OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Perspectives in 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Strengthening top-down strategies are also required for conservation of the Araucaria Forest	123
Considering counterfactual scenarios in conservation planning: Perspectives from a biodiverse mining area in the Atlantic Forest	46
To graze or not to graze: A core question for conservation and sustainable use of grassy ecosystems in Brazil	43
Avian assemblages associated with different grasslands managements in cattle production systems in the pampas of Argentina	42
Why is it so easy to undergo devegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado?	39
Implications of unreliable species identification methods for Neotropical deer conservation planning	36
Fire reduces taxonomic and functional diversity in Neotropical moist seasonally flooded forests	29
Conservation of forest cover in Mesoamerican biosphere reserves is associated with the increase of local non-farm occupation	23
A participatory approach to map strategic areas for conservation and restoration at a regional scale	22
Reducing negative economic and equity implications associated with conserving 30% of the planet by 2030	19
Genetics and community-based restoration can guide conservation of forest fragments for endangered primates	17
Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan	15
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	15
Thermal mismatch explains fungal disease dynamics in Brazilian frogs	14
Integrating connectivity in marine protected area design: A case study between the Philippines and Taiwan	13
A framework for identifying and integrating sociocultural and environmental elements of indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ landscape transformations	12
Declining representation of imperiled Atlantic Forest birds in community-science datasets	12
Indigenous lands and conservation units slow down non-GHG climate change in the Cerrado-Amazon ecotone	11
Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	11
Environmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest endemism region	11
Climate and land-use changes coupled with low coverage of protected areas threaten palm species in South Brazilian grasslands	11
Making the most of existing data in conservation research	10
Human density, development, and roads are the main drivers of carnivore presence in urban areas	10
Beyond patch size: The impact of regional context and habitat quality on three endangered primates	10
Bird taxonomic and functional diversity in urban settlements within a forest biome vary with the landscape matrix	10

Beyond fear: a new paradigm to manage shark recovery in Brazilian marine protected areas	9
Challenges and perspectives for the Brazilian semi-arid coast under global environmental changes	9
Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds	9
Mapping the way: identifying priority potential corridors for protected areas connectivity in Colombia	9
From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers	8
Birds in agroscapes: effects of forest cover and landscape heterogeneity on dryland bird diversity and composition	8
Passando a boiada: degazettement and downsizing threaten protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon	8
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	8
Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research	8
Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions	8
Are invasive marmosets harmful to Atlantic Forest birds?	8
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	7
Longitudinal changes on ecological diversity of Neotropical fish along a 1700 km river gradient show declines induced by dams	7
Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional responses of plant communities in different life-stages to forest cover loss	7
Brazil’s Belo Monte license renewal and the need to recognize the immense impacts of dams in Amazonia	7
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	7
Phylogenetic structure and diversity among herpetofaunal communities along a successional gradient of a tropical dry forest in Mexico	6
Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon	6
Identifying priority conservation areas for the Andean Condor in Colombia	6
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	6
Patterns of endemism in Amazonian floodplain birds	6
Determining the location of protected areas in France: Does “scientific interest” matter?	6
Habitat loss and distribution of the Ornate Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata): implications for its conservation in South American temperate grasslands	6
Maintenance of a scavenger ancient food web in insular remote areas	6
Is banning Persistent Organic Pollutants efficient? A quantitative and qualitative systematic review in bats	6
Does spring bring colors? Seasonal bird plumage color variation along urban-rural gradients	6
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	6
Long-term contamination of the Rio Doce estuary as a result of Brazil’s largest environmental disaster	5
Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide	5
The agony of choice: Species richness and range size in the determination of hotspots for the conservation of phyllostomid bats	5
Most Mexican hummingbirds lose under climate and land-use change: Long-term conservation implications	5
Drivers of phytoplankton diversity in tropical artificial ponds	5
Environmental sound as a mirror of landscape ecological integrity in monitoring programs	5
How can Brazilian legislation on native seeds advance based on good practices of restoration in other countries?	5
Legal reserves ensure alpha and beta ant diversity in highly modified agricultural landscapes	5
Matrix quality and habitat type drive the diversity pattern of forest steppe fragments	4
Female ecologists are falling from the academic ladder: A call for action	4
Identifying areas for multidimensional biodiversity conservation, with a case study in Oaxaca, Mexico	4
Divergent herb communities in drier and chronically disturbed areas of the Brazilian Caatinga	4
Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies	4
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	4
How to enhance Atlantic Forest protection? Dealing with the shortcomings of successional stages classification	4
Landscape forest loss decreases bird diversity with strong negative impacts on forest species in a mountain region	4
Combined impacts of climate and land use change and the future restructuring of Neotropical bat biodiversity	4
Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil	4
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	4
The lost road: Do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence?	4
Chronic human disturbance and environmental forces drive the regeneration mechanisms of a Caatinga dry tropical forest	4
Cat and dog predation on birds: The importance of indirect predation after bird-window collisions	4
Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	4

Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	4
Selective logging in a chronosequence of Atlantic Forest: drivers and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services	4
The underestimated global importance of plant belowground coarse organs in open biomes for ecosystem functioning and conservation	4
Does agricultural intensification impact pest regulation service by frogs in a natural multi-trophic system?	3
EcoLand: A multiscale niche modelling framework to improve predictions on biodiversity and conservation	3
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	3
The São Paulo State (Brazil) Ecological Fiscal Transfer: Distributive and environmental effects	3
Mapping the threat: projecting invasive plant distribution in the tropical Andes under climate change	3
Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot	3
Large-scale variations of raptor communities in urban green spaces of neotropical cities	3
Assessing the contribution of local experts in monitoring Neotropical vertebrates with camera traps, linear transects and track and sign surveys in the Amazon	3
Microevolutionary Perspectives for Conserving Plant Diversity in South Brazilian Grasslands (Campos Sulinos)	3
The Protected Areas network may be insufficient to protect bird diversity in a fragmented tropical hotspot under different climate scenarios	3
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	3
Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring	3
Neglected diversity of crop pollinators: Lessons from the world’s largest tropical country	3
Global change explains the neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Serpentes: Viperidae) range expansion in South America	3
Future-proofing the Key Biodiversity Areas framework	3
Differential effects of fire on the occupancy of small mammals in neotropical savanna-gallery forests	2
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	2
Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach	2
Climate-driven loss of taxonomic and functional richness in Brazilian Atlantic Forest anurans	2
Estimating mammal density from track counts collected by Indigenous Amazonian hunters	2
Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes	2
Edges as hotspots and drivers of forest cover change in a tropical landscape	2
Trends and biases in research efforts for primate conservation: threatened species are not in the spotlight	2
Amazon climate extremes: Increasing droughts and floods in Brazil’s state of Acre	2
Jaguar at the Edge: movement patterns in human-altered landscapes	2
Shade coffee plantations favor specialization, decrease robustness and increase foraging in hummingbird-plant networks	2
Are narrow-ranging species doomed to extinction? Projected dramatic decline in future climate suitability of two highly threatened species	2
Connectivity and policy confluences: a multi-scalar conservation approach for protecting Amazon riverine ecosystems	2
Bird Conservation in Brazil: Challenges and practical solutions for a key megadiverse country	2
Fire and flood: How the Pantanal ant communities respond to multiple disturbances?	2
AMACRO: the newer Amazonia deforestation hotspot and a potential setback for Brazilian agriculture	2
Optimizing survey effort for Euglossine bees in tropical forests	2
Enhancing climate change resilience of ecological restoration — A framework for action	2
Out of sight, out of mind: Phylogenetic and taxonomic gaps imply great underestimations of the species’ vulnerability to global climate change	2
Factors influencing bat road casualties in a Neotropical savanna	2
Phylogenetic clustering of tree communities decreases with stand age and environmental quality along a mineland rehabilitation chronosequence	2
Protection status and density-dependent effects mediate the abundance-suitability relationship of a threatened species	2
Power lines and birds: An overlooked threat in South America	2
Long-term persistence of the large mammal lowland tapir is at risk in the largest Atlantic forest corridor	2
How do patch burnings affect ant communities and seed removal in a subtropical grassland?	2
Climate change and biological invasion as additional threats to an imperiled palm	2
The conservation potential of road verges in the savannas of Brazil: Challenges and opportunities	2