Global Ecology and Conservation

Papers
(The median citation count of Global Ecology 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
New Silk Road infrastructure opportunities in developing tourism environment for residents better quality of life110
The threat of invasive species to IUCN-listed critically endangered species: A systematic review104
Scientists’ warning – The outstanding biodiversity of islands is in peril94
Ecological security pattern: A new idea for balancing regional development and ecological protection. A case study of the Jiaodong Peninsula, China85
Factors affecting success of conservation translocations of terrestrial vertebrates: A global systematic review50
Mapping human‒wildlife conflict hotspots in a transboundary landscape, Eastern Himalaya39
Anthropogenic drivers of soil microbial communities and impacts on soil biological functions in agroecosystems35
CITES and beyond: Illuminating 20 years of global, legal wildlife trade34
Urbanization driving changes in plant species and communities – A global view31
A conservation genomics workflow to guide practical management actions30
Linking landscape pattern, ecosystem service value, and human well-being in Xishuangbanna, southwest China: Insights from a coupling coordination model29
Terrain gradient variations in the ecosystem services value of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China29
Users of a citizen science platform for bird data collection differ from other birdwatchers in knowledge and degree of specialization29
Deforestation on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the loss of primate habitat29
Species diversity of woody vegetation along altitudinal gradient of the Western Himalayas28
Assessing the economic impact of COVID-19 on the private wildlife industry of South Africa28
NDVI-based vegetation dynamics and its resistance and resilience to different intensities of climatic events28
Soil conservation service underpins sustainable development goals26
Effects of legalization and wildlife farming on conservation26
Study on Taiwania cryptomerioides under climate change: MaxEnt modeling for predicting the potential geographical distribution26
Ultrasonic acoustic deterrents significantly reduce bat fatalities at wind turbines26
Synergistic benefits of conserving land-sea ecosystems26
Marine artificial reefs, a meta-analysis of their design, objectives and effectiveness25
On-farm experiences shape farmer knowledge, perceptions of pollinators, and management practices24
Labile organic carbon fractions drive soil microbial communities after long-term fertilization24
Global trade in parrots – Influential factors of trade and implications for conservation23
Effects of the interaction between biochar and nutrients on soil organic carbon sequestration in soda saline-alkali grassland: A review23
An expert-based assessment of global threats and conservation measures for spiders23
Understanding global spatio-temporal trends and the relationship between vegetation greenness and climate factors by land cover during 1982–201422
Warning on nine pollutants and their effects on avian communities22
The fate of biological soil crusts after fire: A meta-analysis22
Large carnivore response to human road use suggests a landscape of coexistence22
Getting the ‘most out of the hotspot’ for practical conservation of groundwater biodiversity22
Nesting range expansion of loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean: Phenology, spatial distribution, and conservation implications22
Long-term grazing removal increased invasion and reduced native plant abundance and diversity in a sagebrush grassland22
Changes in the understory diversity of secondary Pinus tabulaeformis forests are the result of stand density and soil properties21
Connection to nature is predicted by family values, social norms and personal experiences of nature21
Analysis of genetic diversity and population structure in endangered Populus wulianensis based on 18 newly developed EST-SSR markers21
Will climate change impact distribution of bats in Nepal Himalayas? A case study of five species21
Valuing ecosystem services of Sundarbans Mangrove forest: Approach of choice experiment21
Modeling environmentally responsible behaviors among rural women in the forested regions in Iran21
Vegetation responses to climate change in the Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve, Northwest China21
Use of object detection in camera trap image identification: Assessing a method to rapidly and accurately classify human and animal detections for research and application in recreation ecology21
Using geolocator tracking data and ringing archives to validate citizen-science based seasonal predictions of bird distribution in a data-poor region21
The extent and effectiveness of protected areas in the UK20
Diversity, distribution and drivers of alien flora in the Indian Himalayan region20
Fecal microbiota transplantation provides new insight into wildlife conservation20
Are well-studied marine biodiversity hotspots still blackspots for animal barcoding?20
Factors influencing ranchers’ intentions to conserve rangelands through an extended theory of planned behavior20
Satellite derived coastal reclamation expansion in China since the 21st century20
An analysis of communities’ attitudes towards wetlands and implications for sustainability20
Development and evaluation of the soil water balance model in an inland arid delta oasis: Implications for sustainable groundwater resource management20
Determination of heavy metal tolerance threshold in a bamboo species (Arundinaria pygmaea) as treated with silicon dioxide nanoparticles19
Geodiversity underpins biodiversity but the relations can be complex: Implications from two biodiversity proxies19
Predicting the future redistribution of Chinese white pine Pinus armandii Franch. Under climate change scenarios in China using species distribution models19
Sustainability assessment of tourism in protected areas: A relational perspective19
Contributions of climate change and human activities to vegetation dynamics in Qilian Mountain National Park, northwest China19
Predicting human-carnivore conflict at the urban-wildland interface19
Precipitation dominants synergies and trade-offs among ecosystem services across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau19
Trade-offs and synergies in ecosystem service values of inland lake wetlands in Central Asia under land use/cover change: A case study on Ebinur Lake, China18
Forest stand structure and coarse woody debris determine the biodiversity of beetle communities in Mediterranean mountain beech forests18
Designing a path for the sustainable development of key ecological function zones: A case study of southwest China18
Relationship between extreme climate indices and spatiotemporal changes of vegetation on Yunnan Plateau from 1982 to 201918
The effects of degradation on alpine grassland resilience: A study based on meta-analysis data18
Seasonal dynamics of gut microbiota in a cohort of wild Tibetan macaques (Macaca thibetana) in western China18
The effects of afforestation tree species mixing on soil organic carbon stock, nutrients accumulation, and understory vegetation diversity on reclaimed coastal lands in Eastern China17
Cost-benefit analysis of ecological restoration based on land use scenario simulation and ecosystem service on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau17
Patterns of soil microorganisms and enzymatic activities of various forest types in coastal sandy land17
Potential geographical distribution of the edangred plant Isoetes under human activities using MaxEnt and GARP17
Comparison of methods for estimating density and population trends for low-density Asian bears17
The importance of genetic diversity for the translocation of eight threatened plant species into the wild17
Response of bacterial communities to variation in water quality and physicochemical conditions in a river-reservoir system17
Built-up areas within and around protected areas: Global patterns and 40-year trends17
Conservation of carnivorous plants in the age of extinction17
Bat activity patterns relative to temporal and weather effects in a temperate coastal environment17
Net primary production increases in the Yangtze River Basin within the latest two decades17
Environmental filtration and dispersal limitation explain different aspects of beta diversity in desert plant communities16
Mapping Asia Plants: Current status of floristic information for Central Asian flora16
Island ecosystem evaluation and sustainable development strategies: A case study of the Zhoushan Archipelago16
Leaf functional traits of dominant desert plants in the Hexi Corridor, Northwestern China: Trade-off relationships and adversity strategies16
Species richness patterns of vascular plants and their drivers along an elevational gradient in the central Himalayas16
Leaf litter carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus stoichiometry of Chinese fir (Cunninghamia lanceolata) across China16
Composition, seasonal variation, and salinization characteristics of soil salinity in the Chenier Island of the Yellow River Delta16
Multi-decadal land cover change analysis over Sundarbans Mangrove Forest of Bangladesh: A GIS and remote sensing based approach16
A global review of beaver dam impacts: Stream conservation implications across biomes16
-Impact of multiple environmental factors on species abundance in various forest layers using an integrative modeling approach16
Area-based conservation planning in Japan: The importance of OECMs in the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework16
Men and wolves: Anthropogenic causes are an important driver of wolf mortality in human-dominated landscapes in Italy16
Grazing by over-abundant native herbivores jeopardizes conservation goals in semi-arid reserves15
Promotion of adopting preventive behavioral intention toward biodiversity degradation among Iranian farmers15
Increasing soil organic carbon and nitrogen stocks along with secondary forest succession in permafrost region of the Daxing’an mountains, northeast China15
Deforestation in forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana: Boabeng-Fiema monkey sanctuary15
Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in a changing landscape and warming climate: A decadal synthesis of global conservation ecology research15
Potential changes in the distributions of Near Eastern fire salamander (Salamandra infraimmaculata) in response to historical, recent and future climate change in the Near and Middle East: Implication15
On the tiger trails: Leopard occupancy decline and leopard interaction with tigers in the forested habitat across the Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal15
Africa’s drylands in a changing world: Challenges for wildlife conservation under climate and land-use changes in the Greater Etosha Landscape15
Prediction of the potential distribution of the predatory mite Neoseiulus californicus McGregor in China using MaxEnt15
Effects of a broadleaf-oriented transformation of coniferous plantations on the hydrological characteristics of litter layers in subtropical China15
Future of Asian horseshoe crab conservation under explicit baseline gaps: A global perspective15
Wolves without borders: Transboundary survival of wolves in Banff National Park over three decades15
A global review on the role of small rodents and lagomorphs (clade Glires) in seed dispersal and plant establishment15
Changes of leaf functional traits in karst rocky desertification ecological environment and the driving factors15
Large discrepancies of global greening: Indication of multi-source remote sensing data15
Potential role of common mycorrhizal networks in improving plant growth and soil physicochemical properties under varying nitrogen levels in a grassland ecosystem15
Butterflies are weakly protected in a mega-populated country, Bangladesh15
Effects of vegetation structure on avian biodiversity in a selectively logged hill dipterocarp forest15
Best practices for reporting individual identification using camera trap photographs15
An eDNA diagnostic test to detect a rare, secretive marsh bird15
Ensembpecies distribution modeling of Salvia hydrangea under future climate change scenarios in Central Zagros Mountains, Iran15
A multi-scale Maxent approach to model habitat suitability for the giant pandas in the Qionglai mountain, China14
Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic beta diversity in the Inner Mongolia grassland14
Effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on soil pH in grassland regions on the Tibetan Plateau14
Unwanted residential wildlife: Evaluating social-ecological patterns for snake removals14
Herders' aversion to wildlife population increases in grassland ecosystem conservation: Evidence from a choice experiment study14
Does water diversion project deteriorate the water quality of reservoir and downstream? A case-study in Danjiangkou reservoir14
Response of plant traits of Stipa breviflora to grazing intensity and fluctuation in annual precipitation in a desert steppe, northern China14
Biotic interactions govern the distribution of coexisting ungulates in the Arctic Archipelago – A case for conservation planning14
Effects of ecological restoration measures on vegetation and soil properties in semi-humid sandy land on the southeast Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China14
Pan-India population genetics signifies the importance of habitat connectivity for wild Asian elephant conservation14
Gap analysis of Indonesian priority medicinal plant species as part of their conservation planning14
Decline in forest bird species and guilds due to land use change in the Western Himalaya14
Spatial distribution, source identification, and risk assessment of heavy metals in the cultivated soil of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau region: Case study on Huzhu County14
Assessment of the soil protection function of forest ecosystems using GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: A case study in Adıyaman, Turkey14
Stingless bee floral visitation in the global tropics and subtropics14
Effects of climate change and human activities on net primary production of wetlands on the Zoige Plateau from 1990 to 201514
Status of deforestation of Madagascar14
Future projections for terrestrial biomes indicate widespread warming and moisture reduction in forests up to 2100 in South America14
Multiple environmental factors and prey depletion determine declines in abundance and timing of departure in migratory shorebirds in the west coast of India14
Quantitative analysis of relative impacts of climate change and human activities on Xilingol grassland in recent 40 years14
The construction of green infrastructure network in the perspectives of ecosystem services and ecological sensitivity: The case of Harbin, China14
Species distribution models for conservation: Identifying translocation sites for eastern quolls under climate change13
Climate change projections suggest severe decreases in the geographic ranges of bird species restricted to Mexican humid mountain forests13
Current extent, temporal trends, and rates of gully erosion in the Gumara watershed, Northwestern Ethiopia13
Habitat suitability models for the imperiled wood turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) raise concerns for the species’ persistence under future climate change13
Insights into the composition of gut microbiota in response to environmental temperature: The case of the Mongolia racerunner (Eremias argus)13
Vegetation dynamics and their response to hydrothermal conditions in Inner Mongolia, China13
Pre-release training, predator interactions and evidence for persistence of anti-predator behavior in reintroduced `alalā, Hawaiian crow13
Turnover-driven loss of forest-dependent species changes avian species richness, functional diversity, and community composition in Andean forest fragments13
Pygmy blue whale movement, distribution and important areas in the Eastern Indian Ocean13
A Scientist’s Warning to humanity on human population growth13
Bioaccumulation of the pesticide imidacloprid in stream organisms and sublethal effects on salamanders13
Effects of climate and grazing on the soil organic carbon dynamics of the grasslands in Northern Xinjiang during the past twenty years13
Biodiversity conservation in the sacred groves of north-west Ethiopia: diversity and community structure of woody species13
Climate change impact on medicinal plants in Indonesia13
Ecological correlates of large carnivore depredation on sheep in Europe13
Analysis of the time-lag effects of climate factors on grassland productivity in Inner Mongolia13
Human-olive baboon (Papio anubis) conflict in the human-modified landscape, Wollo, Ethiopia13
Habitat connectivity for endangered Indochinese tigers in Thailand13
The road less traveled: Addressing reproducibility and conservation priorities of wildlife-vehicle collision studies in tropical and subtropical regions13
Identifying the spatial drivers of net primary productivity: A case study in the Bailong River Basin, China13
Enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition triggered little change in soil microbial diversity and structure in a desert ecosystem13
Population density of sitatunga in riverine wetland habitats13
Niche differentiation is the underlying mechanism maintaining the relationship between community diversity and stability under grazing pressure13
Metapopulation management of a critically endangered marsupial in the age of genomics12
Precipitation drives the floristic composition and diversity of temperate grasslands in China12
Habitat estimates reveal that there are fewer than 400 Guizhou snub-nosed monkeys, Rhinopithecus brelichi, remaining in the wild12
Responses of palatable plants to climate and grazing in semi-arid grasslands of Mongolia12
Continuous growth of human footprint risks compromising the benefits of protected areas on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau12
Genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered plant Salix taishanensis based on CDDP markers12
Global progress in climate change and biodiversity conservation research12
Modified hydrological regime from the Three Gorges Dam increases the risk of food shortages for wintering waterbirds in Poyang Lake12
Effects of heavy metals on moss diversity and analysis of moss indicator species in Nancha manganese mining area, Southwestern China12
Aboveground tree carbon stocks in West African semi-arid ecosystems: Dominance patterns, size class allocation and structural drivers12
Declining recruitment and mass of Swedish moose calves linked to hot, dry springs and snowy winters12
Comparative study of desertification control policies and regulations in representative countries of the Belt and Road Initiative12
Going west: Range expansion for loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea under climate change12
A global synthesis of fire effects on soil seed banks12
Spatiotemporal differentiation and geographic detection mechanism of ecological security in Chongqing, China12
Pattern and distribution of human-elephant conflicts in three conflict-prone landscapes in Myanmar12
Roads reduce amphibian abundance in ponds across a fragmented landscape12
Natural habitat partially mitigates negative pesticide effects on tropical pollinator communities12
Multi-taxa environmental DNA inventories reveal distinct taxonomic and functional diversity in urban tropical forest fragments12
Patterns of livestock predation risk by large carnivores in India’s Eastern and Western Ghats12
Noisy neighbors and reticent residents: Distinguishing resident from non-resident individuals to improve passive acoustic monitoring12
Otter research in Asia: Trends, biases and future directions12
Where wildlife and traffic collide: Roadkill rates change through time in a wildlife-tourism hotspot12
Different response of alpine meadow and alpine steppe to climatic and anthropogenic disturbance on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau12
Wind turbines without curtailment produce large numbers of bat fatalities throughout their lifetime: A call against ignorance and neglect12
Citizen science rapidly delivers extensive distribution data for birds in a key tropical biodiversity area12
Identifying variable changes in wetlands and their anthropogenic threats bordering the Yellow Sea for water bird conservation12
Forest degradation impacts firewood consumption patterns: A case study in the buffer zone of Inlay Lake Biosphere Reserve, Myanmar11
Scaling up local ecological knowledge to prioritise areas for protection: Determining Philippine pangolin distribution, status and threats11
Genetic diversity, population structure, and evolutionary relationships within a taxonomically complex group revealed by AFLP markers: A case study on Fritillaria cirrhosa D. Don and closely related s11
Ranger survey reveals conservation issues across Protected and outside Protected Areas in southern India11
Impacts of climate change on predicted habitat suitability and distribution of Djaffa Mountains Guereza (Colobus guereza gallarum, Neumann 1902) using MaxEnt algorithm in Eastern Ethiopian Highland11
Effects of urban agglomeration and expansion on landscape connectivity in the river valley region, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau11
Threatened fish spawning area revealed by specific metabarcoding identification of eggs and larvae in the Beni River, upper Amazon11
Evaluation of MPA designs that protect highly mobile megafauna now and under climate change scenarios11
Old ginkgo trees in China:Distribution, determinants and implications for conservation11
River-groundwater interaction affected species composition and diversity perpendicular to a regulated river in an arid riparian zone11
Compositional attributes of invaded forests drive the diversity of insect functional groups11
Compositional and structural changes in soil microbial communities in response to straw mulching and plant revegetation in an abandoned artificial pasture in Northeast China11
The use of drone-based aerial photogrammetry in population monitoring of Southern Giant Petrels in ASMA 1, King George Island, maritime Antarctica11
Human-caused mortality of large carnivores in Iran during 1980–202111
Habitat-dependent outdoor recreation and conservation organizations can enable recreational fishers to contribute to conservation of coastal marine ecosystems11
Carbon sequestration of sand-fixing plantation of Haloxylon ammodendron in Shiyang River Basin: Storage, rate and potential11
Can tea support biodiversity with a few “nudges” in management: Evidence from tea growing landscapes around the world11
Urbanization shapes bird communities and nest survival, but not their food quantity11
Future global conflict risk hotspots between biodiversity conservation and food security: 10 countries and 7 Biodiversity Hotspots11
Land conversion from cropland to grassland alleviates climate warming effects on nutrient limitation: Evidence from soil enzymatic activity and stoichiometry11
Determinants of forest dependent household’s participation in payment for ecosystem services: Evidence from Plantation Establishment Livelihood Improvement Scheme (PELIS) in Kenya11
Identifying human-caused mortality hotspots to inform human-wildlife conflict mitigation11
Dissolved organic carbon enhances both soil N2O production and uptake11
Geographic detector-based quantitative assessment enhances attribution analysis of climate and topography factors to vegetation variation for spatial heterogeneity and coupling11
Mixed nitrogen form addition facilitates the growth adaptation of legume plant to heavy metal contamination in degraded mining areas11
Avian ecology and community structure across elevation gradients: The importance of high latitude temperate mountain habitats for conserving biodiversity in the Americas11
Integrating multiple aspects of human–elephant conflict management in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve, Vietnam11
Low genetic diversity and population differentiation in Thuja sutchuenensis Franch., an extremely endangered rediscovered conifer species in southwestern China11
Konik, Tarpan, European wild horse: An origin story with conservation implications11
Carcasses attract invasive species and increase artificial nest predation in a desert environment11
Understanding patterns of taxonomic diversity, functional diversity, and ecological drivers of fish fauna in the Mekong River11
Warming alters elevation distributions of soil bacterial and fungal communities in alpine grasslands11
Extent change of protected mangrove forest and its relation to wave power exposure on Aldabra Atoll10
Of irrigation canals and multifunctional agroforestry: Traditional agriculture facilitates Woolly-necked Stork breeding in a north Indian agricultural landscape10
A review of conservation-related benefit-sharing mechanisms in Tanzania10
Genomic sequencing confirms absence of introgression despite past hybridisation between a critically endangered bird and its common congener10
Temporal dynamics of human-polar bear conflicts in Churchill, Manitoba10
Individual and synergistic effects of habitat loss and roads on reptile occupancy10
Ecological niche modelling for the conservation of endemic threatened squamates (lizards and snakes) in the Western Ghats10
Testing climate tracking of montane rodent distributions over the past century within the Great Basin ecoregion10
Predicted regime shift in the seagrass ecosystem of the Gulf of Arguin driven by climate change10
Evaluating the dynamics of grassland net primary productivity in response to climate change in China10
Assessment of endemic northern swamp deer (Rucervus duvaucelii duvaucelii) distribution and identification of priority conservation areas through modeling and field surveys across north India10
Aboveground carbon stocks in Madagascar’s vanilla production landscape – exploring rehabilitation through agroforestry in the light of land-use history10
Estimation of alpine grassland above-ground biomass and its response to climate on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau during 2001 to 201910
Effects of weed biodiversity on the ecosystem service of weed seed predation along a farming intensity gradient10
Changes in plant communities, soil characteristics, and microbial communities in alpine meadows degraded to different degrees by pika on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau10
Fragment connectivity shapes bird communities through functional trait filtering in two types of grasslands10
Aboveground biomass in secondary montane forests in Peru: Slow carbon recovery in agroforestry legacies10
Using UAVs to assess the relationship between alpine meadow bare patches and disturbance by pikas in the source region of Yellow River on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau10
Successful neighbour: Interactions of the generalist carnivore red fox with dogs, wolves and humans for continued survival in dynamic anthropogenic landscapes10
Patterns of human interaction with snow leopard and co-predators in the Mongolian western Altai: Current issues and perspectives10
Identifying threats from introduced and translocated non-native freshwater fishes in Croatia and Slovenia under current and future climatic conditions10
Investigating local concerns regarding large mammal restoration: group size in a growing population of reintroduced bison (Bison bison)10
Characterising potential participants in kelp monitoring in the recreational diving community: A comparative study of South Africa and New Zealand10
Species differences in temporal response to urbanization alters predator-prey and human overlap in northern Utah10
Mid-Pleistocene Transition as a trigger for diversification in the Irano-Anatolian region: Evidence revealed by phylogeography and distribution pattern of the eastern three-lined lizard10
Predicting the probable impact of climate change on the distribution of threatened Shorea robusta forest in Purbachal, Bangladesh10
Quantifying the impacts of Australian bushfires on native forests and gray-headed flying foxes10
Environmental DNA analysis indicates that migration barriers are decreasing the occurrence of European eel (Anguilla anguilla) in distance from the sea10
Comparative impacts of grazing and mowing on the floristics of grasslands in the buffer zone of Polesie National Park, eastern Poland10
Modeling current and future species distribution of breeding birds as regional essential biodiversity variables (SD EBVs): A bird perspective in Swiss Alps10
Impacts of invasive alien plants on ecosystem services of Ramsar lake cluster in middle mountain Nepal10
A non-destructive method for rapid acquisition of grassland aboveground biomass for satellite ground verification using UAV RGB images10
25 years of light-induced petrel groundings in Reunion Island: Retrospective analysis and predicted trends10
The occupancy-abundance relationship and sampling designs using occupancy to monitor populations of Asian bears10
Reintroduction, distribution, population dynamics and conservation of a species formerly extinct in the wild: A review of thirty-five years of successful Milu (Elaphurus davidianus) reintroduction in 10
How can Iranian farmers’ attitudes toward environmental conservation be influenced?10
Barriers against invasive crayfish species in natural waters and fish passes - Practical experience10
Informal learning in nature education promotes ecological conservation behaviors of nature reserve employees—A preliminary study in China10
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