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”	23
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management	23
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement	23
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts	23
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure	22
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?	22
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems	22
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management	22
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators	22
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring	22
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers	22

A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation	22
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species	22
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards	22
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”	22
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique	22
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies	22
Corrigendum to “Between Hype and Hope: De-extinction is a tool, not a panacea for the biodiversity crisis” [Biol. Conserv. volume 309 (2025) 111307]	21
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses	21
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species	21
Growing grasses in unprofitable areas of US Midwest croplands could increase species richness	21
Spatial ecology of recolonized elk in agricultural landscapes of the Northern Great Plains	21
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management	21
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond	21
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe	21
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal	21
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change	21
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming	20
Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring	20
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America	20
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges	20
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species	20
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards	20
Tracking juveniles confirms fisheries-bycatch hotspot for an endangered albatross	20
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species	20
Symbols, wolves and conflicts	20
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front	20
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries	20
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models	20
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland	20
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation	20
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status	20
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””	19
Corrigendum to “Effectiveness and design of marine protected areas for migratory species of conservation concern: A case study of post-nesting hawksbill turtles in Brazil” [Biol. Conserv. 261 (2021) 1	19
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada	19
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible	19
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines	19
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine	19
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean	19
Book review	19
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery	19
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold	19
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species	19
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches	18
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data	18
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world	18
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds	18
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited	18
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community	18
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle	18
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications	18
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?	18
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions	18
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival	18
High bird mortality due to power lines invokes urgent environmental mitigation in a tropical desert	18
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong	18
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia	18
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda	17
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics	17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?	17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?	17
Exploring the potential of habitat banking in preserving freshwater biodiversity and imperiled species	17
The transformative potential of local stakeholder engagement in the reintroduction of a contested species	17
Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions	17
Conservation efforts fail to halt the decline of the regionally endangered Natterjack toad (Epidalea calamita) in Ireland	17
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance	17
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes	17
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism	17
Dynamics of the Czech flora over the last 60 years: Winners, losers and causes of changes	17
Synthesis of natural history collections data reveals patterns of US freshwater mussel diversity and decline	17
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Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration dominated vegetation dynamics during the 1980s-2010s in Yunnan, China	17
Do apex predators need to regulate prey populations to be a right conservation target?	17
Short-term gain, long-term loss: How a widely-used conservation tool could further threaten sea turtles	17
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices	17
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology	17
Assessing the drivers of illegal resource use to improve wildlife conservation interventions	17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds	17
When a pest-control species becomes a pest: A shift in the foraging habitat of cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and the threat to grazed natural ecosystems	17
Editorial Board	17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas	17
Range expansion and reconnection of historical populations in the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in France: Insights from heterogeneous data and integrated species distribution modelling	16
Enhancing coral bleaching predictive tools through integrating sensitivity to heat exposure	16
Mitigation and conservation plant translocations: Do perspectives of practice, funding and success vary between sectors?	16
Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator	16
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates	16
Indirect impacts of commercial gold mining on adjacent ecosystems	16
Editorial Board	16
What Science in the tropics should not be about	16
Protecting prey by deceiving predators: A field experiment testing chemical camouflage and conditioned food aversion	16
Improving restoration outcomes of boreal Sphagnum-dominated peatlands after peat-extraction: The key role of phosphorus fertilization	16
The use and abuse of ecosystem service concepts and terms	16
Corrigendum to “Thinking coexistence in human-dominated landscapes with the lens of multi-species assemblages: Farmers, brown bears and other wild species in the Pyrenees” [Biol. Conserv. volume 302 (	16
Flyways to hell? An empirical assessment of Palearctic migratory waterbird harvest practices in key wetlands of Sahel-sub-Saharan Africa	16
Commodity crops in biodiversity-rich production landscapes: Friends or foes? The example of cotton in the Mid Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe	16
Tropical agricultural wooded land uses support high site use of forest birds	16