Biological Conservation

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Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages	111
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data	106
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models	94
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats	93
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes	93
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Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people	86
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning	83
Timing of attraction to light of nocturnal insects is spectrum and taxon dependent: implications for mitigating light pollution	78
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?	72
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe	71
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions	70
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population	69
Vegetation change in dry grasslands in Northeast Germany over two decades: A resurvey	61
Mesoscale ocean dynamics structure fisheries interaction risk for an endangered seabird	59
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]	58
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes	57
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes	56
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs	55
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert	53
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas	53
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation	52
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion	52

Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'	52
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians	48
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna	48
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade	48
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests	48
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night	47
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	47
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density	47
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies	47
Açaí management intensification impoverishes Amazonian avian assemblages in estuarine forests	46
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps	46
Extreme weather events accelerate biological invasions: Mechanisms and conservation implications	46
Changes in habitat connectivity for range-restricted birds reflect patterns of woodland invasion	45
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands	45
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	44
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa	42
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices	42
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles	42
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks	42
Integrating habitat suitability, connectivity, and individual-based models to guide priorities for the creation of a lynx metapopulation in Southeastern Europe	42
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Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences	40
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration	40
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?	39
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Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	38
How much monitoring is needed to reliably track progress towards genetic diversity targets?	38
From captivity to recovery: Successful reintroduction of the extinct-in-the-wild Zoogoneticus tequila into its natural habitat	37
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation	36
The bees' knees: A review and meta-analysis of urban green-space habitats for insect pollinators	36
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible	35
Integrating noninvasive genetics and SECR to estimate snow leopard population in Pakistan	35
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections	35
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts	34
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback	34
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains	34
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses	34
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	34
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland	34
Are commercial wild-harvested plants just ordinary? Traits, harvesting patterns and conservation implications in France	34
Local communities affect conservation effectiveness of protected area on a critically endangered primate	34
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 110559	33
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion	33
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases	33
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway	33
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?	33
Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District	33
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew	32
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s	32
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia	32

Effects of roads on animals and mitigation measures in Asia	32
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion	32
Slaying the hydra of journal impact factor obsession in evaluating conservation biology research	31
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?	31
Unstructured spatial gradients in anthropogenic landscapes drive contrasting rodent and bat metacommunities, underscoring the need for multiscale conservation planning	31
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists	31
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island	31
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation	31
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic	31
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	30
Turtles and turnarounds: Small animal exclusion fencing effectively reduces turtle road mortality	30
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review	30
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk	30
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)	30
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries	30
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands	30
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality	30
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent	29
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence	29
Endemic bird species are far more threatened than previously thought across the semiarid Caatinga dry forest domain	29
Integrating conservation priorities into spatial planning for renewable energy development: The case of the Spanish imperial eagle	29
From digital decision-support to policy implementation: An operational framework for agri-environmental schemes	29
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity	28
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]	28
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management	28
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]	28
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia	27
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]	27
Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia	27
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]	27
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran	27
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes	27
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Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees	26
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings	26
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Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats	26
Breeding synchrony in European bison determined by winter foraging conditions	26
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation	26
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon	26
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization	26
Designing for diversity: Wetland ageing and habitat features at multiple scales influence the use of constructed wetlands by breeding waterfowl	25
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure	25
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable	25
The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies	25
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework	25
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people	25
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being	25
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations	25
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris	25
A century of change: Many losers vs. few winners among Swiss grassland plants	25
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions	25
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss	25
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx	24
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species	24
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits	24
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective	24
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline	24
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks	24
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?	24
Predators at the nursery: Grizzly-Caribou spatiotemporal overlap in a declining herd?	24
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	24
Amphibians under artificial light at night: Current knowledge, conservation challenges and future directions	24
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years	24
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve	23
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world	23
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium	23
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments	23
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas	23
Corrigendum to “A 25-year longitudinal assessment of Macaca sylvanus population dynamics and forest decline in Morocco's Middle Atlas” [Biol. Conserv. 310 (2025) 111334]	23
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers	23
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”	23
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”	23
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages	23
Genetic forensics for ocean protection: A meta-review of DNA-based identification methods to combat seafood fraud in the Eastern South Pacific	23
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world	23
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers	23
Anthropogenic water depletion outweighs climate change as a cause of wet grassland bird decline in Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park	22
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal	22

Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards	22
Symbols, wolves and conflicts	22
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries	22
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation	22
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement	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]	22
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status	22
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America	21
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests	21
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges	21
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards	21
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies	21
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation	21
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure	21
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe	21
Footprint of state border infrastructure extends beyond the border: Tree damage and roadkill along a road in Białowieża Forest, northeastern Poland	21
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models	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
Revisiting “Penguins in the anthropause: Covid-19 closures drive gentoo penguin movement among breeding colonies”	20
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses	20
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators	20
Diversity, distribution and conservation of Annonaceae (Magnoliales) in Madagascar	20
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina	20
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management	20
Long-term research presence mitigates hunting pressure and shapes mammal communities in the Congo Basin	20
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species	20
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)	20
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique	20
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring	20
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change	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
Geodiversity conservation in the Cerrado: Representation of geophysical scenarios in the biome's protected areas network	20
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species	20
Spatial ecology of recolonized elk in agricultural landscapes of the Northern Great Plains	20
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland	20
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management	20
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy	20
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems	20
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species	20
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible	19
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics	19
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?	19
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming	19
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications	19
Book review	19
Protected areas serve as climate refugia by reducing thermal stress in lizards	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
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong	19
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species	19
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management	19
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world	19
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia	19
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold	19
Wildfire smoke reduces the vocal activity of imperiled grassland birds in New York State	19
Saharan vertebrate flagships are good ecosystem-wide climate response surrogates	19
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers	19
Influence of traffic volume on mammal beta diversity within the road effect zone	19
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism	19
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””	19
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival	18
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data	18
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance	18
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas	18
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices	18
From reintroduction to extinction risk: Past, present and future of the newly established population of ospreys in southern Iberia	18
Drivers of human-saiga antelope conflict in semi-arid rangelands of West Kazakhstan	18
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean	18
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?	18
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery	18
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology	18
13 years of wildlife protection strategies in forest stewardship council-certified timber concessions in central Africa	18
Wildlife consumption is widespread across Equatorial Guinea and hunted species are more threatened now than 35 years ago	18
To rest or to roam: Functional habitat use of an insectivorous bat species during active and resting behavior	18
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species	18
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds	18
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models	18
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada	18
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines	18
Using movement and habitat use data from threatened migratory shorebirds to assess the value of a proposed protected area, Bako Buntal Bay, Malaysian Borneo	18
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?	18
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks	18
Losses of specialist and expansion of thermophilic generalist macro-moths in nature reserves of Central Europe	17
Effects of a megafire vary with fire severity and forest type: The impact of Australia's ‘Black Summer’ fires on the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), an iconic forest species	17
Indirect impacts of commercial gold mining on adjacent ecosystems	17
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Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle	17
Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome	17
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates	17
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Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?	17
Connectivity structure in fragmented forest areas in the Brazilian Amazon	17
Assessing the drivers of illegal resource use to improve wildlife conservation interventions	17
Restoration of forests supports the conservation of pollinators in intensively managed agricultural landscapes	17
Caught in the spotlight: glow-worm larvae reduce their activity under blue and white, but not red light	17
King Island as a microcosm of 19th- and 20th-century agricultural land clearing in Australia	17