Animal Conservation

Article	Citations
Drivers of taxonomic bias in conservation research: a global analysis of terrestrial mammals	52
The small home ranges and large local ecological impacts of pet cats	52
There will be conflict – agricultural landscapes are prime, rather than marginal, habitats for Asian elephants	44
Prioritizing habitat core areas and corridors for a large carnivore across its range	39
Bat conservation and zoonotic disease risk: a research agenda to prevent misguided persecution in the aftermath of COVID‐19	39
The response of arboreal marsupials to long‐term changes in forest disturbance	38
Conservation in the maelstrom of Covid‐19 – a call to action to solve the challenges, exploit opportunities and prepare for the next pandemic	37
Enhancing tropical conservation and ecology research with aquatic environmental DNA methods: an introduction for non‐environmental DNA specialists	34
An applied ecology of fear framework: linking theory to conservation practice	34
Comparison of species richness and detection between line transects, ground camera traps, and arboreal camera traps	31
Megafire causes persistent loss of an old‐forest species	30
Loss of heat acclimation capacity could leave subterranean specialists highly sensitive to climate change	25
Resilient responses by bats to a severe wildfire: conservation implications	24
Mixing genetically differentiated populations successfully boosts diversity of an endangered carnivore	23
Projected climate change threatens Himalayan brown bear habitat more than human land use	23
Social media reveals consistently disproportionate tourism pressure on a threatened marine vertebrate	20
Habitat fragmentation affects movement and space use of a specialist folivore, the koala	20
Secondary tropical forests recover dung beetle functional diversity and trait composition	19
Why do eggs fail? Causes of hatching failure in threatened populations and consequences for conservation	19
DNA Zip‐coding: identifying the source populations supplying the international trade of a critically endangered coastal shark	19
Artificial light may change flight patterns of bats near bridges along urban waterways	17
Unraveling the complexity of human–tiger conflicts in the Leuser Ecosystem, Sumatra	17
Marine hotspots of activity inform protection of a threatened community of pelagic species in a large oceanic jurisdiction	17
Small‐scale species distribution model identifies restricted breeding habitat for an endemic island bird	15
Postwar wildlife recovery in an African savanna: evaluating patterns and drivers of species occupancy and richness	15

‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications	15
Behavior and detection method influence detection probability of a translocated, endangered amphibian	15
A drop in immigration results in the extinction of a local woodchat shrike population	15
Response of female black bears to a high‐density road network and identification of long‐term road mitigation sites	14
Hiding in plain sight: risk mitigation by a cryptic carnivore foraging at the urban edge	14
Habitat disturbance trumps moonlight effects on the activity of tropical insectivorous bats	14
Subsidized Common Agricultural Policy grazing jeopardizes the protection of biodiversity and Natura 2000 targeted species	13
Roads as ecological traps for giant anteaters	12
Survival, movements and habitat use of captive‐bred and reintroduced dusky gopher frogs	12
Evaluating extinction debt in fragmented forests: the rapid recovery of a critically endangered primate	12
Impacts of selective logging on avian phylogenetic and functional diversity in the Amazon	12
Density‐dependent age of first reproduction as a key factor for population dynamics: stable breeding populations mask strong floater declines in a long‐lived raptor	12
Cumulative effects of low‐height barriers on distributions of catadromous Japanese eels in Japan	12
Exploring multiple dimensions of conservation success: Long‐term wildlife trends, anti‐poaching efforts and revenue sharing in Kibale National Park, Uganda	12
Precise natal homing and an estimate of age at sexual maturity in hawksbill turtles	12
Critically Endangered marsupial calls residential gardens home	11
Combined COI barcode‐based methods to avoid mislabelling of threatened species of deep‐sea skates	11
Low hatching success in the critically endangered kākāpō is driven by early embryo mortality not infertility	11
Skin defenses of North American salamanders against a deadly salamander fungus	11
Understanding people’s responses toward predators in the Indian Himalaya	11
Investigating differences in population recovery rates of two sympatrically nesting sea turtle species	11
Inferring patterns of sympatry among large carnivores in Manas National Park – a prey‐rich habitat influenced by anthropogenic disturbances	11
The value of coastal saltpans for migratory shorebirds: conservation insights from a stable isotope approach based on feeding guild and body size	11
Immigration does not offset harvest mortality in groups of a cooperatively breeding carnivore	11
Understanding human attitudes towards bats and the role of information and aesthetics to boost a positive response as a conservation tool	11
The global need to address threats from invasive alien iguanas	11
Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa's large population of white rhinos	11
Context‐dependent behaviour and connectivity of recolonizing brown bear populations identify transboundary conservation challenges in Central Europe	11
A demographic projection model to support conservation decision making for an endangered snake with limited monitoring data	10
Diet disparity and diversity predict extinction risk in primates	10
From individual responses to population effects: Integrating a decade of multidisciplinary research on blue whales and sonar	10
Combining camera‐trap surveys and hunter interviews to determine the status of mammals in protected rainforests and rubber plantations of Menglun, Xishuangbanna, SW China	10
Stable isotope analysis as a tool to detect illegal trade in critically endangered cockatoos	10
Predation‐mediated edge effects reduce survival of wader nests at a wet grassland‐forest edge	10
Boat disturbance affects the acoustic behaviour of dolphins engaged in a rare foraging cooperation with fishers	10
Current landscape attributes and landscape stability in breeding grounds explain genetic differentiation in a long‐distance migratory bird	10
Relative contribution to the shark fin trade of Indo‐Pacific and Eastern Pacific pelagic thresher sharks	10
Fragmentation effects on woodlark habitat selection depend on habitat amount and spatial scale	10
Human‐induced shifts in habitat use and behaviour of a marine predator: the effects of bait provisioning in the blacktip reef shark	10
Reserve size, dispersal and population viability in wide ranging carnivores: the case of jaguars in Emas National Park, Brazil	9
Robust mapping of human–wildlife conflict: controlling for livestock distribution in carnivore depredation models	9
Scavenging patterns of generalist predators in forested areas: The potential implications of increase in carrion availability on a threatened capercaillie population	9
Ecological niche modeling reveals manta ray distribution and conservation priority areas in the Western Central Atlantic	9
Identifying human–brown bear conflict hotspots for prioritizing critical habitat and corridor conservation in southwestern Iran	9
Conditioned odor aversion as a tool for reducing post‐release predation during animal translocations	9
Climate change would prevail over land use change in shaping the future distribution of Triturus marmoratus in France	9
Fine‐scale interactions between boats and large albatrosses indicate variable susceptibility to bycatch risk according to species and populations	8
Definition of no‐fishing zones and fishing effort limits to reduce franciscana bycatch to sustainable levels in southern Brazil	8
Strengthening protection of endemic wildlife threatened by the international pet trade: The case of the Australian shingleback lizard	8
The lethal 23%: predator demography influences predation risk for threatened prey	8

‘Self‐fumigation’ of nests by an endangered avian host using insecticide‐treated feathers increases reproductive success more than tenfold	8
Comparison of three techniques for genetic estimation of effective population size in a critically endangered parrot	8
Indirect terrestrial transmission of amphibian chytrid fungus from reservoir to susceptible host species leads to fatal chytridiomycosis	8
Untangling the influences of fire, habitat and introduced predators on the endangered heath mouse	8
Release strategies and ecological factors influence mitigation translocation outcomes for burrowing owls: a comparative evaluation	7
Where wolves were: setting historical baselines for wolf recovery in Spain	7
Human disturbance and prey occupancy as predictors of carnivore richness and biomass in a Himalayan hotspot	7
Climbing for dummies: recommendation for multi‐specific fishways for the conservation of tropical eels and gobies	7
Are glucocorticoids good indicators of disturbance across populations that exhibit cryptic variation in contaminant tolerance?	7
The importance of forests for an apex predator: spatial ecology and habitat selection by pumas in an agroecosystem	7
Pay to conserve: what we have achieved in 10 years of compensatory releases of threatened with extinction guitarfishes	7
Australia's 2019–20 mega‐fires are associated with lower occupancy of a rainforest‐dependent bat	7
Whinchat survival estimates across Europe: can excessive adult mortality explain population declines?	7
Environmental factors, human presence and prey interact to explain patterns of tiger presence in Eastern Thailand	7
Tiger reappearance in Bhutan’s Bumdeling Wildlife Sanctuary: a case for maintaining effective corridors and metapopulations	7
Evaluation of tenrec population viability and potential sustainable management under hunting pressure in northeastern Madagascar	7
Here be dragons: important spatial uncertainty driven by climate data in forecasted distribution of an endangered insular reptile	7
European bison conservation cannot afford to ignore alternative hypotheses: a commentary on Perzanowski et al. (2019)	7
Mouse eradication is required to prevent local extinction of an endangered seabird on an oceanic island	7
Response of farmland reptiles to agricultural intensification: Collapse of the common adder Vipera berus and the western green lizard Lacerta bilineata in a hedgerow landscape	7
One of these wolves is not like the other: morphological effects and conservation implications of captivity in Mexican wolves	7
Mapping illegal wildlife trade networks provides new opportunities for conservation actions	7
Landscape connectivity and population density of snow leopards across a multi‐use landscape in Western Himalaya	7
Barn owls as biological control agents: potential risks to non‐target rare and endangered species	7
Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece	7
Climate and behaviour influence thermal suitability of artificial hollows for a critically endangered mammal	7
Population models reveal the importance of early life‐stages for population stability of an imperiled turtle species	7
Understanding the public debate about trophy hunting in China as a rural development mechanism	7
Differential responses of amphibians and reptiles to land‐use change in the biodiversity hotspot of north‐eastern Madagascar	7
Assessing the risks of changing ongoing management of endangered species	7
Complex interactions between commercial and noncommercial drivers of illegal trade for a threatened felid	6
Why we went to the woods?: effects of human disturbance on species presence in a disturbed Myanmar forest ecosystem	6
The effects of shrub encroachment on bird occupancy vary with land use in an African savanna	6
Intrinsic factors, release conditions and presence of conspecifics affect post‐release dispersal after translocation of Iberian ibex	6
Exploring rangers' preferences for community‐based strategies to improve human‐elephant coexistence in African natural corridors	6
Hotspots of livestock depredation by pumas and jaguars in Brazil: a biome‐scale analysis	6
Dietary expansion facilitates the persistence of a large frugivore in fragmented tropical forests	6
Towards understanding bold behaviour of large carnivores: the case of brown bears in human‐modified landscapes	6
Are the implications for conservation of a major taxonomic revision of the world’s birds’ simply serendipity?	6
Establishment, persistence and the importance of longitudinal monitoring in multi‐source reintroductions	5
Finding the win‐win strategies in endangered species conservation	5
Multi‐scale, multivariate community models improve designation of biodiversity hotspots in the Sunda Islands	5
Individual traits influence survival of a reintroduced marsupial only at low predator densities	5
Genome‐wide single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers from fecal samples reveal anthropogenic impacts on connectivity: case of a small carnivore in the central Indian landscape	5
Survey design optimization for monitoring wildlife communities in areas managed for federally endangered species	5
Savannah for sale: is there hope for neotropical biodiversity on private, Brazilian properties?	5
Long‐term effects of forest fire on habitat use by siamangs in Southern Sumatra	5
Islands within islands: genetic structuring at small spatial scales has implications for long‐term persistence of a threatened species	5
Priority conservation areas and a global population estimate for the critically endangered Philippine Eagle	5
Spatial separation of prey from livestock facilitates coexistence of a specialized large carnivore with human land use	5
Upland rush management advocated by agri‐environment schemes increases predation of artificial wader nests	5
Incorporating drivers of reproductive success improves population viability analysis	5
Capture‐induced vulnerability in male Shortnose guitarfish during their reproductive period	5
Mitigating anthropogenic barriers to facilitate distributional shifts helps reduce vulnerability of a large herbivore to climate change	5
Debut of an endangered bird in zoos raises public interest, awareness and conservation knowledge of the species	4
Metamorphosis and seasonality are major determinants of chytrid infection in a paedomorphic salamander	4
Conservation of “new” species within and beyond protected areas	4
How generalist are these forest specialists? What Sweden’s avian indicators indicate	4
Effects of experimental land management on habitat use by Eurasian Stone‐curlews	4
Emerging conflict between conservation programmes: when a threatened vertebrate facilitates the dispersal of exotic species in a rare plant community	4
Global warming facilitates the nesting of the loggerhead turtle on the Mediterranean coast of Spain	4
Not just the Big Five: African ecotourists prefer parks brimming with bird diversity	4
Estimating global determinants of leopard home range size in a changing world	4
A review of the ecological and socioeconomic characteristics of trophy hunting across Asia	4
European bison conservation must move beyond entrenched debates – response to Kerley et al. (2020)	4
Do we need to unfriend a few friends? Free‐ranging dogs affect wildlife and pastoralists in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya	4
Building human–elephant relationships based on science and local ownership: a long‐lasting issue in the era of Sustainable Development Goals	4
Life on the edge: habitat fragmentation limits expansion of a restored carnivore	4
Counting in the dark: estimating population size and trends of bat assemblages at hibernacula using infrared light barriers	4
Integrating immersion withGPSdata improves behavioural classification for wandering albatrosses and shows scavenging behind fishing vessels mirrors natural foraging	4
Brazil’s marine protected areas fail to meet global conservation goals	4
Landowner perceptions of livestock predation: implications for persecution of an Amazonian apex predator	4
Windfarm collisions in medium‐sized raptors: even increasing populations can suffer strong demographic impacts	4
A global assessment of research on urban ecology of reptiles: patterns, gaps and future directions	4
Inbreeding status and implications for Amur tigers	4
Plastic pollution can affect the emergence patterns of loggerhead turtle hatchlings	4
Improving population estimates of difficult‐to‐observe species: A dung decay model for forest elephants with remotely sensed imagery	4
Disturbance‐specific behavioral responses of giant otters exposed to ecotourism and extractive activities	4
Impacts of land cover on reptile movement and habitat use in farming landscapes	4
Habitat use across multiple scales suggests resilience to rising seas for endangered island endemic compared to sympatric invasive species	4

Evaluating survey methods for bat roost detection in ecological impact assessment	4
Alarm call: innovative study highlights the need for robust conservation crime science to effectively impede specialized songbird trafficking	3
Landscape features affect caiman body condition in the middle Araguaia River floodplain	3
Improved ecological insights commission new conservation targets for a crepuscular bird species	3
Remotely sensed vegetation productivity predicts breeding activity and drought refuges for a threatened bird in semi‐arid Australia	3
Influence of reduced‐impact logging on Central Amazonian bats using a before‐after‐control‐impact design	3
Effects of translocation on survival of nuisance bears	3
Unforeseen consequences of conservation management practices: case study on herding rhino as an anti‐poaching measure	3
Improving evaluation of nonlethal tools for carnivore management and conservation: evaluating fladry to protect an endangered species from a generalist mesocarnivore	3
Failure to account for behavioral variability significantly compromises accuracy in indirect population monitoring	3
Anthropogenic effects on the occurrence of medium‐sized mammals on the Brazilian Pampa biome	3
Disproportionate admixture improves reintroduction outcomes despite the use of low‐diversity source populations: population viability analysis for a translocation of the greater stick‐nest rat	3
An integrative approach to assess non‐native iguana presence on Saba and Montserrat: Are we losing all native Iguana populations in the Lesser Antilles?	3
Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species	3
Testing branding techniques on species common names to improve their fundraising profile for conservation	3
The elephant in the farm: long‐term solutions are the key to coexistence	3
Community‐based monitoring of wild felid hunting in Central Amazonia	3
Instagram as a data source for sea turtle surveys in shipwrecks in Brazil	3
Risk of bird electrocution in power lines: a framework for prioritizing species and areas for conservation and impact mitigation	3
Trends in the bushmeat market trade in North Sulawesi and conservation implications	3
Patterns of abundance reveal evidence of translocation and climate effects on Houbara bustard population recovery	3
Conservation translocations of Hawaiian monk seals: accounting for variability in body condition improves evaluation of translocation efficacy	3
Erosion of primate functional diversity in small and isolated forest patches within movement‐resistant landscapes	3
Comparing estimates of census and effective population size in an endangered amphibian	3
Habitat management favouring hunted waterbird species prevents distribution changes in response to climate warming	3
Prediction of fitness under different breeding designs in conservation programs	3
Protected areas enter a new era of uncertain challenges: extinction of a non‐exigent falcon in Doñana National Park	3
Outdoor recreation alters terrestrial vertebrate scavenger assemblage and carrion removal in a protected Mediterranean wetland	3
Strong effects of radio‐tags, social group and release date on survival of reintroduced grey partridges	3
Blind shots: non‐natural mortality counteracts conservation efforts of a threatened waterbird	2
Correlates of persistence in remnant populations of two Critically Endangered cockatoos	2
Future land use and climate change escalate connectivity loss for Himalayan brown bears	2
Down‐listing pandas and upgrading conservation: China setting an example to preserve wildlife worldwide	2
Long‐term reproductive costs of snare injuries in a keystone terrestrial by‐catch species	2
From threatened to threatening: Impacts of a reintroduced predator on reintroduced prey	2
Group size mediates effects of intraspecific competition and forest structure on productivity in a recovering social woodpecker population	2
The wolf and the city: insights on wolves' conservation in the anthropocene	2
Trade of legal and illegal marine wildlife products in markets: integrating shopping list and survival analysis approaches	2
Counting the costs of white rhino poaching: We are likely underestimating the indirect and long‐term impacts	2
Whither the science in wildlife management?	2
Rendering a once common turtle species endangered in China	2
Ground‐based vegetation descriptions and remote sensing as complementary methods describing habitat requirements of a frugivorous primate in northern Madagascar: implications for forest restoration	2
Trading off hatching success and cost in the captive breeding of Whooping Cranes	2
Cascading effects of social dynamics on the reproduction, survival, and population growth of mountain gorillas	2
Simulated genetic efficacy of metapopulation management and conservation value of captive reintroductions in a rapidly declining felid	2
Predictors of taxonomic splitting and its role in primate conservation	2
Genomic signatures of demographic declines in an imperiled amphibian inform conservation action	2
Incorporating data‐based estimates of temporal variation into projections for newly monitored populations	2
Does translocation affect short‐term survival in a long‐lived species, the Spanish imperial eagle?	2
Variation in immunity and health in response to introduced avian malaria in an endemic Hawaiian songbird	2
Cross‐ecosystem effects of coastal urbanisation on vertebrate assemblages and ecological function	2
The effect of group size on reproduction in cooperatively breeding gray wolves depends on density	2
A social network approach to detect parallel wildlife trafficking: a novel tool, with potential limitations in a closed, specialist system	2
Does anthropization affect physiology, behaviour and life‐history traits of Montagu's harrier chicks?	2
Using public surveys to rapidly profile biological invasions in hard‐to‐monitor areas	2
Population density modelling of mixed polymorphic phenotypes: an application of spatial mark‐resight models	2
Assessing the efficacy of higher‐taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories	2
Localized control of opportunistic, overabundant species in protected areas: a retrospective modelling approach encompassing future scenarios	2
The influence of YouTube videos on human tolerance of sharks	2
The dark side of the Common Agricultural Policy	2
First records of margay on Cozumel Island: a conservation paradox	2
Continuous forest at higher elevation plays a key role in maintaining bird and mammal diversity across an Andean coffee‐growing landscape	2
Low effective population size in the genetically bottlenecked Australian sea lion is insufficient to maintain genetic variation	2
The impact of headstarting on the survival and naiveté of an endangered terrestrial mammal after return to the wild	2
Numbers of seabirds attracted to artificial lights should not be the only indicator of population trends	2
Occupancy models reveal potential of conservation prioritization for Central American jaguars	2
Illegal wildlife trade networks: finding creative opportunities for conservation intervention in challenging circumstances	2
Planning to remove UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Sumatra from being ‘In Danger’	2
Reproductive skew in a Vulnerable bird favors breeders that monopolize nest cavities	2