OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Animal Biodiversity and Conservation 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
A global review of animal translocation programs	37
Prey availability influences the diet of Scinax fuscomarginatus in a Cerrado area, Central Brazil	7
Temporal changes in the diet of two sympatric carnivorous mammals in a protected area of south–central Chile affected by a mixed–severity forest fire	7
Changes in the nocturnal activity of birds during the COVID–19 pandemic lockdown in a neotropical city	6
Bold or shy? Examining the risk–taking behavior and neophobia of invasive and non–invasive house sparrows	5
The selection of anthropogenic habitat by wildlife as an ecological consequence of rural exodus: empirical examples from Spain	5
An endangered new catfish species of the genus Cambeva (Cambeva gamabelardense n. sp.) (Siluriformes, Trichomycteridae) from the Rio Chapecó drainage, southern Brazil	5
A contribution to the earthworm diversity (Clitellata, Moniligastridae) of Kerala, a component of the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India, using integrated taxonomy	4
The impacts of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) on wildlife in two Brazilian hotspots and implications for conservation	4
The names of southwestern European goats: is Iberian ibex the best common name for Capra pyrenaica?	4
Density and activity patterns of bobcat in its southernmost distribution	3
Effects of elevation gradient and aspect on butterfly diversity on Galičica Mountain in the Republic of Macedonia (south–eastern Europe)	3
Daily activity pattern of pumas (Puma concolor) and their potential prey in a tropical cloud forest of Colombia	3
Marginal presence of plastic in nests of yellow–legged gulls (Larus michahellis) in the southeastern Bay of Biscay	3
Dietary plasticity in an invasive species and implications for management: the case of the monk parakeet in a Mediterranean city	3
Nestedness structure of bird assemblages in a fragmented forest in Central Argentina: the role of selective extinction and colonization processes	3
Revisión del conflicto entre los humanos y las serpientes en México: origen, mitigación y perspectivas	3
A comparison of the diet of urban and forest great tits in a Mediterranean habitat	3
Description of a new valvatoid Pikasia smenensis n. gen. n. sp. (Gastropoda, Hydrobiidae) from Morocco	3
Interspecific sexual selection, a new theory for an old practice: the increase of artificial biodiversity through creation of modern, standardized breeds	2
Can scientific laws be discussed on philosophical grounds? a reply to naïve arguments on ‘predators’ proposed by Bramble (2021)	2
Assessment of endangered freshwater pearl mussel populations in the Northern Iberian Plateau in relation to non–native species: xenodiversity as a threat	2
Population increase of the invasive red–whiskered bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus in Valencia, Spain	2
Modelling European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur L. 1758) distribution in the south eastern Iberian Peninsula	2
A higher incidence of moult–breeding overlap in great tits across time is linked to an increased frequency of second clutches: a possible effect of global warming?	2

Living under the risk of extinction: population status and conservation needs assessment of a micro–endemic tiger gecko in Vietnam	2
Are quartzite scree slopes used by birds to promote sound transmission in the Mediterranean forest?	2
Machine learning as a successful approach for predicting complex spatio–temporal patterns in animal species abundance	2
Seasonal variation in the diet of two predators in an agroecosystem in southern–central Chile	2
Small mammal sampling incidents related to wild boar (Sus scrofa) in natural peri–urban areas	2
Diet of the bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo) along the northern Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic coast of the United States	2