Biological Conservation

Papers
(The TQCC of Biological Conservation is 9. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Extinction risk categorization in the IUCN Red List: Comment on “The US Endangered Species Act and acceptable risk”177
A global review of landscape-scale analyses in bats reveals geographic and taxonomic biases and opportunities for novel research128
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna119
Lost and found coastal wetlands: Lessons learned from mapping estuaries across the USA114
Editorial Board103
How risky is to live among us? Assessing the population viability of two South American wild canids in an agroecosystem92
An interview-based investigation of marine megafauna bycatch in the northern South China Sea84
Extreme climatic events modulate chytrid infection across the landscape82
Using deep learning to automate the detection of bird scaring lines on fishing vessels75
Running to stand still: The application of substandard OECMs in national and provincial policy in Canada70
Framework for assessing and mitigating the impacts of offshore wind energy development on marine birds68
The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation66
Anthropogenic climate change increases vulnerability of Magnolia species more in Asia than in the Americas61
Equal use of Indigenous and scientific knowledge in species assessments: A case study from the Northwest Territories, Canada59
Prioritizing conservation of terrestrial orchids: A gap analysis for Italy59
Editorial Board58
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people58
Ecological assessment and identification strategy of key conservation areas: A case study of the south Taihang Mountains region58
Current management practices do not adequately safeguard endangered plant species in conservation collections57
The decline of large carnivores in Africa and opportunities for change56
Understanding continent-wide variation in vulture ranging behavior to assess feasibility of Vulture Safe Zones in Africa: Challenges and possibilities54
Unraveling the real magnitude of illegal wildlife poisoning to halt cryptic biodiversity loss49
Paths of coexistence: Spatially predicting acceptance of grizzly bears along key movement corridors49
Connectivity-based approach to guide conservation and restoration of seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the NW Mediterranean48
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests46
Assessing the ecosystem services and disservices provided by migratory wildlife across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem45
Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: Combining scientific data with community perspectives to inform policy decisions44
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies44
Timing land protection to exploit favorable market conditions43
Functional connectivity of an imperilled Arctic ungulate – where melting sea ice and human trails increase isolation43
Free-ranging livestock changes the acoustic properties of summer soundscapes in a Northeast Asian temperate forest42
Trade-offs in the conservation of phylogenetically distinctive species42
Recording tree-related microhabitats to assess riparian forest contribution to biodiversity in landscapes dominated by conifer plantations42
An investigation of outdoor recreational users' willingness to participate in aquatic invasive plant control40
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies40
Canopy cover mediates the effects of a decadal increase in time since fire on arboreal birds40
Editorial Board40
Environmental DNA as a management tool for tracking artificial waterhole use in savanna ecosystems39
Editorial Board39
Quiet islands in a world of fear: Wolves seek core zones of protected areas to escape human disturbance39
Editorial Board38
Editorial Board37
Positive but un-sustained wildlife community responses to reserve expansion and mammal reintroductions in South Africa36
Anticipating the effects of climate warming and natural habitat conversion on waterbird communities to address protection gaps36
Landscape-scale peatland rewetting benefits aquatic invertebrate communities36
Diet responses of two apex carnivores (lions and leopards) to wild prey depletion and livestock availability35
Insights into the dynamics of wolf occupancy in human-dominated landscapes35
Current conservation policies in the UK and Ireland overlook endangered insects and are taxonomically biased towards Lepidoptera35
Shortfalls in tracking data available to inform North American migratory bird conservation34
Advances, challenges, and directions for ecological restoration by direct seeding of trees: Lessons from Brazil34
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity34
Conservation assessment based on large-scale monitoring of eDNA: Application to freshwater mussels34
Putting eagle rays on the map by coupling aerial video-surveys and deep learning34
Evidence of widespread declines in Kenya's raptor populations over a 40-year period34
How much Araucaria Mixed Forest remains? Novel perspectives on conservation status based on satellite imagery and policy review34
How to halve the carbon and biodiversity impacts of biofuel-driven land-use change in Brazil33
Climate change adaptation for biodiversity in protected areas: An overview of actions33
In defence of soil biodiversity: Towards an inclusive protection in the European Union33
Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?33
Declines in greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) geographic range and realised niche are best explained by the invasive red fox (Vulpes vulpes)32
Ecological Peace Corridors: A new conservation strategy to protect human and biological diversity32
Prioritizing restoration areas to conserve multiple sagebrush-associated wildlife species30
Mechanisms of deer (Cervidae) impacts on birds: A comprehensive review30
Measuring forest degradation via ecological-integrity indicators at multiple spatial scales30
Milkweed plants bought at nurseries may expose monarch caterpillars to harmful pesticide residues30
Local ecological predictions as input to adaptive management of natural plant communities30
Harlequin frog rediscoveries provide insights into species persistence in the face of drastic amphibian declines30
Science learning in biodiversity citizen science: Inputs from the analysis of online social interactions within a contributory project for pollinators' monitoring30
Book review30
The mitigation hierarchy in environmental impact assessment and related legislation as a tool for species conservation: A case study of western chimpanzees and mining development29
Editorial Board29
Combining simulation and empirical data to explore the scope for social network interventions in conservation29
Rapid and continuing regional decline of butterflies in eastern Denmark 1993-201929
Identifying important plant areas for useful plant species in Colombia29
Book review29
Cattle ranchers' tolerance to jaguar revealed through a spectrum of intended behaviours across a gradient of losses in a gamified survey-based field experiment29
Editorial Board28
Eagle effects on seabird productivity: Effects of a natural experiment28
Can vulture feeding stations have detrimental effects on Iberian Lynx conservation?28
Counting plants: The extent and adequacy of monitoring for a continental-scale list of threatened plant species28
Artificial ponds can be ecological traps for amphibians: A case study from Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, China27
Using range size to augment regional priority listing of charismatic insects27
Monitoring the online ant trade reveals high biological invasion risk27
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes27
Book review27
Place-based data justice practices for collaborative conservation research: A critical review27
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico27
Grazing regime effects on bird biodiversity overwhelmed by an interference competitor27
Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls in the knowledge of arthropod species in Chile: Challenges and implications for regional conservation26
In the songs of Hainan gibbons: Automated individual dynamic monitoring from acoustic recordings26
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages26
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition26
New social trails made during the pandemic increase fragmentation of an urban protected area26
The value of zoos for species and society: The need for a new model26
Editorial Board26
Smaller human populations are neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for biodiversity conservation26
Sparing old-growth maximises conservation outcomes within selectively logged Amazonian rainforest26
Long-term assessment of resilience of avian assemblages following a major hurricane25
Birds seen and not seen during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown measures on citizen science bird observations25
A review of the current global status of blast fishing: Causes, implications and solutions25
Distribution and temporal trends in the abundance of nesting sea turtles in the Red Sea25
When introduced prey violates trophic hierarchy: Conservation of an endangered predator25
Navigating complex geopolitical landscapes: Challenges in conserving the endangered Arabian wolf25
Ignore rapid evolution at our peril: response to25
Do people who experience more nature act more to protect it? A meta-analysis25
Effects of landscape structure and land use on turtle communities across the eastern United States25
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population25
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes24
Traditional shade coffee forest systems act as refuges for medium- and large-sized mammals as natural forest dwindles in Ethiopia24
Reappraising the use of forearm rings for bat species24
The value of unprotected land for future conservation efforts under dynamic conditions24
Version 2 of the world map of laminarian kelp benefits from more Arctic data and makes it the largest marine biome24
Bending the curve: Operationalizing national Red Lists to customize conservation actions to reduce extinction risk24
Temporal dynamics of sagebrush songbird abundance in relation to energy development24
Historical landscape matters for threatened species in French mountain forests24
Distribution models combined with standardized surveys reveal widespread habitat loss in a threatened turtle species24
The growing role of women in coral reef research in the Gulf Cooperation Council24
The unknownness of biodiversity: Its value and ethical significance for conservation action24
Mapping multigroup responses to land cover legacy for urban biodiversity conservation23
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model23
Fire as a management tool for invasive woody plants in natural environments: A systematic review23
Management plans for Korean national parks to conserve the habitat of the Korean fir (Abies koreana)23
Ecosystem restoration with local or broad seed provenancing: Debates and perceptions in science and practice23
Abandonment or biomass production? Phytodiversity responses to land-use changes of semi-natural grasslands in northern Europe23
Ant rarity and vulnerability in Brazilian Atlantic Forest fragments23
Visit, investigate, ignore: Olfactory misinformation reduces browsing damage to valued seedlings by a mammalian herbivore23
Visitors to national parks show positive attitudes towards recolonising wolves in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem23
Ecological and social justice should proceed hand-in-hand in conservation23
Testing the thermal squeeze hypothesis: Do temperature and invasive species determine vital rates of New Zealand's forest birds?23
Concomitant effects of multiple disturbances (logging, fire, biological invasion) on native tree abundances into West Africa's semi-deciduous forests22
Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model22
Monitoring threatened species with environmental DNA and open ecological data: Local distribution and habitat preferences of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini)22
Predicting global seasonal distributions and population exchange routes of a Critically Endangered shark22
Stuck in the mud: Persistent failure of ‘the science’ to provide reliable information on the ecological roles of Australian dingoes22
Ski resorts threaten climate refugia for high-elevation biodiversity under current and future conditions in the Alps22
Cannabis de-domestication and invasion risk22
Adapting to novel fire regimes: Using movement to inform conservation of a threatened arboreal mammal22
Conservation of the critically endangered Box-gum grassy woodlands with ecosystem accounting in Australia22
Potential wilderness loss could undermine the post-2020 global biodiversity framework21
Comparing occupancy and activity metrics for assessing temporal trends in vulnerable bat populations21
Deforestation and bird habitat loss in Colombia21
Fighting neobiota with neobiota: Consider it more often and do it more rigorously21
Positive effects of low grazing intensity on East African bee assemblages mediated by increases in floral resources21
The values of biological diversity: A perspective from China21
An organizational framework for effective conservation organizations21
Many losers and few winners in dung beetle responses to Amazonian forest fragmentation21
What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia21
The normative postulate problem: Hidden values in ecology, evolution, and conservation21
Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador21
Forest restoration in practice across Latin America21
Management diversity begets biodiversity in production forest landscapes20
Warming drives cryptic declines of amphibians in eastern Brazil20
Using historical data to estimate bumble bee occurrence: Variable trends across species provide little support for community-level declines20
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data20
Overview of the Great Barrier Reef sea cucumber fishery with focus on vulnerable and endangered species20
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]20
Predator tourism improves tolerance for pumas, but may increase future conflict among ranchers in Chile20
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa20
The last hotspots of structural complexity as conservation targets in the Mesoamerican Coral Reef20
Predicting the impacts of human population growth on forest mammals in the highlands of southwestern Ethiopia20
Predicting range shifts for critically endangered plants: Is habitat connectivity irrelevant or necessary?20
The minimum land areas required for maximizing biodiversity conservation20
A systematic conservation plan identifying critical areas for improved chondrichthyan protection in South Africa20
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion19
Application of ionomics and ecological stoichiometry in conservation biology: Nutrient demand and supply in a changing environment19
How Instagram users influence nature conservation: A case study on protected areas in Central Europe19
Misrelating values and empirical matters in conservation: A problem and solutions19
Integrated assessments call for establishing a sustainable meta-population of Amur tigers in northeast Asia19
Fine-grained data and models of protected-area management costs reveal cryptic effects of budget shortfalls19
Large biodiversity datasets conform to Benford's law: Implications for assessing sampling heterogeneity19
Downscaling the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot: Using the distribution of bats to find smaller hotspots with conservation priority19
Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot19
A review of two decades of government support for managing alien plant invasions in South Africa19
Reducing seed predation by introduced rodents helps, but is insufficient, to prevent long-term decline of common forest trees19
Potential distribution and connectivity for recolonizing cougars in the Great Lakes region, USA19
Marine ecotourism for small pelagics as a source of alternative income generating activities to fisheries in a tropical community19
Prevalence of illegal turtle trade on social media and implications for wildlife trade monitoring19
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway19
Functional structure of European forest beetle communities is enhanced by rare species19
Strong phenological shifts among bumblebee species in North America can help predict extinction risk18
Anthropogenic vulnerability assessment of global terrestrial protected areas with a new framework18
Southwest China, the last refuge of continental primates in East Asia18
Stealth advocacy in ecology and conservation biology18
Traditional human practices protect diversity of open forests threatened by ticking nutrient time bomb18
Pyrodiversity trade-offs: A simulation study of the effects of fire size and dispersal ability on native mammal populations in northern Australian savannas18
Closely related aliens lead to greater extinction risk18
Do media reports reflect the real threats to wildlife?18
Trade-offs between passive and trophic rewilding for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning18
Genetic footprints of fire: Understanding the genetic implications of fire regimes for fauna and effective conservation strategies18
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity18
Changing patterns of conflict between humans, carnivores and crop-raiding prey as large carnivores recolonize human-dominated landscapes17
Centres of neo- and paleo-endemism for Chinese woody flora and their environmental features17
A minimum of 15% semi-natural habitat facilitates adequate wild pollinator visitation to a pollinator-dependent crop17
Identification of biodiversity priority conservation areas in China by integrating genetic, species and ecosystem diversity17
A systematic review of equity perceptions and outcomes in marine conservation17
Prioritizing taxa for genetic reference database development to advance inland water conservation17
Predicting the loss of forests, carbon stocks and biodiversity driven by a neotropical ‘gold rush’17
Even after armed conflict, the environmental quality of Indigenous Peoples' lands in biodiversity hotspots surpasses that of non-Indigenous lands17
Conserving nature's chorus: Local and landscape features promoting frog species richness in farm dams17
The escalating global problem of accidental human-mediated transport of alien species: A case study using alien herpetofauna interceptions in New Zealand17
Spatial patterns, underlying drivers and conservation priorities of orchids in the central Himalaya17
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes17
Social justice for traditional knowledge holders will help conserve Europe's nature17
Spatial prioritization of amphibian intraspecific genetic diversity: The need of accounting for palaeoenvironmental legacies17
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning17
When money meets tradition: How new cash incomes could be risky for a vulnerable ecosystem17
Research and conservation priorities to protect wildlife from collisions with vehicles17
Conserving threatened marine species and biodiversity requires 40% ocean protection17
The asymptotic environmentally determined trajectory (aedt), key to understanding and managing ecological systems under climate change17
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions17
Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires17
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert17
Size requirements of intact forest landscapes for effective biodiversity conservation under regional fire regimes and climate change17
Modeling coupled dynamics of an empirical predator-prey system to predict top predator recovery16
Drivers of agricultural producers' tolerance towards less-charismatic avian species16
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 f16
Back from the dead? Not really. The tale of the Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) in a remote Brazilian archipelago16
Understanding and predicting infection dynamics for an endangered amphibian using long-term surveys of wild and translocated frogs16
No more trouble: An economic strategy to protect taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of continental turtles16
A synthesis of the prevalence and drivers of non-compliance in marine protected areas16
Do as I say, not as I do – The paradoxical relationship between actual cat keeping practices and knowledge about wildcat conservation among Hungarian cat owners16
Riparian forest patches are critical for forest affiliated birds in farmlands of temperate Chile16
Fruit trees and herbaceous plants increase functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds in smallholder rubber plantations16
Drivers of transgression: What pushes people to enter protected areas16
Natural shading is helpful but not sufficient for mitigating warming in green sea turtle nests in the tropical South China Sea16
Spatial conservation planning of forest genetic resources in a Mediterranean multi-refugial area16
Climate change may affect the future of extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon16
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'16
Effects of agricultural intensity and landscape pattern on terrestrial birds in China's agroecosystem differ between temperature zones16
Leopard population density varies across habitats and management strategies in a mixed-use Tanzanian landscape16
Lessons learned from an interdisciplinary evaluation of long-term restoration outcomes on 37 restored coastal grasslands in California15
Biodiversity of pollinators in agricultural landscapes and the role of weather and conservation management15
Is nuclear energy the way? A response to Mateo-Tomás & López-Bao (2022) “A nuclear future for biodiversity conservation?”15
The benefits of heterogeneity in spatial prioritisation within coral reef environments15
Multiple measures of biodiversity change make for the strongest analyses with historical data – Reply to15
Predicting mammal responses to pyrodiversity: From microbats to macropods15
Not all farms are created equal: Shady African cocoa farms promote a richer bat fauna15
Dynamic behaviour of fish with swim bladders subjected to underwater explosions and methods for mitigating injuries15
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density15
Well-intentioned initiatives hinder understanding biodiversity conservation: Cloaked iNaturalist information for threatened species15
Restoration measures foster biodiversity of important primary consumers within calcareous grasslands15
Assessing fatality minimization for hoary bats amid continued wind energy development15
People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon15
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices15
Telemetry-based home range and habitat modelling reveals that the majority of areas important for pygmy blue whales are currently unprotected15
Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches15
Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future15
The application of reflexivity for conservation science15
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area15
The hidden dimension of poaching: A novel survey method shows that local demand for pets largely outnumbers domestic and international trade of neotropical parrots14
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