Animal Conservation

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There will be conflict – agricultural landscapes are prime, rather than marginal, habitats for Asian elephants	50
Megafire causes persistent loss of an old‐forest species	37
Why do eggs fail? Causes of hatching failure in threatened populations and consequences for conservation	27
Projected climate change threatens Himalayan brown bear habitat more than human land use	26
Social media reveals consistently disproportionate tourism pressure on a threatened marine vertebrate	25
‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications	20
Small‐scale species distribution model identifies restricted breeding habitat for an endemic island bird	20
Exploring multiple dimensions of conservation success: Long‐term wildlife trends, anti‐poaching efforts and revenue sharing in Kibale National Park, Uganda	18
Subsidized Common Agricultural Policy grazing jeopardizes the protection of biodiversity and Natura 2000 targeted species	18
Predation‐mediated edge effects reduce survival of wader nests at a wet grassland‐forest edge	17
Postwar wildlife recovery in an African savanna: evaluating patterns and drivers of species occupancy and richness	17
Differential responses of amphibians and reptiles to land‐use change in the biodiversity hotspot of north‐eastern Madagascar	16
Cumulative effects of low‐height barriers on distributions of catadromous Japanese eels in Japan	16
Habitat disturbance trumps moonlight effects on the activity of tropical insectivorous bats	16
Hiding in plain sight: risk mitigation by a cryptic carnivore foraging at the urban edge	16
Poaching is directly and indirectly driving the decline of South Africa's large population of white rhinos	16
Roads as ecological traps for giant anteaters	15
Understanding human attitudes towards bats and the role of information and aesthetics to boost a positive response as a conservation tool	15
Robust mapping of human–wildlife conflict: controlling for livestock distribution in carnivore depredation models	14
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	14
Stable isotope analysis as a tool to detect illegal trade in critically endangered cockatoos	14
Inferring patterns of sympatry among large carnivores in Manas National Park – a prey‐rich habitat influenced by anthropogenic disturbances	14
The value of coastal saltpans for migratory shorebirds: conservation insights from a stable isotope approach based on feeding guild and body size	14
Diet disparity and diversity predict extinction risk in primates	13
Boat disturbance affects the acoustic behaviour of dolphins engaged in a rare foraging cooperation with fishers	13

Precise natal homing and an estimate of age at sexual maturity in hawksbill turtles	13
Scavenging patterns of generalist predators in forested areas: The potential implications of increase in carrion availability on a threatened capercaillie population	13
Low hatching success in the critically endangered kākāpō is driven by early embryo mortality not infertility	13
Combined COI barcode‐based methods to avoid mislabelling of threatened species of deep‐sea skates	13
Investigating differences in population recovery rates of two sympatrically nesting sea turtle species	13
The global need to address threats from invasive alien iguanas	12
Identifying human–brown bear conflict hotspots for prioritizing critical habitat and corridor conservation in southwestern Iran	12
Multi‐scale, multivariate community models improve designation of biodiversity hotspots in the Sunda Islands	12
Skin defenses of North American salamanders against a deadly salamander fungus	12
Comparison of three techniques for genetic estimation of effective population size in a critically endangered parrot	11
Strengthening protection of endemic wildlife threatened by the international pet trade: The case of the Australian shingleback lizard	11
Windfarm collisions in medium‐sized raptors: even increasing populations can suffer strong demographic impacts	11
From individual responses to population effects: Integrating a decade of multidisciplinary research on blue whales and sonar	11
Climbing for dummies: recommendation for multi‐specific fishways for the conservation of tropical eels and gobies	10
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	10
Untangling the influences of fire, habitat and introduced predators on the endangered heath mouse	10
A global assessment of research on urban ecology of reptiles: patterns, gaps and future directions	10
Climate change would prevail over land use change in shaping the future distribution of Triturus marmoratus in France	10
Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece	10
Fine‐scale interactions between boats and large albatrosses indicate variable susceptibility to bycatch risk according to species and populations	10
Release strategies and ecological factors influence mitigation translocation outcomes for burrowing owls: a comparative evaluation	10
Where wolves were: setting historical baselines for wolf recovery in Spain	10
Here be dragons: important spatial uncertainty driven by climate data in forecasted distribution of an endangered insular reptile	9
Ecological niche modeling reveals manta ray distribution and conservation priority areas in the Western Central Atlantic	9
Cross‐ecosystem effects of coastal urbanisation on vertebrate assemblages and ecological function	9
Definition of no‐fishing zones and fishing effort limits to reduce franciscana bycatch to sustainable levels in southern Brazil	9
Climate and behaviour influence thermal suitability of artificial hollows for a critically endangered mammal	9
Indirect terrestrial transmission of amphibian chytrid fungus from reservoir to susceptible host species leads to fatal chytridiomycosis	9
Towards understanding bold behaviour of large carnivores: the case of brown bears in human‐modified landscapes	9
Establishment, persistence and the importance of longitudinal monitoring in multi‐source reintroductions	8
Are glucocorticoids good indicators of disturbance across populations that exhibit cryptic variation in contaminant tolerance?	8
Estimating global determinants of leopard home range size in a changing world	8
Risk of bird electrocution in power lines: a framework for prioritizing species and areas for conservation and impact mitigation	8
Impacts of land cover on reptile movement and habitat use in farming landscapes	8
Population models reveal the importance of early life‐stages for population stability of an imperiled turtle species	8
Individual traits influence survival of a reintroduced marsupial only at low predator densities	8
Exploring rangers' preferences for community‐based strategies to improve human‐elephant coexistence in African natural corridors	8
Intrinsic factors, release conditions and presence of conspecifics affect post‐release dispersal after translocation of Iberian ibex	8
The importance of forests for an apex predator: spatial ecology and habitat selection by pumas in an agroecosystem	8
Landscape connectivity and population density of snow leopards across a multi‐use landscape in Western Himalaya	8
Capture‐induced vulnerability in male Shortnose guitarfish during their reproductive period	7
One of these wolves is not like the other: morphological effects and conservation implications of captivity in Mexican wolves	7
Evaluation of tenrec population viability and potential sustainable management under hunting pressure in northeastern Madagascar	7
Mouse eradication is required to prevent local extinction of an endangered seabird on an oceanic island	7
The wolf and the city: insights on wolves' conservation in the anthropocene	7
Instagram as a data source for sea turtle surveys in shipwrecks in Brazil	7
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	7
Metamorphosis and seasonality are major determinants of chytrid infection in a paedomorphic salamander	7
Australia's 2019–20 mega‐fires are associated with lower occupancy of a rainforest‐dependent bat	7
Priority conservation areas and a global population estimate for the critically endangered Philippine Eagle	7

An integrative approach to assess non‐native iguana presence on Saba and Montserrat: Are we losing all native Iguana populations in the Lesser Antilles?	6
Brazil’s marine protected areas fail to meet global conservation goals	6
Debut of an endangered bird in zoos raises public interest, awareness and conservation knowledge of the species	6
Why we went to the woods?: effects of human disturbance on species presence in a disturbed Myanmar forest ecosystem	6
Not just the Big Five: African ecotourists prefer parks brimming with bird diversity	6
Finding the win‐win strategies in endangered species conservation	6
Dietary expansion facilitates the persistence of a large frugivore in fragmented tropical forests	6
Spatial separation of prey from livestock facilitates coexistence of a specialized large carnivore with human land use	6
Landowner perceptions of livestock predation: implications for persecution of an Amazonian apex predator	6
Complex interactions between commercial and noncommercial drivers of illegal trade for a threatened felid	6
Outdoor recreation alters terrestrial vertebrate scavenger assemblage and carrion removal in a protected Mediterranean wetland	6
Strong effects of radio‐tags, social group and release date on survival of reintroduced grey partridges	5
Cascading effects of social dynamics on the reproduction, survival, and population growth of mountain gorillas	5
Global warming facilitates the nesting of the loggerhead turtle on the Mediterranean coast of Spain	5
Effect of microhabitat characteristics for predicting habitat suitability for a stalking large carnivore—the Eurasian lynx in middle Europe	5
Patterns of abundance reveal evidence of translocation and climate effects on Houbara bustard population recovery	5
Inbreeding status and implications for Amur tigers	5
Mitigating anthropogenic barriers to facilitate distributional shifts helps reduce vulnerability of a large herbivore to climate change	5
Effects of experimental land management on habitat use by Eurasian Stone‐curlews	5
Disturbance‐specific behavioral responses of giant otters exposed to ecotourism and extractive activities	5
Upland rush management advocated by agri‐environment schemes increases predation of artificial wader nests	5
Effects of translocation on survival of nuisance bears	5
The effect of group size on reproduction in cooperatively breeding gray wolves depends on density	5
Plastic pollution can affect the emergence patterns of loggerhead turtle hatchlings	5
Improving population estimates of difficult‐to‐observe species: A dung decay model for forest elephants with remotely sensed imagery	5
Integrating immersion withGPSdata improves behavioural classification for wandering albatrosses and shows scavenging behind fishing vessels mirrors natural foraging	5
Continuous forest at higher elevation plays a key role in maintaining bird and mammal diversity across an Andean coffee‐growing landscape	5
Survey design optimization for monitoring wildlife communities in areas managed for federally endangered species	5
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	5
Occupancy models reveal potential of conservation prioritization for Central American jaguars	5
Long‐term ecological data confirm and refine conservation assessment of critically endangered swift parrots	5
Protected areas enter a new era of uncertain challenges: extinction of a non‐exigent falcon in Doñana National Park	4
Landscape features affect caiman body condition in the middle Araguaia River floodplain	4
Building human–elephant relationships based on science and local ownership: a long‐lasting issue in the era of Sustainable Development Goals	4
Failure to account for behavioral variability significantly compromises accuracy in indirect population monitoring	4
Testing branding techniques on species common names to improve their fundraising profile for conservation	4
Optimal management decisions are robust to unknown dynamics in an amphibian metapopulation plagued by disease	4
Movement ecology of endangered caribou during a COVID‐19 mediated pause in winter recreation	4
Assessing potential conflicts between offshore wind farms and migration patterns of a threatened shorebird species	4
Improving evaluation of nonlethal tools for carnivore management and conservation: evaluating fladry to protect an endangered species from a generalist mesocarnivore	4
From threatened to threatening: Impacts of a reintroduced predator on reintroduced prey	4
Counting in the dark: estimating population size and trends of bat assemblages at hibernacula using infrared light barriers	4
Long‐term reproductive costs of snare injuries in a keystone terrestrial by‐catch species	4
A review of the ecological and socioeconomic characteristics of trophy hunting across Asia	4
Conservation beyond boundaries: using animal movement networks in protected area assessment	4
Do we need to unfriend a few friends? Free‐ranging dogs affect wildlife and pastoralists in the Indian Trans‐Himalaya	4
First records of margay on Cozumel Island: a conservation paradox	4
GPS collars as a tool to uncover environmental crimes in Brazil: The jaguar as a sentinel	4
Trade of legal and illegal marine wildlife products in markets: integrating shopping list and survival analysis approaches	4
Population density modelling of mixed polymorphic phenotypes: an application of spatial mark‐resight models	3
Remotely sensed vegetation productivity predicts breeding activity and drought refuges for a threatened bird in semi‐arid Australia	3
Influence of landscape and connectivity on anuran conservation: population viability analyses to designate protected areas	3
Variation in immunity and health in response to introduced avian malaria in an endemic Hawaiian songbird	3
Modelling the distribution of bat activity areas for conservation in a Mediterranean mountain range	3
Assessing the efficacy of higher‐taxon approach for ant species surveys to improve biodiversity inventories	3
Landcover change and habitat quality mediate impacts of temperature and precipitation on population dynamics of a threatened aridland predator	3
Ground‐based vegetation descriptions and remote sensing as complementary methods describing habitat requirements of a frugivorous primate in northern Madagascar: implications for forest restoration	3
The influence of YouTube videos on human tolerance of sharks	3
Blind shots: non‐natural mortality counteracts conservation efforts of a threatened waterbird	3
Global conservation genomics of blue whales calls into question subspecies taxonomy and refines knowledge of population structure	3
Habitat management favouring hunted waterbird species prevents distribution changes in response to climate warming	3
Community‐based monitoring of wild felid hunting in Central Amazonia	3
Combining species distribution models and moderate resolution satellite information to guide conservation programs for reticulated giraffe	3
Does anthropization affect physiology, behaviour and life‐history traits of Montagu's harrier chicks?	3
Reproductive skew in a Vulnerable bird favors breeders that monopolize nest cavities	3
The elephant in the farm: long‐term solutions are the key to coexistence	3
Influence of reduced‐impact logging on Central Amazonian bats using a before‐after‐control‐impact design	3
Environmental suitability and potential range expansion of the Eurasian beaver in Italy	3
Manipulating spectra of artificial light affects movement patterns of bats along ecological corridors	3
Erosion of primate functional diversity in small and isolated forest patches within movement‐resistant landscapes	3
Trends in the bushmeat market trade in North Sulawesi and conservation implications	3
Brown bear‐caused human injuries and fatalities in Russia are linked to human encroachment	3
Comparing estimates of census and effective population size in an endangered amphibian	3
Trading off hatching success and cost in the captive breeding of Whooping Cranes	3
Prediction of fitness under different breeding designs in conservation programs	3
Simulated genetic efficacy of metapopulation management and conservation value of captive reintroductions in a rapidly declining felid	3
Squirrel and tree‐shrew responses along an urbanisation gradient in a tropical mega‐city – reduced biodiversity, increased hybridisation of Callosciurus squirrels, and effects of habitat qualit	3
Why Australian farmers should not kill venomous snakes	2
The dark side of the Common Agricultural Policy	2
Local forest proportion and proximity to large forest patches are important for native mammal conservation in Dry Chaco agroecosystems	2

Benefits of protected area networks for breeding bird populations and communities	2
Chytridiomycosis and climate change: exposure to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and mild winter conditions do not increase mortality in juvenile agile frogs during hibernation	2
Numbers of seabirds attracted to artificial lights should not be the only indicator of population trends	2
Incorporating data‐based estimates of temporal variation into projections for newly monitored populations	2
Towards an improved evidence‐based Natura 2000 management strategy	2
Rendering a once common turtle species endangered in China	2
Using public surveys to rapidly profile biological invasions in hard‐to‐monitor areas	2
Global review of anticoagulant rodenticide exposure in wild mammalian carnivores	2
Identifying demographic and environmental drivers of population dynamics and viability in an endangered top predator using an integrated model	2
Localized control of opportunistic, overabundant species in protected areas: a retrospective modelling approach encompassing future scenarios	2
Low effective population size in the genetically bottlenecked Australian sea lion is insufficient to maintain genetic variation	2
Future land use and climate change escalate connectivity loss for Himalayan brown bears	2
Capturing uncatalogued distribution records to improve conservation assessments of data‐deficient species: a case study using the glossy grass skink	2
Group size mediates effects of intraspecific competition and forest structure on productivity in a recovering social woodpecker population	2
The necessity of considering founder kinships in conservation breeding programs	2
Land‐use alters the form of larval density dependence to increase extinction risk in a grassland amphibian	2
Environmental control reduces white‐nose syndrome infection in hibernating bats	2
Whither the science in wildlife management?	2
Correlates of persistence in remnant populations of two Critically Endangered cockatoos	2
Down‐listing pandas and upgrading conservation: China setting an example to preserve wildlife worldwide	2
Raptor reintroductions: Cost‐effective alternatives to captive breeding	2
Towards tolerable human–elephant coexistence in tropical Asia	2
Defensible management decisions to overcome action paralysis in the face of uncertainty	2
Prevalence and diversity of avian malaria parasites in illegally traded white‐winged parakeets in Peruvian Amazonas	2
Comparing translocated beavers used as passive restoration tools to resident beavers in degraded desert rivers	2
Density and climate effects on age‐specific survival and population growth: consequences for hibernating mammals	2
The impact of headstarting on the survival and naiveté of an endangered terrestrial mammal after return to the wild	2
Predictors of taxonomic splitting and its role in primate conservation	2
Priorities for a coordinated effort on behalf of lost species: a commentary on Martin et al. (2022)	2
Demographic evidence that development is not compatible with sustainability in semi‐urban freshwater turtles	2
Counting the costs of white rhino poaching: We are likely underestimating the indirect and long‐term impacts	2
Integrated spatial models foster complementarity between monitoring programmes in producing large‐scale bottlenose dolphin indicators	2
Predominant prevalence of Ranavirus in southern Brazil, a region with widespread occurrence of the amphibian chytrid	2
Genomic signatures of demographic declines in an imperiled amphibian inform conservation action	2