Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance	152
Genetic rescue: A critique of the evidence supports maximizing genetic diversity rather than minimizing the introduction of putatively harmful genetic variation	147
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network	142
The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental protection in Brazil	127
Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment	104
Connectivity metrics for conservation planning and monitoring	96
A global assessment of amphibian and reptile responses to land-use changes	94
Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival	92
Sewage pollution, declining ecosystem health, and cross-sector collaboration	86
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots	77
Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency	75
Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient	74
Wildlife-vehicle collisions - Influencing factors, data collection and research methods	63
How does the beach ecosystem change without tourists during COVID-19 lockdown?	63
Global trends in urban wildlife ecology and conservation	61
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees	61
Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey	60
COVID-19 pandemic impacts on conservation research, management, and public engagement in US national parks	60
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species	58
Ecological and economic effects of COVID-19 in marine fisheries from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea	58
Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	58
No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks	57
People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon	56
The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics	55
Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats	53

Overprediction of species distribution models in conservation planning: A still neglected issue with strong effects	53
A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome	51
A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity	50
Capitalizing on opportunistic citizen science data to monitor urban biodiversity: A multi-taxa framework	50
iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers	50
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	50
Divergent farmer and scientist perceptions of agricultural biodiversity, ecosystem services and decision-making	49
COVID-19 lockdown reveals tourists as seabird guardians	49
Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions	48
Assessing fatality minimization for hoary bats amid continued wind energy development	46
Does public fear that bats spread COVID-19 jeopardize bat conservation?	44
Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	44
In defence of soil biodiversity: Towards an inclusive protection in the European Union	43
Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia	43
Potentially negative ecological consequences of animal redistribution on beaches during COVID-19 lockdown	43
Birds seen and not seen during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown measures on citizen science bird observations	42
The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates: A spatio-temporal approach	42
Regional variation in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quantity and quality of data collected by the project eBird	41
Using historical data to estimate bumble bee occurrence: Variable trends across species provide little support for community-level declines	41
Key information needs to move from knowledge to action for biodiversity conservation in Canada	41
Effective population size remains a suitable, pragmatic indicator of genetic diversity for all species, including forest trees	40
Defining exceptional species—A conceptual framework to expand and advance ex situ conservation of plant diversity beyond conventional seed banking	40
A Reprieve from US wildlife mortality on roads during the COVID-19 pandemic	40
Psychological and physical connections with nature improve both human well-being and nature conservation: A systematic review of meta-analyses	39
Why so negative? Exploring the socio-economic impacts of large carnivores from a European perspective	39
A timely systematic review on pangolin research, commercialization, and popularization to identify knowledge gaps and produce conservation guidelines	38
Linking wilderness mapping and connectivity modelling: A methodological framework for wildland network planning	38
Body size is a good proxy for vertebrate charisma	38
The changing dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: Next steps for management & science in North America	37
Effects of cumulated outdoor activity on wildlife habitat use	37
Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left	37
COVID-19 pandemic drives changes in participation in citizen science project “City Nature Challenge” in Tokyo	37
Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus?	36
The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation	36
The political economy of human-wildlife conflict and coexistence	35
COVID-19 related travel restrictions prevented numerous wildlife deaths on roads: A comparative analysis of results from 11 countries	35
Disturbance and resilience in the Luquillo Experimental Forest	34
The hidden biodiversity risks of increasing flexibility in biodiversity offset trades	34
Persistent gender bias in marine science and conservation calls for action to achieve equity	34
Prioritising conservation actions for biodiversity: Lessening the impact from habitat fragmentation and climate change	33
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on noise pollution in three protected areas in metropolitan Boston (USA)	33
Responses from bees, butterflies, and ground beetles to different fire and site characteristics: A global meta-analysis	33
Annual flowers strips benefit bumble bee colony growth and reproduction	32
COVID-19 impacts on participation in large scale biodiversity-themed community science projects in the United States	32
Pervasive gender bias in editorial boards of biodiversity conservation journals	32
Ecology and conservation of a rare species: What do we know and what may we do to preserve Andean condors?	32
Changing seasonal, temporal and spatial crop-raiding trends over 15 years in a human-elephant conflict hotspot	32
Indian Sundarbans mangrove forest considered endangered under Red List of Ecosystems, but there is cause for optimism	32
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	32
Management resourcing and government transparency are key drivers of biodiversity outcomes in Southeast Asian protected areas	31

Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis	31
Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research	31
Preventing wildlife roadkill can offset mitigation investments in short-medium term	31
Trait-based prediction of extinction risk across terrestrial taxa	31
Estimating the impacts of habitat loss induced by urbanization on bird local extinctions	30
Impacts of loss of free-flowing rivers on global freshwater megafauna	30
Dimension and impact of biases in funding for species and habitat conservation	30
Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe	30
Analysis of landrace cultivation in Europe: A means to support in situ conservation of crop diversity	30
Effects of captivity and rewilding on amphibian skin microbiomes	30
Unpacking the causes and consequences of the extinction of experience	30
Restoration of plant-animal interactions in terrestrial ecosystems	30
Version 2 of the world map of laminarian kelp benefits from more Arctic data and makes it the largest marine biome	30
Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk	29
Impacts of habitat loss on migratory shorebird populations and communities at stopover sites in the Yellow Sea	29
Spider conservation in Europe: a review	29
Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe	29
Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?	29
Myanmar's terrestrial ecosystems: Status, threats and conservation opportunities	28
Efficacy and management challenges of the zoning designations of China's national parks	28
The power of national acoustic tracking networks to assess the impacts of human activity on marine organisms during the COVID-19 pandemic	28
Options for prioritizing sites for biodiversity conservation with implications for “30 by 30”	27
Compensating for lost nature values through biodiversity offsetting – Where is the evidence?	27
Sealed in a lake — Biology and conservation of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal: A review	27
Scientists' warning of an imperiled ocean	27
Renewable energy and biological conservation in a changing world	27
Every case is different: Cautionary insights about generalisations in human-wildlife conflict from a range-wide study of people and jaguars	27
Prey availability modulates predicted range contraction of two large felids in response to changing climate	27
The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies	27
Delivering behavioural change at scale: What conservation can learn from other fields	27
Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado	27
Mentorship, equity, and research productivity: lessons from a pandemic	27
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	27
The association between anthropomorphism of nature and pro-environmental variables: A systematic review	26
Forest loss in Indonesian New Guinea (2001–2019): Trends, drivers and outlook	26
Application of ionomics and ecological stoichiometry in conservation biology: Nutrient demand and supply in a changing environment	26
COVID-19 restrictions provide a brief respite from the wildlife roadkill toll	26
Spatial management can significantly reduce dFAD beachings in Indian and Atlantic Ocean tropical tuna purse seine fisheries	26
Ecological consequences of human depopulation of rural areas on wildlife: A unifying perspective	26
Urban native vegetation remnants support more diverse native bee communities than residential gardens in Australia's southwest biodiversity hotspot	26
Unprecedented extinction of tree species by fungal disease	26
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes	25
Rethinking the natural regeneration failure of pedunculate oak: The pathogen mildew hypothesis	25
Identifying the anthropogenic drivers of declines in tropical dung beetle communities and functions	25
Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador	25
Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future	25
Beyond fortress conservation: The long-term integration of natural and social science research for an inclusive conservation practice in India	25
Forest-associated bee species persist amid forest loss and regrowth in eastern North America	25
Securing biodiversity, securing our future: A national mission on biodiversity and human well-being for India	25
Deforestation and bird habitat loss in Colombia	25
The sound of logging: Tropical forest soundscape before, during, and after selective timber extraction	25
Environmental solutions fast-tracked: Reversing public scepticism to public engagement	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
Conservation, wildlife crime, and tough-on-crime policies: Lessons from the criminological literature	25
Estimates of wildlife killed by free-ranging cats in China	25
Review: COVID-19 highlights the importance of camera traps for wildlife conservation research and management	24
Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe	24
Evaluating created wetlands for bird diversity and reproductive success	24
A synthesis of the prevalence and drivers of non-compliance in marine protected areas	24
Integrating social science into conservation planning	24
Interweaving local, expert, and Indigenous knowledge into quantitative wildlife analyses: A systematic review	24
Natural Language Processing as a tool to evaluate emotions in conservation conflicts	24
The application of reflexivity for conservation science	24
Sequential overgrazing by green turtles causes archipelago-wide functional extinctions of seagrass meadows	24
Reduction in seabird mortality in Namibian fisheries following the introduction of bycatch regulation	24
Intensification of açaí palm management largely impoverishes tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest	24
Shift in proximate causes of mortality for six large migratory raptors over a century	24
The Kibale Chimpanzee Project: Over thirty years of research, conservation, and change	23
What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia	23
Effectiveness of hunting regulations for the conservation of a globally-threatened species: The case of the European turtle-dove in Spain	23
Decades of monitoring have informed the stewardship and ecological understanding of Australia's Great Barrier Reef	23
Time at risk: Individual spatial behaviour drives effectiveness of marine protected areas and fitness	23
Conserving threatened marine species and biodiversity requires 40% ocean protection	23
Restricted human activities shift the foraging strategies of feral pigeons (Columba livia) and three other commensal bird species	23
Exploring coral reef biodiversity via underwater soundscapes	23
Anthropogenic impacts on plant-animal mutualisms: A global synthesis for pollination and seed dispersal	23
Conceptualizing ecosystem degradation using mangrove forests as a model system	23
Genome-wide diversity loss in reintroduced Eurasian lynx populations urges immediate conservation management	23
Land-based noise pollution impairs reef fish behavior: A case study with a Brazilian carnival	23
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	23

Understanding drivers of human tolerance towards mammals in a mixed-use transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa	23
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	23
Listening to cities during the COVID-19 lockdown: How do human activities and urbanization impact soundscapes in Colombia?	22
An ethical analysis of cloning for genetic rescue: Case study of the black-footed ferret	22
COVID19-induced reduction in human disturbance enhances fattening of an overabundant goose species	22
Extending temporal baseline increases understanding of biodiversity change in European boreal waterbird communities	22
Predator-awareness training in terrestrial vertebrates: Progress, problems and possibilities	22
Landscape and farm-level management for conservation of potential pollinators in Indonesian cocoa agroforests	22
Australia's most imperilled vertebrates	22
Are protected areas well-sited to support species in the future in a major climate refuge and corridor in the United States?	22
Cumulative habitat loss increases conservation threats on endemic species of terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	22
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda	22
Solar energy development impacts flower-visiting beetles and flies in the Mojave Desert	22
Sparing or sharing land? Views from agricultural scientists	22
Conservation birding: A quantitative conceptual framework for prioritizing citizen science observations	22
Successful parks for sharks: No-take marine reserve provides conservation benefits to endemic and threatened sharks off South Africa	21
Continental-scale local extinctions in mammal assemblages are synergistically induced by habitat loss and hunting pressure	21
A comparison of genetic and genomic approaches to represent evolutionary potential in conservation planning	21
Framework for assessing and mitigating the impacts of offshore wind energy development on marine birds	21
Rapid amphibian community recovery following removal of non-native fish from high mountain lakes	21
A hippo in the room: Predicting the persistence and dispersion of an invasive mega-vertebrate in Colombia, South America	21
Different extinction debts among plants and arthropods after loss of grassland amount and connectivity	21
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	21
Wild at heart: Programs to diminish negative ecological and evolutionary effects of conservation hatcheries	21
Assessing the conservation status of coastal habitats under Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive	21
Global assessment of artificial habitat use by amphibian species	21
The biased distribution of existing information on biodiversity hinders its use in conservation, and we need an integrative approach to act urgently	21
The need, opportunities, and challenges for creating a standardized framework for marine restoration monitoring and reporting	21
Reduced human activity in shallow reefs during the COVID-19 pandemic increases fish evenness	21
Defining endemism levels for biodiversity conservation: Tree species in the Atlantic Forest hotspot	21
Minimizing cross-realm threats from land-use change: A national-scale conservation framework connecting land, freshwater and marine systems	21
The scale of Nigeria's involvement in the trans-national illegal pangolin trade: Temporal and spatial patterns and the effectiveness of wildlife trade regulations	21
The map of biodiversity mapping	20
On the conservation value of historic canals for aquatic ecosystems	20
Source-sink dynamics promote wolf persistence in human-modified landscapes: Insights from long-term monitoring	20
Continental threat: How many common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are there in Australia?	20
Co-occurrence of snow leopard, wolf and Siberian ibex under livestock encroachment into protected areas across the Mongolian Altai	20
Global impacts of edge effects on species richness	20
Consequences of fragmentation for Neotropical bats: The importance of the matrix	20
Attracting investment for Africa's protected areas by creating enabling environments for collaborative management partnerships	20
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world	20
A cumulative effects model for population trajectories of resident killer whales in the Northeast Pacific	20
How expansive were Malagasy Central Highland forests, ericoids, woodlands and grasslands? A multidisciplinary approach to a conservation conundrum	20
Prey selection and predation behavior of free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) in an urban ecosystem: Implications for urban cat management	20
Does artificial feeding affect large carnivore behaviours? The case study of brown bears in a hunted and tourist exploited subpopulation	20
Research priorities for the conservation of chondrichthyans in Latin America	20
The application gap: Genomics for biodiversity and ecosystem service management	20
Quantifying wildlife responses to conservation fencing in East Africa	19
Management effectiveness positively influences forest conservation outcomes in protected areas	19
Are fish in danger? A review of environmental effects of marine renewable energy on fishes	19
Traditional shade coffee forest systems act as refuges for medium- and large-sized mammals as natural forest dwindles in Ethiopia	19
Conservation strategies for the climate crisis: An update on three decades of biodiversity management recommendations from science	19
Conservation policy under a roadless perspective: Minimizing fragmentation in Greece	19
Major biases and knowledge gaps on fragmentation research in Brazil: Implications for conservation	19
Critical ecological thresholds for conservation of tropical rainforest in Human Modified Landscapes	19
The breakdown of ecosystem functionality driven by deforestation in a global biodiversity hotspot	19
Differing severity of frugivore loss contrasts the fate of native forests on the land of the Dodo (Mascarene archipelago)	19
Caught in the (inter)net: Online trade of ornamental fish in Brazil	19
Smaller human populations are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for biodiversity conservation	19
Science-based, stakeholder-inclusive and participatory conservation planning helps reverse the decline of threatened species	19
Integrating species distribution and occupancy modeling to study hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) occurrence based on eDNA surveys	19
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community	19
The importance of wilderness to wolf (Canis lupus) survival and cause-specific mortality over 50 years	19
Multi-scale path-level analysis of jaguar habitat use in the Pantanal ecosystem	19
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent	19
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway	19
Ecology and the science of small-scale fisheries: A synthetic review of research effort for the Anthropocene	19
Integrating multiple indices of geobiodiversity reveals a series of regional species-rich areas worthy of conservation in the region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	19
The application of assisted migration as a climate change adaptation tactic: An evidence map and synthesis	19
A policy framework to accommodate both the analytical and normative aspects of biodiversity in ecological compensation	18
Designing wildlife-vehicle conflict observation systems to inform ecology and transportation studies	18
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities	18
Climate change may affect the future of extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon	18
Integrated assessments call for establishing a sustainable meta-population of Amur tigers in northeast Asia	18
Flower strips enhance abundance of bumble bee queens and males in landscapes with few honey bee hives	18
Impact of wind power plants on mammalian and avian wildlife species in shrub- and woodlands	18
Molecular genetic analysis of air, water, and soil to detect big brown bats in North America	18
A review of the current global status of blast fishing: Causes, implications and solutions	18
Spatial distribution of oil spills in the north eastern Ecuadorian Amazon: A comprehensive review of possible threats	18
Functional structure of European forest beetle communities is enhanced by rare species	18
Snags, logs, stumps, and microclimate as tools optimizing deadwood enrichment for forest biodiversity	18
Global Biodiversity Implications of Alternative Electrification Strategies Under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways	18
Forest fragmentation and defaunation drive an unusual ecological cascade: Predation release, monkey population outburst and plant demographic collapse	18
Leopard population density varies across habitats and management strategies in a mixed-use Tanzanian landscape	18
Distribution and temporal trends in the abundance of nesting sea turtles in the Red Sea	18
Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot	18
Management diversity begets biodiversity in production forest landscapes	17
Road-crossings, vegetative cover, land use and poisons interact to influence corridor effectiveness	17
Webs of well-designed conservation corridors maintain river ecosystem integrity and biodiversity in plantation mosaics	17
Changing patterns of conflict between humans, carnivores and crop-raiding prey as large carnivores recolonize human-dominated landscapes	17
Prioritizing restoration areas to conserve multiple sagebrush-associated wildlife species	17
Effects of crop and non-crop resources and competition: High importance of trees and oilseed rape for solitary bee reproduction	17
Demographic and ecological correlates of a recovering tiger (Panthera tigris) population: Lessons learnt from 13-years of monitoring	17
A minimum of 15% semi-natural habitat facilitates adequate wild pollinator visitation to a pollinator-dependent crop	17
Identifying conservation priority areas for gymnosperm species under climate changes in China	17