Conservation Biology

Article	Citations
Effects of snake fungal disease (ophidiomycosis) on the skin microbiome across two major experimental scales	119
Closing the gap between existing large‐area imaging research and marine conservation needs	112
Noted with Interest	93
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Fragmentation effects on an endangered species across a gradient from the interior to edge of its range	71
Global assessment of the biodiversity safeguards of development banks that finance infrastructure	64
Quantifying the impacts of future shoreline modification on biodiversity in a case study of coastal Georgia, United States	56
Conservation priorities for functionally unique and specialized terrestrial vertebrates threatened by biological invasions	56
A call to include fungi in wildlife trade research and policy	55
Using positionality and reflexivity to support equity in partnership‐driven research	55
How to prioritize species recovery after a megafire	52
Optimizing efficiency and resilience of no‐take marine protected areas for fish conservation under climate change along the coastlines of China Seas	48
Issue Information	47
Conservation and coexistence at a crossroads	46
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How scientists can make the case for international cooperation in an age of diplomatic retrenchment	45
Integrating expert range maps and opportunistic occurrence records of marine fish species in range estimates	45
Delayed plant genetic responses to forest edge dynamics and their conservation implications	43
A systematic review of animal personality in conservation science	43
Forest citizens and people‐centered conservation in the Brazilian Amazon	40
Contributions of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems to risk‐based design and management of protected and conserved areas in Africa	38
Perspectives on inclusion, safety, and belonging from members of the North American LGBTQIA+ conservation community	37
Book reviewers (June 2024 to June 2025)	37
Analysis of morphological attributes as a driver of trade in poison dart frogs	37
Emerging applications of large language models in ecology and conservation science	36

Avoiding an impending collision in international conservation	36
Integrating traditional practices, livelihoods, and conservation with Indigenous‐led furbearer camera trapping	36
Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon	36
Community engagement and power dynamics in conservation philanthropy grant making	35
Noted with interest	34
Correction to Extent of threats to marine fish from the online aquarium trade in the United States	33
Cover Caption	33
Drivers of support for citizen science across state wildlife management agencies in the United States	33
Noted with Interest	33
Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes	32
Identifying climate change refugia for South American biodiversity	32
Lessons from Palau to end parachute science in international conservation research	32
Application of decision tools to ethical analysis in biodiversity conservation	32
Incorporation of human–wildlife interactions in ecosystem‐based management to enhance conservation of endangered guitarfish	32
Ecological impacts of traffication	32
Effects of climate and land‐cover change on the conservation status of gibbons	31
Landscape‐scale predictions of future grassland conversion to cropland or development	31
Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change	31
Opportunities and challenges for Common Agricultural Policy reform to support the European Green Deal	30
Systematic review of conservation interventions to promote voluntary behavior change	30
Differences in climate change impacts on reptile embryos and adults	29
Communicating the true challenges of saving species: response to Wiedenfeld et al.	29
Assessing the performance of surrogate species in spatial conservation planning	28
Issue Information	28
Effects of agriculture and nature reserves on avian behavior in northwestern Costa Rica	28
In memoriam: Eleanor Jane Sterling (1960–2023)	27
Three‐dimensional conservation planning of fish biodiversity metrics to achieve the deep‐sea 30×30 conservation target	26
Examining the structure of plant–lemur interactions in the face of imperfect knowledge	26
Scale of unregulated international trade in Australian reptiles and amphibians	26
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Issue Information	25
Social valuation of biodiversity relative to other types of assets at risk in wildfire	25
Bibliometric investigation of the integration of animal personality in conservation contexts	25
Factors associated with preemptive conservation under the U.S. Endangered Species Act	25
Integrating biodiversity hotspots, ecological gradients, and ecosystem services for transboundary conservation in the Gaoligong Mountains	24
Highlighting the importance of biodiversity conservation through the Holy Qur'an	23
Integrating data to assess occupancy patterns of an endangered bumble bee	23
Importance of habitat heterogeneity in tidal flats to the conservation of migratory shorebirds	23
Call for new criteria for monitoring and registering Natura 2000 species data	22
Enhancing disciplinary diversity and inclusion in conservation science and practice based on a case study of the Society for Conservation Biology	22
Documenting the disappearance of primates from spaces where they once occurred	22
Diversifying Voices in Conservation	22
Taxonomy, behavior, and intelligence of bees	21
Modeling mammal response to fire based on species’ traits	21
A social network analysis of an epistemic community studying neoliberal conservation	21
Using camera traps to enhance community‐based management of subsistence hunting in the Amazon	21
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Experimental validation of specialized questioning techniques in conservation	21
Spatial mismatch between wild bee diversity hotspots and protected areas	21
Issue Information ‐ TOC	21

Integrating the resist–accept–direct framework into natural resource decision‐making processes for climate adaptation	21
Defaunation impacts on the carbon balance of tropical forests	21
Establishing a protected area network in Xinlong with other effective area‐based conservation measures	20
Stimulating the capacity to govern the commons	20
Defining performance thresholds for effective management of biodiversity within protected areas	20
Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests	20
Challenges and a call to action for protecting European red wood ants	20
Insights from equitable governance assessments in conservation areas around the world	19
Supporting conservationists’ mental health through better working conditions	19
Strategies for advancing inclusive biodiversity research through equitable practices and collective responsibility	19
Impacts of bat use of anthropogenic structures on bats and humans	19
Influence of interactive effects on long‐term population trajectories in multispecies reintroductions	19
Enhancing global nature conservation by integrating geodiversity in policy and practice	18
Quantifying and mapping species threat abatement opportunities to support national target setting	18
The entanglement between the IUCN Red List and international biodiversity law	18
Habitat‐based biodiversity assessment for ecosystem accounting in the Murray–Darling Basin	18
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Wildlife mortality risk posed by high and low traffic roads	18
An integrated approach to balance freshwater connectivity restoration and invasion risk	17
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Identifying inconsistencies in exotic pet regulations that perpetuate trade in risky species	17
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A framework for integrative socioecological conservation solutions	17
Effects of nitrogen deposition on territory numbers of breeding birds	17
A practical approach to meeting national obligations for sustainable trade under CITES	17
Four challenges to an effective national nature assessment	17
Indigenous governance and the future of conservation	17
New opportunities and challenges for conservation evidence synthesis from advances in natural language processing	17
Quantifying regulatory limits for multiple stressors in an open and transparent way	16
Linking extinction risk to the economic and nutritional value of sharks in small‐scale fisheries	16
Issue Information	16
Spatial identification of areas suitable for other effective area‐based conservation measures in the European Union	16
An update on allegations of invasive species denialism	16
Understanding variation in impacts from private protected areas across regions and protection mechanisms to inform organizational practices	16
Fundamental principles of the effect of habitat fragmentation on species with different movement rates	16
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Eliciting diverse perspectives to prioritize community actions for biodiversity conservation	15
Exploring the potential for online data sources to enhance species threat mapping through the case study of global bat exploitation	15
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Efficacy of created and restored nesting sites for the conservation of colonial Laridae in the South of France	15
Synthesizing beaver coexistence messaging with the capability, opportunity, and motivation behavior model	15
Facilitating biodiversity conservation through partnerships to achieve transformative outcomes	15
Quantifying the contribution of benefit, threat, and cost components of conservation return on investment to determining agreement levels over spatial protection priorities	15
A habitat‐based approach to reporting the direct impacts of an organization on biodiversity	15
Free, prior, and informed consent, local officials, and changing biodiversity governance in Hin Nam No, Laos	15
Drivers of bat researchers’ intent to adopt field hygiene practices	15
Urbanization of seed dispersal networks	15
Including the urbanization gradient in people‐centered wildlife conservation in Amazonia	14
A standard approach for including climate change responses in IUCN Red List assessments	14
A tiered assessment framework for interregional flows of ecosystem services from migratory species	14
Issue Information ‐ Copyright page	14
Assessing the global prevalence of wild birds in trade	14
Effects of organized guarding on mortality from human–elephant conflict in northeast India	14
Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people	14
Assessing the Corn Belt as an anthropogenic barrier to migrating landbirds in the United States	14
Expert assessment of illegal collecting impacts on Venus flytraps and priorities for research on illegal trade	14
Prioritizing global tall forests toward the 30 × 30 goals	14
Evaluating hybrid speciation and swamping in wild carnivores with a decision‐tree approach	14
Achieving conservation and restoration outcomes through ecologically beneficial aquaculture	14
Habitat dynamics of flagship species for conservation prioritization in southern Europe	14
Issue Information	14
Bottom‐up global biodiversity metrics needed for businesses to assess and manage their impact	14
Combating parachute science in Latin America through Indigenous agency	13
Effects of wind turbine noise on songbird behavior during nonbreeding season	13
Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway	13
Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at‐sea anthropogenic threats	13
Setting goals for pollinator gardens	13
Scenarios and strategies for future‐proofing ecosystem management under climatic novelty	13
Impacts of climate change on herpetofauna diversity in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau	13
A guide to qualitative attribution methods for evaluation in conservation	13
A spatial planning approach for the identification of critical habitat for threatened species	13
Navigating ethical challenges in online wildlife trade research	13
Assessing limits of sustainable seed harvest in wild plant populations	13
A multidisciplinary approach to estimating wolf population size for long‐term conservation	13
The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation	13
Impact on species' online attention when named after celebrities	13
Use of the terms efficiency versus effective in conservation	13
Motivating children's cooperation to conserve forests	13
Vulnerability of tropical fish communities across depth in the central Indian Ocean	12
Trade and socioeconomic importance of an invasive giant snail in the endemic‐rich island of São Tomé, Central Africa	12

Relative effects of sacred forests and protected areas on forest conservation and structure in Japan	12
Salary inequality as a predictor of biodiversity research output in Africa	12
Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research	12
Improving the science and practice of using artificial roosts for bats	12
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Global status, impacts, and management of rocky temperate mesophotic ecosystems	12
Ecological and economic implications of alternative metrics in biodiversity offset markets	12
Patterns and correlates of potential range shifts of bat species in China in the context of climate change	12
Forecasting the influence of conservation strategies on landscape connectivity	12
Consumer characteristics and preferences for mobulid gill plates in China	12
Systematic nature positive markets	12
Assessing recovery and conservation of Australian freshwater fishes with the IUCN Green Status of Species and structured expert elicitation	12
Identification, spatial distribution, and associated factors of urban protected areas in China	11
Revisiting two dogmas of conservation science	11
Identifying and developing effective post‐2020 conservation bridging leaders	11
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Challenges in assessing the effects of environmental governance systems on conservation outcomes	11
Enhancement of climate‐related plant translocations by reinforcing populations with nearby genotypes	11
Using miniaturized laboratory equipment and DNA barcoding to improve conservation genetics training and identify illegally traded species	11
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Global justice and the opportunity costs of conservation	11
Using online reports of seahorse seizures to track their illegal trade	11
Erratum to “Conceptual frameworks and key questions for assessing the contribution of marine protected areas to shark and ray conservation”	11
Conserving the evolutionary history of birds	11
Effect of reserve protection level and governance on tree cover loss and gain	11
An experimental approach to assess the combined effects of multiple stressors on a large vertebrate species	11
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Improving climate and biodiversity outcomes through restoration of forest integrity	11
Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving avian communities amid human impact in Nigeria	11
The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities	11
Noted with interest	11
Issue Information	11
Evaluating drivers of recent large whale strandings on the East Coast of the United States	11
How expert insight into alpine peatland conservation complements global scientific evidence	11
Persistent illegal sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea	11
Coexisting with large carnivores based on the Volterra principle	11
Weaving knowledges to support wildlife health surveillance in Kenya's pastoral rangelands	11
Biodiversity conservation, human–animal interactions, and zootherapy in ecological knowledge of Indonesian Healers	11
Issue Information ‐ TOC	10
Modeling total predation to avoid perverse outcomes from cat control in a data‐poor island ecosystem	10
Identifying priority areas for conservation to promote connectivity and mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance	10
Review of ecological valuation and equivalency analysis methods for assessing temperate nearshore submerged aquatic vegetation	10
Forest fire smoke as a threat to the health of river dolphins	10
A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade	10
Noted with interest	10
Reptile responses to fire across the western Mediterranean Basin	10
Use of bird‐borne radar to examine shearwater interactions with legal and illegal fisheries	10
Challenges and pathways for matching corporate value‐chain biodiversity losses and gains	10
Role of freshwater availability and terrestrial land‐cover change in the distribution of a declining, terrestrial, insectivorous bird	10
Collective effects of rising average temperatures and heat events on oviparous embryos	10
In vitro culture, cryopreservation, and field reintroduction of the endangered Mingan thistle	10
Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions	10
Reconciling opposite conclusions in umbrella species evaluation	10
Design and management considerations for the Kenya–Tanzania marine transboundary conservation area	10
Combining surface and soil environmental DNA with artificial cover objects to improve terrestrial reptile survey detection	10
Conservation benefits of a large marine protected area network that spans multiple ecosystems	10
The controversy over p ‐values as an illustration of the difficulty of statistics: response to Mayo (2022)	10
Shifting snake ranges in a warming world	9
Incorporating multidimensional behavior into a risk management tool for a critically endangered and migratory species	9
Capacity and capability of remote sensing to inform invasive plant species management in the Pacific Islands region	9
Issue Information	9
Incomplete progress toward reasoning about the gull problem: Reply to Diamond et al. (2025)	9
A standard lexicon of terms for area‐based conservation version 1.0	9
Conservation implications of low contemporary connectivity along the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge in hydrothermal vent gastropods	9
Sensitivity of North American grassland birds to weather and climate variability	9
Preventing extinction in an age of species migration and planetary change	9
Dependence of Europe's most threatened mammals on movement to adapt to climate change	9
Linking small‐scale fisheries co‐management to U.N. Sustainable Development Goals	9
Tracking the impact of bottom trawling on benthic habitat status	9
Indigenous insights on human–wildlife coexistence in southern India	9
Adivasi (Tea Tribe) worldviews of living close to wild Asian elephants in Assam, India	9
Underrepresentation of bats in Africa's protected areas	9
Extinction risk of the world's freshwater mammals	9
Using customs data to understand overlooked trade in non‐CITES birds between Africa and Asia	9
Iain Douglas‐Hamilton (1942–2025): In memoriam	9
Importance of timely metadata curation to the global surveillance of genetic diversity	9
Lessons from a Rubik's Cube to solve the biodiversity crisis	9
Biodiversity conservation, consistency, and Mus musculus	9
Evidence‐based guidelines for automated conservation assessments of plant species	9
Insights on the roles of women in effective and procedurally just environmental governance from coastal fisheries management in Fiji	9
Effects of climate and human activity on the current distribution of amphibians in China	8
Learning outcomes measured in zoo and aquarium conservation education	8
Noted with Interest	8
The scientific method and p ‐values: response to Mayo (2022)	8
Scaling biodiversity conservation through institutional reform	8
Mitigating the effects of climate change on the nests of sea turtles with artificial irrigation	8
A Palearctic view of a bat fungal disease	8
Assessment of demographic sustainability of Comanthera elegans under traditional management in the Brazilian savanna	8
Integrating habitat‐masked range maps with quantifications of prevalence to estimate area of occupancy in IUCN assessments	8
Evaluating the influence of marine protected areas on surf zone fish	8
The importance of expert selection when identifying threatened ecosystems	8
Role of low‐impact‐factor journals in conservation implementation	8
A global evaluation of the effectiveness of voluntary REDD+ projects at reducing deforestation and degradation in the moist tropics	8
Use of carrion fly iDNA metabarcoding to monitor invasive and native mammals	8
Using incentive payments to promote human–carnivore coexistence	8