Biodiversity and Conservation

Article	Citations
Biodiversity loss, emerging pathogens and human health risks	109
Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals	52
Climate warming in the Himalayas threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services in the 21st century: is there a better solution?	35
Remote sensing of biodiversity: what to measure and monitor from space to species?	35
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity and biomass stock of Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna	34
The role of environmental filtering, geographic distance and dispersal barriers in shaping the turnover of plant and animal species in Amazonia	33
High-resolution topographic variables accurately predict the distribution of rare plant species for conservation area selection in a narrow-endemism hotspot in New Caledonia	33
Regional Comparison of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) Diet using DNA Metabarcoding	30
The importance of traditional agricultural landscapes for preventing species extinctions	30
Remote sensing enabled essential biodiversity variables for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: technological advancement and potentials	28
Indigenous knowledge and rangelands’ biodiversity conservation in Tanzania: success and failure	28
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	27
Biobanking of vegetable genetic resources by in vitro conservation and cryopreservation	26
Local ecological knowledge to assist conservation status assessments in data poor contexts: a case study with the threatened sharks of the Brazilian Northeast	25
The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis	24
Southern Canada’s crisis ecoregions: identifying the most significant and threatened places for biodiversity conservation	24
eDNA metabarcoding illuminates species diversity and composition of three phyla (chordata, mollusca and echinodermata) across Indonesian coral reefs	23
Macrofauna communities across a seascape of seagrass meadows: environmental drivers, biodiversity patterns and conservation implications	23
Vanishing permanent glaciers: climate change is threatening a European Union habitat (Code 8340) and its poorly known biodiversity	22
Marine macroalgal biodiversity of northern Madagascar: morpho-genetic systematics and implications of anthropic impacts for conservation	22
Seed production areas are crucial to conservation outcomes: benefits and risks of an emerging restoration tool	21
Conservation of Brazilian freshwater biodiversity: Thinking about the next 10 years and beyond	21
Botanical gardens as key resources and hazards for biosecurity	21
Beaver creates early successional hotspots for water beetles	21
How farmers think about insects: perceptions of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and attitudes towards insect-friendly farming practices	21

Prolonged blooming season of flower plantings increases wild bee abundance and richness in agricultural landscapes	20
Predicting biodiversity richness in rapidly changing landscapes: climate, low human pressure or protection as salvation?	20
The relationship between green roofs and urban biodiversity: a systematic review	20
The Natura 2000 network and the ranges of threatened species in Greece	20
Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review	19
Climate change-related changes in cephalopod biodiversity on the North East Atlantic Shelf	19
Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: different non-crop habitats increase diversity of ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera) but support different communities	19
Value of artificial ponds for aquatic insects in drought-prone southern Africa: a review	19
Fragmented dry grasslands preserve unique components of plant species and phylogenetic diversity in agricultural landscapes	19
Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations	19
A century of pollen foraging by the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis): inferences from molecular sequencing of museum specimens	19
Monoculture and mixture-planting of non-native Douglas fir alters species composition, but promotes the diversity of ground beetles in a temperate forest system	19
The ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of predation: the level of fox control needed to select predator resistance in a reintroduced mammal in Australia	19
Resolving the trade-off between production and biodiversity conservation in integrated forest management: comparing tree selection practices of foresters and conservationists	19
Habitat selection of cave-restricted fauna in a new hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in Neotropics	18
Hunting pressure modulates the composition and size structure of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates in Amazonian forests	18
Biological invasions in World Heritage Sites: current status and a proposed monitoring and reporting framework	18
Foraging grounds of adult loggerhead sea turtles across the Mediterranean Sea: key sites and hotspots of risk	18
Prediction of the minimum effective size of a population viable in the long term	17
Between a rock and a hard place: rugged terrain features and human disturbance affect behaviour and habitat use of Sumatran elephants in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia	17
Patterns and drivers of understory macroalgal assemblage structure within subtidal kelp forests	17
How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities	17
Do beds of subtidal estuarine seagrass constitute a refuge for macrobenthic biodiversity threatened intertidally?	17
A global analysis of habitat fragmentation research in reptiles and amphibians: what have we done so far?	17
Counting cats for conservation: seasonal estimates of leopard density and drivers of distribution in the Serengeti	16
Do not blame bats and pangolins! Global consequences for wildlife conservation after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	16
Landscape structure shapes activity levels and composition of aerial insectivorous bats at different spatial scales	16
The Zygoptera/Anisoptera ratio as a tool to assess anthropogenic changes in Atlantic Forest streams	16
Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas (DINA): an interdisciplinary German research project	16
A case study of a conservation flagship species: the monarch butterfly	16
Rewilding the world’s large carnivores without neglecting the human dimension	15
Contrasting responses of large carnivores to land use management across an Asian montane landscape in Iran	15
Identifying high priority conservation areas for Patagonian wetlands biodiversity	15
Addressing the implementation challenge of the global biodiversity framework	15
How future climate change and deforestation can drastically affect the species of monkeys endemic to the eastern Amazon, and priorities for conservation	15
Low diversity or poorly explored? Mesophotic molluscs highlight undersampling in the Eastern Mediterranean	15
Biodiversity and conservation of Phoenix canariensis: a review	15
Assessing the storage potential of Australian rainforest seeds: a decision-making key to aid rapid conservation	15
Reframing urban “wildlife” to promote inclusive conservation science and practice	15
A species-specific qPCR assay provides novel insight into range expansion of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) by means of eDNA analysis	15
Pollinator enhancement in agriculture: comparing sown flower strips, hedges and sown hedge herb layers in apple orchards	15
Contrasting wolf responses to different paved roads and traffic volume levels	15
Patterns of distribution, abundance and composition of forest terrestrial orchids	15
Assessing awareness on biodiversity conservation among Nigerians: the Aichi Biodiversity Target 1	14
Intensive monitoring, the key to identifying cat predation as a major threat to native carnivore (Dasyurus geoffroii) reintroduction	14
Biodiversity and conservation of terricolous lichens and bryophytes in continental lowlands of northern Italy: the role of different dry habitat types	14
Agricultural heritage systems and agrobiodiversity	14
Review of the biology, uses and conservation of the critically endangered endemic Himalayan species Nardostachys jatamansi (Caprifoliaceae)	14
Assessing evolutionary processes over time in a conservation breeding program: a combined approach using molecular data, simulations and pedigree analysis	14
Landrace added value and accessibility in Europe: what a collection of case studies tells us	14

Many cameras make light work: opportunistic photographs of rare species in iNaturalist complement structured surveys of reef fish to better understand species richness	14
Drying microclimates threaten persistence of natural and translocated populations of threatened frogs	14
Fine-scale roadkill risk models: understanding the intersection of wildlife and roads	14
The intrinsic value of Amazon biodiversity	14
A herpetofauna with dramatic endemism signals an overlooked biodiversity hotspot	14
Conservation of Mojave Desert springs and associated biota: status, threats, and policy opportunities	14
Bumble bee species distributions and habitat associations in the Midwestern USA, a region of declining diversity	13
Modelling the amphibian chytrid fungus spread by connectivity analysis: towards a national monitoring network in Italy	13
How estimated ant diversity is biased by the sampling method? A case study of Crete: a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot	13
Temporal and spatial patterns of orchid species distribution in Greece: implications for conservation	13
Recurring fires in Mediterranean habitats and their impact on bats	13
Relict populations of Araucaria angustifolia will be isolated, poorly protected, and unconnected under climate and land-use change in Brazil	13
Using stacked SDMs with accuracy and rarity weighting to optimize surveys for rare plant species	13
The relevance of cloud forest fragments and their transition zones for butterfly conservation in Taita Hills, Kenya	13
Applying genomic data to seagrass conservation	13
Biodiversity associated with restored small-scale mussel habitats has restoration decision implications	13
Wildfires, heatwaves and human disturbance threaten insular endemic bats	13
Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change	13
Turtle biodiversity losses suggest coming sixth mass extinction	13
Conservation values of understory vascular plants in even- and uneven-aged Nothofagus antarctica forests	12
Restoring diversity of thermophilous oak forests: connectivity and proximity to existing habitats matter	12
Climate data source matters in species distribution modelling: the case of the Iberian Peninsula	12
Prevalence affects the evaluation of discrimination capacity in presence-absence species distribution models	12
Political making of more-than-fishers through their involvement in ecological monitoring of protected areas	12
Effect of forest fragmentation and disturbance on diversity and structure of woody species in dry Afromontane forests of northern Ethiopia	12
Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity	12
Large fire initially reduces bird diversity in Poland’s largest wetland biodiversity hotspot	12
Research Progress on endangered plants: a bibliometric analysis	12
Mangrove fragments as key coastal reservoirs of taxonomic and functional biodiversity	12
Endangered monoxenous trypanosomatid parasites: a lesson from island biogeography	12
Conservation planning of the genus Rhododendron in Northeast China based on current and future suitable habitat distributions	12
An approach for using multiple indices for monitoring long-term trends of mesopredators at broad spatial scales	12
“Pink round stones”—rhodolith beds: an overlooked habitat in Madeira Archipelago	11
Subterranean “oasis” in the Brazilian semiarid region: neglected sources of biodiversity	11
Geospatial analysis to assess distribution patterns and predictive models for endangered plant species to support management decisions: a case study in the Balearic Islands	11
Factors influencing persistence of a threatened amphibian in restored wetlands despite severe population decline during climate change driven weather extremes	11
The Calluna life cycle concept revisited: implications for heathland management	11
The value of local community knowledge in species distribution modelling for a threatened Neotropical parrot	11
South Africa’s private wildlife ranches protect globally significant populations of wild ungulates	11
The persistent multi-dimensional biases of biodiversity digital accessible knowledge of birds in China	11
Contrasting multi-taxa functional diversity patterns along vegetation structure gradients of woody pastures	11
A global summary of local residents’ perceptions of benefits and problems of protected areas	11
Unraveling the drivers of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity in a human-modified tropical dry forest	11
Effect of non-native species on taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities in different river types	11
The Biodiversity Promotion Areas: effectiveness of agricultural direct payments on plant diversity conservation in the semi-natural grasslands of the Southern Swiss Alps	11
Landscape characterization of floral resources for pollinators in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States	11
Contribution of social media to cetacean research in Southeast Asia: illuminating populations vulnerable to litter	11
Overcoming biases and identifying opportunities for citizen science to contribute more to global macroinvertebrate conservation	11
Diversity, regeneration, and anthropogenic disturbance in major Indian Central Himalayan forest types: implications for conservation	11
Application of protein nutrition in natural ecosystem management for European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) conservation	11
Local and landscape responses of biodiversity in calcareous grasslands	10
Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change	10
Community completeness as a measure of restoration success: multiple-study comparisons across ecosystems and ecological groups	10
Just beautiful?! What determines butterfly species for nature conservation	10
Exploring interaction effects from mechanisms between climate and land-use changes and the projected consequences on biodiversity	10
GBIF information is not enough: national database improves the inventory completeness of Amazonian epiphytes	10
Conservation of Asian horseshoe crabs on spotlight	10
A highly diverse living benthic foraminiferal assemblage in the oxygen deficient zone of the southeastern Arabian Sea	10
The importance of livestock grazing at woodland-grassland interface in the conservation of rich oakwood plant communities in temperate Europe	10
How complete are insect inventories? An assessment of the british butterfly database highlighting the influence of dynamic distribution shifts on sampling completeness	10
Long-term ecology and conservation of the Kungur forest-steppe (pre-Urals, Russia): case study Spasskaya Gora	10
Conservation status of threatened land plants in China and priority sites for better conservation targets: distribution patterns and conservation gap analysis	10
Priorities for cave fauna conservation in the Iuiú karst landscape, northeastern Brazil: a threatened spot of troglobitic species diversity	10
Dynamics in plant diversity and composition on Australian alpine summits over time	9
Butterfly population trends track vegetation encroachment but not climate warming in a Mediterranean mountain	9
High abundance of a single taxon (amphipods) predicts aquatic macrophyte biodiversity in prairie wetlands	9
Abandoned fields and high plant diversity support high spider diversity within an agricultural mosaic in a biodiversity hotspot	9
A review of management actions on insect pollinators on public lands in the United States	9
Agricultural expansion in African savannas: effects on diversity and composition of trees and mammals	9
Genomic data inform conservation of rare tree species: clonality, diversity and hybridity in Eucalyptus series in a global biodiversity hotspot	9
Exploring cultural differences in wildlife value orientations using student samples in seven nations	9
Ant-gardens: a specialized ant-epiphyte mutualism capable of facing the effects of climate change	9
Cryptic extinction risk in a western Pacific lizard radiation	9
2020 Pantanal’s widespread fire: short- and long-term implications for biodiversity and conservation	9
Species distribution models for conservation planning in fire‐prone landscapes	9
Impacts of the removal of invasive Carpobrotus on spider assemblage dynamics	9
Landscape features associated to wind farms increase mammalian predator abundance and ground-nest predation	9
Ecological inheritance for a post COVID-19 world	9
Diversity and distribution of Genus Primula in Kashmir region: an indicator genus of the western Himalayan mountain wetlands and glacial forelands	9
Gap analyses of priority wild relatives of food crop in current ex situ and in situ conservation in Indonesia	9

Garry oak ecosystem stand history in Southwest British Columbia, Canada: implications of environmental change and indigenous land use for ecological restoration and population recovery	9
Scat DNA provides important data for effective monitoring of mammal and bird biodiversity	9
Conserving Galapagos landbirds in agricultural landscapes: forest patches of native trees needed to increase landbird diversity and abundance	9
Forest cover loss in the Nevado de Toluca volcano protected area (Mexico) after the change to a less restrictive category in 2013	9
Overexploitation and anthropogenic disturbances threaten the genetic diversity of an economically important neotropical palm	9
Gap analysis of the Ramsar site network at 50: over 150 important Mediterranean sites for wintering waterbirds omitted	9
Sparing or expanding? The effects of agricultural yields on farm expansion and deforestation in the tropics	8
Modelling potential Pleistocene habitat corridors between Afromontane forest regions	8
Biodiversity conservation in climate change driven transient communities	8
Range restriction leads to narrower ecological niches and greater extinction risk in Australian freshwater fish	8
Diatom Red Lists: important tools to assess and preserve biodiversity and habitats in the face of direct impacts and environmental change	8
Density trends of wild felids in northern Laos	8
In vitro conservation and genetic diversity of threatened species of Melocactus (Cactaceae)	8
Diversity and composition of plants species along elevational gradient: research trends	8
Natural forests of Pinus pinea in western Turkey: a priority for conservation	8
Ecological and acoustic responses of bush crickets to anthropogenic and natural ecotones	8
The relevance of transition habitats for butterfly conservation	8
Human activities associated with reduced Komodo dragon habitat use and range loss on Flores	8
Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity	8
Deep learning improves acoustic biodiversity monitoring and new candidate forest frog species identification (genus Platymantis) in the Philippines	8
Enhancing seed conservation in rural communities of Guatemala by implementing the dry chain concept	8
No statistical support for wolf control and maternal penning as conservation measures for endangered mountain caribou	8
From global to local scale: where is the best for conservation purpose?	8
Efficacy of species distribution models (SDMs) for ecological realms to ascertain biological conservation and practices	8
The hotspots and conservation gaps of the mega genus Astragalus (Fabaceae) in the Old-World	8
Exploring the bushmeat market in Brussels, Belgium: a clandestine luxury business	8
Genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal and cryptic diversity in the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum	8
Spatially heterogeneous habitat use across distinct biogeographic regions in a wide-ranging predator, the Persian leopard	8
Traditional forest-related knowledge and agrobiodiversity preservation: the case of the chagras in the Indigenous Reserve of Monochoa (Colombia)	8
Niche shift in invasive species: is it a case of “home away from home” or finding a “new home”?	8
Conserving the Chinese caterpillar fungus under climate change	8
Extreme climate refugia: a case study of wild relatives of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Colombia	8
Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts	7
Lessons from the reintroduction of listed plant species in California	7
Variable effects of forest diversity on invasions by non-native insects and pathogens	7
Diversity, diversification and distribution of Iranian vertebrates: the legacy of mountains uplifting, past climatic oscillations, sea level fluctuations and geographical barriers	7
The Eurasian beaver range expansion reveals uneven future trends and possible conservation issues: an European assessment	7
Tropical land use drives endemic versus exotic ant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot	7
Species–genetic diversity correlation in phyllostomid bats of the Bodoquena plateau, Brazil	7
Connectivity of Natura 2000 potential natural riparian habitats under climate change in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: implications for their conservation	7
Atlantic Forest: centres of diversity and endemism for ferns and lycophytes and conservation status	7
Non-invasive genetic sampling is one of our most powerful and ethical tools for threatened species population monitoring: a reply to Lavery et al.	7
Short term, but high risk of predation for endangered mountain caribou during seasonal migration	7
Distribution and phenology of monarch butterfly larvae and their milkweed hosts in the South Central US	7
Human presence drives bobcat interactions among the U.S. carnivore guild	7
The interaction of clonality, breeding system and genomics for a highly threatened plant species and the management implications	7
Species at risk habitat conservation on private land: the perspective of cattle ranchers	7
High evolutionary and functional distinctiveness of endemic monocots in world islands	7
Urban remnant size alters fungal functional groups dispersed by a digging mammal	7
Effectiveness of using nest boxes as a form of bird protection after building modernization	7
Ponds support higher bird diversity than rice paddies in a hilly agricultural area in Japan	7
An index of ecological value for European arable plant communities	7
Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism	7
Novel insights into coastal site affinity and habitat connectivity of a benthic stingray with implications for management	7
Agrobiodiversity and gender: the role of women in farm diversification among smallholder farmers in Sinana district, Southeastern Ethiopia	7
Predicting fish community responses to environmental policy targets	7
Temporal shifts as elusive responses to anthropogenic stressors in a mammal community	7
Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target	7
Understanding the sustainability of Chinese caterpillar fungus harvesting: the need for better data	7
Molecular evidence of species- and subspecies-level distinctions in the rare Orchis patens s.l. and implications for conservation	7
Threats to Australia’s rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring	7
Impact of weather conditions, seasonality and moonlight on the use of artificial canopy bridges by nocturnal arboreal mammals	7
Simplicity or complexity? Important aspects of high nature value grassland management in nature conservation	7
Current wildlife crime (Indian scenario): major challenges and prevention approaches	7
Mainstreaming Barahnaja cultivation for food and nutritional security in the Himalayan region	7
Understanding potential conflicts between human and non-human-primates: a large-scale survey in Malaysia	7
A comprehensive review on biodiversity information portals	6
Bird communities in a degraded forest biodiversity hotspot of East Africa	6
Forest fragmentation and its associated edge-effects reduce tree species diversity, size, and structural diversity in Madagascar’s transitional forests	6
The Ninth Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9): sustainable use, values, and business (as usual)	6
The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists	6
Assessing woodpeckers as indicators of bird diversity and habitat structure in managed forests	6
Can indicator species guide conservation investments to restore connectivity in Great Lakes tributaries?	6
A safeguard measure of endemic and endangered plant species: cryostorage of Dianthus taxa	6
Initiatives for biodiversity conservation and utilization in crop protection: A strategy for sustainable crop production	6
Conserving populations at the edge of their geographic range: the endangered Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral) across protected areas of Iran	6
Detecting spider monkeys from the sky using a high-definition RGB camera: a rapid-assessment survey method?	6
The human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka: history and present status	6
A data-driven evaluation of lichen climate change indicators in Central Europe	6
Plant diversity conservation in an agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
The eighth plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-8): online, nexus, and transformative change	6
Unexpected overlapping use of tree hollows by birds, reptiles and declining mammals in an Australian tropical savanna	6
The successive trend of vegetation confirms the removal of non-indigenous woody species as an insufficient restoration action	6
Stoneflies in the genus Lednia (Plecoptera: Nemouridae): sentinels of climate change impacts on mountain stream biodiversity	6
What is the role of topographic heterogeneity and climate on the distribution and conservation of vascular epiphytes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest?	6
Genetic and ecological consequences of recent habitat fragmentation in a narrow endemic plant species within an urban context	6
The management effectiveness of protected areas in Kenya	6
High endemism of cacti remains unprotected in the Caatinga	6
The continental shelf seascape: a network of species and habitats	6
The relationship between scale and predictor variables in species distribution models applied to conservation	6
Taxonomic and functional responses of bats to habitat flooding by an Amazonian mega-dam	6
Prospects and constraints in studying the biodiversity of agriculturally important microalgae and cyanobacteria and useful statistical tools	6
Where ecologically ‘tis better to go brown than green: enhanced seagrass macrobenthic biodiversity within the canals of a brownfield coastal marina	6
Defining critical habitat for plant species with poor occurrence knowledge and identification of critical habitat networks	6
Globally rare oceanic-montane liverworts with disjunct distributions: evidence for long-distance dispersal	6