OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Conservation is 5. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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
Small‐scale species distribution model identifies restricted breeding habitat for an endemic island bird	20
‘Lost’ taxa and their conservation implications	20
Subsidized Common Agricultural Policy grazing jeopardizes the protection of biodiversity and Natura 2000 targeted species	18
Exploring multiple dimensions of conservation success: Long‐term wildlife trends, anti‐poaching efforts and revenue sharing in Kibale National Park, Uganda	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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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

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
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
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
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
Strong effects of radio‐tags, social group and release date on survival of reintroduced grey partridges	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
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
Effects of experimental land management on habitat use by Eurasian Stone‐curlews	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