OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	27
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	24
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	21
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	19
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	18
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	15
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	14
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	14
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	13
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	13
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	13
Slipped through the narrow door: Effects of climate change on the distribution and conservation of a vulnerable tiger gecko, Goniurosaurus luii, from China and Vietnam	12
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	12
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	11
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	11
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	11
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	11
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	11
Coastal beaver, Chinook, coho, chum salmon and trout response to nearshore changes resulting from diking and large-scale dam removals: synergistic ecosystem engineering and restoration in the coastal	11
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	9
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	9
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	9
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	8
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	8
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	7

DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	7
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	7
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	7
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	6
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	6
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	6
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
Corrigendum: Using drone imagery to obtain population data of colony-nesting seabirds to support Canada’s transition to the global Key Biodiversity Areas program. Nature Conservation 51: 155–166. doi	6
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	5
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	5
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	5
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	5
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	5
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	5
Effects of anthropogenic and environmental stressors on the current status of red mullet (Mullus barbatus L., 1758) populations inhabiting the Bulgarian Black Sea waters	4
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	4
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	4
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	4
Cymbidium kanran can deceptively attract Apis cerana for free pollination by releasing specialized volatile compounds	4
Difference in sale strategies drive spatial heterogeneity in collection pressure through online auctions: the role of body colour variation in the Japanese freshwater crabs, Geothelphusa dehaani speci	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	4
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	4
Soundscapes and protected area conservation: Are noises in nature making people complacent?	4
Lost species, neglected taxonomy, and the role of natural history collections and synonymization in the identification of the World’s forgotten biodiversity	3
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	3
Do the roadkills of different mammal species respond the same way to habitat and matrix?	3
Exploring 15 years of brown bear (Ursus arctos)-vehicle collisions in northwestern Greece	3
Unveiling prey preferences of endangered wild Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, in Peninsular Malaysia through scat analysis via COI DNA metabarcoding	3
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	3
Effects of management complexity on the composition, plant functional dominance relationships and physiognomy of high nature value grasslands	3
The extent and nature of the commercial captive lion industry in the Free State province, South Africa	3
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	3
Promoting ecological solutions for sustainable infrastructure	3
Habitat compression exacerbates human-macaque conflicts: Implications for regional management in karst southwest China	3
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	3
Eight years after the Fundão tailings dam collapse: chaos on the muddy banks	3
What shapes the mammal species poaching in protected areas: biophysical or anthropogenic factors? A case study in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve	3
Establishing permanent monitoring plots of narrow endemic and threatened plants of Indonesia: a case study on Dipterocarpus cinereus Slooten (Dipterocarpaceae)	2
Towards a new global database of regional Red Lists (RegRed): metadata	2
Local perception of the current state and threat factors of a critically endangered species, Celtis toka (Forssk.) Hepper & J.R.I. Wood, in Burkina Faso: implications for species conservation	2
Conservation biology meets medical science	2
Map of livestock density in Central Appenines: a standardised protocol	2
Advances in conservation physiology and ex situ propagation strategies for the rare moss Podperaea krylovii (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta)	2
Ecological interactions driving spring dynamics of Aurelia aurita medusae (Linnaeus, 1758) in the western and north-western Black Sea	2

Preliminary results on the bird protection effectiveness of animal deflectors on railway overhead lines based on electrical current evaluation	2
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	2
Structural diversity as an indicator of forest degradation in Quercus robur stands along the Tundzha river, Southeast Bulgaria	2
Evaluating the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a sacred mountain in western China	2
Tropical Important Plant Areas, plant species richness and conservation in the British Virgin Islands	2
Invertebrate-biased diet of burrowing owls in a newly-restored coastal grassland	2
Under the lion’s paw: lion farming in South Africa and the illegal international bone trade	2
Predation on endangered mussels by invasive raccoons: a case study from western Poland	2
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India	2
Effects of management, habitat and landscape characteristics on biodiversity of orchard meadows in Central Europe: A brief review	2
Plant functional structure varies across different management regimes in submontane meadows	2
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	2