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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Recycled water reuse: what factors affect public acceptance?	29
Re-conceptualizing the role(s) of science in biodiversity conservation	24
Not teaching what we practice: undergraduate conservation training at UK universities lacks interdisciplinarity	17
Buy them out before they are built: evaluating the proactive acquisition of vacant land in flood-prone areas	17
Corporate responsibility and biodiversity conservation: challenges and opportunities for companies participating in China’s Belt and Road Initiative	16
Brazil’s Highway BR-319 demonstrates a crucial lack of environmental governance in Amazonia	16
Biodiversity revisited through systems thinking	15
Risk perception, trust and support for wildlife reintroduction and conservation	13
Is the Anthropause a useful symbol and metaphor for raising environmental awareness and promoting reform?	13
Google Trends data reveal a sharp trend: teeth and claws attract more interest than feathers, hooves or fins	12
The Brazilian Caatinga protected areas: an extremely unbalanced conservation system	12
Understanding community perceptions of a natural open space system for urban conservation and stewardship in a metropolitan city in Africa	11
Engaging women brings conservation benefits to snow leopard landscapes	11
Urbanization impacts water quality and the use of microhabitats by fish in subtropical agricultural streams	10
From social networks to bird enthusiasts: reporting interactions between plastic waste and birds in Peru	10
The first acts of Brazil’s new president: Lula’s new Amazon institutionality	10
Connecting protected areas in the Iberian peninsula to facilitate climate change tracking	10
Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?	10
Human-carnivore coexistence: factors influencing stakeholder attitudes towards large carnivores and conservation in Zimbabwe	9
Hunting sustainability within two eastern Amazon Extractive Reserves	9
A scoping review of environmental governance challenges in southern Africa from 2010 to 2020	7
Invasive species policy in Brazil: a review and critical analysis	7
On the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns for the management of invasive species	7
Engaging with the science and politics of biodiversity futures: a literature review	6
Differential responses of Kashmir Himalayan threatened medicinal plants to anticipated climate change	6

Mountain freshwater ecosystems and protected areas in the tropical Andes: insights and gaps for climate change adaptation	6
From wildlife-ism to ecosystem-service-ism to a broader environmentalism	6
Impact of individual protected areas on deforestation and carbon emissions in Acre, Brazil	6
Integrating burrowing crayfish and waterfowl conservation management on moist-soil wetlands	6
Jaguars and wild pigs indicate protected area connectivity in the south-east Atlantic Forest (Brazil)	6
Elephant ivory, rhino horn, pangolin and helmeted hornbill products for sale at the Myanmar–Thailand–China border	6
Shifting values and the fate of sacred forests in Guinea-Bissau: are community-managed forests the answer?	5
Impact of soil and water conservation measures on farm productivity and income in the semi-arid tropics of Bundelkhand, central India	5
Brazil: environment under attack	5
Landscape heterogeneity: concepts, quantification, challenges and future perspectives	5
Climate-driven animal mass mortality events: is there a role for scavengers?	5
Serra do Divisor National Park: a protected area under threat in the south-western Brazilian Amazon	5
Deforestation risk in the Peruvian Amazon basin	5
Complex spatiotemporal changes in land-use and ecosystem services in the Jeju Island UNESCO heritage and biosphere site (Republic of Korea)	5
Potential range shifts and climatic refugia of rupicolous reptiles in a biodiversity hotspot of South Africa	5
IPBES as a transformative agent: opportunities and risks	4
Zoometric data extraction from drone imagery: the Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx)	4
Spatiotemporal evaluation of waning grassland habitats for swamp deer conservation across the human-dominated upper Gangetic Plains, India	4
Tourism, international wildlife trade and the (in)effectiveness of CITES	4
Blockchain’s potential in forest offsets, the voluntary carbon markets and REDD+	4
Livelihood vulnerability increases human–wildlife interactions	4
Successful management of invasive rats across a fragmented landscape	4
Expert-based assessment of the climate change vulnerability of amphibians and reptiles of Uruguay	4
Specimens of opportunity provide vital information for research and conservation regarding elusive whale species	4
More of the same: new policies continue fostering the use of non-native fish in Brazil	4
Terrestrial protected areas do not fully shield their streams from exogenous stressors	4
Spatial conservation prioritization considering socioeconomic costs and degradation conditions in the Southwest China Biodiversity Hotspot	4
Conservation and privatization decisions in land reform of New Zealand’s high country	4
The ABC of planetary insecurity: a crisis in need of system acupuncture	4
Barriers and opportunities regarding community-based forest management in Afghanistan: considerations for fragile states	3
Emotions and the tolerance of large carnivores: pumas in a crop-based landscape in Brazil	3
Public and private protected areas can work together to facilitate the long-term persistence of mammals	3
Worth more than 1000 words: how photographs can bolster viewers’ valuing of biodiversity	3
A machine learning approach to mapping canopy gaps in an indigenous tropical submontane forest using WorldView-3 multispectral satellite imagery	3
Mapping high-altitude peatlands to inform a landscape conservation strategy in the Andes of northern Peru	3
Temporal differences in snail diversity responses to wildfires and salvage logging	3
The effect of conservation policies on wildlife hunting and consumption in north-eastern Madagascar	3
Multi-level social-ecological networks in a payments for ecosystem services programme in central Veracruz, Mexico	3
Investigating sea urchin densities critical to macroalgal control on degraded coral reefs	3
Mapping functional tree regions of the Atlantic Forest: how much is left and opportunities for conservation	3
Youth wildlife preferences and species-based conservation priorities in a low-income biodiversity hotspot region	3
Teachers’ perspectives and practices on biodiversity web portals as an opportunity to reconnect education with nature	3
The Australian public worries more about losing species than the costs of keeping them	2
Effects of free-flight activities on wildlife: a poorly understood issue in conservation	2
Perceived benefits, burdens and effectiveness of a buffer zone programme in improving protected area–people relationships	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
Exploring the alignment between the bottom-up and top-down objectives of a landscape-scale conservation initiative	2
Assessment of the effect of landowner type on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using remote sensing data	2
Conservation, uncertainty and intellectual humility	2

Sacred groves: a model of Zagros forests for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation	2
Information about conservation status is more important than species appearance in the species preferences of potential conservation donors	2
Unregulated sales of fishing nets: consequences and possible solutions in Brazil	2
Community perceptions of environmental water: a review	2
Sanitation is the greatest concern in outdoor cat management but ecological message frames promote biodiversity conservation in Japan	2
Spatial and taxonomic diversification for conservation investment under uncertainty	2
Changes in the potential distribution of valuable tree species based on their regeneration in the Neotropical seasonal dry forest of north-western Argentina	2
Commuters: a waterbird provides a new view of how species may utilize cities and wildlands	2
Using stakeholder’s perspectives of ‘Managed Access’ to guide management efforts in small-scale fisheries	2
The COVID-19 lockdown provides clues for better science communication on environmental recovery	2