Conservation Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Conservation Biology is 7. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editing the wild148
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Achieving a real‐time online monitoring system for conservation culturomics90
Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries85
Indicators to monitor the status of the tree of life80
Using land‐use history and multiple baselines to determine bird responses to cocoa agroforestry73
Fragmentation effects on an endangered species across a gradient from the interior to edge of its range62
Use of the Ramsar Convention to protect springs and other wetlands60
Noted with Interest60
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The scientific method and p‐values: response to Mayo (2022)49
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Conservation and coexistence at a crossroads45
Effects of protected area coverage and research on conservation status of primates globally42
Quantifying the impacts of future shoreline modification on biodiversity in a case study of coastal Georgia, United States42
Quantitative support for the benefits of proactive management for wildlife disease control41
Island restoration to rebuild seabird populations and amplify coral reef functioning39
Simulating the efficacy of wolf–dog hybridization management with individual‐based modeling36
Analyzing the relative importance of habitat quantity and quality for boosting pollinator populations in agricultural landscapes35
Noted with interest35
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COP16 and the process of consolidating an inclusive conservation paradigm34
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Issue Information ‐ TOC33
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A guide to qualitative attribution methods for evaluation in conservation30
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Experimentally testing animal responses to prescribed fire size and severity28
Indirect effects of African megaherbivore conservation on bat diversity in the world's oldest desert28
Open‐source intelligence for conservation biology28
How to prioritize species recovery after a megafire28
Hidden demographic impacts of fishing and environmental drivers of fecundity in a sea turtle population28
Relationship between two pathogens in an amphibian community that experienced mass mortalities27
Disentangling the biotic and abiotic drivers of bird–building collisions in a tropical Asian city with ecological niche modeling27
Importance of methodological pluralism in deriving counterfactuals for evidence‐based conservation27
Effect of IUCN Red List category on public attention to mammals27
Alarming decline of freshwater trigger species in western Mediterranean key biodiversity areas27
Risks to conservation of species in the wild from promoting ex situ management: response to Farhadinia et al. 202026
Prioritizing conservation efforts based on future habitat availability and accessibility under climate change26
Assessing protected area vulnerability to climate change in a case study of South African national parks25
Catalyzing success in community‐based conservation25
Optimizing efficiency and resilience of no‐take marine protected areas for fish conservation under climate change along the coastlines of China Seas25
Making a case for the consideration of trust, justice, and power in conservation relationships25
Modeling scale up of anthropogenic impacts from individual pollinator behavior to pollination systems24
Generalization of threats attributed to large carnivores in areas of high human–wildlife conflict24
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Closing the gap between existing large‐area imaging research and marine conservation needs24
Representation of the world's biophysical conditions by the global protected area network23
Contributions of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems to risk‐based design and management of protected and conserved areas in Africa23
Flexibility trade‐offs in conservation offsets22
Why the lack of environmental progress22
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Mapping illegal trade routes of live cheetahs from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Peninsula21
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Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway20
A call to include fungi in wildlife trade research and policy20
An assessment of potential interventions to reduce the totoaba illegal trade market20
Scaling up qualitative research to harness the capacity of lay people in invasive plant management20
Assessing the legal, illegal, and gray ornamental trade of the critically endangered helmeted hornbill20
Evaluating outcomes of conservation with multidimensional indicators of well‐being20
Near‐term ecological forecasting for dynamic aeroconservation of migratory birds20
Relationships between hope, optimism, and conservation engagement19
Progress developing the concept of other effective area‐based conservation measures19
Sentiment analysis of the Twitter response to Netflix's Our Planet documentary19
A classification framework for interspecific trade‐offs in aquatic ecology19
Effects of climate on the distribution and conservation of commonly observed European earthworms19
The statistics wars and intellectual conflicts of interest19
Scientific contributions of citizen science applied to rare or threatened animals18
Impact on species' online attention when named after celebrities18
Motivating children's cooperation to conserve forests18
Combating parachute science in Latin America through Indigenous agency18
A multitaxonomic assessment of Natura 2000 effectiveness across European biogeographic regions18
Introducing a common taxonomy to support learning from failure in conservation18
Using social media records to inform conservation planning17
Assessing the extinction risk of insular, understudied marine species17
Perspectives on the timing of ecosystem collapse in a changing climate17
Challenges and opportunities in human dimensions behind cat–wildlife conflict17
Usage and coordination of governance principles to address proximate and distal drivers of conflicts in fisheries commons17
Spatial cost–benefit analysis of blue restoration and factors driving net benefits globally17
Effects of management objectives and rules on marine conservation outcomes17
Region‐wide retreats from lower elevations of range‐restricted birds across the Northern Andes17
Predicting how defaunation‐induced changes in seed predation and dispersal will affect tropical tree populations16
The geographic extent of bird populations affected by renewable‐energy development16
Experimental evidence of the impact of framing of actors and victims in conservation narratives16
Effects of forest cover on richness of threatened fish species in Japan16
Noted with Interest16
Genetic erosion in an endangered desert fish during a megadrought despite long‐term supportive breeding16
Prioritizing global tall forests toward the 30 × 30 goals15
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Considering science needs to deliver actionable science15
Extending conservation of coastal and oyster reef restoration for First Nations cultural revitalization15
Modeling genetic benefits and financial costs of integrating biobanking into the conservation breeding of managed marsupials15
Power, politics, and culture of marine conservation technology in fisheries15
Bottom‐up global biodiversity metrics needed for businesses to assess and manage their impact15
Impacts of climate change on herpetofauna diversity in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau15
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Practical implementation of cumulative‐effects management of marine ecosystems in western North America15
Tropical and subtropical Asia's valued tree species under threat15
Assessing the global prevalence of wild birds in trade14
A multidisciplinary approach to estimating wolf population size for long‐term conservation14
Expert assessment of illegal collecting impacts on Venus flytraps and priorities for research on illegal trade14
Identifying and mitigating the impacts on primates of transportation and service corridors14
Conservation priorities for functionally unique and specialized terrestrial vertebrates threatened by biological invasions14
Effects of snake fungal disease (ophidiomycosis) on the skin microbiome across two major experimental scales14
Ecological responses to variation in seasonal snow cover13
Evaluating the potential of biodiversity offsets to achieve net gain13
Applying assessments of adaptive capacity to inform natural‐resource management in a changing climate13
Impact of marine protected areas on temporal stability of fish species diversity13
Reframing wildlife disease management problems with decision analysis13
Importance of conserving large and old trees to continuity of tree‐related microhabitats13
A systematic review of animal personality in conservation science12
Validating graph‐based connectivity models with independent presence–absence and genetic data sets12
Impact of cocoa agricultural intensification on bird diversity and community composition12
A guide to using the internet to monitor and quantify the wildlife trade12
Phylogeny‐based conservation priorities for Australian freshwater fishes12
Identifying socioeconomic and biophysical factors driving forest loss in protected areas12
Protected area characteristics that help waterbirds respond to climate warming12
Use of historical and contemporary distribution of mammals in China to inform conservation12
Evident but context‐dependent mortality of fish passing hydroelectric turbines12
A roadmap for ladybird conservation and recovery12
Global assessment of the biodiversity safeguards of development banks that finance infrastructure11
Effects of anthropogenic landscapes on population maintenance of waterbirds11
Role of low‐impact‐factor journals in conservation implementation11
Efficacy‐based and normative interventions for facilitating the diffusion of conservation behavior through social networks11
Effects of land cover and protected areas on flying insect diversity11
Evaluating the impact of private land conservation with synthetic control design11
Effects of wind turbine noise on songbird behavior during nonbreeding season11
Deciphering the enigma of human−lion coexistence in India11
Using positionality and reflexivity to support equity in partnership‐driven research10
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Books received (January 2023 to May 2024)10
Automated detection of frog calls and choruses by pulse repetition rate10
Lessons from an experiment with values‐based messaging to support watershed conservation10
Niche‐based approach to explore the impacts of environmental disturbances on biodiversity10
Community perceptions of invasive species and environmental management in a US island territory10
Conceptual frameworks and key questions for assessing the contribution of marine protected areas to shark and ray conservation10
Critical pedagogy of place to enhance ecological engagement activities10
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Global drivers of mangrove loss in protected areas10
Advancing at‐risk species recovery planning in an era of rapid ecological change with a transparent, flexible, and expert‐engaged approach10
Understanding why consumers in China switch between wild, farmed, and synthetic bear bile products10
Accounting for spatial heterogeneity in the added conservation value of land protection when prioritizing protected areas10
Implications of the scale of detection for inferring co‐occurrence patterns from paired camera traps and acoustic recorders9
Exploring human–nature interactions in national parks with social media photographs and computer vision9
Quantifying uncertainty about how interventions are assigned would improve impact evaluation in conservation: reply to Rasolofoson 20229
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Noted with Interest9
Frontiers of conservation9
Combining payment for crop damages and reward for productivity to address wildlife conflict9
A mixed methodology for evaluating use of evidence in conservation planning9
Identifying global conservation priorities for terrestrial vertebrates based on multiple dimensions of biodiversity9
Selection of both habitat and genes in specialized and endangered caribou9
Strengths and complementarity of systematic conservation planning and Key Biodiversity Area approaches for spatial planning9
Benefits of permanent adoption of virtual conferences for conservation science9
Opportunities and challenges for Common Agricultural Policy reform to support the European Green Deal9
Global status, impacts, and management of rocky temperate mesophotic ecosystems9
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Systematic nature positive markets9
Assessing how restoration can facilitate 30×30 goals for climate‐resilient coastal ecosystems in the United States8
Conservation museomics8
Ecological impacts of traffication8
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Cats among the Conservationists8
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Conservation Biology Awards8
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Community engagement and power dynamics in conservation philanthropy grant making8
An impact evaluation of conservation investments targeting long‐distance migratory species8
Noted with Interest8
The need for formal reflexivity in conservation science8
Book Review8
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Support for rodent ecology and conservation to advance zoonotic disease research8
Rates of tree cover loss in key biodiversity areas on Indigenous Peoples’ lands8
Defining practical and robust study designs for interventions targeted at terrestrial mammalian predators8
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Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes8
Identifying management opportunities to combat climate, land, and marine threats across less climate exposed coral reefs8
Effects of human footprint and biophysical factors on the body‐size structure of fished marine species7
A deep dive into evolutionary genomics and its use in conservation science7
Trait groups as management entities in a complex, multispecies reef fishery7
Bridging research and practice in conservation7
Contrasting ecological information content in whaling archives with modern cetacean surveys for conservation planning and identification of historical distribution changes7
Incorporating citizen science into IUCN Red List assessments7
Improving the science and practice of using artificial roosts for bats7
The immediate costs and long‐term benefits of assisted gene flow in large populations7
Implications for biological invasion of non‐native plants for sale in the world's largest online market7
Decision context as a necessary component of population viability analysis assessments: response to Chaudhary and Oli 20207
Anthropogenic disturbance driving population decline of a dominant tree in East Asia evergreen broadleaved forests over the last 11,000 years7
Balancing making a difference with making a living in the conservation sector7
Scaling up private land conservation to meet recovery goals for grassland birds7
Global rarity of intact coastal regions7
Application of decision tools to ethical analysis in biodiversity conservation7
Poor communication jeopardizes biodiversity7
Identifying opportunities for expert‐mediated triangulation in monitoring wildlife trade on social media7
Projecting biodiversity benefits of conservation behavior‐change programs7
Statistical matching for conservation science revisited: response to Schleicher et al. 20207
Cooling of bat hibernacula to mitigate white‐nose syndrome7
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The scope and severity of white‐nose syndrome on hibernating bats in North America7
Recommendations for improving peer review of qualitative research in conservation journals7
Understanding author choices in the current conservation publishing landscape7
Lessons from other disciplines for setting management thresholds for biodiversity conservation7
Systematic review of conservation interventions to promote voluntary behavior change7
Typifying conservation practitioners’ views on the role of education7
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