Biodiversity and Conservation

Article	Citations
Applications of environmental DNA (eDNA) in ecology and conservation: opportunities, challenges and prospects	206
Biodiversity loss, emerging pathogens and human health risks	97
Biodiversity and conservation of the Cerrado: recent advances and old challenges	69
Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships	67
Modelling risks posed by wind turbines and power lines to soaring birds: the black stork (Ciconia nigra) in Italy as a case study	62
Conservation and prioritization of threatened plants in Indian Himalayan Region	54
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
Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals	36
The role of environmental filtering, geographic distance and dispersal barriers in shaping the turnover of plant and animal species in Amazonia	31
Remote sensing of biodiversity: what to measure and monitor from space to species?	30
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity and biomass stock of Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna	30
Climate warming in the Himalayas threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services in the 21st century: is there a better solution?	27
The importance of traditional agricultural landscapes for preventing species extinctions	27
High-resolution topographic variables accurately predict the distribution of rare plant species for conservation area selection in a narrow-endemism hotspot in New Caledonia	26
Identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps for conserving South Africa’s endemic flora	25
Remote sensing enabled essential biodiversity variables for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: technological advancement and potentials	24
Prescribed burning benefits threatened mammals in northern Australia	24
Indigenous knowledge and rangelands’ biodiversity conservation in Tanzania: success and failure	24
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
Southern Canada’s crisis ecoregions: identifying the most significant and threatened places for biodiversity conservation	23
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 citizen science in road surveys for large-scale amphibian monitoring: are biased data representative for species distribution?	23
Identification of crucial stepping stone habitats for biodiversity conservation in northeastern Madagascar using remote sensing and comparative predictive modeling	23
Marine macroalgal biodiversity of northern Madagascar: morpho-genetic systematics and implications of anthropic impacts for conservation	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
Long-term changes in the benthic macroalgal flora of a coastal area affected by urban impacts (Conero Riviera, Mediterranean Sea)	21
Using fisheries data to model the oceanic habitats of juvenile silky shark (Carcharhinus falciformis) in the tropical eastern Atlantic Ocean	21
Environmental determinants of diving beetle assemblages (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) in an urban landscape	21
Biobanking of vegetable genetic resources by in vitro conservation and cryopreservation	21
The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis	20
Cumulative threats to juvenile green turtles in the coastal waters of southern and southeastern Brazil	20
Botanical gardens as key resources and hazards for biosecurity	20
Conservation of Brazilian freshwater biodiversity: Thinking about the next 10 years and beyond	20
Regional Comparison of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) Diet using DNA Metabarcoding	19
Beaver creates early successional hotspots for water beetles	19
A century of pollen foraging by the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis): inferences from molecular sequencing of museum specimens	19
Fragmented dry grasslands preserve unique components of plant species and phylogenetic diversity in agricultural landscapes	19
Prolonged blooming season of flower plantings increases wild bee abundance and richness in agricultural landscapes	19
Vanishing permanent glaciers: climate change is threatening a European Union habitat (Code 8340) and its poorly known biodiversity	19
The Natura 2000 network and the ranges of threatened species in Greece	19
Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations	19
Disentangling ecological traits related to plant endemism, rarity and conservation status in the Iberian Peninsula	18
The ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of predation: the level of fox control needed to select predator resistance in a reintroduced mammal in Australia	18
Foraging grounds of adult loggerhead sea turtles across the Mediterranean Sea: key sites and hotspots of risk	18
Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review	17
Predicting biodiversity richness in rapidly changing landscapes: climate, low human pressure or protection as salvation?	17
Drastic shifts in the Belgian bumblebee community over the last century	17
Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: different non-crop habitats increase diversity of ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera) but support different communities	17
Seed production areas are crucial to conservation outcomes: benefits and risks of an emerging restoration tool	17
Green patches among a grey patchwork: the importance of preserving natural habitats to harbour cavity-nesting bees and wasps (Hymenoptera) and their natural enemies in urban areas	17
Value of artificial ponds for aquatic insects in drought-prone southern Africa: a review	17
Do beds of subtidal estuarine seagrass constitute a refuge for macrobenthic biodiversity threatened intertidally?	16
eDNA metabarcoding illuminates species diversity and composition of three phyla (chordata, mollusca and echinodermata) across Indonesian coral reefs	16
Hunting pressure modulates the composition and size structure of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates in Amazonian forests	16
Resolving the trade-off between production and biodiversity conservation in integrated forest management: comparing tree selection practices of foresters and conservationists	16
Do not blame bats and pangolins! Global consequences for wildlife conservation after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	16
Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas (DINA): an interdisciplinary German research project	15
Patterns of distribution, abundance and composition of forest terrestrial orchids	15
How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities	15
Habitat selection of cave-restricted fauna in a new hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in Neotropics	15
How farmers think about insects: perceptions of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and attitudes towards insect-friendly farming practices	15
Construction of deer fences restores the diversity of butterflies and bumblebees as well as flowering plants in semi-natural grassland	15
Aquatic biosecurity remains a damp squib	15
Monoculture and mixture-planting of non-native Douglas fir alters species composition, but promotes the diversity of ground beetles in a temperate forest system	15
Prediction of the minimum effective size of a population viable in the long term	14
Assessing the storage potential of Australian rainforest seeds: a decision-making key to aid rapid conservation	14
The relationship between green roofs and urban biodiversity: a systematic review	14
Biological invasions in World Heritage Sites: current status and a proposed monitoring and reporting framework	14
A case study of a conservation flagship species: the monarch butterfly	14
Landrace added value and accessibility in Europe: what a collection of case studies tells us	14
Patterns and drivers of understory macroalgal assemblage structure within subtidal kelp forests	14
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	14
Low diversity or poorly explored? Mesophotic molluscs highlight undersampling in the Eastern Mediterranean	14
Contrasting responses of large carnivores to land use management across an Asian montane landscape in Iran	13

Discolouring the Amazon Rainforest: how deforestation is affecting butterfly coloration	13
Successional trajectory of dung beetle communities in a tropical grassy ecosystem after livestock grazing removal	13
Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change	13
Habitat patch size and isolation drive the near-complete collapse of Amazonian dung beetle assemblages in a 30-year-old forest archipelago	13
Turtle biodiversity losses suggest coming sixth mass extinction	13
Assessing awareness on biodiversity conservation among Nigerians: the Aichi Biodiversity Target 1	13
The intrinsic value of Amazon biodiversity	13
Conservation of Mojave Desert springs and associated biota: status, threats, and policy opportunities	13
Drying microclimates threaten persistence of natural and translocated populations of threatened frogs	13
Reliability of multinomial N-mixture models for estimating abundance of small terrestrial vertebrates	13
Reframing urban “wildlife” to promote inclusive conservation science and practice	13
Assessing evolutionary processes over time in a conservation breeding program: a combined approach using molecular data, simulations and pedigree analysis	13
Agricultural heritage systems and agrobiodiversity	13
Identifying high priority conservation areas for Patagonian wetlands biodiversity	12
Landscape structure shapes activity levels and composition of aerial insectivorous bats at different spatial scales	12
Effect of forest fragmentation and disturbance on diversity and structure of woody species in dry Afromontane forests of northern Ethiopia	12
Intensive monitoring, the key to identifying cat predation as a major threat to native carnivore (Dasyurus geoffroii) reintroduction	12
Recurring fires in Mediterranean habitats and their impact on bats	12
Prevalence affects the evaluation of discrimination capacity in presence-absence species distribution models	12
Fine-scale roadkill risk models: understanding the intersection of wildlife and roads	12
Political making of more-than-fishers through their involvement in ecological monitoring of protected areas	12
Restoring diversity of thermophilous oak forests: connectivity and proximity to existing habitats matter	12
Bumble bee species distributions and habitat associations in the Midwestern USA, a region of declining diversity	12
Climate data source matters in species distribution modelling: the case of the Iberian Peninsula	12
Temporal and spatial patterns of orchid species distribution in Greece: implications for conservation	12
Counting cats for conservation: seasonal estimates of leopard density and drivers of distribution in the Serengeti	12
Conservation values of understory vascular plants in even- and uneven-aged Nothofagus antarctica forests	12
A global analysis of habitat fragmentation research in reptiles and amphibians: what have we done so far?	12
Climate change-related changes in cephalopod biodiversity on the North East Atlantic Shelf	12
Many cameras make light work: opportunistic photographs of rare species in iNaturalist complement structured surveys of reef fish to better understand species richness	12
Biodiversity associated with restored small-scale mussel habitats has restoration decision implications	11
Large fire initially reduces bird diversity in Poland’s largest wetland biodiversity hotspot	11
Wildfires, heatwaves and human disturbance threaten insular endemic bats	11
Pollinator enhancement in agriculture: comparing sown flower strips, hedges and sown hedge herb layers in apple orchards	11
Review of the biology, uses and conservation of the critically endangered endemic Himalayan species Nardostachys jatamansi (Caprifoliaceae)	11
Understanding small-scale insect diversity patterns inside two nature reserves: the role of local and landscape factors	11
How future climate change and deforestation can drastically affect the species of monkeys endemic to the eastern Amazon, and priorities for conservation	11
The Zygoptera/Anisoptera ratio as a tool to assess anthropogenic changes in Atlantic Forest streams	11
Conservation of Asian horseshoe crabs on spotlight	11
Research Progress on endangered plants: a bibliometric analysis	11
How estimated ant diversity is biased by the sampling method? A case study of Crete: a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot	11
The persistent multi-dimensional biases of biodiversity digital accessible knowledge of birds in China	11
Contribution of social media to cetacean research in Southeast Asia: illuminating populations vulnerable to litter	11
Anthropogenic drivers leading to regional extinction of threatened plants: insights from regional Red Data Books of Russia	11
Conservation planning of the genus Rhododendron in Northeast China based on current and future suitable habitat distributions	11
Biodiversity and conservation of terricolous lichens and bryophytes in continental lowlands of northern Italy: the role of different dry habitat types	11
A herpetofauna with dramatic endemism signals an overlooked biodiversity hotspot	11
The relevance of cloud forest fragments and their transition zones for butterfly conservation in Taita Hills, Kenya	11
Applying genomic data to seagrass conservation	11
Contrasting multi-taxa functional diversity patterns along vegetation structure gradients of woody pastures	11
Addressing the implementation challenge of the global biodiversity framework	11
A species-specific qPCR assay provides novel insight into range expansion of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) by means of eDNA analysis	11
Biodiversity and conservation of Phoenix canariensis: a review	10
Endangered monoxenous trypanosomatid parasites: a lesson from island biogeography	10
Diversity, regeneration, and anthropogenic disturbance in major Indian Central Himalayan forest types: implications for conservation	10
How complete are insect inventories? An assessment of the british butterfly database highlighting the influence of dynamic distribution shifts on sampling completeness	10
Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity	10
The value of local community knowledge in species distribution modelling for a threatened Neotropical parrot	10
The Biodiversity Promotion Areas: effectiveness of agricultural direct payments on plant diversity conservation in the semi-natural grasslands of the Southern Swiss Alps	10
Mangrove fragments as key coastal reservoirs of taxonomic and functional biodiversity	10
Unraveling the drivers of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity in a human-modified tropical dry forest	10
Modelling the amphibian chytrid fungus spread by connectivity analysis: towards a national monitoring network in Italy	10
Conservation status of threatened land plants in China and priority sites for better conservation targets: distribution patterns and conservation gap analysis	9
Contrasting patterns of native and non-native plants in a network of protected areas across spatial scales	9
Priorities for cave fauna conservation in the Iuiú karst landscape, northeastern Brazil: a threatened spot of troglobitic species diversity	9
Niche overlap between two sympatric frugivorous Neotropical primates: improving ecological niche models using closely-related taxa	9
Ant-gardens: a specialized ant-epiphyte mutualism capable of facing the effects of climate change	9
Geospatial analysis to assess distribution patterns and predictive models for endangered plant species to support management decisions: a case study in the Balearic Islands	9
Community completeness as a measure of restoration success: multiple-study comparisons across ecosystems and ecological groups	9
Rewilding the world’s large carnivores without neglecting the human dimension	9
Relict populations of Araucaria angustifolia will be isolated, poorly protected, and unconnected under climate and land-use change in Brazil	9
A review of management actions on insect pollinators on public lands in the United States	9
Using stacked SDMs with accuracy and rarity weighting to optimize surveys for rare plant species	9
“Pink round stones”—rhodolith beds: an overlooked habitat in Madeira Archipelago	9
Complementarity of grasslands and cereal fields ensures carabid regional diversity in French farmlands	9
Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change	9
Towards the conservation of Borneo’s freshwater mussels: rediscovery of the endemic Ctenodesma borneensis and first record of the non-native Sinanodonta lauta	9
Using spatial characteristics of apex carnivore communication and reproductive behaviors to predict responses to future human development	9
Just beautiful?! What determines butterfly species for nature conservation	9
An approach for using multiple indices for monitoring long-term trends of mesopredators at broad spatial scales	9

Contrasting wolf responses to different paved roads and traffic volume levels	9
A global summary of local residents’ perceptions of benefits and problems of protected areas	9
GBIF information is not enough: national database improves the inventory completeness of Amazonian epiphytes	9
Differentiating captive and wild African lion (Panthera leo) populations in South Africa, using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis	9
2020 Pantanal’s widespread fire: short- and long-term implications for biodiversity and conservation	8
The no-take zone network of the Mexican Caribbean: assessing design and management for the protection of coral reef fish communities	8
Gap analysis of the Ramsar site network at 50: over 150 important Mediterranean sites for wintering waterbirds omitted	8
The Calluna life cycle concept revisited: implications for heathland management	8
The importance of livestock grazing at woodland-grassland interface in the conservation of rich oakwood plant communities in temperate Europe	8
Landscape features associated to wind farms increase mammalian predator abundance and ground-nest predation	8
Human activities associated with reduced Komodo dragon habitat use and range loss on Flores	8
Conserving the Chinese caterpillar fungus under climate change	8
South Africa’s private wildlife ranches protect globally significant populations of wild ungulates	8
In vitro conservation and genetic diversity of threatened species of Melocactus (Cactaceae)	8
Extreme climate refugia: a case study of wild relatives of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Colombia	8
Long-term ecology and conservation of the Kungur forest-steppe (pre-Urals, Russia): case study Spasskaya Gora	8
The relevance of transition habitats for butterfly conservation	8
Conserving Galapagos landbirds in agricultural landscapes: forest patches of native trees needed to increase landbird diversity and abundance	8
Biodiversity conservation in climate change driven transient communities	8
Enhancing seed conservation in rural communities of Guatemala by implementing the dry chain concept	8
Landscape characterization of floral resources for pollinators in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States	8
Effect of non-native species on taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities in different river types	8
Ecological inheritance for a post COVID-19 world	8
Reservoir of the European chestnut diversity in Switzerland	8
Diatom Red Lists: important tools to assess and preserve biodiversity and habitats in the face of direct impacts and environmental change	8
Dynamics in plant diversity and composition on Australian alpine summits over time	8
Scat DNA provides important data for effective monitoring of mammal and bird biodiversity	8
Sparing or expanding? The effects of agricultural yields on farm expansion and deforestation in the tropics	8
Abandoned fields and high plant diversity support high spider diversity within an agricultural mosaic in a biodiversity hotspot	8
Factors influencing persistence of a threatened amphibian in restored wetlands despite severe population decline during climate change driven weather extremes	8
Deep learning improves acoustic biodiversity monitoring and new candidate forest frog species identification (genus Platymantis) in the Philippines	8
Agricultural expansion in African savannas: effects on diversity and composition of trees and mammals	8
Genomic data inform conservation of rare tree species: clonality, diversity and hybridity in Eucalyptus series in a global biodiversity hotspot	8
Density trends of wild felids in northern Laos	8
Local and landscape responses of biodiversity in calcareous grasslands	8
From global to local scale: where is the best for conservation purpose?	8
Exploring the bushmeat market in Brussels, Belgium: a clandestine luxury business	8
Subterranean “oasis” in the Brazilian semiarid region: neglected sources of biodiversity	8
Cryptic extinction risk in a western Pacific lizard radiation	8
Species at risk habitat conservation on private land: the perspective of cattle ranchers	7
Species–genetic diversity correlation in phyllostomid bats of the Bodoquena plateau, Brazil	7
The first botanical explorations of bryophyte diversity in the Brazilian Amazon mountains: high species diversity, low endemism, and low similarity	7
Spatially heterogeneous habitat use across distinct biogeographic regions in a wide-ranging predator, the Persian leopard	7
Amphibian communities in two contrasting ecosystems: functional diversity and environmental filters	7
Impact of weather conditions, seasonality and moonlight on the use of artificial canopy bridges by nocturnal arboreal mammals	7
Ponds support higher bird diversity than rice paddies in a hilly agricultural area in Japan	7
Short term, but high risk of predation for endangered mountain caribou during seasonal migration	7
Species distribution models for conservation planning in fire‐prone landscapes	7
Range restriction leads to narrower ecological niches and greater extinction risk in Australian freshwater fish	7
The interaction of clonality, breeding system and genomics for a highly threatened plant species and the management implications	7
The Eurasian beaver range expansion reveals uneven future trends and possible conservation issues: an European assessment	7
A highly diverse living benthic foraminiferal assemblage in the oxygen deficient zone of the southeastern Arabian Sea	7
Threats to Australia’s rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring	7
Exploring interaction effects from mechanisms between climate and land-use changes and the projected consequences on biodiversity	7
Overexploitation and anthropogenic disturbances threaten the genetic diversity of an economically important neotropical palm	7
Exploring cultural differences in wildlife value orientations using student samples in seven nations	7
Long-term management is needed for conserving plant diversity in a Wadden Sea salt marsh	7
Garry oak ecosystem stand history in Southwest British Columbia, Canada: implications of environmental change and indigenous land use for ecological restoration and population recovery	7
Genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal and cryptic diversity in the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum	7
Human presence drives bobcat interactions among the U.S. carnivore guild	7
Traditional forest-related knowledge and agrobiodiversity preservation: the case of the chagras in the Indigenous Reserve of Monochoa (Colombia)	7
Urban remnant size alters fungal functional groups dispersed by a digging mammal	7
Impacts of the removal of invasive Carpobrotus on spider assemblage dynamics	7
Application of protein nutrition in natural ecosystem management for European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) conservation	7
Molecular evidence of species- and subspecies-level distinctions in the rare Orchis patens s.l. and implications for conservation	7
Diversity and distribution of Genus Primula in Kashmir region: an indicator genus of the western Himalayan mountain wetlands and glacial forelands	7
Ecological and acoustic responses of bush crickets to anthropogenic and natural ecotones	7
An index of ecological value for European arable plant communities	7
Understanding potential conflicts between human and non-human-primates: a large-scale survey in Malaysia	7
Predicting fish community responses to environmental policy targets	7
Modelling potential Pleistocene habitat corridors between Afromontane forest regions	7
A comprehensive review on biodiversity information portals	6
The Ninth Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9): sustainable use, values, and business (as usual)	6
Understanding the sustainability of Chinese caterpillar fungus harvesting: the need for better data	6
Assessing woodpeckers as indicators of bird diversity and habitat structure in managed forests	6
No statistical support for wolf control and maternal penning as conservation measures for endangered mountain caribou	6
Stoneflies in the genus Lednia (Plecoptera: Nemouridae): sentinels of climate change impacts on mountain stream biodiversity	6
Natural forests of Pinus pinea in western Turkey: a priority for conservation	6
What’s in a name? A content analysis of environmental NGOs’ use of “iconic species” in press releases	6
Overcoming biases and identifying opportunities for citizen science to contribute more to global macroinvertebrate conservation	6
Plant diversity conservation in an agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists	6
Can indicator species guide conservation investments to restore connectivity in Great Lakes tributaries?	6
Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism	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
Detecting spider monkeys from the sky using a high-definition RGB camera: a rapid-assessment survey method?	6
Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity	6
High evolutionary and functional distinctiveness of endemic monocots in world islands	6
The eighth plenary of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-8): online, nexus, and transformative change	6
Atlantic Forest: centres of diversity and endemism for ferns and lycophytes and conservation status	6
Simplicity or complexity? Important aspects of high nature value grassland management in nature conservation	6
A safeguard measure of endemic and endangered plant species: cryostorage of Dianthus taxa	6
What is the role of topographic heterogeneity and climate on the distribution and conservation of vascular epiphytes in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest?	6
Conserving populations at the edge of their geographic range: the endangered Caspian red deer (Cervus elaphus maral) across protected areas of Iran	6