OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Wildlife Research is 4. 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
Effective corridor width: linking the spatial ecology of wildlife with land use policy	26
Automated detection of European wild mammal species in camera trap images with an existing and pre-trained computer vision model	22
Wildlife and infrastructure: impact of wind turbines on bats in the Black Sea coast region	18
Use of a novel camera trapping approach to measure small mammal responses to peatland restoration	18
Mammal use of wildlife crossing structures along a new motorway in an area recently recolonized by wolves	17
Density of wild felids in Sonora, Mexico: a comparison of spatially explicit capture-recapture methods	16
The accuracy and precision of age determination by dental cementum annuli in four northern cervids	15
Temporal niche overlap among mesocarnivores in a Caatinga dry forest	15
Review on methods used for wildlife species and individual identification	14
Attitudes towards hunting in Polish society and the related impacts of hunting experience, socialisation and social networks	13
Attacks on hunting dogs: the case of wolf–dog interactions in Croatia	13
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a free ranging leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in India	13
How many gamebirds are released in the UK each year?	13
Livestock grazing affects movements and activity pattern of Italian roe deer in Southern Italy	12
Modelling Eurasian beaver foraging habitat and dam suitability, for predicting the location and number of dams throughout catchments in Great Britain	12
Importance of predictable anthropogenic food subsidies for an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban ecosystems	12
European beaver (Castor fiber) in open agricultural landscapes: crop grazing and the potential for economic damage	12
Animal owners’ appraisal of large carnivore presence and use of interventions to prevent carnivore attacks on domestic animals in Sweden	11
Concentrations of cadmium, lead, arsenic, and some essential metals in wild boar from Sweden	11
Reeves’ muntjac populations continue to grow and spread across Great Britain and are invading continental Europe	11
Ungulate-vehicle collision risk and traffic volume on roads	11
Survival rates on pre-weaning European hares (Lepus europaeus) in an intensively used agricultural area	11
One tool in the box: the role of hunters in mitigating the damages associated to abundant wildlife	11
Towards the comparison of home range estimators obtained from contrasting tracking regimes: the wild boar as a case study	11
Building a perceptual zone of influence for wildlife: delineating the effects of roads on grizzly bear movement	11

Thirty years of trade data suggests population declines in a once common songbird in Indonesia	10
Identifying the variation in utilization density estimators and home ranges of elephant clans in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia	10
Distribution of the European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) at the edge of the South-Western Palaearctic: transboundary differences and conservation prospects	10
New rules or old concepts? The golden jackal (Canis aureus) and its legal status in Central Europe	10
Influence of invasive Prosopis juliflora on the distribution and ecology of native blackbuck in protected areas of Tamil Nadu, India	10
Renewed coexistence: learning from steering group stakeholders on a beaver reintroduction project in England	10
Dog activity in protected areas: behavioral effects on mesocarnivores and the impacts of a top predator	10
Snake conservation in anthropized landscapes: considering artificial habitats and questioning management of semi-natural habitats	9
Housed in a lodge: occurrence of animal species within Eurasian beaver constructions in Central Italy	9
Surveillance and habitat diversity affect European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) density in protected breeding areas	9
Caught red handed: iDNA points to wild source for CITES-protected contraband leeches	9
Bear trade in the Czech Republic: an analysis of legal and illegal international trade from 2005 to 2020	8
Effects of a new waste collection policy on the population of yellow-legged gulls, Larus michahellis, in the historic centre of Venice (Italy)	8
Random encounter model to estimate density of mountain-dwelling ungulate	8
Red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa productivity in relation to weather, land use, and releases of farm-reared birds	8
Spatial and temporal dynamics of wild boars Sus scrofa hunted in Alpine environment	8
Beware of dogs! Domestic animals as a threat for wildlife conservation in Alpine protected areas	8
Physical capture and chemical immobilization procedures for a mammal with singular anatomy: the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)	8
Assessing trends in wolf impact on livestock through verified claims in historical vs. recent areas of occurrence in Italy	8
Invasive raccoon dog depredation on nests can have strong negative impact on the Dalmatian pelican’s breeding population in Bulgaria	8
Protocol to classify the stages of carcass decomposition and estimate the time of death in small-size raptors	8
Investigating people’s perceptions of alien parakeets in urban environments	8
Citizen science contribution to national wolf population monitoring: what have we learned?	8
Feral rabbit populations in a peri-urban area: insights about invasion dynamics and potential management strategies	8
Estimating red deer (Cervus elaphus) population size based on non-invasive genetic sampling	8
The attitude of society to the return of the wolf in South Tyrol (Italy)	7
Which bait should I use? Insights from a camera trap study in a highly diverse cerrado forest	7
Shrinking striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena Linnaeus, 1758) distribution in Nepal	7
The faded stripes of Bengal: a historical perspective on the easternmost distribution of the striped hyena	7
Ophidiomyces ophidiicola detection and infection: a global review on a potential threat to the world’s snake populations	7
Migration patterns of Swedish Greylag geese Anser anser—implications for flyway management in a changing world	7
Spatio-temporal movement patterns and habitat choice of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and racoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) along the Wadden Sea coast	7
Factors driving the distribution of an amphibian community in stormwater ponds: a study case in the agricultural plain of Bas-Rhin, France	7
The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status of the Vulnerable Ladakh urial in India	7
Brucella sp. sequence-type 27 associated with abortion in dwarf sperm whale Kogia sima	6
Seeking the least urbanized landscape: white stork nest abundance variation in a Mediterranean capital city	6
Spatio-temporal overlap of leopard and prey species in the foothills of Shiwalik, Himalaya	6
Lunar phase as a cue for migrations to two species of explosive breeding amphibians—implications for conservation	6
Insights into illegal wildlife hunting by forest guards of selected tiger reserves in Central India	6
A small cat saving food for later: caching behavior in the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris)	6
The need to consider searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in railway wildlife fatality studies	6
Enterobacteriaceae and Salmonella contamination of wild boar (Sus scrofa) carcasses: comparison between different sampling strategies	6
Diet differences between males and females in sexually dimorphic ungulates: a case study on Siberian ibex	6
Livestock displace European mouflon from optimal foraging sites	6
Effect of landscape type, elevation, vegetation period, and taxonomic plant identification level on diet preferences of Alpine mountain hares (Lepus timidus varronis)	6
Social and environmental factors influencing contemporary cases of wolf aggression towards people in Poland	6
Survival of wild and farmed-released mallards: the Swedish example	6
Potential importance of urban areas for water voles: Arvicola amphibius	6
Colonisation, impacts in conservation woodland and management of Reeves’ muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) in an English county	6
Moving from intentions to actions for collecting hunting bag statistics at the European scale: some methodological insights	6

Phenotypic and genotypic resistance to colistin in E. coli isolated from wild boar (Sus scrofa) hunted in Italy	6
The relationship between quotas and harvest in the alpine reindeer population on Hardangervidda, Norway	5
Usage of buildings in the life cycle of two endangered Rhinolophus species in the Mediterranean region: implications for roost protection	5
Edge effect in rodent populations at the border between agricultural landscapes and forests	5
Revealing the origin of wildcat reappearance after presumed long-term absence	5
The wolves are coming: understanding human controversies on the return of the wolf through the use of socio-cultural values	5
Does the American mink displace the European polecat? A need for more research on interspecific competition between invasive and native species	5
Survival, spatial behaviour and resting place selection of translocated Iberian hares Lepus granatensis in Northwestern Spain	5
Human-driven genetic differentiation in a managed red deer population	5
A long-term survey on Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in wild mammals from a bovine tuberculosis low prevalence area	5
Effects of sika deer density on the diet and population of red foxes	5
Tuning oral-bait delivery strategies for red deer in Mediterranean ecosystems	5
Life history modelling reveals trends in fitness and apparent survival of an isolated Salamandra salamandra population in an urbanised landscape	5
Tools and opportunities for African swine fever control in wild boar and feral pigs: a review	5
Mono-specific forest plantations are valuable bat habitats: implications for wind energy development	5
Challenges for recovery of large carnivores in humanized countries: attitudes and knowledge of sheep farmers towards brown bear in Western Pyrenees, Spain	5
Height and tension of electric lines: how should an electric fence be installed to effectively mitigate human-wildlife conflict?	5
Invasive non-native species in Great Britain—policy and delivery, with specific reference to Reeves’ muntjac	4
Slow and ultra-rapid freezing protocols for cryopreserving roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) epididymal sperm collected at different times of year	4
Human and environmental associates of local species-specific abundance in a multi-species deer assemblage	4
Usutu virus in blackbirds (Turdus merula) with clinical signs, a case study from northern Italy	4
Triple dermocystid-chytrid fungus-ranavirus co-infection in a Lissotriton helveticus	4
Using species distribution models to gauge the completeness of the bat checklist of Eswatini	4
Citizen science to monitor the distribution of the Egyptian mongoose in southern Spain: who provide the most reliable information?	4
First-year dispersal in white-tailed eagles Haliaeetus albicilla	4
Potential invasion range of raccoon in Iran under climate change	4
Habitat selection and density of common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) in Northern Italy: effects of land use cover and landscape configuration	4
Vertebrate diet of the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and barn owl (Tyto alba) in rain-fed crops: implications to the pest control programs	4
Long-distance dispersal and home range establishment by a female sub-adult tiger (Panthera tigris) in the Panna landscape, central India	4
Hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) in a regenerating clearing: the effects of clear-felling and regrowth thinning on long-term abundance dynamics	4
Habitat scarcity forms an ecological trap for the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) within a central European agricultural landscape	4
Anthropogenic threats drive spatio-temporal responses of wildcat on Mt. Etna	4
Functionality of two canopy bridge designs: successful trials for the endangered black lion tamarin and other arboreal species	4
Monitoring of the last stronghold of native pool frogs (Pelophylax lessonae) in Western Europe, with implications for their conservation	4
Mammalian fatalities on roads: how sampling errors affect road prioritization and dominant species influence spatiotemporal patterns	4
Insect-repelling behavior in goitered gazelles: responses to biting fly attack	4
Human-elephant conflict in West Bengal, India: present status and mitigation measures	4
Spatial and numerical responses of Red Kites Milvus milvus to the Common Vole Microtus arvalis population outbreak in central Europe	4
Reproductive parameters of female South China Tigers in captivity	4
Error in trapper-reported sex of lynx (Lynx canadensis) and wolverine (Gulo gulo): implications for analyses of harvest records	4
Temporal patterns of ungulate-vehicle collisions in a sparsely populated country	4
Patterns of visitation of the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at Amazonian mineral licks	4
Wild boar visits to commercial pig farms in southwest England: implications for disease transmission	4
Seasonal pattern in browsing trees and shrubs by reintroduced Cuvier’s gazelles: a study in Morocco with management implications	4
Increased mortality in wild tits in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in 2020 with a special focus on Suttonella ornithocola and other infectious pathogens	4
Reproductive potential of free-living wild boar in Central Europe	4
History of introduction of Reeves’ muntjac in Great Britain and ecological characteristics facilitating expansion of feral populations	4