Biodiversity and Conservation

Article	Citations
The Ninth Plenary of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES-9): sustainable use, values, and business (as usual)	114
How do we study birds in urban settings? A systematic review	89
A community-based conservation approach model. the case of argan grove biosphere reserve cooperatives. in the central western part of morocco	48
A review of threatened and poorly known samphires in Australia: their distribution, observed environmental threats and ecological responses	47
Richness and endemism patterns of Frullania Raddi reveal key areas for conservation of liverworts in Brazil	41
Conservation priorities for Indian biodiversity: spatiotemporal patterns, policy efficacy, and future outlook	37
Effect of non-native species on taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities in different river types	32
An evaluation of freshwater monitoring programs in ILTER nodes and mountain national parks: identifying key variables to monitor global change effects	32
The importance of habitat and microclimate on the functional and guild structure of canopy-dwelling beetle communities in subantarctic forest	32
Agricultural expansion in African savannas: effects on diversity and composition of trees and mammals	32
Time pattern variation of alien plant introductions in an insular biodiversity hotspot: the Balearic Islands as a case study for the Mediterranean region	31
The iconic Jubaea chilensis teeters on the edge of local extinction: a plea for enhanced conservation policies	28
Dominance and identity of the dominant bee drive bee diversity on flowers	28
Integrating ecological and biogeographical tools for the identification of conservation areas in two Neotropical biogeographic provinces in Argentina based on phytophagous insects	28
The role of aftercare in plant translocation	28
Landscape features associated to wind farms increase mammalian predator abundance and ground-nest predation	27
Agricultural landscape influences on the solitary bees and wasps that nest in ecological restoration sites	27
Integrating artificial intelligence in biodiversity conservation: bridging classical and modern approaches	26
Asexuality and species invasion	25
Updated review of the conservation status of Nubian giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis camelopardalis) in Kenya	25
Turning the threat of hybridization into an asset for conserving wild species by backcrossing	24
Using the ecosystem services approach to link raptors with human well-being in the Southeast Pampas of Argentina	23
Genomics outperforms genetics to manage mistakes in fisheries stocking of threatened species	22
Unveiling the impacts of forest loss on taxonomic and phylogenetic beta diversity of juvenile and adult tropical trees	21
The effects of agroforestry and conventional banana plantations on multiple dimensions of butterfly diversity in the Atlantic Forest	21

Half century in biodiversity and conservation research in Nepal: a review	21
Patterns and process in pseudoaerial diatom communities: impact of local and regional factors in the Eastern Himalayan and Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot	21
Agricultural heritage systems and agrobiodiversity	21
Macroinvertebrate diversity patterns in a guano-rich temperate cave	21
Eutrophication is better indicated by functional traits than taxonomic composition of macroinvertebrate assemblages in floodplain lakes	21
Biodiversity data sharing platforms are vital for the management and prevention of biological invasions	21
Potential individual and interactive effects of climate and land-cover changes on bats and implications for conservation planning: a case study in Vietnam	20
Transformative potential of conservation actions	20
Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity	20
Spatial analysis of deforestation in Indonesia in the period 1950–2017 and the role of protected areas	20
A soundscape approach for a short-term acoustic monitoring of a critically endangered Cuban frog	20
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	19
Species distribution models for the conservation of a micro-endemic animal: the contribution of regional land cover	19
Are the Sundarbans mangrove forest management policies adequate to conserve wildlife species?	19
Enhancing semi-aquatic species representativeness beyond protected areas: dragonflies in networks of conservation corridors	19
Remote sensing of biodiversity: what to measure and monitor from space to species?	18
Rapid evaluation of habitat connectivity change to safeguard multispecies persistence in human-transformed landscapes	18
The relationship between green roofs and urban biodiversity: a systematic review	18
Non-native Douglas fir promotes epigeal spider density, but has a mixed effect on functional diversity	17
Editor’s Note to: Molecular taxonomic tools provide more accurate estimates of species richness at less cost than traditional morphology-based taxonomic practices in a vegetation survey	17
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	17
Assessing richness and endemism centers and conservation status of mosses in the Brazilian Atlantic forest	17
Spatial and temporal segregation in dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) in the Cerrado of Central Brazil	16
Towards resolving conservation issues through historical aerial imagery: vegetation cover changes in the Central European tundra	16
Transformative change – a complex, multifaceted challenge for humanity	16
River benthic macroinvertebrates and environmental DNA metabarcoding: a scoping review of eDNA sampling, extraction, amplification and sequencing methods	16
Correction: Human highly modified landscapes restrict gene flow of the largest neotropical canid, the maned wolf	16
A comprehensive review on biodiversity information portals	16
Challenges for coral restoration in Southwestern Atlantic reefs: guidelines for ethical and sustainable practices	16
Conservation of native tree species in the agroforest of rice-based agroecosystems will contribute to sustainable agriculture	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	16
Beyond biophobia: positive appraisal of bats among German residents during the COVID-19 pandemic - with consequences for conservation intentions	15
Amphibians and conservation breeding programmes: how do we determine who should be on the ark?	15
Human influence on the distribution of cacao: insights from remote sensing and biogeography	15
Retraction Note: Changes in management shape the spatial ecology of wild ponies in relation to habitat conservation	15
Insect diversity in heterogeneous agro-environments of Central Europe	15
Drivers of diversity of arable plant communities in one of their european conservation hotspots	15
Elevation range and contemporary climate determine the taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of forest mammals	14
Can the extinction risk of Irish vascular plants be predicted using leaf traits?	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
Living alongside otters: examining human-otter interactions and attitudes towards otters in Central India for conservation in shared landscapes	14
Genetic diversity and phylogenetic relationships of Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus) populations in the Malay Peninsula based on mitochondrial DNA control region	14
Integrating habitat suitability modeling with gene flow improves delineation of landscape connections among African savanna elephants	14
More than one way to count a cat: estimation of ocelot population density using frameworks for marked and unmarked species	14
European Union’s Natura 2000 network: an effective tool for nature conservation? The relic pine forests of the Franconian Jura	14
How farmers think about insects: perceptions of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and attitudes towards insect-friendly farming practices	14
Charismatic, but not attractive: bringing attention to the conservation of freshwater cetaceans	14
DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin	13
Automatic recorders monitor wolves at rendezvous sites: do wolves adjust howling to live near humans?	13

Effectiveness of ant communities to detect anthropogenic disturbance in Neotropical forest landscapes: a case study in the Brazilian Amazon	13
Recovering connectivity through restoration corridors in a fragmented landscape in the magdalena river’s valley in Colombia	13
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Changes in management shape the spatial ecology of wild ponies in relation to habitat conservation	13
First insular population of the critically endangered Cistus heterophyllus subsp. carthaginensis on Cabrera Archipelago National Park (Balearic Islands, Spain)	13
Role of rare species in benthic diatom communities: patterns, processes and networks	12
Area modulates the effect of elevation but not of land use or canopy on tropical plant species richness	12
Predicting tipping points of vegetation resilience as a response to precipitation: Implications for understanding impacts of climate change in India	12
Considering plant functional connectivity in landscape conservation and restoration management	12
Increased grazing drives homogenisation but reduced grazing increases turnover in upland habitat mosaics	12
Assessment of agrobiodiversity in the intensive agriculture: a case study of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India	12
Unstructured citizen science reduces the perception of butterfly local extinctions: the interplay between species traits and user effort	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
Assessment of multiple model algorithms to predict earthworm geographic distribution range and biodiversity in Germany: implications for soil-monitoring and species-conservation needs	11
Undestroyed winter cover crop strips support wild bee abundance and diversity in intensive cropping systems	11
Trophy hunting is not one big thing	11
Come back to stay: landscape connectivity analysis for the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in the western Alps	11
Sea level rise adaptation pushes an insular endemic rodent closer to extinction	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
Identification crisis: a fauna-wide estimate of biodiversity expertise shows massive decline in a Central European country	11
Palms predict the distributions of birds in southwestern Amazonia and are potential surrogates for land-use planning by citizen scientists	11
The importance of fine-scale landscape characteristics for habitat selection in penguins	11
Correction to: The impact of abandoned kaolin quarries on macromycetes (Fungi: Basidiomycota, Ascomycota), carabid beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae), and spider (Araneae) assemblages	11
Comparisons of songbirds on sale across online and physical markets in Indonesia	11
Prospects and constraints in studying the biodiversity of agriculturally important microalgae and cyanobacteria and useful statistical tools	11
Correction to: Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA	11
Using genome-wide diversity and population structure to define management units in the cirio (Fouquieria columnaris), an emblematic tree of the Sonoran Desert	11
Forest loss and increased edge density reduce diversity and ecological functionality of dung beetle assemblages in the Tropical Atlantic Forest	11
Using joint species distribution modelling to predict distributions of seafloor taxa and identify vulnerable marine ecosystems in New Zealand waters	10
Correction: Metabarcoding reveals that arboreal habitats contribute significantly to nematode diversity in different forest ecosystems	10
Impact of grasslands grazed by cattle on taxonomic and functional aspects of bird assemblages in floodplain wetlands of the Paraná River	10
Landrace in situ (on-farm) conservation: European Union achievements	10
Extreme climate refugia: a case study of wild relatives of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Colombia	10
Unexpected overlapping use of tree hollows by birds, reptiles and declining mammals in an Australian tropical savanna	10
Current wildlife crime (Indian scenario): major challenges and prevention approaches	10
Analysing spatiotemporal patterns of snake occurrence in an Australian city to help manage human-wildlife conflict	10
Conservation and sustainable development of coastal species of horticultural importance: insights from genetic and environmental patterns at spatio-temporal scale	10
Influence of land use on the diversity of pond-breeding anurans in South Brazilian grasslands	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
A critical inventory of the mediterranean endemics in the egyptian flora	10
Subterranean “oasis” in the Brazilian semiarid region: neglected sources of biodiversity	10
Understanding the prospects of human-wildlife coexistence: a conceptual framework	10
Mixed responses of ant communities to the eradication of black rats and iceplants on a small Mediterranean island	10
Regional assessment of diversity and distribution of native tree species in South Asia	10
Extreme predation of eggs and hatchlings for loggerhead turtles in eastern Indian Ocean	10
Mammalian defaunation across the Devonian kniferidges and meridional plateaus of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	10
Changes in epiphytic lichen diversity along the urban-rural gradient before, during, and after the acid rain period	9
Drivers of benthic invertebrate diversity in the protected Walpole-Nornalup Estuary, southwest Australia	9
Nine biomes and nine challenges for the conservation genetics of Neotropical species, the case of the vulnerable giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)	9
50 Years on, w(h)ither the Ramsar convention? A case of institutional drift	9
Spatio-temporal variation in avian taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity and its relevance for conservation in a wetland ecosystem in Myanmar	9
Still viable despite criticism: complexities of evaluating the performance of ICDPs	9
Landscape matrix and substrate jointly shape the trait composition of true bug (Heteroptera) communities in drainage ditches	9
Plant diversity conservation in an agricultural frontier in the Brazilian Cerrado	9
Occupancy and co-occurrence patterns of endemic mammals and introduced predators across a broad geographical gradient in eastern Australia	9
Updating knowledge of vegetation belts on a complex oceanic island after 20 years under the effect of climate change	9
Conservation conflicts and their drivers in different protected area management groups: a case study in Brazil	9
Identifying priority areas using a multispecies approach for the conservation of marine megafauna species vulnerable to bycatch in commercial gillnet fisheries	9
Biodiversity conservation in climate change driven transient communities	9
Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review	9
Historical context and drivers of forest cover change in Wayanad plateau: a key elephant landscape in India’s Western Ghats	9
Prioritising species for monitoring in a South African protected area and the Red List for plants	9
Emerging patterns of genetic diversity in the critically endangered Malayan tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni)	9
The environmental filtering and the conservation of tropical dry forests in mountains in a global change scenario	9
Passive acoustic monitoring in difficult terrains: the case of the Principe Scops-Owl	9
Significant decline in habitat specialists in semi-dry grasslands over four decades	9
Correction: Identifying remnant biodiversity hotspots in Southern Asia reveals disequilibrium in mammalian communities	9
Modelling the amphibian chytrid fungus spread by connectivity analysis: towards a national monitoring network in Italy	9
How to promote spider diversity of heathlands: impact of management intensity	9
Analysing the distribution of strictly protected areas toward the EU2030 target	8
Palaeoecology and conservation of endangered hidden species; example of the liverwort Riella (Riellaceae)	8
Studies on earthworm diversity with respect to soil properties in different land use systems in Koraput region of the Eastern Ghats, India	8
Cross-taxon analysis in the highly threatened Mediterranean dunes reveals consistent diversity patterns in butterfly and plant communities	8
Spatial prioritisation of management zones in protected areas for the integration of multiple objectives	8
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	8
Anthropogenic city noise affects the vocalizations of key forest birds	8
A review on the biodiversity and conservation of mangrove ecosystems in Indonesia	8
Young farmers’ willingness to protect species at risk in Prince Edward Island	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
Threats to Australia’s rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring	8

The long history of rich fens supports persistence of plant and snail habitat specialists	8
New Australian frontier in freshwater fish invasion via Torres Strait Islands	8
Conservation by trans-border cooperation: population genetic structure and diversity of geoffroy’s bat (Myotis emarginatus) at its north-western european range edge	8
Fishing and recording dead fish by citizen scientists contribute valuable data on south American ray-finned fish diversity	8
Suitable habitats shifting toward human-dominated landscapes of Asian elephants in China	8
Risk of Asian hornet invasion in Mexico: a proposal for invasive species risk assessment from a spatial perspective	8
Beauty and the beast: multiple effects of wild boar rooting on butterfly microhabitat	8
Compositional change in vascular plant diversity in the alpine mountainous region of Indian north-western Himalaya indicate effects of warming	8
Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: different non-crop habitats increase diversity of ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera) but support different communities	8
Conservation of Latin America freshwater biodiversity: beyond political borders	8
Hotspots in transition: Mediterranean amphibian diversity under different climate scenarios	8
Taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of ant communities in response to elevational gradients in the Qinling Mountains	8
Early signals of climate change impacts on alpine plant diversity in Indian Himalaya	8
Global species hotspots and COI barcoding cold spots of marine Gastropoda	8
Red List for British seaweeds: evaluating the IUCN methodology for non-standard marine organisms	8
Flight speed and time of day heavily influence rainforest canopy wildlife counts from drone-mounted thermal camera surveys	8
Correction: Effective conservation and management of giraffe require adopting recent advances of their taxonomy	8
Rock climbing affects cliff-plant communities by reducing species diversity and altering species coexistence patterns	7
Antarctica is less isolated with increasing depth - evidence from pycnogonids	7
The management effectiveness of protected areas in Kenya	7
Projected biodiversity in the Hyrcanian Mountain Forest of Iran: an investigation based on two climate scenarios	7
Long term benthic survey demonstrates a shift in the composition of benthic reef communities at shallow sites in Roatán, Honduras	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
Agrobiodiversity and agroecological practices in ‘jhumscape’ of the Eastern Himalayas: don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater	7
Observed and dark diversity of plants’ life-forms are driven by climate and human impacts in a tropical dry forest	7
Conserving Amazonian vascular epiphytes: evaluating protected areas and unveiling biodiversity through comprehensive species inventories	7
Biodiversity associated with restored small-scale mussel habitats has restoration decision implications	7
Fine-scale fern ecological responses inform on riparian forest habitat conservation status	7
Neglected predatory insects trigger potential Key Biodiversity Areas in threatened coastal habitats	7
Predicting the distribution of plant species from southern South America: are the hotspots of genetic diversity threatened by climate change?	7
Effect of outdoor recreation on forest phytocenosis	7
Geographical divergence of species richness and local homogenization of plant assemblages due to climate change in grasslands	7
The composition and phenology of butterflies are determined by their functional trait in Indian tropical dry forests	7
Reimagining the wilderness ethic to include “people and nature”	7
Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts	7
Diversity, distribution and need of urgent conservation of endemic plants in Himalaya	7
Distribution, endemism and conservation of Abatia - the American lineage of Salicaceae with opposite leaves	7
Effects of intensive human management on the taxonomic and functional diversity of ground beetles in a planted forest landscape	7
Correction to: Elevational changes in canopy Collembola community composition are primarily driven by species turnover on Changbai Mountain, northeastern China	7
Are novel ecosystems suitable habitats for native birds? Birds’ association with spontaneous vegetation patches in the argentinean pampas	7
Standardized transect walks outperform pan traps in assessing wild bee community in a Mediterranean protected area (Asinara National Park, Italy)	7
Correction to: The extreme rainfall gradient of the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve and its impact on forest bird richness	7
Correlates of extinction vulnerability in Canadian’s prairie ecoregion	7
Detecting spider monkeys from the sky using a high-definition RGB camera: a rapid-assessment survey method?	7
Patterns of extinction across Hawaiian Lepidoptera offer lessons from a diverse, neglected, and vulnerable endemic fauna	7
Correction to: The potential role of public gardens as sentinels of plant invasion	7
Biodiversity in residential gardens: a review of the evidence base	7
Synergistic effects of habitat configuration and land-use intensity shape the structure of bird assemblages in human-modified landscapes across three major neotropical biomes	7
Determining puma habitat suitability in the Eastern USA	7
Prolonged blooming season of flower plantings increases wild bee abundance and richness in agricultural landscapes	7
Conserving large mammals on small islands: A case study on one of the world’s most understudied pigs, the Togean islands babirusa	7
Factors driving human–elephant conflict: statistical assessment of vulnerability and implications for wildlife conflict management in Sri Lanka	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
Niche shift in invasive species: is it a case of “home away from home” or finding a “new home”?	6
The hotspots and conservation gaps of the mega genus Astragalus (Fabaceae) in the Old-World	6
Correction to: Spectral behavior of vegetation in Harmony Point, Nelson Island, Antarctica	6
Initiatives for biodiversity conservation and utilization in crop protection: A strategy for sustainable crop production	6
Commentary to biodiversity and conservation Upgrading Birgus: lessons for invertebrate conservation	6
Wild and domestic animals shape herbivory threats to endangered plants differently	6
Factors affecting the availability of data on East African wildlife: the monitoring needs of conservationists are not being met	6
The local ecological knowledge of butterfly diversity is derived from utilitarian purposes in Southwest China’s biodiversity hotspot	6
Tree diversity, congruence and endemism: Himalaya ‘The land of diversity’	6
Assessing Brazilian turtles’ vulnerability BY USING species distribution models AND dispersal constraints	6
Management of upland calcareous grasslands for target vascular plant community impacts upon abundance but not diversity of non-target bryophytes	6
Mini Safe Havens for population recovery and reintroductions ‘beyond-the-fence’	6
Efficacy of species distribution models (SDMs) for ecological realms to ascertain biological conservation and practices	6
Maps of potential biodiversity: when the tools for regional conservation planning clash with species ecological niches	6
Spatial patterns and drivers of benthic community structure on the northern Adriatic biogenic reefs	6
Marine genetic resources as common heritage of mankind under the BBNJ Agreement; the international community toward a pragmatic benefit-sharing approach?	6
Bird and hoverfly communities are impacted by vegetation heterogeneity in wood-pastures in the Swiss Jura	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
Uncoordinated reintroductions of Eurasian lynx might be a threat for the species recovery in Central Europe	6
Site fidelity of harbor seals in Casco Bay, ME, USA using facial recognition technology: a pilot study	6
Modeling responses of Brazilian Atlantic Forest mammals assemble to climate change	6
Climate change from an ectotherm perspective: evolutionary consequences and demographic change in amphibian and reptilian populations	6
Range restriction leads to narrower ecological niches and greater extinction risk in Australian freshwater fish	6
Relation between honey bee abundance and wild bee communities in Moroccan agro-ecosystems	6
Multiple facets of avian diversity in pine forests along an urban-agricultural gradient	6
Retraction Note to: Distribution and ecological impact of exotic woody plant species inside sacred groves of Northwestern Ethiopia	6
Conservation of freshwater biodiversity in North Africa under future climate and land-cover changes	6
Biodiversity responses to climate change – a sustainable development perspective from India	6
Correction: Innovation of argan (Argania spinosa (L.) Skeels) products and byproducts for sustainable development of rural communities in Morocco. A systematic literature review	6
Predicting the patterns of plant species distribution under changing climate in major biogeographic zones of mainland India	6
High abundance of a single taxon (amphipods) predicts aquatic macrophyte biodiversity in prairie wetlands	6
Long-term ecology and conservation of the Kungur forest-steppe (pre-Urals, Russia): case study Spasskaya Gora	6
Cryptic extinction risk in a western Pacific lizard radiation	6
Multiscale effects of habitat changes on diversity of rainforest snakes	6
Human highly modified landscapes restrict gene flow of the largest neotropical canid, the maned wolf	6
Are these islands isolated? Floristic diversity in inselberg habitats of the Caatinga, Northeastern Brazil	6
Threatened saproxylic beetle species in tree hollows react more sensitively to surrounding landscape composition in central European managed forests than total species richness	6
Examining diversity of terrestrial mammal communities across forest reserves in Sabah, Borneo	6
Effect of local climate anomalies on giraffe survival	6
Conservation management in the context of unidentified and unmitigated threatening processes	6
Roadmap to recovery revealed through the reintroduction of an IUCN Red List species	6