OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Wildlife Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
An overview of the history, current contributions and future outlook of iNaturalist in Australia	62
Flooding-induced mortality of loggerhead sea turtle eggs	18
Seed dispersal by Neotropical bats in human-disturbed landscapes	14
Effectiveness and costs of helicopter-based shooting of deer	14
Ontogenetic changes in energy expenditure and resting behaviour of humpback whale mother–calf pairs examined using unmanned aerial vehicles	12
Bayesian modelling reveals differences in long-term trends in the harvest of native and introduced species by recreational hunters in Australia	12
Animal welfare outcomes of helicopter-based shooting of deer in Australia	12
Behavioural and physiological responses of captive Antillean manatees to small aerial drones	11
Seasonal and daily activity of non-native sambar deer in and around high-elevation peatlands, south-eastern Australia	11
Drone thermal imaging technology provides a cost-effective tool for landscape-scale monitoring of a cryptic forest-dwelling species across all population densities	11
Cats are a key threatening factor to the survival of local populations of native small mammals in Australia’s tropical savannas: evidence from translocation trials with	10
Animal welfare testing for shooting and darting free-ranging wildlife: a review and recommendations	10
Fine-scale vertical habitat use of white sharks at an emerging aggregation site and implications for public safety	10
Reptiles as food: predation of Australian reptiles by introduced red foxes compounds and complements predation by cats	10
Red deer allocate vigilance differently in response to spatio-temporal patterns of risk from human hunters and wolves	10
A comparison of lead-based and lead-free bullets for shooting sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in Australia	9
Lost at sea: determining geographic origins of illegally traded green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) rescued on Hainan Island, China	9
Minimising mortalities in capturing wildlife: refinement of helicopter darting of chital deer (	9
Comparison of three methods of estimating the population size of an arboreal mammal in a fragmented rural landscape	8
Koala tree selection in a mixed-tenure landscape and post-fire implications	8
Harvesting predators: simulation of population recovery and controlled harvest of saltwater crocodiles Crocodylus porosus	8
Radio-tracking wildlife with drones: a viewshed analysis quantifying survey coverage across diverse landscapes	8
Animal welfare outcomes of professional vehicle-based shooting of peri-urban rusa deer in Australia	8
Post-release immune responses of Tasmanian devils vaccinated with an experimental devil facial tumour disease vaccine	7
Can flexible timing of harvest for translocation reduce the impact on fluctuating source populations?	7

Cost-effectiveness of volunteer and contract ground-based shooting of sambar deer in Australia	7
How much survey effort is required to assess bird assemblages in fire-prone eucalypt forests using acoustic recorders?	7
Foreword to the Special Issue on ‘The rapidly expanding role of drones as a tool for wildlife research’	6
Damage to silo bags by mammals in agroecosystems: a contribution for mitigating human–wildlife conflicts	6
Differing effects of productivity on home-range size and population density of a native and an invasive mammalian carnivore	6
Plasticity in daily activity patterns of a key prey species in the Iberian Peninsula to reduce predation risk	6
Lowland tapir exposure to pesticides and metals in the Brazilian Cerrado	6
Post-nesting movements and feeding ground distribution by the hawksbill turtle (	6
Evaluation of the use of drones to monitor a diverse crocodylian assemblage in West Africa	6
Experimentally testing the response of feral cats and their prey to poison baiting	6
Density and activity patterns of Pallas’s cats, Otocolobus manul, in central Mongolia	6
Goat movement patterns inform management of feral goat populations in semiarid rangelands	6
Accuracies and biases of ageing white-tailed deer in semiarid environments	5
Lethal control of eutherian predators via aerial baiting does not negatively affect female spotted-tailed quolls (Dasyurus maculatus maculatus) and their pouch young	5
A comparison of manual and automated detection of rusa deer (	5
Scars of human–elephant conflict: patterns inferred from field observations of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka	5
Delineating genetic management units of sambar deer (	5
Developing a correction factor to apply to animal–vehicle collision data for improved road mitigation measures	5
Effects of environmental factors on the detection of subsurface green turtles in aerial drone surveys	5
Seasonal habitat suitability models for a threatened species: the Gunnison sage-grouse	5
Predator-free short-hydroperiod wetlands enhance metamorph output in a threatened amphibian: insights into frog breeding behaviour evolution and conservation management	5
Tree hollow densities reduced by frequent late dry-season wildfires in threatened Gouldian finch (	5
Increasing fire severity negatively affects greater glider density	5
Acoustic localisation of wildlife with low-cost equipment: lower sensitivity, but no loss of precision	5
Adaptive monitoring: using citizen scientists to track wolf populations when winter-track counts become unreliable	5
Conservation issues using discordant taxonomic and evolutionary units: a case study of the American manatee (	5
Invasive axis deer and wild boar in a protected area in Argentina, controlled hunting, and Taylor’s law	5
Cost-effectiveness of thermal imaging for monitoring a cryptic arboreal mammal	4
Predicting spatial and seasonal patterns of wildlife–vehicle collisions in high-risk areas	4
Sign surveys can be more efficient and cost effective than driven transects and camera trapping: a comparison of detection methods for a small elusive mammal, the numbat (	4
Behaviour of a large ungulate reflects temporal patterns of predation risk	4
Rocky escarpment versus savanna woodlands: comparing diet and body condition as indicators of habitat quality for the endangered northern quoll (	4
Snow track counts for density estimation of mammalian predators in the boreal forest	4
Comparing unmanned aerial systems with conventional methodology for surveying a wild white-tailed deer population	4
The assemblage of birds struck by aircraft differs among nearby airports in the same bioregion	4
Defining separation zones for coastal birds at a wetland of global importance	4
Learned avoidance of trap locations in freshwater turtles	4
How quoll-ified are northern and spotted-tailed quoll detection dogs?	4
Double-observer distance sampling improves the accuracy of density estimates for a threatened arboreal mammal	4
Evaluation of helicopter net-gunning to capture wild fallow deer (	4
Mammal responses to moderate-intensity planned burning in a small, isolated woodland reserve	4
Road orientation affects the impact of roads on wildlife	4
Vegetation cover and configuration drive reptile species distributions in a fragmented landscape	4
New evidence of seed dispersal identified in Australian mammals	4
Insights and inferences on koala conservation from records of koalas arriving to care in South East Queensland	4
Improved house mouse control in the field with a higher dose zinc phosphide bait	4
Fifty-year review: European rabbit fleas,	4
Can conditioned taste aversion be deployed at a landscape level to mitigate the impact of invasive cane toads on northern quolls?	3
Using expert elicitation to identify effective combinations of management actions for koala conservation in different regional landscapes	3
The effect of scent lures on detection is not equitable among sympatric species	3

Characterising a unique recreational hunting method: hound hunting of sambar deer (Cervus unicolor) in Victoria, Australia	3
Optimising deployment time of remote cameras to estimate abundance of female bighorn sheep	3
Estimating and validating koala	3
A lesson for planning rodent eradications: interference of invasive slugs during the Gough Island mouse eradication attempt in 2021	3
Underlying beliefs linked to public opinion about gene drive and pest-specific toxin for pest control	3
Tree use by koalas after timber harvesting in a mosaic landscape	3
Grizzly bear response to translocation into a novel environment	3
Rodenticide baiting black rats (	3
Remote sensor camera traps provide the first density estimate for the largest natural population of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)	3
Catch me if you can: personality drives technique-specific biases during live-capture trapping	3
Diverse moth prey identified in the diet of the critically endangered southern bent-wing bat (Miniopterus orianae bassanii) using DNA metabarcoding of scats	3
Implications of habitat overlap between giant panda and sambar for sympatric multi-species conservation	3