OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Biodiversity and Conservation is 22. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects	217
Biodiversity loss, emerging pathogens and human health risks	102
Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships	69
Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals	42
Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections	37
The role of environmental filtering, geographic distance and dispersal barriers in shaping the turnover of plant and animal species in Amazonia	32
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity and biomass stock of Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna	31
Remote sensing of biodiversity: what to measure and monitor from space to species?	31
Climate warming in the Himalayas threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services in the 21st century: is there a better solution?	29
High-resolution topographic variables accurately predict the distribution of rare plant species for conservation area selection in a narrow-endemism hotspot in New Caledonia	28
The importance of traditional agricultural landscapes for preventing species extinctions	27
Remote sensing enabled essential biodiversity variables for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: technological advancement and potentials	25
Identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps for conserving South Africa’s endemic flora	25
Indigenous knowledge and rangelands’ biodiversity conservation in Tanzania: success and failure	24
Southern Canada’s crisis ecoregions: identifying the most significant and threatened places for biodiversity conservation	24
Prescribed burning benefits threatened mammals in northern Australia	24
Local ecological knowledge to assist conservation status assessments in data poor contexts: a case study with the threatened sharks of the Brazilian Northeast	23
Using fisheries data to model the oceanic habitats of juvenile silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean	23
The Ancient Tree Inventory: a summary of the results of a 15 year citizen science project recording ancient, veteran and notable trees across the UK	23
Long-term changes in the benthic macroalgal flora of a coastal area affected by urban impacts (Conero Riviera, Mediterranean Sea)	22
Marine macroalgal biodiversity of northern Madagascar: morpho-genetic systematics and implications of anthropic impacts for conservation	22
Biobanking of vegetable genetic resources by in vitro conservation and cryopreservation	22
Macrofauna communities across a seascape of seagrass meadows: environmental drivers, biodiversity patterns and conservation implications	22
Identifying coastal and marine priority areas for conservation in the United Arab Emirates	22