Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved	307
COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a “Global Human Confinement Experiment” to investigate biodiversity conservation	177
The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country	173
Genetic rescue: A critique of the evidence supports maximizing genetic diversity rather than minimizing the introduction of putatively harmful genetic variation	137
Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance	135
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network	134
A global parasite conservation plan	119
The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental protection in Brazil	117
Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment	101
Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival	90
Connectivity metrics for conservation planning and monitoring	86
Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life	86
A global assessment of amphibian and reptile responses to land-use changes	78
Guidelines for communicating about bats to prevent persecution in the time of COVID-19	75
Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency	74
Sewage pollution, declining ecosystem health, and cross-sector collaboration	73
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots	72
Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient	70
Emerging diseases, livestock expansion and biodiversity loss are positively related at global scale	69
Cryobiotechnologies: Tools for expanding long-term ex situ conservation to all plant species	67
Power of the people: A review of citizen science programs for conservation	66
Poor availability of context-specific evidence hampers decision-making in conservation	64
Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review	59
How does the beach ecosystem change without tourists during COVID-19 lockdown?	58
COVID-19 pandemic impacts on conservation research, management, and public engagement in US national parks	58

Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey	58
Conservation implications of COVID19: Effects via tourism and extractive industries	57
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees	57
Global trends in urban wildlife ecology and conservation	56
Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	55
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species	54
No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks	54
Ecological and economic effects of COVID-19 in marine fisheries from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea	54
Wildlife-vehicle collisions - Influencing factors, data collection and research methods	54
Navigating coasts of concrete: Pervasive use of artificial habitats by shorebirds in the Asia-Pacific	53
The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics	51
People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon	50
A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity	49
Mapping biodiversity conservation priorities for protected areas: A case study in Xishuangbanna Tropical Area, China	49
COVID-19 lockdown reveals tourists as seabird guardians	48
Capitalizing on opportunistic citizen science data to monitor urban biodiversity: A multi-taxa framework	48
Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats	47
A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome	47
Status and priority conservation actions for Australian frog species	47
iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers	47
Overprediction of species distribution models in conservation planning: A still neglected issue with strong effects	46
The scale of biodiversity impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia	46
Divergent farmer and scientist perceptions of agricultural biodiversity, ecosystem services and decision-making	45
Monitoring the world's bird populations with community science data	43
Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia	43
Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions	43
The conflict between scavenging birds and farmers: Field observations do not support people’s perceptions	42
Does public fear that bats spread COVID-19 jeopardize bat conservation?	42
Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	42
Assessing fatality minimization for hoary bats amid continued wind energy development	41
Potentially negative ecological consequences of animal redistribution on beaches during COVID-19 lockdown	41
To mix or not to mix gene pools for threatened species management? Few studies use genetic data to examine the risks of both actions, but failing to do so leads disproportionately to recommendations f	41
The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates: A spatio-temporal approach	41
Using landscape connectivity to predict human-wildlife conflict	40
Birds seen and not seen during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown measures on citizen science bird observations	40
A Reprieve from US wildlife mortality on roads during the COVID-19 pandemic	39
Multi-scale estimation of the effects of pressures and drivers on mangrove forest loss globally	39
Key information needs to move from knowledge to action for biodiversity conservation in Canada	39
Using historical data to estimate bumble bee occurrence: Variable trends across species provide little support for community-level declines	38
In defence of soil biodiversity: Towards an inclusive protection in the European Union	38
Body size is a good proxy for vertebrate charisma	37
Defining exceptional species—A conceptual framework to expand and advance ex situ conservation of plant diversity beyond conventional seed banking	37
Effective population size remains a suitable, pragmatic indicator of genetic diversity for all species, including forest trees	36
Regional variation in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quantity and quality of data collected by the project eBird	36
COVID-19 pandemic drives changes in participation in citizen science project “City Nature Challenge” in Tokyo	36
Forty-four years of global trade in CITES-listed snakes: Trends and implications for conservation and public health	36
Linking wilderness mapping and connectivity modelling: A methodological framework for wildland network planning	36
A timely systematic review on pangolin research, commercialization, and popularization to identify knowledge gaps and produce conservation guidelines	35
Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management – A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Białowieża Forest case	34
Why so negative? Exploring the socio-economic impacts of large carnivores from a European perspective	34

Effects of cumulated outdoor activity on wildlife habitat use	34
COVID-19 related travel restrictions prevented numerous wildlife deaths on roads: A comparative analysis of results from 11 countries	34
Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus?	34
Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left	33
Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: Strandings to inform conservation management	33
Disturbance and resilience in the Luquillo Experimental Forest	33
The political economy of human-wildlife conflict and coexistence	32
Persistent gender bias in marine science and conservation calls for action to achieve equity	32
Pervasive gender bias in editorial boards of biodiversity conservation journals	32
The hidden biodiversity risks of increasing flexibility in biodiversity offset trades	32
Psychological and physical connections with nature improve both human well-being and nature conservation: A systematic review of meta-analyses	31
The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation	30
Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis	30
Indian Sundarbans mangrove forest considered endangered under Red List of Ecosystems, but there is cause for optimism	30
Preventing wildlife roadkill can offset mitigation investments in short-medium term	30
European agreements for nature conservation need to explicitly address wolf-dog hybridisation	30
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on noise pollution in three protected areas in metropolitan Boston (USA)	30
Trait-based prediction of extinction risk across terrestrial taxa	29
High fidelity of sea turtles to their foraging grounds revealed by satellite tracking and capture-mark-recapture: New insights for the establishment of key marine conservation areas	29
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	29
Version 2 of the world map of laminarian kelp benefits from more Arctic data and makes it the largest marine biome	29
Bridging compassion and justice in conservation ethics	29
COVID-19 impacts on participation in large scale biodiversity-themed community science projects in the United States	29
Ecology and conservation of a rare species: What do we know and what may we do to preserve Andean condors?	29
Methods for the assessment and conservation of threatened animal parasites	29
Responses from bees, butterflies, and ground beetles to different fire and site characteristics: A global meta-analysis	29
Prioritising conservation actions for biodiversity: Lessening the impact from habitat fragmentation and climate change	29
Unpacking the causes and consequences of the extinction of experience	28
The changing dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: Next steps for management & science in North America	28
Changing seasonal, temporal and spatial crop-raiding trends over 15 years in a human-elephant conflict hotspot	28
Spider conservation in Europe: a review	28
Impacts of habitat loss on migratory shorebird populations and communities at stopover sites in the Yellow Sea	28
Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe	28
Dimension and impact of biases in funding for species and habitat conservation	28
The power of national acoustic tracking networks to assess the impacts of human activity on marine organisms during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Effects of captivity and rewilding on amphibian skin microbiomes	27
Annual flowers strips benefit bumble bee colony growth and reproduction	27
Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research	27
Bottom-up and top-down processes influence contemporary patterns of mammal species richness in Australia's monsoonal tropics	27
Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk	27
Restoration of plant-animal interactions in terrestrial ecosystems	27
Myanmar's terrestrial ecosystems: Status, threats and conservation opportunities	26
Estimating the impacts of habitat loss induced by urbanization on bird local extinctions	26
Seeing beneath disputes: A transdisciplinary framework for diagnosing complex conservation conflicts	26
Delivering behavioural change at scale: What conservation can learn from other fields	26
The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies	26
Management resourcing and government transparency are key drivers of biodiversity outcomes in Southeast Asian protected areas	26
Differences among protected area governance types matter for conserving vegetation communities at risk of loss and fragmentation	26
Prey availability modulates predicted range contraction of two large felids in response to changing climate	26
Towards mitigation of seabird bycatch: Large-scale effectiveness of night setting and Tori lines across multiple pelagic longline fleets	26
Impacts of loss of free-flowing rivers on global freshwater megafauna	26
Urbanisation affects ecosystem functioning more than structure in tropical streams	26
Mentorship, equity, and research productivity: lessons from a pandemic	26
Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe	25
Compensating for lost nature values through biodiversity offsetting – Where is the evidence?	25
Forest loss in Indonesian New Guinea (2001–2019): Trends, drivers and outlook	25
Estimates of wildlife killed by free-ranging cats in China	25
Efficacy and management challenges of the zoning designations of China's national parks	25
Rethinking the natural regeneration failure of pedunculate oak: The pathogen mildew hypothesis	25
Will the COVID-19 outbreak be a turning point for China's wildlife protection: New developments and challenges of wildlife conservation in China	25
Scientists' warning of an imperiled ocean	25
COVID-19 restrictions provide a brief respite from the wildlife roadkill toll	25
Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado	25
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	25
Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?	25
Renewable energy and biological conservation in a changing world	24
Analysis of landrace cultivation in Europe: A means to support in situ conservation of crop diversity	24
Ecological consequences of human depopulation of rural areas on wildlife: A unifying perspective	24
Sealed in a lake — Biology and conservation of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal: A review	24
Spatial management can significantly reduce dFAD beachings in Indian and Atlantic Ocean tropical tuna purse seine fisheries	24
Spatial conservation action planning in heterogeneous landscapes	24
Conservation, wildlife crime, and tough-on-crime policies: Lessons from the criminological literature	23
An underrated habitat: Residential gardens support similar mammal assemblages to urban remnant vegetation	23
Natural Language Processing as a tool to evaluate emotions in conservation conflicts	23
Application of ionomics and ecological stoichiometry in conservation biology: Nutrient demand and supply in a changing environment	23
Review: COVID-19 highlights the importance of camera traps for wildlife conservation research and management	23
Environmental solutions fast-tracked: Reversing public scepticism to public engagement	23
Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador	23
Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future	23
Sequential overgrazing by green turtles causes archipelago-wide functional extinctions of seagrass meadows	23

Identifying the anthropogenic drivers of declines in tropical dung beetle communities and functions	23
The sound of logging: Tropical forest soundscape before, during, and after selective timber extraction	22
Beyond fortress conservation: The long-term integration of natural and social science research for an inclusive conservation practice in India	22
Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe	22
Combining high temporal resolution whale distribution and vessel tracking data improves estimates of ship strike risk	22
The Kibale Chimpanzee Project: Over thirty years of research, conservation, and change	22
Microhabitat selection by giant pandas	22
Land-based noise pollution impairs reef fish behavior: A case study with a Brazilian carnival	22
Options for prioritizing sites for biodiversity conservation with implications for “30 by 30”	22
Reduction in seabird mortality in Namibian fisheries following the introduction of bycatch regulation	22
COVID19-induced reduction in human disturbance enhances fattening of an overabundant goose species	22
Overcoming the concrete conquest of aquatic ecosystems	22
Unprecedented extinction of tree species by fungal disease	22
Restricted human activities shift the foraging strategies of feral pigeons (Columba livia) and three other commensal bird species	22
Moving from decision to action in conservation science	22
Integrating social science into conservation planning	22
Every case is different: Cautionary insights about generalisations in human-wildlife conflict from a range-wide study of people and jaguars	22
Time at risk: Individual spatial behaviour drives effectiveness of marine protected areas and fitness	22
Shift in proximate causes of mortality for six large migratory raptors over a century	22
A synthesis of the prevalence and drivers of non-compliance in marine protected areas	22
Forest-associated bee species persist amid forest loss and regrowth in eastern North America	21
Quantifying factors for understanding why several small patches host more species than a single large patch	21
Predator-awareness training in terrestrial vertebrates: Progress, problems and possibilities	21
Exploring coral reef biodiversity via underwater soundscapes	21
Urban native vegetation remnants support more diverse native bee communities than residential gardens in Australia's southwest biodiversity hotspot	21
Evaluating created wetlands for bird diversity and reproductive success	21
Extending temporal baseline increases understanding of biodiversity change in European boreal waterbird communities	21
Deforestation and bird habitat loss in Colombia	21
Rapid amphibian community recovery following removal of non-native fish from high mountain lakes	21
A comparison of genetic and genomic approaches to represent evolutionary potential in conservation planning	21
Sparing or sharing land? Views from agricultural scientists	21
Genome-wide diversity loss in reintroduced Eurasian lynx populations urges immediate conservation management	21
Combining spatial modeling tools and biological data for improved multispecies assessment in restoration areas	21
What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia	21
Minimizing cross-realm threats from land-use change: A national-scale conservation framework connecting land, freshwater and marine systems	21
Conceptualizing ecosystem degradation using mangrove forests as a model system	21
A hippo in the room: Predicting the persistence and dispersion of an invasive mega-vertebrate in Colombia, South America	20
The association between anthropomorphism of nature and pro-environmental variables: A systematic review	20
Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India	20
The need, opportunities, and challenges for creating a standardized framework for marine restoration monitoring and reporting	20
Reduced human activity in shallow reefs during the COVID-19 pandemic increases fish evenness	20
Wild at heart: Programs to diminish negative ecological and evolutionary effects of conservation hatcheries	20
Listening to cities during the COVID-19 lockdown: How do human activities and urbanization impact soundscapes in Colombia?	20
Australia's most imperilled vertebrates	20
Intensification of açaí palm management largely impoverishes tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest	20
Understanding drivers of human tolerance towards mammals in a mixed-use transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa	20
Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India	20
The influence of message framing on public beliefs and behaviors related to species reintroduction	20
The application of reflexivity for conservation science	20
Consequences of fragmentation for Neotropical bats: The importance of the matrix	20
An ethical analysis of cloning for genetic rescue: Case study of the black-footed ferret	20
Are protected areas well-sited to support species in the future in a major climate refuge and corridor in the United States?	20
Decades of monitoring have informed the stewardship and ecological understanding of Australia's Great Barrier Reef	20
Cumulative habitat loss increases conservation threats on endemic species of terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	20
Climate niche mismatch and the collapse of primate seed dispersal services in the Amazon	20
Conservation birding: A quantitative conceptual framework for prioritizing citizen science observations	20
Are fish in danger? A review of environmental effects of marine renewable energy on fishes	19
Evaluating the performance of a protected area network in South Africa and its implications for megadiverse countries	19
Using systematic conservation planning to align priority areas for biodiversity and nature-based activities in marine spatial planning: A real-world application in contested marine space	19
Conservation policy under a roadless perspective: Minimizing fragmentation in Greece	19
Global assessment of artificial habitat use by amphibian species	19
Quantifying wildlife responses to conservation fencing in East Africa	19
Different extinction debts among plants and arthropods after loss of grassland amount and connectivity	19
Continental-scale local extinctions in mammal assemblages are synergistically induced by habitat loss and hunting pressure	19
Conserving threatened marine species and biodiversity requires 40% ocean protection	19
A policy framework to accommodate both the analytical and normative aspects of biodiversity in ecological compensation	19
Anthropogenic impacts on plant-animal mutualisms: A global synthesis for pollination and seed dispersal	19
Effectiveness of hunting regulations for the conservation of a globally-threatened species: The case of the European turtle-dove in Spain	19
Source-sink dynamics promote wolf persistence in human-modified landscapes: Insights from long-term monitoring	19
Continental threat: How many common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are there in Australia?	19
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	19
Assessing the conservation status of coastal habitats under Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive	19
Ecology and the science of small-scale fisheries: A synthetic review of research effort for the Anthropocene	19
The scale of Nigeria's involvement in the trans-national illegal pangolin trade: Temporal and spatial patterns and the effectiveness of wildlife trade regulations	19
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes	19
Social identity, values, and trust in government: How stakeholder group, ideology, and wildlife value orientations relate to trust in a state agency for wildlife management	19
Co-occurrence of snow leopard, wolf and Siberian ibex under livestock encroachment into protected areas across the Mongolian Altai	19
Global Biodiversity Implications of Alternative Electrification Strategies Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	18
Interweaving local, expert, and Indigenous knowledge into quantitative wildlife analyses: A systematic review	18
The importance of wilderness to wolf (Canis lupus) survival and cause-specific mortality over 50 years	18
Forest fragmentation and defaunation drive an unusual ecological cascade: Predation release, monkey population outburst and plant demographic collapse	18
A cumulative effects model for population trajectories of resident killer whales in the Northeast Pacific	18
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda	18
Global impacts of edge effects on species richness	18
Critical ecological thresholds for conservation of tropical rainforest in Human Modified Landscapes	18
Does artificial feeding affect large carnivore behaviours? The case study of brown bears in a hunted and tourist exploited subpopulation	18
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent	18
Defining endemism levels for biodiversity conservation: Tree species in the Atlantic Forest hotspot	18
Prey selection and predation behavior of free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) in an urban ecosystem: Implications for urban cat management	18
Designing wildlife-vehicle conflict observation systems to inform ecology and transportation studies	18
Successful parks for sharks: No-take marine reserve provides conservation benefits to endemic and threatened sharks off South Africa	18
Differing severity of frugivore loss contrasts the fate of native forests on the land of the Dodo (Mascarene archipelago)	18
Multi-scale path-level analysis of jaguar habitat use in the Pantanal ecosystem	18
Functional structure of European forest beetle communities is enhanced by rare species	18
On the conservation value of historic canals for aquatic ecosystems	18