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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	26
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	22
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	20
Managed re-alignment: a multifaceted approach in ecological restoration of coastal floodplains	17
To what extent is coastal wetland biodiversity endangered by climate change? How can we boost the resilience of coastal ecosystems?	16
Beyond commercial interests lies an ecological responsibility: The dilemma of red-eared slider sales	16
The Cerrado crisis review: highlighting threats and providing future pathways to save Brazil's biodiversity hotspot	14
Cultural practices in European riverine floodplains: formation, typology, co-decline of biocultural diversity, and emerging drivers of conservation and sustainable management	14
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	13
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	12
Temporal variation in hotspots and the effects of climate and landscape on wildlife roadkill along the BR-319: conservation challenges in a high-biodiversity area in the Amazon	12
Changes in species and phylogenetic diversity in tropical seasonal rainforests on steep karst hillslopes in southwestern China: implications for conservation	12
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	11
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	11
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	8
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	8
Wetlands in the EU policy context	8
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	7
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	7
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	7
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	7
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	7
Diving pattern and behavioral response to vessel traffic of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen, China: implications for conservation	7
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	6
Vertebrates as victims of domestic cats and dogs: ten years of data from an Italian animal rescue centre (2015–2024)	6

Hidden or inadvertent illegal amphibian trade? Genetic analyses reveal Quasipaa spinosa misidentified as Hoplobatrachus chinensis in the trade	6
First record of the white trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex) in the Black Sea: a new occurrence from Bulgarian coastal waters	6
Decades of habitat destruction - is there any chance left for the endemic and Critically Endangered Cyrtodactylus gialaiensis in Vietnam?	6
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	6
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	5
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	5
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	5
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	5
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	5
Does the Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027 support the restoration of freshwater ecosystems?	5
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	5
Occupancy modeling confirms management concerns for Connecticut (USA) fisher, highlighting the importance of monitoring furbearer distributions	5
The impact of precipitation and temperature on seed ripening and germination dynamics of some meadow species of Western and Central Europe	5
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	5
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	5
Map the Giants: a new citizen-science portal to map, study and protect the largest coral colonies	5
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	5
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	4
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	4
Forest patches as important bird habitats in Malaysia's large-scale infrastructure development areas	4
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	4
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	4
Prioritizing stream network connectivity for species conservation and sustainable planning	4
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	4
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	4
Restoring coasts and floodplains - Conclusions and recommendations for enabling action across science, policy, and practice	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	4
Conservation gap analysis for Erica (Ericaceae)	4
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	3
Unveiling prey preferences of endangered wild Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, in Peninsular Malaysia through scat analysis via COI DNA metabarcoding	3
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	3
Effects of anthropogenic and environmental stressors on the current status of red mullet (Mullus barbatus L., 1758) populations inhabiting the Bulgarian Black Sea waters	3
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	3
Habitat compression exacerbates human-macaque conflicts: Implications for regional management in karst southwest China	3
Case studies from Germany and Scotland indicate climate change mitigation potential of riverine and coastal wetlands	3
Lost species, neglected taxonomy, and the role of natural history collections and synonymization in the identification of the World’s forgotten biodiversity	3
Cymbidium kanran can deceptively attract Apis cerana for free pollination by releasing specialized volatile compounds	3
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	3
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	3
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	3
The extent and nature of the commercial captive lion industry in the Free State province, South Africa	3
Acoustic analysis shows Clark’s Nutcracker seasonal and spatial habitat use during post-fire recovery of two endangered pine species	3
Assessing ecosystem services across scales to support nature-based solutions in river floodplains: a review of non-monetary tools	3
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	3
Evaluating the conservation effectiveness of Ammopiptanthus nanus (Fabaceae) under different ex situ strategies through multi-molecular marker analysis	3
Population, expanded distribution, and conservation of the Sumatran endemic tree Magnolia sumatrae (Dandy) Figlar & Noot.	3
Effects of management complexity on the composition, plant functional dominance relationships and physiognomy of high nature value grasslands	3

Invertebrate-biased diet of burrowing owls in a newly-restored coastal grassland	3
Establishing permanent monitoring plots of narrow endemic and threatened plants of Indonesia: a case study on Dipterocarpus cinereus Slooten (Dipterocarpaceae)	3
Adaptability of the alien Pacific oyster to the coastal marine environment of the Bulgarian Black Sea and potential implications for ecosystem conservation	2
Under the lion’s paw: lion farming in South Africa and the illegal international bone trade	2
Mapping Risk Zones: niche overlap between Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and endemic amphibians in Mexico’s Central-Southern Highlands	2
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	2
Advances in conservation physiology and ex situ propagation strategies for the rare moss Podperaea krylovii (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta)	2
Eight years after the Fundão tailings dam collapse: chaos on the muddy banks	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
Map of livestock density in Central Appenines: a standardised protocol	2
Ecological interactions driving spring dynamics of Aurelia aurita medusae (Linnaeus, 1758) in the western and north-western Black Sea	2
Visual pollution assessment in Mu Ko Chang National Park, Thailand: A landscape-based approach	2
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India	2
Wildlife at risk: A media-based analysis of wildlife poaching in Romania	2
Predation on endangered mussels by invasive raccoons: a case study from western Poland	2
Plant functional structure varies across different management regimes in submontane meadows	2
The long-term effect of repeated exposure to degraded nature via immersive virtual reality on environmental awareness and pro-conservation behavioral intention: A longitudinal approach	2
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	2
Effects of management, habitat and landscape characteristics on biodiversity of orchard meadows in Central Europe: A brief review	2
Towards a new global database of regional Red Lists (RegRed): metadata	2
Wetlands in a changing climate: restoring coasts and floodplains	2
Structural diversity as an indicator of forest degradation in Quercus robur stands along the Tundzha river, Southeast Bulgaria	2
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	2