OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria is 1. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production	30
Predicting the effects of climate change on future freshwater fish diversity at global scale	27
Recreation effects on wildlife: a review of potential quantitative thresholds	21
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	14
The illegal hunting and exploitation of porcupines for meat and medicine in Indonesia	13
Do the roadkills of different mammal species respond the same way to habitat and matrix?	12
A literature-based database of the natural heritage, the ecological status and tourism-related impacts in show caves worldwide	12
Community perceptions towards nature conservation in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	11
Illegal capture and internal trade of wild Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Sri Lanka	10
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	9
Transdisciplinary deficit in large carnivore conservation funding in Europe	9
Suitability of contract-based nature conservation in privately-owned forests in Germany	9
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	9
Plant diversity assessment of karst limestone, a case study of Malaysia’s Batu Caves	8
The contribution to wildlife conservation of an Italian Recovery Centre	8
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	8
Soundscapes and protected area conservation: Are noises in nature making people complacent?	7
Cerrado Rupestre is not Campo Rupestre: The unknown and threatened savannah on rocky outcrops	7
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	7
How do red deer react to increased visitor numbers? A case study on human-deer encounter probability and its effect on cortisol stress responses	7
An overview of reviews of conservation flagships: evaluating fundraising ability and surrogate power	7
Speed thrills but kills: A case study on seasonal variation in roadkill mortality on National highway 715 (new) in Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Landscape, Assam, India	7
Number and distribution of large old ginkgos in east China: Implications for regional conservation	7
Does public information about wolf (Canis lupus) movements decrease wolf attacks on hunting dogs (C. familiaris)?	7
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	6

Structural diversity and conservation implications of Parrotia subaequalis (Hamamelidaceae), a rare and endangered tree species in China	6
Risks and opportunities of assisted colonization: the perspectives of experts	6
Exploring 15 years of brown bear (Ursus arctos)-vehicle collisions in northwestern Greece	6
Spatial and temporal dynamics of habitat quality in response to socioeconomic and landscape patterns in the context of urbanization: A case in Zhengzhou City, China	5
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	5
Distribution and conservation status of threatened endemic amphibians within the Aspromonte mountain region, a hotspot of Mediterranean biodiversity	5
Distribution range and population viability of Emys orbicularis in Slovakia: a review with conservation implications	5
Harvest quotas, free markets and the sustainable trade in pythons	5
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	5
Genetic diversity and morphological characterisation of three turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L., 1758) populations along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast	5
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	5
Drivers of snow leopard poaching and trade in Pakistan and implications for management	4
Tropical Important Plant Areas, plant species richness and conservation in the British Virgin Islands	4
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	4
Effectiveness of wire netting fences to prevent animal access to road infrastructures: an experimental study on small mammals and amphibians	4
Identifying key risks to the achievement of protected area system objectives	4
Effect of ecological restoration on topsoil phosphorus following afforestation on abandoned ponds in northern Chaohu Lake, China	4
Natural strongholds for red squirrel conservation in Scotland	4
Genetic variability and conservation of the endangered Pannonian root vole in fragmented habitats of an agricultural landscape	3
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	3
Termites’ diversity in a protected park of the northern Sudanian savanna of Togo (West Africa)	3
Implementing wildlife fences along highways at the appropriate spatial scale: A case study of reducing road mortality of Florida Key deer	3
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	3
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	3
The extent and nature of the commercial captive lion industry in the Free State province, South Africa	3
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	3
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	3
Environmental citizen science in Greece: perceptions and attitudes of key actors	3
Zoos consenting to the illegal wildlife trade – the earless monitor lizard as a case study	3
The illegal exploitation of the Javan Leopard (Panthera pardus melas) and Sunda Clouded Leopard (Neofelis diardi) in Indonesia	3
Evaluating the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a sacred mountain in western China	3
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	2
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	2
Online trade as a serious additional threat to the Critically Endangered silvery pigeon Columba argentina in Indonesia	2
Effects of management complexity on the composition, plant functional dominance relationships and physiognomy of high nature value grasslands	2
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	2
India’s use of CITES Appendix III	2
Hope is the last thing lost: Colombian captive-bred population of the critically endangered Orinoco crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius) is a genetic reservoir that could help to save the species from	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
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	2
The direct and indirect effects of damming on the Hippopotamus amphibius population abundance and distribution at Bui National Park, Ghana	2
An analysis of the inter-state similarity of the herpetofaunas of Mexican states	2
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	1
Dynamic change of habitat quality and its key driving factors in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China	1
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	1
Changes in suitable habitat for the critically endangered Northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) in the Western Nghe An Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam: Implication for conservation	1
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	1
Using drone imagery to obtain population data of colony-nesting seabirds to support Canada’s transition to the global Key Biodiversity Areas program	1
First insight into freshwater fish assemblages in the western part of the Endau-Rompin landscape, Malaysia	1
What shapes the mammal species poaching in protected areas: biophysical or anthropogenic factors? A case study in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve	1

Distribution, conservation assessment and management perspectives of Chilean micro-snails of the family Charopidae	1
The scale of the problem: understanding the demand for medicinal pangolin products in China	1
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	1
Does a flashing artificial light have more or conversely less impacts on animals than a continuous one? A systematic review	1
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	1
Conservation biology meets medical science	1
Comparison of methods to estimate the size of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) scale seizures using species-specific conversion parameters	1
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	1
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	1
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	1
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	1
Not only range, but quality: human influence and protected areas within the distribution of mammal species subject to use in the Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia	1
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The Bozbu-Too-Ungortepa massif	1
Unveiling prey preferences of endangered wild Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, in Peninsular Malaysia through scat analysis via COI DNA metabarcoding	1
Potential changes in the distribution of Delphinium bolosii and related taxa of the series Fissa from the Iberian Peninsula under future climate change scenarios	1