Biological Conservation

Papers
(The TQCC of Biological Conservation is 10. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes197
How to halve the carbon and biodiversity impacts of biofuel-driven land-use change in Brazil120
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests113
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First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes80
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity78
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico78
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model74
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data68
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes65
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions62
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'59
Multiple measures of biodiversity change make for the strongest analyses with historical data – Reply to56
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies54
The unknownness of biodiversity: Its value and ethical significance for conservation action53
Traditional shade coffee forest systems act as refuges for medium- and large-sized mammals as natural forest dwindles in Ethiopia51
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway49
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models48
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians47
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas47
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles46
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe46
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people46
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density45
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs44
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages44
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion44
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade42
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Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps41
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population41
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies41
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]40
Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future40
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area39
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity39
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna38
The application of reflexivity for conservation science38
Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches37
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices37
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert37
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa37
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning36
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation35
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition35
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 11055935
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists34
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Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains33
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia33
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes32
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology32
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland32
Asking sensitive questions in conservation using Randomised Response Techniques32
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses32
A cumulative effects model for population trajectories of resident killer whales in the Northeast Pacific32
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent31
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries31
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic31
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible31
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island30
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon30
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew30
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)30
Overlooked jewels: Existing habitat patches complement sown flower strips to conserve pollinators30
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality30
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?30
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion30
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases30
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration30
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature30
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts29
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]29
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]29
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]29
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Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases29
Proportional sampling strategy often captures more genetic diversity when population sizes vary28
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?28
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia28
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Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management28
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran28
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion28
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback28
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk27
A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies27
Corrigendum to “Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits” [Biol. Conserv. 306 (2025) 111155]27
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation27
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation27
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review27
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands27
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?27
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections27
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency27
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves26
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks26
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings26
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris26
Evaluating created wetlands for bird diversity and reproductive success26
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve26
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees26
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline26
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years26
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species26
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium25
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison25
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective25
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx25
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent25
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework25
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people25
Reforestation can compensate negative effects of climate change on amphibians25
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world25
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas25
Insights from long-term shorebird monitoring for tracking change in ecological character of Australasian Ramsar sites25
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions24
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Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens24
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being24
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss24
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Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?24
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Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade24
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers23
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts23
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators23
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities23
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages23
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries23
Growing grasses in unprofitable areas of US Midwest croplands could increase species richness23
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization23
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world23
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species23
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina23
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe22
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management22
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests22
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses22
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”22
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement22
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems21
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models21
Tracking juveniles confirms fisheries-bycatch hotspot for an endangered albatross21
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland21
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species21
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond21
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status21
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”21
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change21
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique21
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species21
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges21
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?21
Self-legitimacy among rangers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An empirical assessment20
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front20
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal20
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments20
Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring20
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation20
Symbols, wolves and conflicts20
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure20
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation20
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards20
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America20
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management20
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy20
Contrasting long-term population trends of beach-nesting shorebirds under shared environmental pressures20
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators20
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers20
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards20
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species19
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming19
Doubtful estimates of wildlife killed by free-ranging cats in China. A response to Y. Li et al. Biological Conservation 253 (2021) 10892919
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management19
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models19
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A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring19
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers19
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle19
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia19
High bird mortality due to power lines invokes urgent environmental mitigation in a tropical desert18
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?18
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””18
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines18
Do apex predators need to regulate prey populations to be a right conservation target?18
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold18
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data18
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine18
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance18
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species18
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics18
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications18
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology18
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world18
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible18
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong18
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda18
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery18
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches18
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) 118
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited18
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes17
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival17
Delivering behavioural change at scale: What conservation can learn from other fields17
Assessing the drivers of illegal resource use to improve wildlife conservation interventions17
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community17
An ethical analysis of cloning for genetic rescue: Case study of the black-footed ferret17
Identifying optimal wavelengths to maximise the detection rates of marine fauna from aerial surveys17
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?17
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds17
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds17
Short-term gain, long-term loss: How a widely-used conservation tool could further threaten sea turtles17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas17
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada17
Conservation efforts fail to halt the decline of the regionally endangered Natterjack toad (Epidalea calamita) in Ireland17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?17
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean17
Using internet search data to understand information seeking behavior for health and conservation topics during the COVID-19 pandemic16
Protected areas in Central Mexico - are they fit in promoting species persistence under climate and land use changes?16
The transformative potential of local stakeholder engagement in the reintroduction of a contested species16
The biodiversity benefits of marine protected areas in well-regulated fisheries16
Commodity crops in biodiversity-rich production landscapes: Friends or foes? The example of cotton in the Mid Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe16
What Science in the tropics should not be about16
Protecting prey by deceiving predators: A field experiment testing chemical camouflage and conditioned food aversion16
Increasing livestock grazing, the unintended consequence of community development funding on giant panda habitat16
Mitigation and conservation plant translocations: Do perspectives of practice, funding and success vary between sectors?16
Population genetics of museum specimens indicate decreasing genetic resiliency: The case of two bumble bees of conservation concern16
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Snaring devastates terrestrial ungulates whilst sparing arboreal primates in Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape16
Culturomics for (not against!) protected areas16
Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions16
Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot16
Mass mortality events and declining obligate scavengers in the Anthropocene: Social feeders may be critical16
Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration dominated vegetation dynamics during the 1980s-2010s in Yunnan, China16
Exploring the potential of habitat banking in preserving freshwater biodiversity and imperiled species16
Dynamics of the Czech flora over the last 60 years: Winners, losers and causes of changes15
When a pest-control species becomes a pest: A shift in the foraging habitat of cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and the threat to grazed natural ecosystems15
Improving restoration outcomes of boreal Sphagnum-dominated peatlands after peat-extraction: The key role of phosphorus fertilization15
Indirect impacts of commercial gold mining on adjacent ecosystems15
Changing determinants of international conservation funding committed to major deforestation regions in South America15
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates15
Literature, social media and questionnaire surveys identify relevant conservation areas for Carcharhinus species in the Mediterranean Sea15
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 (15
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