Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	185
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages	184
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models	134
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes	110
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats	105
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Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people	98
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning	97
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions	94
Vegetation change in dry grasslands in Northeast Germany over two decades: A resurvey	91
Mesoscale ocean dynamics structure fisheries interaction risk for an endangered seabird	83
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]	81
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes	79
Extreme weather events accelerate biological invasions: Mechanisms and conservation implications	76
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa	74
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles	71
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion	62
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands	61
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert	60
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'	59
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	57
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data	56
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population	54
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation	54
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?	53

Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices	52
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies	51
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night	51
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians	51
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes	51
Changes in habitat connectivity for range-restricted birds reflect patterns of woodland invasion	50
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests	50
Land sparing outperforms land sharing across an elevational gradient in tropical cattle-farming landscapes	49
Integrating habitat suitability, connectivity, and individual-based models to guide priorities for the creation of a lynx metapopulation in Southeastern Europe	49
Preferences for fair decision-making principles in marine conservation	48
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna	47
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade	47
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks	46
Açaí management intensification impoverishes Amazonian avian assemblages in estuarine forests	46
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas	46
Timing of attraction to light of nocturnal insects is spectrum and taxon dependent: implications for mitigating light pollution	46
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs	45
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density	45
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps	44
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe	43
Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences	42
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From captivity to recovery: Successful reintroduction of the extinct-in-the-wild Zoogoneticus tequila into its natural habitat	40
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?	40
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland	39
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts	39
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains	38
Effects of roads on animals and mitigation measures in Asia	37
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?	37
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback	37
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island	37
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia	37
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 110559	37
Unstructured spatial gradients in anthropogenic landscapes drive contrasting rodent and bat metacommunities, underscoring the need for multiscale conservation planning	37
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion	37
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion	37
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality	36
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands	36
Turtles and turnarounds: Small animal exclusion fencing effectively reduces turtle road mortality	36
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries	36
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]	35
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent	35
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]	35
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management	35
Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia	35
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]	35
Integrating conservation priorities into spatial planning for renewable energy development: The case of the Spanish imperial eagle	35
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]	35
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk	34

Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia	34
A new normal? Population growth rates of a rare alpine plant stabilize after periods of decline, but not enough to allow for full population recovery	34
Slaying the hydra of journal impact factor obsession in evaluating conservation biology research	34
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration	34
The bees' knees: A review and meta-analysis of urban green-space habitats for insect pollinators	33
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	33
Are commercial wild-harvested plants just ordinary? Traits, harvesting patterns and conservation implications in France	33
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew	33
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran	33
“Persistent ecological impacts related to West Nile virus revealed using community science and vector surveillance data”	33
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases	32
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)	32
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic	32
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	31
How much monitoring is needed to reliably track progress towards genetic diversity targets?	31
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation	31
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s	30
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses	30
Wild pears in peril: Does National Park protection ensure tree conservation?	30
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway	30
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes	29
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections	29
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence	29
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible	29
Local communities affect conservation effectiveness of protected area on a critically endangered primate	29
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Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?	28
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review	28
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists	28
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation	28
Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District	28
Integrating noninvasive genetics and SECR to estimate snow leopard population in Pakistan	28
Genomic insights into structure and adaptive capacity of fragmented European ground squirrel populations: Implications for conservation translocations and genetic rescue	28
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity	28
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon	28
From digital decision-support to policy implementation: An operational framework for agri-environmental schemes	28
Endemic bird species are far more threatened than previously thought across the semiarid Caatinga dry forest domain	28
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss	27
The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies	27
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris	27
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Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world	27
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework	27
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable	27
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats	27
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure	27
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations	27
Practitioner disagreement over primeval forest management: Insights from a Policy Delphi process	27
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Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years	26
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve	26
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective	26
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx	26
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks	26
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees	26
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species	26
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline	26
Corrigendum to “A 25-year longitudinal assessment of Macaca sylvanus population dynamics and forest decline in Morocco's Middle Atlas” [Biol. Conserv. 310 (2025) 111334]	26
Amphibians under artificial light at night: Current knowledge, conservation challenges and future directions	25
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world	25
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas	25
Breeding synchrony in European bison determined by winter foraging conditions	25
Genetic forensics for ocean protection: A meta-review of DNA-based identification methods to combat seafood fraud in the Eastern South Pacific	25
Predators at the nursery: Grizzly-Caribou spatiotemporal overlap in a declining herd?	25
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings	25
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization	25
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being	25
A century of change: Many losers vs. few winners among Swiss grassland plants	25
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages	25
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium	25
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions	24
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments	24
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?	24
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits	24
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”	24
Designing for diversity: Wetland ageing and habitat features at multiple scales influence the use of constructed wetlands by breeding waterfowl	24
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers	24
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”	24
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement	23
Corrigendum to “Between Hype and Hope: De-extinction is a tool, not a panacea for the biodiversity crisis” [Biol. Conserv. volume 309 (2025) 111307]	23

Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests	23
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure	23
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models	23
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status	23
Symbols, wolves and conflicts	23
Long-term research presence mitigates hunting pressure and shapes mammal communities in the Congo Basin	23
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards	23
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation	23
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries	23
Anthropogenic water depletion outweighs climate change as a cause of wet grassland bird decline in Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park	23
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species	23
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe	23
Footprint of state border infrastructure extends beyond the border: Tree damage and roadkill along a road in Białowieża Forest, northeastern Poland	22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)	22
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?	22
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management	22
Saharan vertebrate flagships are good ecosystem-wide climate response surrogates	22
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring	22
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique	22
Diversity, distribution and conservation of Annonaceae (Magnoliales) in Madagascar	22
Spatial ecology of recolonized elk in agricultural landscapes of the Northern Great Plains	22
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management	22
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America	22
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change	22
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses	22
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy	22
Geodiversity conservation in the Cerrado: Representation of geophysical scenarios in the biome's protected areas network	22
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species	21
Revisiting “Penguins in the anthropause: Covid-19 closures drive gentoo penguin movement among breeding colonies”	21
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges	21
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front	21
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation	21
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland	21
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers	21
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond	21
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management	21
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species	21
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal	21
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina	21
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies	21
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators	21
The pink Amazon?’ Metabarcoding reveals Rhodolith beds as hidden hotspots of global marine biodiversity	21
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers	21
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species	21
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems	21
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards	21
Influence of traffic volume on mammal beta diversity within the road effect zone	20
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle	20
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””	20
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics	20
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong	20
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world	20
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming	20
Protected areas serve as climate refugia by reducing thermal stress in lizards	20
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?	20
Book review	20
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches	20
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine	20
Corrigendum to “Effectiveness and design of marine protected areas for migratory species of conservation concern: A case study of post-nesting hawksbill turtles in Brazil” [Biol. Conserv. 261 (2021) 1	20
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery	20
Wildfire smoke reduces the vocal activity of imperiled grassland birds in New York State	19
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines	19
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible	19
Environmental gradients drive context-dependent seed fate: Synergistic roles of forest succession, edge effects, and masting in shaping rodent dispersal dynamics	19
Connectivity structure in fragmented forest areas in the Brazilian Amazon	19
From reintroduction to extinction risk: Past, present and future of the newly established population of ospreys in southern Iberia	19
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds	19
Wildlife consumption is widespread across Equatorial Guinea and hunted species are more threatened now than 35 years ago	19
The role of ‘bright spots’ in elevating conservation success in Canada	19
Drivers of human-saiga antelope conflict in semi-arid rangelands of West Kazakhstan	19
Promising governance approaches for reversing biodiversity loss	19
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism	19
Evaluating education for biodiversity: A scoping review of practices and frameworks	19
Corrigendum to “The conservation value of linear forest remnants in central Amazonia” [Biol. Conserv. 91 (1999, page–241-247) 1162]	19
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species	19
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?	19
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada	19
How nature experience and nature connectedness matter to school students' attitudes towards biodiversity	19
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas	19
Conservation prioritization based on plant richness and endemism in Myanmar	19
Genomic evidence reframes the risks of genetic rescue for Australia's rarest Eucalyptus	19
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks	19
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance	19
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean	19
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions	19
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited	18
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A 50-year perspective on conservation challenges and legacy effects in temperate Patagonian forests	18
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology	18
King Island as a microcosm of 19th- and 20th-century agricultural land clearing in Australia	18
A spatial socio-ecological framework for targeting multi-species restoration across multi-use landscapes	18
13 years of wildlife protection strategies in forest stewardship council-certified timber concessions in central Africa	18
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Restoration of forests supports the conservation of pollinators in intensively managed agricultural landscapes	18
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications	18