Conservation Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Conservation Biology 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.)
ArticleCitations
The scope and severity of white‐nose syndrome on hibernating bats in North America139
Guiding principles for rewilding97
How to address data privacy concerns when using social media data in conservation science90
Digital data sources and methods for conservation culturomics84
Global effects of extreme temperatures on wild bumblebees75
An introduction to decision science for conservation68
Automated conservation assessment of the orchid family with deep learning64
Testing a global standard for quantifying species recovery and assessing conservation impact62
Evaluating the social and ecological effectiveness of partially protected marine areas61
Conducting conservation social science surveys online58
The importance of Indigenous Peoples’ lands for the conservation of terrestrial mammals57
Global rarity of intact coastal regions54
A global evaluation of the effectiveness of voluntary REDD+ projects at reducing deforestation and degradation in the moist tropics51
Ecological responses to variation in seasonal snow cover47
A quantitative global review of species population monitoring45
A guide to using the internet to monitor and quantify the wildlife trade45
Bridging research and practice in conservation43
An agenda for research and action toward diverse and just futures for life on Earth42
Exploring human–nature interactions in national parks with social media photographs and computer vision41
Meta‐analysis of genetic representativeness of plant populations under ex situ conservation in contrast to wild source populations40
How decisions about fitting species distribution models affect conservation outcomes39
Microplastic contamination in Great Lakes fish37
Invasion Culturomics and iEcology35
Assessing the population‐level conservation effects of marine protected areas35
A global ecological signal of extinction risk in terrestrial vertebrates34
Mitigation translocation as a management tool33
Emotion as a source of moral understanding in conservation33
Growth of non‐English‐language literature on biodiversity conservation33
Genetic diversity and IUCN Red List status33
Conservation resource allocation, small population resiliency, and the fallacy of conservation triage32
Promoting meaningful and positive nature interactions for visitors to green spaces31
Use of environmental DNA in assessment of fish functional and phylogenetic diversity31
Closing the knowledge‐action gap in conservation with open science30
Translating the 10 golden rules of reforestation for coral reef restoration30
Urban sprawl into Natura 2000 network over Europe29
Parasites as conservation tools28
The relative importance of COVID‐19 pandemic impacts on biodiversity conservation globally28
Conservation and social outcomes of private protected areas28
Using Wikipedia to measure public interest in biodiversity and conservation28
Age and spatial distribution of the world's oldest trees27
Citizen science for environmental citizenship27
Guidelines for genetic monitoring of translocated plant populations27
Genomic erosion in a demographically recovered bird species during conservation rescue27
How the diversity of human concepts of nature affects conservation of biodiversity27
Effects of anthropogenic landscapes on population maintenance of waterbirds26
Climate adaptation of biodiversity conservation in managed forest landscapes26
Matching biodiversity indicators to policy needs26
Coupling urban 3‐D information and circuit theory to advance the development of urban ecological networks25
Near‐term ecological forecasting for dynamic aeroconservation of migratory birds25
Importance of health assessments for conservation in noncaptive wildlife25
Determinants of population persistence and abundance of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates stranded in tropical forest land‐bridge islands25
A counterfactual approach to measure the impact of wet grassland conservation on U.K. breeding bird populations25
A critical review of the compassionate conservation debate25
Evaluating impacts of forage fish abundance on marine predators25
Marine reserves, fisheries ban, and 20 years of positive change in a coral reef ecosystem24
A roadmap for the conservation of freshwater mussels in Europe24
Global protected‐area coverage and human pressure on tidal flats24
The immediate costs and long‐term benefits of assisted gene flow in large populations24
Turning a lost reef ecosystem into a national restoration program24
Wild meat trade over the last 45 years in the Peruvian Amazon23
The need for formal reflexivity in conservation science22
Transcending capitalism growth strategies for biodiversity conservation22
The importance of tangible and intangible factors in human–carnivore coexistence22
Consensus and controversy in the discipline of invasion science22
Data justice and biodiversity conservation21
A meta‐analysis of anthropogenic impacts on physiological stress in wild primates21
Opportunities and challenges for Common Agricultural Policy reform to support the European Green Deal21
Reliability of evidence‐review methods in restoration ecology21
Cooling of bat hibernacula to mitigate white‐nose syndrome21
An emerging coastal wetland management dilemma between mangrove expansion and shorebird conservation20
Benefits of protected areas for nonbreeding waterbirds adjusting their distributions under climate warming20
Functional diversity loss and change in nocturnal behavior of mammals under anthropogenic disturbance20
Long‐term drivers of persistence and colonization dynamics in spatially structured amphibian populations20
Applying assessments of adaptive capacity to inform natural‐resource management in a changing climate20
Effects of climate and human activity on the current distribution of amphibians in China20
Prevalence of sustainable and unsustainable use of wild species inferred from the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species20
Negative effects of nitrogen deposition on Swiss butterflies19
Evaluating unintended consequences of intentional species introductions and eradications for improved conservation management19
Impact of marine protected areas on temporal stability of fish species diversity19
Impacts of rural to urban migration, urbanization, and generational change on consumption of wild animals in the Amazon19
Participatory scenario planning to facilitate human–wildlife coexistence19
The U.S. market for imported wildlife not listed in the CITES multilateral treaty19
Applying a values‐based decision process to facilitate comanagement of threatened species in Aotearoa New Zealand19
Bridging gaps in demographic analysis with phylogenetic imputation19
Approaches to interdisciplinary mixed methods research in land‐change science and environmental management18
Large carnivore hunting and the social license to hunt18
Boosting freshwater fish conservation with high‐resolution distribution mapping across a large territory18
Tropical and subtropical Asia's valued tree species under threat18
Animal agency in wildlife conservation and management18
Impact of cocoa agricultural intensification on bird diversity and community composition18
How percentage‐protected targets can support positive biodiversity outcomes18
Combining culturomic sources to uncover trends in popularity and seasonal interest in plants18
Importance of conserving large and old trees to continuity of tree‐related microhabitats18
Combining surface and soil environmental DNA with artificial cover objects to improve terrestrial reptile survey detection17
Using expert knowledge to support Endangered Species Act decision‐making for data‐deficient species17
Meta‐analysis of ecosystem services associated with oyster restoration17
Using historical spy satellite photographs and recent remote sensing data to identify high‐conservation‐value forests17
Making a case for the consideration of trust, justice, and power in conservation relationships17
Improving species status assessments under the U.S. Endangered Species Act and implications for multispecies conservation challenges worldwide17
Determining the role of eudaimonic values in conservation behavior17
A roadmap for ladybird conservation and recovery17
Effects of aquaculture on the maintenance of waterbird populations16
Scientific contributions of citizen science applied to rare or threatened animals16
Efficacy‐based and normative interventions for facilitating the diffusion of conservation behavior through social networks16
Habitat use of and threats to African large carnivores in a mixed‐use landscape16
A systematic review of animal personality in conservation science16
Automated detection of frog calls and choruses by pulse repetition rate16
Assessing the extinction risk of insular, understudied marine species16
Synthesizing habitat connectivity analyses of a globally important human‐dominated tiger‐conservation landscape15
Challenges and a call to action for protecting European red wood ants15
Challenges of and opportunities for protecting European soil biodiversity15
Effects of human footprint and biophysical factors on the body‐size structure of fished marine species15
Translating habitat class to land cover to map area of habitat of terrestrial vertebrates15
The species awareness index as a conservation culturomics metric for public biodiversity awareness15
Improving protected area effectiveness through consideration of different human‐pressure baselines15
Global status, impacts, and management of rocky temperate mesophotic ecosystems15
Red‐list status and extinction risk of the world's whales, dolphins, and porpoises15
Subterranean freshwater gastropod biodiversity and conservation in the United States and Mexico15
Systematic review of conservation interventions to promote voluntary behavior change15
Alarming decline of freshwater trigger species in western Mediterranean key biodiversity areas15
Relative influence of environmental factors and fishing on coral reef fish assemblages14
A global community‐sourced assessment of the state of conservation technology14
Importance of timely metadata curation to the global surveillance of genetic diversity14
A landscape‐scale framework to identify refugia from multiple stressors14
Psychological drivers of risk‐reducing behaviors to limit human–wildlife conflict14
Extinction risk of the endemic vascular flora of Kauai, Hawaii, based on IUCN assessments14
Systematic map of conservation psychology14
Illegal fisheries, environmental crime, and the conservation of marine resources14
Spatial cost–benefit analysis of blue restoration and factors driving net benefits globally14
Prioritizing the reassessment of data‐deficient species on the IUCN Red List14
A guide to representing variability and uncertainty in biodiversity indicators14
Ecological and economic implications of alternative metrics in biodiversity offset markets13
Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway13
The perils of flawed science in wildlife trade literature13
Gillnet illumination as an effective measure to reduce sea turtle bycatch13
Ethics and governance for internet‐based conservation science research12
Achieving conservation and restoration outcomes through ecologically beneficial aquaculture12
A qualitative systematic review of governance principles for mangrove conservation12
Conservation overstretch and long‐term decline of wildlife and tourism in the Central African savannas12
Risks to large marine protected areas posed by drifting fish aggregation devices12
Effects of protected areas on survival of threatened gibbons in China12
Complex effects of habitat amount and fragmentation on functional connectivity and inbreeding in a giant panda population12
A decision framework for estimating the cost of marine plastic pollution interventions12
Tools for assessing the psychometric adequacy of latent variables in conservation research12
Human disturbance and shifts in vertebrate community composition in a biodiversity hotspot12
Review of hyperdispersal in wildlife translocations12
Identifying robust strategies for assisted migration in a competitive stochastic metacommunity12
Consequences of ignoring dispersal variation in network models for landscape connectivity12
Contribution of warm habitat to cold‐water fisheries12
Quantifying the global threat to native birds from predation by non‐native birds on small islands12
Using cognitive mapping to understand conservation planning11
Effects of interactions between anthropogenic stressors and recurring perturbations on ecosystem resilience and collapse11
Improving species‐based area protection in Antarctica11
Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement11
Global trends in research output by zoos and aquariums11
Economic costs of protecting islands from invasive alien species11
Leveraging social media and deep learning to detect rare megafauna in video surveys10
Conservation planning on China's borders with Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam10
Effects of urban greenspace configuration and native vegetation on bee and wasp reproduction10
Change in avian functional fingerprints of a Neotropical montane forest over 100 years as an indicator of ecosystem integrity10
The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of interest10
Supporting habitat conservation with automated change detection in Google Earth Engine10
Novel chytrid pathogen variants and the global amphibian pet trade10
Biotic homogenization and differentiation of plant communities in tropical and subtropical forests10
Introduction: New directions in conservation psychology at a critical time10
Impact of multiple small and persistent threats on extinction risk10
Software for prioritizing conservation actions based on probabilistic information10
Linking life history to landscape for threatened species conservation in a multiuse region10
Revisiting two dogmas of conservation science10
Identifying and mitigating the impacts on primates of transportation and service corridors10
The wild ancestors of domestic animals as a neglected and threatened component of biodiversity9
Building a better baseline to estimate 160 years of avian population change and create historically informed conservation targets9
Effects of knowledge and emotion on support for novel synthetic biology applications9
Balancing making a difference with making a living in the conservation sector9
Introducing a common taxonomy to support learning from failure in conservation9
Using fisher‐contributed secondary fins to fill critical shark‐fisheries data gaps9
Recognizing reflexivity among conservation practitioners9
Evaluating global interest in biodiversity and conservation9
Modeling population effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on a long‐lived species9
Indigenous insights on human–wildlife coexistence in southern India9
Scaling up private land conservation to meet recovery goals for grassland birds9
Importance of deepening integration of crime and conservation sciences9
Introduction9
Progress developing the concept of other effective area‐based conservation measures9
Learning outcomes measured in zoo and aquarium conservation education9
Linking small‐scale fisheries co‐management to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals9
Ecological relevance of non‐perennial rivers for the conservation of terrestrial and aquatic communities9
Obstruction of biodiversity conservation by minimum patch size criteria9
Evidence‐based guidelines for automated conservation assessments of plant species9
Lessons from Palau to end parachute science in international conservation research9
Evident but context‐dependent mortality of fish passing hydroelectric turbines9
Understanding why consumers in China switch between wild, farmed, and synthetic bear bile products9
Mitigating the effects of climate change on the nests of sea turtles with artificial irrigation9
Conserving alpha and beta diversity in wood‐production landscapes9
Practical guide to coproduction in conservation science8
Using culturomics and social media data to characterize wildlife consumption8
Combined impacts of future climate‐driven vegetation changes and socioeconomic pressures on protected areas in Africa8
A framework for allocating conservation resources among multiple threats and actions8
Retaining natural vegetation to safeguard biodiversity and humanity8
Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change8
A multidisciplinary approach to estimating wolf population size for long‐term conservation8
Need for global conservation assessments and frameworks to include airspace habitat8
Longitudinal monitoring of neutral and adaptive genomic diversity in a reintroduction8
Savviness of prey to introduced predators8
Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods for land‐use‐change modeling in a deforestation frontier8
Redesigning harvest strategies for sustainable fishery management in the face of extreme environmental variability8
Effects of different management strategies on long‐term trends of Australian threatened and near‐threatened mammals8
Exploring metapopulation‐scale suppression alternatives for a global invader in a river network experiencing climate change8
Relationships between hope, optimism, and conservation engagement8
Global effects of forest modification on herpetofauna communities8
Wilderness forms and their implications for global environmental policy and conservation8
Assessing the strength of climate and land‐use influences on montane epiphyte communities8
Effects of stewardship on protected area effectiveness for coastal birds8
A stochastic model for estimating sustainable limits to wildlife mortality in a changing world8
Moving from trends to benchmarks by using regression tree analysis to find inbreeding thresholds in a critically endangered bird8
Conceptual frameworks and key questions for assessing the contribution of marine protected areas to shark and ray conservation8
Trends in seabird breeding populations across the Great Barrier Reef7
Collaborative and consensus‐based approaches for human–wildlife coexistence: response to Treves and Santiago‐Ávila 20207
Protected area planning to conserve biodiversity in an uncertain future7
Assessing species reintroduction sites based on future climate suitability for food resources7
A systematic review of snake translocations to identify potential tactics for reducing postrelease effects7
Meta‐analysis of landowner participation in voluntary incentive programs for provision of forest ecosystem services7
Strengthening conservation science as a crisis discipline by addressing challenges of precaution, privilege, and individualism7
The promise and perils of engineering cave climates: response to Turner et al.7
Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes7
Using social media records to inform conservation planning7
Modeling scale up of anthropogenic impacts from individual pollinator behavior to pollination systems7
An economic evaluation framework for land‐use‐based conservation policy instruments in a changing climate7
Developing shared qualitative models for complex systems7
Framing co‐productive conservation in partnership with Arctic Indigenous peoples7
Identifying the possibilities and pitfalls of conducting IUCN Red List assessments from remotely sensed habitat information based on insights from poorly known Cuban mammals7
Cliffs as priority ecosystems7
Mainstreaming the humanities in conservation7
Lessons from other disciplines for setting management thresholds for biodiversity conservation7
Protected area characteristics that help waterbirds respond to climate warming7
Assessing protected area vulnerability to climate change in a case study of South African national parks7
Phylogeny‐based conservation priorities for Australian freshwater fishes7
Prevalence and perspectives of illegal trade in cacti and succulent plants in the collector community7
Challenges at the intersection of conservation and ethics: Reply to Meyer et al. 20217
Identifying predictors of translocation success in rare plant species7
Using the IUCN Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa to inform decision‐making7
Habitat‐based biodiversity assessment for ecosystem accounting in the Murray–Darling Basin7
Redefining and mapping global irreplaceability7
Lessons from an experiment with values‐based messaging to support watershed conservation7
Projecting biodiversity benefits of conservation behavior‐change programs7
Effects of forest cover on richness of threatened fish species in Japan7
How to prioritize species recovery after a megafire6
Defining practical and robust study designs for interventions targeted at terrestrial mammalian predators6
Genetic erosion in an endangered desert fish during a megadrought despite long‐term supportive breeding6
Effects of learning and adaptation on population viability6
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