OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Conservation is 7. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

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
An applied ecology of fear framework: linking theory to conservation practice	34
Enhancing tropical conservation and ecology research with aquatic environmental DNA methods: an introduction for non‐environmental DNA specialists	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
Projected climate change threatens Himalayan brown bear habitat more than human land use	23
Mixing genetically differentiated populations successfully boosts diversity of an endangered carnivore	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
DNA Zip‐coding: identifying the source populations supplying the international trade of a critically endangered coastal shark	19
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
Marine hotspots of activity inform protection of a threatened community of pelagic species in a large oceanic jurisdiction	17
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
‘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
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
Habitat disturbance trumps moonlight effects on the activity of tropical insectivorous bats	14
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
Subsidized Common Agricultural Policy grazing jeopardizes the protection of biodiversity and Natura 2000 targeted species	13
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Climate and behaviour influence thermal suitability of artificial hollows for a critically endangered mammal	7
Citizen science indicates significant range recovery and defines new conservation priorities for Earth's most endangered pinniped in Greece	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
Climbing for dummies: recommendation for multi‐specific fishways for the conservation of tropical eels and gobies	7
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
Are glucocorticoids good indicators of disturbance across populations that exhibit cryptic variation in contaminant tolerance?	7
Human disturbance and prey occupancy as predictors of carnivore richness and biomass in a Himalayan hotspot	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
Here be dragons: important spatial uncertainty driven by climate data in forecasted distribution of an endangered insular reptile	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
European bison conservation cannot afford to ignore alternative hypotheses: a commentary on Perzanowski et al. (2019)	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
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