Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks	130
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night	109
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands	90
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?	84
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats	80
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps	70
Integrating habitat suitability, connectivity, and individual-based models to guide priorities for the creation of a lynx metapopulation in Southeastern Europe	68
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density	65
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies	65
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs	64
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'	63
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert	62
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area	59
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe	58
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes	57
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices	57
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes	57
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation	57
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models	55
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians	53
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests	51
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas	51
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles	51
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade	50
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning	48

Editorial Board	48
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa	48
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion	46
Editorial Board	45
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies	44
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]	43
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes	43
Editorial Board	42
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity	42
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages	41
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition	41
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway	41
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions	40
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	39
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people	39
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population	39
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity	39
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna	39
Editorial Board	38
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data	38
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland	38
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	38
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion	38
The application of reflexivity for conservation science	38
Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District	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
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia	36
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation	36
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases	36
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion	36
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	36
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses	36
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?	35
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?	34
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management	34
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]	34
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)	34
Editorial Board	34
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew	34
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]	33
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s	33
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands	33
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]	33
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic	32
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway	32
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon	32
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence	31
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity	31
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 110559	31
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	30

Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk	30
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent	30
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible	30
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology	30
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes	30
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback	30
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation	30
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran	29
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia	29
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains	29
A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies	29
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections	29
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?	29
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	28
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island	28
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality	28
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration	28
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts	27
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review	27
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation	27
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries	27
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists	27
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss	26
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable	26
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers	26
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves	26
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations	26
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions	26
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species	26
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization	26
Editorial Board	25
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework	25
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Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings	25
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people	25
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens	25
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium	24
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats	24
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx	24
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent	24
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?	24
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris	24
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure	24
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being	24
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective	24
Editorial Board	24
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve	24
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years	24
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade	24
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline	23
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees	23
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world	23
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world	23
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America	23
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks	23
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison	23
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities	23
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina	23
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species	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
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas	23
The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies	23
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits	23
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models	23
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages	23
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe	22
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure	22
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators	22
Symbols, wolves and conflicts	22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)	22
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies	22
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems	22
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy	22
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management	22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”	22
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments	22
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators	22
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards	21
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries	21
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement	21

Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change	21
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests	21
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique	21
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers	21
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal	21
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species	21
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species	21
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management	20
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring	20
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation	20
Footprint of state border infrastructure extends beyond the border: Tree damage and roadkill along a road in Białowieża Forest, northeastern Poland	20
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards	20
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”	20
Corrigendum to “Between Hype and Hope: De-extinction is a tool, not a panacea for the biodiversity crisis” [Biol. Conserv. volume 309 (2025) 111307]	20
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status	20
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers	20
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?	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
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses	19
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front	19
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada	19
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming	19
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management	19
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges	19
Book review	19
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species	19
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation	19
Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring	19
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines	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
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species	19
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	19
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine	18
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery	18
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community	18
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches	18
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold	18
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance	18
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data	18
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible	18
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models	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
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited	18
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions	18
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””	18
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices	17
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong	17
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes	17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?	17
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds	17
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology	17
The role of ‘bright spots’ in elevating conservation success in Canada	17
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?	17
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean	17
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda	17
Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions	17
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism	17
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia	17
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world	17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas	17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?	17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds	17
Synthesis of natural history collections data reveals patterns of US freshwater mussel diversity and decline	17
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics	17
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival	17
Snags, logs, stumps, and microclimate as tools optimizing deadwood enrichment for forest biodiversity	16
Indirect impacts of commercial gold mining on adjacent ecosystems	16
Patterns of community science data use in peer-reviewed research on biodiversity	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
Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator	16
Caught in the spotlight: glow-worm larvae reduce their activity under blue and white, but not red light	16
Integrating movement behaviours for intra-specific conservation: The caribou case	16
Dynamics of the Czech flora over the last 60 years: Winners, losers and causes of changes	16
Iberian lynxes scavenging on ungulate carcasses: An overlooked important resource and potential risk for an endangered predator	16
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species	16
Quantifying the role of protected areas for safeguarding the uses of biodiversity	16
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Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates	16
Assessing biodiversity patterns and conservation gaps in Mexican Opuntia: Integrating species richness, endemism, and protected area coverage	16
What Science in the tropics should not be about	16
Restoration of forests supports the conservation of pollinators in intensively managed agricultural landscapes	16
Snaring devastates terrestrial ungulates whilst sparing arboreal primates in Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape	16
Colonization of new nesting areas could provide climate refuge to loggerhead turtles under climate change	16
Enhancing coral bleaching predictive tools through integrating sensitivity to heat exposure	16
Population genetics of museum specimens indicate decreasing genetic resiliency: The case of two bumble bees of conservation concern	16
Feral cat video collars reveal differences in hunting behaviour between mammal, reptile and insect prey	16
Changing determinants of international conservation funding committed to major deforestation regions in South America	15
Estimating age and investigating epigenetic changes related to health across multiple bottlenose dolphin populations	15
Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	15
Practical models to guide the transition of California condors from a conservation-reliant to a self-sustaining species	15
Literature, social media and questionnaire surveys identify relevant conservation areas for Carcharhinus species in the Mediterranean Sea	15
Tropical agricultural wooded land uses support high site use of forest birds	15
Testing the thermal squeeze hypothesis: Do temperature and invasive species determine vital rates of New Zealand's forest birds?	15