OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Wildlife Research is 5. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Ensemble forecasting of Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) distribution and habitat suitability in south-western Iran	25
Tree use by koalas after timber harvesting in a mosaic landscape	23
Size does matter: detectability of arboreal mammals using thermal cameras and spotlighting	19
Anti-predator strategies of blue sheep (naur) under varied predator compositions: a comparison of snow leopard-inhabited valleys with and without wolves in Nepal	18
Insights from cloacal swab fecal DNA metabarcoding: a dietary assessment of juvenile white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) off California	16
Population suppression of urban common mynas (Acridotheres tristis) by citizens: short-term effects on local avifauna and succession among the despots	15
Heat and plant nutritional quality interact to constrain koala feeding	15
Invasional meltdown-under? Toads facilitate cats by removing a naïve top predator	13
Variability in the burst behaviour of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)	12
Behavioural responses of Australian lizards towards visual cues of feral cats	12
Using stable-isotope analysis to assess recent diet and habitat use of stranded green turtles (Chelonia mydas)	12
Detections of house mice on Gough Island approach zero within days of aerial baiting	11
Comparisons of morphometrics and body condition between two breeding populations of Australian humpback whales	11
Comparison of morphological identification and DNA metabarcoding for dietary analysis of faeces from a subtropical lizard	10
High survivorship and rapid population growth of the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) reintroduced to a feral predator exclosure	10
Healthy or unhealthy? Risk factors and biomarkers associated with exposure to infectious agents in wild lowland tapirs (Tapirus terrestris)	10
The impact of wild boars on the temporal resource utilisation of silver pheasants in South China	10
Preferential sampling can bias estimates of population growth rate using N-mixture models: guidance for monitoring programs	10
Activity and movement of small mammal tick hosts at the urban fringes of Sydney, Australia	10
Navigating human-dominated landscapes: nest site selection by a threatened cavity-nesting apex predator	10
Snow track counts for density estimation of mammalian predators in the boreal forest	10
Species distribution modelling to identify and validate areas of occupancy for the magnificent broodfrog (Pseudophryne covacevichae)	9
Nutritional stress and population density influence risk/reward decisions by elk	9
Habitat use and survival of the endangered northern bettong (Bettongia tropica) after prescribed fire	9
Set free: an evaluation of two break-away mechanisms for tracking collars	9

Water scarcity exacerbates feral ungulate use of ephemeral savanna waterholes in northern Australia	9
Evaluation of lion (Panthera leo) scat as a wild dog (Lycaon pictus) deterrent on game farms	9
Population dynamics of chital deer (Axis axis) in northern Queensland: effects of drought and culling	9
Habitat use and movement of a wide-ranging habitat generalist, the short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus), in a fragmented agricultural landscape	9
Response of white-tailed deer to removal of invasive wild pigs	8
Assessing local landowner versus non-local public support for a red wolf reintroduction using varying message treatments	8
Abundance and social organisation of male Asian elephants in northwestern India	8
Insuring woylies (Bettongia penicillata ogilbyi) against extinction: establishment of Perup Sanctuary	8
Estimating the effect of toxic red meat baits on feral cat density in north-eastern New South Wales	8
Learning from past designs: improving amphibian fences using an adaptive management approach	8
More trees and fewer roads: the importance of local and landscape features for insectivorous bats in open urban green spaces	8
Monitoring the Endangered wiliji (Petrogale lateralis kimberleyensis) on Nyikina Mangala Country (Western Australia) using camera traps	8
Purpose-driven approaches to age estimation in Australian flying-foxes (Pteropus)	8
Assessing target and non-target species interactions with buried non-toxic meat baits across fire mosaics	8
How the goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) adapts to isolated island: from the perspective of habitat and food	8
Factors affecting recent population decline and range contraction of the greater long-tailed hamster in China	8
The great de-bait: are manufactured toxic baits a suitable alternative for the control of introduced canids?	8
Unravelling predator–prey interactions in response to planned fire: a case study from the Tanami Desert	7
Monitoring and habitat inferences change with population metric: a case study with mesocarnivores	7
Spatial ecology of invasive Bennett’s wallaby in South Island, New Zealand	7
Dingo re-establishment and the suppression of feral goats: evidence from the Western Australian rangelands	7
Threatened stick-nest rats preferentially eat invasive boxthorn rather than native vegetation on Australia’s Reevesby Island	7
Pirra Jungku and Pirra Warlu: using traditional fire-practice knowledge and contemporary science to guide fire-management goals for desert animals	7
Developing a regional species distribution model and validating with independent survey data: a case study of an avian apex predator, the greater sooty owl (Tyto tenebricosa)	7
Is there a lizard down that spider burrow? Microhabitat influences spider burrow occupancy by the endangered pygmy bluetongue	7
Standardisation in bat acoustic research: a review of reporting practices in Australia	7
Increasing the accuracy and efficiency of wildlife census with unmanned aerial vehicles: a simulation study	7
Corrigendum to: Snow leopard population assessment in Qilianshan National Park	7
Still a good dog! Long-term use and effectiveness of livestock guardian dogs to protect livestock from predators in Australia’s extensive grazing systems	7
Reduction in lead exposure of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) in New Zealand: concentrations of lead in blood and liver, and frequency of shot ingestion by ventricular retention	7
Conservation of black bear (Ursus americanus) in Mexico through GPS tracking: crossing and roadkill sites	7
Environmental DNA as a detection tool for small-bodied, cryptic, threatened fish in a highly turbid freshwater lake system	7
Susceptibility of the golden bandicoot to the toxic Eradicat bait	7
The bigger they are, the higher they go: Australian insectivorous bats confirm Bergmann’s 175-year-old prediction	7
Seasonal patterns of adult and subadult white shark presence at coastal aggregation sites in central California	7
The Arid Zone Monitoring Project: combining Indigenous ecological expertise with scientific data analysis to assess the potential of using sign-based surveys to monitor vertebrates in the Australian d	6
Farmer–wildlife coexistence: decoding the pattern of human–wildlife conflict and compensation in the human-dominated landscape of Marathwada, western India	6
Reintroducing the red-tailed phascogale (Phascogale calura): insights from 20 years of translocation efforts	6
The toad less travelled: comparing life histories, ecological niches, and potential habitat of Asian black-spined toads and cane toads	6
Recounting bias can affect abundance estimates from intensive helicopter surveys of feral goats	6
Kinship analysis reveals low dispersal in a hog deer (Axis porcinus) population in Wilsons Promontory National Park, Australia	6
Habitat structure facilitates coexistence of native and invasive mesopredators in an Australian tropical savanna	6
Where there’s smoke, there’s cats: long-unburnt habitat is crucial to mitigating the impacts of cats on the Ngarlgumirdi, greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)	6
Comparing shotshell characteristics to optimize aerial removal of wild pigs (Sus scrofa)	6
Environmental DNA detection of spot-tailed quoll from soil is unlikely to be useful for routine monitoring	6
Diet and impacts of non-native fallow deer (Dama dama) on pastoral properties during severe drought	6
Nine-banded armadillos temporally avoid sites visited by domestic dogs and native carnivores	6
Effects of helicopter net gunning on the survival and movement behaviour of nilgai antelope	6
Assessing the long-range performance of copper bullets on North American elk (Cervus canadensis)	6
Quantifying deer control efficiency using non-invasive genetic sampling and spatial capture–recapture	6

Occupancy of an urban-sensitive specialist: the role of habitat availability and fire on the urban edge	6
Better to bluff than run: conservation implications of feral-cat prey selectivity	6
Movement ecology of adult and juvenile spotted turtles (Clemmys guttata) in a seasonally dynamic environment	6
A comparison of ranger patrol survey to camera trapping for assessment of terrestrial mammal diversity in Htanmanthi Wildlife Sanctuary, Myanmar	6
Learned avoidance of trap locations in freshwater turtles	5
Testing the microclimatic effects of sprinklers aimed at mitigating heat stress in flying-fox roosts	5
Ten years of camera trapping for a cryptic and threatened arboreal mammal – a review of applications and limitations	5
Insect-based tourism: glowworms in a show cave give robust bioluminescence displays	5
Biodiversity assessments vary with time-to-independence filter in camera trap studies	5
Down but not out: long-term monitoring reveals possum population changes and associations in the southern jarrah forest	5
Historical record shows broad habitat use and rapid decline of the greater bilby Macrotis lagotis in eastern Australia	5
Predation in Australian tropical savannas: a missing piece in the ‘mesopredator release’ puzzle	5
Operational field trialling of Felixer™ grooming traps for the control of feral cats in the Strzelecki Desert, Australia	5
Exploring the human dimensions of gharial conservation in the Mahanadi River, India	5
Power and the passion: assessing statistical power with simulations to optimise monitoring of a threatened lizard	5
Snow leopard population assessment in Qilianshan National Park	5
Activity of dingoes (Canis familiaris) and their use of anthropogenic resources in the Strzelecki Desert, South Australia	5
A lesson for planning rodent eradications: interference of invasive slugs during the Gough Island mouse eradication attempt in 2021	5
A mouse that rocks: camera trapping shows that mound assessment criteria do not reliably predict pebble mouse (Pseudomys chapmani) activity	5
What can wildlife-detection dogs offer for managing small mammalian predators?	5
Applying a versatile, comprehensive, attribute-based waterhole classification scheme to ecosystem-based management challenges	5
Cost-effectiveness of volunteer and contract ground-based shooting of sambar deer in Australia	5
Abundance, demography, and harvesting of water snakes from agricultural landscapes in West Java, Indonesia	5
The influence of severe wildfire on a threatened arboreal mammal	5
Estimating feral cat (Felis catus) population density in eastern Australia’s subtropical rainforest using spatial capture-recapture incorporating unidentified individuals	5
Spatial ecology of a translocated, imperiled lagomorph on a newly inhabited island	5
Determinants of attitudes towards wildlife in rural Taiwan and its implications for leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) conservation performance payment	5
Corrigendum to: Unravelling predator–prey interactions in response to planned fire: a case study from the Tanami Desert	5
Combining acoustic localisation and high-resolution land cover classification to study predator vocalisation behaviour	5
Nestling growth, sibling competition, and prey delivery rates of the Eleonora’s falcon (Falco eleonorae)	5
‘It’s a people problem, not a goat problem.’ Mitigating human–mountain goat interactions in a Canadian Provincial Park	5
Temporal effects of relative hunter activity on adult male white-tailed deer habitat use	5
The effects of expectations, motivations, and constraints on small game hunters’ seasonal satisfaction	5
Adaptive management of a remote threatened-species population on Aboriginal lands	5
Baseline for evaluating the rainforest intactness using volant and non-volant mammal eco-behavioural traits in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve	5
Microhabitat use and factors influencing presence and abundance of geckos in Girraween National Park, south-east Queensland, Australia	5