Biodiversity and Conservation

Article	Citations
An evaluation of freshwater monitoring programs in ILTER nodes and mountain national parks: identifying key variables to monitor global change effects	162
A community-based conservation approach model. the case of argan grove biosphere reserve cooperatives. in the central western part of morocco	119
The iconic Jubaea chilensis teeters on the edge of local extinction: a plea for enhanced conservation policies	59
Conservation priorities for Indian biodiversity: spatiotemporal patterns, policy efficacy, and future outlook	49
A review of threatened and poorly known samphires in Australia: their distribution, observed environmental threats and ecological responses	46
Richness and endemism patterns of Frullania Raddi reveal key areas for conservation of liverworts in Brazil	43
Turning the threat of hybridization into an asset for conserving wild species by backcrossing	40
Using the ecosystem services approach to link raptors with human well-being in the Southeast Pampas of Argentina	39
Investigating an implementation gap: uncovering the potential of eDNA in combating illegal wildlife trade	37
Integrating ecological and biogeographical tools for the identification of conservation areas in two Neotropical biogeographic provinces in Argentina based on phytophagous insects	35
Updated review of the conservation status of Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis) in Kenya	34
Conservation value of mediterranean traditional olive groves: a quantitative assessment of an ultimate refuge for threatened arable flora	33
Agricultural landscape influences on the solitary bees and wasps that nest in ecological restoration sites	32
The Ninth Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9): sustainable use, values, and business (as usual)	31
Integrating artificial intelligence in biodiversity conservation: bridging classical and modern approaches	28
Agricultural heritage systems and agrobiodiversity	28
Low cross-taxon congruence and weak stand-age effects on biodiversity in Swedish oak forests	27
Disease-driven collapse of the native Kauaʻi avifauna and the rise of introduced bird species	26
Patterns and process in pseudoaerial diatom communities: impact of local and regional factors in the Eastern Himalayan and Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot	25
Dominance and identity of the dominant bee drive bee diversity on flowers	25
Time pattern variation of alien plant introductions in an insular biodiversity hotspot: the Balearic Islands as a case study for the Mediterranean region	25
The effects of agroforestry and conventional banana plantations on multiple dimensions of butterfly diversity in the Atlantic Forest	24
Biodiversity data sharing platforms are vital for the management and prevention of biological invasions	24
Unveiling the impacts of forest loss on taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of juvenile and adult tropical trees	24
Macroinvertebrate diversity patterns in a guano-rich temperate cave	24

Assessing ungulate response to conservation-oriented village relocations and their associated management practices in a tiger reserve in central India	23
Eutrophication is better indicated by functional traits than taxonomic composition of macroinvertebrate assemblages in floodplain lakes	23
Seasonal direct and indirect effects of local habitat and landscape factors on wild bees in agroecosytems	22
How do we study birds in urban settings? A systematic review	22
The importance of habitat and microclimate on the functional and guild structure of canopy-dwelling beetle communities in subantarctic forest	22
Genomics outperforms genetics to manage mistakes in fisheries stocking of threatened species	22
Abandoned fields show higher insectivorous Bat species and functional diversity than forest fragments in a communal land area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa	21
Asexuality and species invasion	21
Valuing species-at-risk recovery: A discrete choice experiment on public willingness-to-pay for conservation in Québec, Canada	21
Enhancing semi-aquatic species representativeness beyond protected areas: dragonflies in networks of conservation corridors	20
Potential individual and interactive effects of climate and land-cover changes on bats and implications for conservation planning: a case study in Vietnam	20
The role of aftercare in plant translocation	20
A soundscape approach for a short-term acoustic monitoring of a critically endangered Cuban frog	19
Correction: Surveys that prioritize site number over time per site will result in better gastropod status assessments: a case study on the rediscovery of Big Black Rocksnail	19
Patterns of genetic variation in native and non-native populations of European catfish Silurus glanis across Europe	18
Identifying high-priority conservation areas in the Atlantic forest: a multicriteria approach using water striders	18
Species distribution models for the conservation of a micro-endemic animal: the contribution of regional land cover	18
Transformative potential of conservation actions	18
Conservation beyond protected areas: what is known about amphibians in agroforests?	17
Determining factors of endemic parrots’ large-scale occupancy: a study on climate and forest structure in the Amazon’s most at-risk region	17
Half century in biodiversity and conservation research in Nepal: a review	17
Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity	17
Rapid evaluation of habitat connectivity change to safeguard multispecies persistence in human-transformed landscapes	17
Increasingly uncommon common toads: multidecadal, ongoing abundance decline of a widespread amphibian despite volunteer conservation action	17
Retention harvesting experiments in plantations reveal the importance of dispersed retention for canopy beetle conservation in northern Japan	17
Are the Sundarbans mangrove forest management policies adequate to conserve wildlife species?	16
Spatial analysis of deforestation in Indonesia in the period 1950–2017 and the role of protected areas	16
Assessment of ecotone changes over the last six decades in two cultural landscapes: The case of the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene UNESCO site and of the Olive Groves of the Slopes bet	15
The relationship between green roofs and urban biodiversity: a systematic review	15
Land use changes in globally important cultural forests. The case of two traditionally managed forests for non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in China and Japan	15
Non-native Douglas fir promotes epigeal spider density, but has a mixed effect on functional diversity	15
Conservation of native tree species in the agroforest of rice-based agroecosystems will contribute to sustainable agriculture	15
Transformative change – a complex, multifaceted challenge for humanity	15
Can road verges act as alternative habitats for meadow macrofungi?	14
Spatial and temporal segregation in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in the Cerrado of Central Brazil	14
A species-specific qPCR assay provides novel insight into range expansion of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) by means of eDNA analysis	14
Human influence on the distribution of cacao: insights from remote sensing and biogeography	14
Beyond biophobia: positive appraisal of bats among German residents during the COVID-19 pandemic - with consequences for conservation intentions	14
Retraction Note: Changes in management shape the spatial ecology of wild ponies in relation to habitat conservation	14
Challenges for coral restoration in Southwestern Atlantic reefs: guidelines for ethical and sustainable practices	14
Drivers of diversity of arable plant communities in one of their european conservation hotspots	14
Insect diversity in heterogeneous agro-environments of Central Europe	14
Amphibians and conservation breeding programmes: how do we determine who should be on the ark?	13
More than one way to count a cat: estimation of ocelot population density using frameworks for marked and unmarked species	13
Assessing richness and endemism centers and conservation status of mosses in the Brazilian Atlantic forest	13
Living alongside otters: examining human-otter interactions and attitudes towards otters in Central India for conservation in shared landscapes	13
Can the extinction risk of Irish vascular plants be predicted using leaf traits?	13
Charismatic, but not attractive: bringing attention to the conservation of freshwater cetaceans	13
DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin	12
Impact of landscape pattern evolution on plant alpha diversity	12

Avian indicators of land-sharing and land-sparing urban landscape configuration in European cities	12
Role of rare species in benthic diatom communities: patterns, processes and networks	12
European Union’s Natura 2000 network: an effective tool for nature conservation? The relic pine forests of the Franconian Jura	12
A comprehensive review on biodiversity information portals	12
First insular population of the critically endangered Cistus heterophyllus subsp. carthaginensis on Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Balearic Islands, Spain)	12
Unstructured citizen science reduces the perception of butterfly local extinctions: the interplay between species traits and user effort	12
Assessment of multiple model algorithms to predict earthworm geographic distribution range and biodiversity in Germany: implications for soil-monitoring and species-conservation needs	12
Considering plant functional connectivity in landscape conservation and restoration management	12
Elevation range and contemporary climate determine the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of forest mammals	12
Effects of abiotic and biotic factors on latitudinal diversity patterns of tree species in temperate forests	12
Grassland strip width of transhumance drove roads as a key factor of ant biodiversity in agrarian landscapes of central Spain	12
“Traditional” use in a global world: unsustainable ethnozoological usage among Himalayan ethnic groups drives species to extinction	12
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Changes in management shape the spatial ecology of wild ponies in relation to habitat conservation	12
Predicting tipping points of vegetation resilience as a response to precipitation: Implications for understanding impacts of climate change in India	12
River benthic macroinvertebrates and environmental DNA metabarcoding: a scoping review of eDNA sampling, extraction, amplification and sequencing methods	12
Correction: Human highly modified landscapes restrict gene flow of the largest neotropical canid, the maned wolf	12
Automatic recorders monitor wolves at rendezvous sites: do wolves adjust howling to live near humans?	11
Research on ecological network identification in rare animal habitats based on the MaxEnt model and ant colony algorithm: a case study of Giant Panda National Park, China	11
Prospects and constraints in studying the biodiversity of agriculturally important microalgae and cyanobacteria and useful statistical tools	11
Forest loss and increased edge density reduce diversity and ecological functionality of dung beetle assemblages in the Tropical Atlantic Forest	11
Assessment of agrobiodiversity in the intensive agriculture: a case study of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	11
Recovering connectivity through restoration corridors in a fragmented landscape in the magdalena river’s valley in Colombia	11
Correction to: The impact of abandoned kaolin quarries on macromycetes (Fungi: Basidiomycota, Ascomycota), carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae), and spider (Araneae) assemblages	11
Correction to: Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA	11
Effectiveness of ant communities to detect anthropogenic disturbance in Neotropical forest landscapes: a case study in the Brazilian Amazon	11
Integrating habitat suitability modeling with gene flow improves delineation of landscape connections among African savanna elephants	11
The importance of vertically stratified, multi-year sampling for understanding native bee assemblages in southeastern temperate deciduous forests	11
Palms predict the distributions of birds in southwestern Amazonia and are potential surrogates for land-use planning by citizen scientists	11
Undestroyed winter cover crop strips support wild bee abundance and diversity in intensive cropping systems	11
Conservation and sustainable development of coastal species of horticultural importance: insights from genetic and environmental patterns at spatio-temporal scale	10
Updating knowledge of vegetation belts on a complex oceanic island after 20 years under the effect of climate change	10
Impact of grasslands grazed by cattle on taxonomic and functional aspects of bird assemblages in floodplain wetlands of the Paraná River	10
Regional assessment of diversity and distribution of native tree species in South Asia	10
General patterns of beavers’ selective foraging: how to evaluate the effects of a re-emerging driver of vegetation change along Central European small watercourses	10
Guidelines for evaluating the conservation value of African cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) translocations	10
Sea level rise adaptation pushes an insular endemic rodent closer to extinction	10
Limits of cultural and traditional mechanisms in tropical forest conservation	10
Using joint species distribution modelling to predict distributions of seafloor taxa and identify vulnerable marine ecosystems in New Zealand waters	10
Grassland arthropod assemblages differ between a variety of neighbouring biotopes and small features in a timber production landscape	10
Come back to stay: landscape connectivity analysis for the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in the western Alps	10
Landrace in situ (on-farm) conservation: European Union achievements	10
Emerging patterns of genetic diversity in the critically endangered Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni)	10
Identifying priority areas using a multispecies approach for the conservation of marine megafauna species vulnerable to bycatch in commercial gillnet fisheries	10
Comparisons of songbirds on sale across online and physical markets in Indonesia	10
Extreme climate refugia: a case study of wild relatives of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Colombia	10
Spatially explicit estimates of global population potential for leopard (Panthera pardus)	10
Current wildlife crime (Indian scenario): major challenges and prevention approaches	10
Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country	10
Mixed responses of ant communities to the eradication of black rats and iceplants on a small Mediterranean island	10
Correction: Identifying remnant biodiversity hotspots in Southern Asia reveals disequilibrium in mammalian communities	10
Still viable despite criticism: complexities of evaluating the performance of ICDPs	10
Correction: Metabarcoding reveals that arboreal habitats contribute significantly to nematode diversity in different forest ecosystems	10
Using genome-wide diversity and population structure to define management units in the cirio (Fouquieria columnaris), an emblematic tree of the Sonoran Desert	10
Trophy hunting is not one big thing	10
A critical inventory of the mediterranean endemics in the egyptian flora	10
The importance of fine-scale landscape characteristics for habitat selection in penguins	10
Extreme predation of eggs and hatchlings for loggerhead turtles in eastern Indian Ocean	10
Spatio-temporal variation in avian taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity and its relevance for conservation in a wetland ecosystem in Myanmar	9
How to promote spider diversity of heathlands: impact of management intensity	9
Global species hotspots and COI barcoding cold spots of marine Gastropoda	9
Fishing and recording dead fish by citizen scientists contribute valuable data on south American ray-finned fish diversity	9
Historical context and drivers of forest cover change in Wayanad plateau: a key elephant landscape in India’s Western Ghats	9
Drivers of benthic invertebrate diversity in the protected Walpole-Nornalup Estuary, southwest Australia	9
Prioritising species for monitoring in a South African protected area and the Red List for plants	9
Influence of land use on the diversity of pond-breeding anurans in South Brazilian grasslands	9
Nine biomes and nine challenges for the conservation genetics of Neotropical species, the case of the vulnerable giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)	9
Understanding the prospects of human-wildlife coexistence: a conceptual framework	9
Conservation of Latin America freshwater biodiversity: beyond political borders	9
Conservation by trans-border cooperation: population genetic structure and diversity of geoffroy’s bat (Myotis emarginatus) at its north-western european range edge	9
Spatial prioritisation of management zones in protected areas for the integration of multiple objectives	9
Hotspots in transition: Mediterranean amphibian diversity under different climate scenarios	9
Amphibian strongholds: protected areas and the future of direct-developing frogs of the genus Ischnocnema in the Atlantic forest under climate change	9
Koalas on Australian Islands	9
Occupancy and co-occurrence patterns of endemic mammals and introduced predators across a broad geographical gradient in eastern Australia	9
Passive acoustic monitoring in difficult terrains: the case of the Principe Scops-Owl	9
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of ant communities in response to elevational gradients in the Qinling Mountains	9
The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists	9
Landscape matrix and substrate jointly shape the trait composition of true bug (Heteroptera) communities in drainage ditches	9
Publication trends and captive population dynamics: complementary insights for advancing conservation efforts of endangered Brazilian wild cats	9
Young farmers’ willingness to protect species at risk in Prince Edward Island	9

Analysing spatiotemporal patterns of snake occurrence in an Australian city to help manage human-wildlife conflict	9
Significant decline in habitat specialists in semi-dry grasslands over four decades	9
Changes in epiphytic lichen diversity along the urban-rural gradient before, during, and after the acid rain period	9
Studies on earthworm diversity with respect to soil properties in different land use systems in Koraput region of the Eastern Ghats, India	8
New Australian frontier in freshwater fish invasion via Torres Strait Islands	8
Correction to: Elevational changes in canopy Collembola community composition are primarily driven by species turnover on Changbai Mountain, northeastern China	8
Conserving Amazonian vascular epiphytes: evaluating protected areas and unveiling biodiversity through comprehensive species inventories	8
Anthropogenic city noise affects the vocalizations of key forest birds	8
How threatened are orchids? A review of the state of play and identification of gaps and priorities	8
Beauty and the beast: multiple effects of wild boar rooting on butterfly microhabitat	8
Cross-taxon analysis in the highly threatened Mediterranean dunes reveals consistent diversity patterns in butterfly and plant communities	8
Suitable habitats shifting toward human-dominated landscapes of Asian elephants in China	8
Plant diversity conservation in an agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado	8
Risk of Asian hornet invasion in Mexico: a proposal for invasive species risk assessment from a spatial perspective	8
Fine-scale fern ecological responses inform on riparian forest habitat conservation status	8
Neglected predatory insects trigger potential Key Biodiversity Areas in threatened coastal habitats	8
Conserving large mammals on small islands: A case study on one of the world’s most understudied pigs, the Togean islands babirusa	8
A review on the biodiversity and conservation of mangrove ecosystems in Indonesia	8
Threats to Australia’s rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring	8
Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target	8
Red List for British seaweeds: evaluating the IUCN methodology for non-standard marine organisms	8
Legal deforestation can jeopardize plant diversity conservation in an agricultural frontier in the brazilian Cerrado: a spatial explicit contribution to Santana and Simon (2022)	8
Correction: Effective conservation and management of giraffe require adopting recent advances of their taxonomy	8
Distribution, endemism and conservation of Abatia - the American lineage of Salicaceae with opposite leaves	8
Agrobiodiversity and agroecological practices in ‘jhumscape’ of the Eastern Himalayas: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater	8
Conservation implications of livelihood activities of communities living adjacent protected areas: case study of the Mount Nlonako reserve in Cameroon	8
Early signals of climate change impacts on alpine plant diversity in Indian Himalaya	8
Compositional change in vascular plant diversity in the alpine mountainous region of Indian north-western Himalaya indicate effects of warming	8
Biodiversity associated with restored small-scale mussel habitats has restoration decision implications	7
The local ecological knowledge of butterfly diversity is derived from utilitarian purposes in Southwest China’s biodiversity hotspot	7
Predicting the distribution of plant species from southern South America: are the hotspots of genetic diversity threatened by climate change?	7
Geographical divergence of species richness and local homogenization of plant assemblages due to climate change in grasslands	7
Standardized transect walks outperform pan traps in assessing wild bee community in a Mediterranean protected area (Asinara National Park, Italy)	7
Climate change from an ectotherm perspective: evolutionary consequences and demographic change in amphibian and reptilian populations	7
Threatened saproxylic beetle species in tree hollows react more sensitively to surrounding landscape composition in central European managed forests than total species richness	7
Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts	7
Saproxylic beetles respond to habitat variables at different spatial scales depending on variable type and species’ mobility: the need for multi-scale forest structure management	7
Correction: Innovation of argan (Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels) products and byproducts for sustainable development of rural communities in Morocco. A systematic literature review	7
Detecting spider monkeys from the sky using a high-definition RGB camera: a rapid-assessment survey method?	7
Factors driving human–elephant conflict: statistical assessment of vulnerability and implications for wildlife conflict management in Sri Lanka	7
Biodiversity in residential gardens: a review of the evidence base	7
Observed and dark diversity of plants’ life-forms are driven by climate and human impacts in a tropical dry forest	7
Projected biodiversity in the Hyrcanian Mountain Forest of Iran: an investigation based on two climate scenarios	7
Correction to: Spectral behavior of vegetation in Harmony Point, Nelson Island, Antarctica	7
Correction: Wild and domestic animals shape herbivory threats to endangered plants differently	7
Are these islands isolated? Floristic diversity in inselberg habitats of the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil	7
Reimagining the wilderness ethic to include “people and nature”	7
Long term benthic survey demonstrates a shift in the composition of benthic reef communities at shallow sites in Roatán, Honduras	7
Influence of microhabitats on the bryophyte community in a coastal subtropical forest	7
Patterns of extinction across Hawaiian Lepidoptera offer lessons from a diverse, neglected, and vulnerable endemic fauna	7
Comparison of methods for the automatic classification of forest habitat types in the Southern Alps—Application to ecological data from the French national forest inventory	7
Diversity, distribution and need of urgent conservation of endemic plants in Himalaya	7
Are novel ecosystems suitable habitats for native birds? Birds’ association with spontaneous vegetation patches in the argentinean pampas	7
Flight speed and time of day heavily influence rainforest canopy wildlife counts from drone-mounted thermal camera surveys	7
Human highly modified landscapes restrict gene flow of the largest neotropical canid, the maned wolf	7
Effect of outdoor recreation on forest phytocenosis	7
Sex-specific responses to climate change in unisexual bryophytes	7
Site fidelity of harbor seals in Casco Bay, ME, USA using facial recognition technology: a pilot study	7
Correction to: The potential role of public gardens as sentinels of plant invasion	7
Rock climbing affects cliff-plant communities by reducing species diversity and altering species coexistence patterns	7
Correction to: The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness	7
The composition and phenology of butterflies are determined by their functional trait in Indian tropical dry forests	7
Antarctica is less isolated with increasing depth - evidence from pycnogonids	7
Are threatened seabird colonies of the pacific ocean genetically vulnerable? The case of the red-tailed tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda, as a model species	7
Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA	7
Projecting climate change impacts on the distribution of the most captured tuna species on Atlantic waters	6
Rethinking agro-biodiversity conservation: livestock science and policy relationship in India	6
Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism	6
Mini Safe Havens for population recovery and reintroductions ‘beyond-the-fence’	6
Multiscale effects of habitat changes on diversity of rainforest snakes	6
Biodiversity responses to climate change – a sustainable development perspective from India	6
Assessing Brazilian turtles’ vulnerability BY USING species distribution models AND dispersal constraints	6
Examining diversity of terrestrial mammal communities across forest reserves in Sabah, Borneo	6
Modeling responses of Brazilian Atlantic Forest mammals assemble to climate change	6
Management of upland calcareous grasslands for target vascular plant community impacts upon abundance but not diversity of non-target bryophytes	6
Identifying factors across multiple scales that impact bat activity and species richness along roads in a fragmented landscape	6
Plant community and climate differ between former islands and submerged hills by proglacial lake Ojibway in eastern boreal Canada	6
Variation in dispersal traits and geography predict loss of ranges due to climate change in cold-adapted amphibians	6
Roadmap to recovery revealed through the reintroduction of an IUCN Red List species	6
The hotspots and conservation gaps of the mega genus Astragalus (Fabaceae) in the Old-World	6
Conservation management in the context of unidentified and unmitigated threatening processes	6
Multiple facets of avian diversity in pine forests along an urban-agricultural gradient	6
Why didn’t the caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) cross the winter road? The effect of industrial traffic on the road-crossing decisions of caribou	6
Correction to: Historical reconstruction of sturgeon (Acipenser spp.) spatiotemporal distribution and causes for their decline in North-Western Europe	6
Temporal changes in the taxonomic and functional structure of bryophyte assemblages warn about the conservation status of biological refuges	6
Stoneflies in the genus Lednia (Plecoptera: Nemouridae): sentinels of climate change impacts on mountain stream biodiversity	6
Nature abhors a vacuum: invasive themes and other outputs from the tenth plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-10)	6
Remnant habitat patches provide high value for a wide range of insect species in a timber plantation mosaic	6
Initiatives for biodiversity conservation and utilization in crop protection: A strategy for sustainable crop production	6
Efficacy of species distribution models (SDMs) for ecological realms to ascertain biological conservation and practices	6
Changes in land cover and bird community composition in a Dutch coastal Dune landscape – a two-decade analysis	6
How effective are ecological metrics in supporting conservation and management in degraded streams?	6
Factors affecting the availability of data on East African wildlife: the monitoring needs of conservationists are not being met	6
Predicting the patterns of plant species distribution under changing climate in major biogeographic zones of mainland India	6
Maps of potential biodiversity: when the tools for regional conservation planning clash with species ecological niches	6