Biological Conservation

Papers
(The TQCC of Biological Conservation is 11. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation122
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions110
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians88
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?75
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas73
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes71
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models71
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition71
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats70
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe67
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes65
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]63
Editorial Board63
Editorial Board61
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages58
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies57
Editorial Board53
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles53
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'53
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning52
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks51
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade51
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert50
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people49
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs49
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes49
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna48
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico48
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa46
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population46
Integrating habitat suitability, connectivity, and individual-based models to guide priorities for the creation of a lynx metapopulation in Southeastern Europe44
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands43
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area43
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night42
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion41
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests41
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps41
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies40
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density40
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model39
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices39
Editorial Board39
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity39
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data39
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk38
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]38
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?38
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]38
Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia38
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland38
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia38
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]38
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation38
Editorial Board38
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence38
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes37
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?36
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic36
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion36
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains36
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion35
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)35
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s34
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]34
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 11055934
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management34
A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies33
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway33
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback33
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation32
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses32
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island32
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent31
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries31
Are commercial wild-harvested plants just ordinary? Traits, harvesting patterns and conservation implications in France31
Unstructured spatial gradients in anthropogenic landscapes drive contrasting rodent and bat metacommunities, underscoring the need for multiscale conservation planning31
Slaying the hydra of journal impact factor obsession in evaluating conservation biology research31
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia30
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew30
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases30
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran30
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections30
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality29
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands29
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation28
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible28
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature28
Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District28
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?28
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency27
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration27
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists27
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?27
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology27
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review27
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity27
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon27
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts27
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases27
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens27
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization27
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline26
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade26
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks26
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent26
Editorial Board26
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts26
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework26
Editorial Board26
Editorial Board26
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss25
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers25
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats25
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable25
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations25
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years25
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure25
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective25
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas24
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species24
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people24
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx24
The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies24
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium24
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison24
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being24
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris23
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world23
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve23
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits23
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees23
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages23
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world23
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities23
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings23
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions22
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”22
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses22
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina22
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy22
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)22
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves22
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique22
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring22
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status21
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species21
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests21
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species21
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management21
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement21
Symbols, wolves and conflicts21
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming21
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges21
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards21
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond20
Geodiversity conservation in the Cerrado: Representation of geophysical scenarios in the biome's protected areas network20
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries20
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies20
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators20
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models20
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
Long-term research presence mitigates hunting pressure and shapes mammal communities in the Congo Basin20
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments20
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal20
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?20
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards20
Spatial ecology of recolonized elk in agricultural landscapes of the Northern Great Plains20
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species20
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management19
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation19
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front19
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems19
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators19
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) 119
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation19
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe19
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management19
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers19
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species19
Footprint of state border infrastructure extends beyond the border: Tree damage and roadkill along a road in Białowieża Forest, northeastern Poland19
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America19
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change19
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure19
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland19
Book review19
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean18
Conservation prioritization based on plant richness and endemism in Myanmar18
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine18
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible18
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””18
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?18
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance18
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited18
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines18
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong18
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks18
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism18
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia18
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada18
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models18
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices18
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community18
Small patches have high conservation value for primates18
How nature experience and nature connectedness matter to school students' attitudes towards biodiversity18
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold18
Influence of traffic volume on mammal beta diversity within the road effect zone18
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery18
Analysing land cover patterns in relation to fencing of African national parks17
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates17
Editorial Board17
Practical models to guide the transition of California condors from a conservation-reliant to a self-sustaining species17
Environmental gradients drive context-dependent seed fate: Synergistic roles of forest succession, edge effects, and masting in shaping rodent dispersal dynamics17
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas17
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?17
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds17
Mitigation and conservation plant translocations: Do perspectives of practice, funding and success vary between sectors?17
Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator17
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches17
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle17
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda17
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species17
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world17
What Science in the tropics should not be about17
Population genetics of museum specimens indicate decreasing genetic resiliency: The case of two bumble bees of conservation concern17
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 (17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?17
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes17
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications17
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds17
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival17
The role of ‘bright spots’ in elevating conservation success in Canada17
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions17
Protecting prey by deceiving predators: A field experiment testing chemical camouflage and conditioned food aversion16
Population viability in data deficient nomadic species: What it will take to save regent honeyeaters from extinction16
Quantifying the role of protected areas for safeguarding the uses of biodiversity16
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species16
Iberian lynxes scavenging on ungulate carcasses: An overlooked important resource and potential risk for an endangered predator16
A 50-year perspective on conservation challenges and legacy effects in temperate Patagonian forests16
Patterns of community science data use in peer-reviewed research on biodiversity16
Exploring the potential of habitat banking in preserving freshwater biodiversity and imperiled species16
The transformative potential of local stakeholder engagement in the reintroduction of a contested species16
Restoration of forests supports the conservation of pollinators in intensively managed agricultural landscapes16
Snags, logs, stumps, and microclimate as tools optimizing deadwood enrichment for forest biodiversity16
Synthesis of natural history collections data reveals patterns of US freshwater mussel diversity and decline16
Tropical agricultural wooded land uses support high site use of forest birds16
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