OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Conservation is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The need for improved reflexivity in conservation science	32
The illegal wildlife digital market: an analysis of Chinese wildlife marketing and sale on Facebook	30
Recycled water reuse: what factors affect public acceptance?	21
Biodiversity narratives: stories of the evolving conservation landscape	21
Transdisciplinary science for improved conservation outcomes	19
Dry forest is more threatened but less protected than evergreen forest in Ecuador’s coastal region	19
Re-conceptualizing the role(s) of science in biodiversity conservation	19
Boots on the ground: the role of passive acoustic monitoring in evaluating anti-poaching patrols	16
Not teaching what we practice: undergraduate conservation training at UK universities lacks interdisciplinarity	15
Brazil’s Highway BR-319 demonstrates a crucial lack of environmental governance in Amazonia	15
Distribution and impact of invasive alien plant species in Bardia National Park, western Nepal	14
Coupling law enforcement and community-based regulations in support of compliance with biodiversity conservation regulations	13
Biodiversity revisited through systems thinking	13
Invasive vertebrate eradications on islands as a tool for implementing global Sustainable Development Goals	13
Soybean expansion and the challenge of the coexistence of agribusiness with local production and conservation initiatives: pesticides in a Ramsar site in Uruguay	13
A pesticide banned in the European Union over a decade ago is still present in raptors in Poland	12
Corporate responsibility and biodiversity conservation: challenges and opportunities for companies participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative	12
Who gets to imagine transformative change? Participation and representation in biodiversity assessments	12
Promoting grazing or rewilding initiatives against rural exodus? The return of the wolf and other large carnivores must be considered	12
Is the Anthropause a useful symbol and metaphor for raising environmental awareness and promoting reform?	12
Risk perception, trust and support for wildlife reintroduction and conservation	11
Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas	11
Framing conservation: ‘biodiversity’ and the values embedded in scientific language	11
Private-land control and deforestation dynamics in the context of implementing the Native Forest Law in the Northern Argentinian Dry Chaco	11
The Brazilian Caatinga protected areas: an extremely unbalanced conservation system	9

The mycological social network a way forward for conservation of fungal biodiversity	9
Engaging women brings conservation benefits to snow leopard landscapes	9
Understanding community perceptions of a natural open space system for urban conservation and stewardship in a metropolitan city in Africa	9
Conservation and development: a cross-disciplinary overview	9
Human dimensions of human–lion conflict: a pre- and post-assessment of a lion conservation programme in the Okavango Delta, Botswana	9
Urbanization impacts water quality and the use of microhabitats by fish in subtropical agricultural streams	8
Hunting sustainability within two eastern Amazon Extractive Reserves	8
Connecting protected areas in the Iberian peninsula to facilitate climate change tracking	7
Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?	7
Google Trends data reveal a sharp trend: teeth and claws attract more interest than feathers, hooves or fins	7
Plague, pumas and potential zoonotic exposure in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem	6
From wildlife-ism to ecosystem-service-ism to a broader environmentalism	6
Elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin and helmeted hornbill products for sale at the Myanmar–Thailand–China border	6
Human-carnivore coexistence: factors influencing stakeholder attitudes towards large carnivores and conservation in Zimbabwe	6
Comparison of local knowledge and researcher-led observations for wildlife exploitation assessment and management	6
Serra do Divisor National Park: a protected area under threat in the south-western Brazilian Amazon	5
Conservation networks: are zoos and aquariums collaborating or competing through partnerships?	5
A scoping review of environmental governance challenges in southern Africa from 2010 to 2020	5
Jaguars and wild pigs indicate protected area connectivity in the south-east Atlantic Forest (Brazil)	5
Impact of individual protected areas on deforestation and carbon emissions in Acre, Brazil	5
Conservation and privatization decisions in land reform of New Zealand’s high country	4
Biocultural conservation in the sacred forests of Odisha, India	4
The first acts of Brazil’s new president: Lula’s new Amazon institutionality	4
Re-greening of agrosystems in the Burkina Faso Sahel: greater drought resilience but falling woody plant diversity	4
The ABC of planetary insecurity: a crisis in need of system acupuncture	4
Complex spatiotemporal changes in land-use and ecosystem services in the Jeju Island UNESCO heritage and biosphere site (Republic of Korea)	4
Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape	4
Zoometric data extraction from drone imagery: the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)	4
Deforestation risk in the Peruvian Amazon basin	4
From social networks to bird enthusiasts: reporting interactions between plastic waste and birds in Peru	4
Information brokerage in Caribbean coral reef governance networks	4
Differential responses of Kashmir Himalayan threatened medicinal plants to anticipated climate change	4
Youth wildlife preferences and species-based conservation priorities in a low-income biodiversity hotspot region	3
Brazil: environment under attack	3
Potential range shifts and climatic refugia of rupicolous reptiles in a biodiversity hotspot of South Africa	3
The concept of ‘palimpsest’ in a reconceptualization of biodiversity conservation	3
More of the same: new policies continue fostering the use of non-native fish in Brazil	3
Integrating burrowing crayfish and waterfowl conservation management on moist-soil wetlands	3
The effect of conservation policies on wildlife hunting and consumption in north-eastern Madagascar	3
Engaging with the science and politics of biodiversity futures: a literature review	3
Multi-level social-ecological networks in a payments for ecosystem services programme in central Veracruz, Mexico	3
Spatial conservation prioritization considering socioeconomic costs and degradation conditions in the Southwest China Biodiversity Hotspot	3
Methods for prioritizing protected areas using individual and aggregate rankings	3
Specimens of opportunity provide vital information for research and conservation regarding elusive whale species	3
Perception of conservation strategies and nature’s contributions to people around Chingaza National Natural Park, Colombia	3
Mountain freshwater ecosystems and protected areas in the tropical Andes: insights and gaps for climate change adaptation	3
(Dis)agreements in the management of conservation conflicts in the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, Mexico	3
Invasive species policy in Brazil: a review and critical analysis	3
Influence of experience, interest, knowledge and learning source on children’s attitudes towards extensive grassland conservation	3
Blockchain’s potential in forest offsets, the voluntary carbon markets and REDD+	3

Climate-driven animal mass mortality events: is there a role for scavengers?	3
Investigating sea urchin densities critical to macroalgal control on degraded coral reefs	2
Landscape heterogeneity: concepts, quantification, challenges and future perspectives	2
Assessment of the effect of landowner type on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using remote sensing data	2
Emotions and the tolerance of large carnivores: pumas in a crop-based landscape in Brazil	2
Worth more than 1000 words: how photographs can bolster viewers’ valuing of biodiversity	2
Terrestrial protected areas do not fully shield their streams from exogenous stressors	2
Sacred groves: a model of Zagros forests for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation	2
Unregulated sales of fishing nets: consequences and possible solutions in Brazil	2
Using stakeholder’s perspectives of ‘Managed Access’ to guide management efforts in small-scale fisheries	2
Sanitation is the greatest concern in outdoor cat management but ecological message frames promote biodiversity conservation in Japan	2
Community perceptions of environmental water: a review	2
Effects of free-flight activities on wildlife: a poorly understood issue in conservation	2
Teachers’ perspectives and practices on biodiversity web portals as an opportunity to reconnect education with nature	2
Partitioning tree diversity patterns to prioritize conservation investments	2
Forest land-cover trends in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, 1994–2017	2
The COVID-19 lockdown provides clues for better science communication on environmental recovery	2
Public and private protected areas can work together to facilitate the long-term persistence of mammals	2
Temporal differences in snail diversity responses to wildfires and salvage logging	2
Livelihood vulnerability increases human–wildlife interactions	2
Spatial and taxonomic diversification for conservation investment under uncertainty	2
Spatiotemporal evaluation of waning grassland habitats for swamp deer conservation across the human-dominated upper Gangetic Plains, India	2