OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies	96
Opportunities and challenges of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) for biodiversity conservation	37
The lost road: Do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence?	35
Enhancing climate change resilience of ecological restoration — A framework for action	32
Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest	28
Biological invasions are as costly as natural hazards	27
Landscape ecology in the Anthropocene: an overview for integrating agroecosystems and biodiversity conservation	21
Long-term contamination of the Rio Doce estuary as a result of Brazil’s largest environmental disaster	21
Climate change threatens the woody plant taxonomic and functional diversities of the Restinga vegetation in Brazil	19
Challenges and perspectives for the Brazilian semi-arid coast under global environmental changes	18
The importance of Indigenous Territories for conserving bat diversity across the Amazon biome	16
The emergence of a new deforestation hotspot in Amazonia	16
Are narrow-ranging species doomed to extinction? Projected dramatic decline in future climate suitability of two highly threatened species	14
Species distribution model reveals only highly fragmented suitable patches remaining for giant armadillo in the Brazilian Cerrado	13
To graze or not to graze: A core question for conservation and sustainable use of grassy ecosystems in Brazil	13
Climate change will reduce the potential distribution ranges of Colombia’s most valuable pollinators	13
EcoLand: A multiscale niche modelling framework to improve predictions on biodiversity and conservation	12
Combined impacts of climate and land use change and the future restructuring of Neotropical bat biodiversity	12
Differential effects of fire on the occupancy of small mammals in neotropical savanna-gallery forests	12
Cerrado wetlands: multiple ecosystems deserving legal protection as a unique and irreplaceable treasure	11
Collaborative management as a way to enhance Araucaria Forest resilience	11
Environmental sound as a mirror of landscape ecological integrity in monitoring programs	11
Global South leadership towards inclusive tropical ecology and conservation	11
Bird Conservation in Brazil: Challenges and practical solutions for a key megadiverse country	10
Expected impacts of climate change on tree ferns distribution and diversity patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forest	10

Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan	9
The underestimated role of small fragments for carnivore dispersal in the Atlantic Forest	9
Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research	9
Most Mexican hummingbirds lose under climate and land-use change: Long-term conservation implications	9
Optimal references for ecological restoration: the need to protect references in the tropics	8
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	8
Does patch quality drive arboreal mammal assemblages in fragmented rainforests?	8
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	8
Female ecologists are falling from the academic ladder: A call for action	8
Climate and land-use changes coupled with low coverage of protected areas threaten palm species in South Brazilian grasslands	8
Divergent herb communities in drier and chronically disturbed areas of the Brazilian Caatinga	7
Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot	7
Environmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest endemism region	7
Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil	6
Legislation and pollination: Recommendations for policymakers and scientists	6
Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring	6
Landscape forest loss decreases bird diversity with strong negative impacts on forest species in a mountain region	6
Functional trait perspective on suitable habitat distribution of invasive plant species at a global scale	6
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	6
A framework for identifying and integrating sociocultural and environmental elements of indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ landscape transformations	6
Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean	5
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	5
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	5
Global biogeographical patterns of ants and their abiotic determinants	5
Assessing the impact of roadkill on the persistence of wildlife populations: A case study on the giant anteater	5
Predicting the invasion of the acoustic niche: Potential distribution and call transmission efficiency of a newly introduced frog in Cuba	5
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	5
How effective are conservation areas to preserve biodiversity in Mexico?	5
Effects of habitat loss on Brazilian primates: assessing extinction thresholds in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest	5
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	5
Cat and dog predation on birds: The importance of indirect predation after bird-window collisions	4
Implications of unreliable species identification methods for Neotropical deer conservation planning	4
COVID-19 pandemic as a learning path for grounding conservation policies in science	4
The effects of natural forest and eucalyptus plantations on seven water-related ecosystem services in Cerrado landscapes	4
Fire and flood: How the Pantanal ant communities respond to multiple disturbances?	4
Selective logging in a chronosequence of Atlantic Forest: drivers and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services	4
Neglected diversity of crop pollinators: Lessons from the world’s largest tropical country	4
Matrix quality and habitat type drive the diversity pattern of forest steppe fragments	4
Avian assemblages associated with different grasslands managements in cattle production systems in the pampas of Argentina	4
Intraspecific variation of invaded pollination networks – the role of pollen-transport, pollen-transfer and different levels of biological organization	4
Free-roaming domestic cats near conservation areas in Chile: Spatial movements, human care and risks for wildlife	4
Long-term persistence of the large mammal lowland tapir is at risk in the largest Atlantic forest corridor	4
Management of vampire bats and rabies: a precaution for rewilding projects in the Neotropics	4
Phylogenetic structure and diversity among herpetofaunal communities along a successional gradient of a tropical dry forest in Mexico	4
Integrating socio-ecological information to address human–top predator conflicts: the case of an endangered eagle in the eastern Andes of Colombia	4
Are invasive marmosets harmful to Atlantic Forest birds?	4
Effectiveness of community-based monitoring projects of terrestrial game fauna in the tropics: a global review	4
A call for improving the Key Biodiversity Areas framework	4
Assessing the conservation of eastern Ecuadorian cloud forests in climate change scenarios	4
Ecosystem services delivered by Brazilian mammals: spatial and taxonomic patterns and comprehensive list of species	4

Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	4
Legal reserves ensure alpha and beta ant diversity in highly modified agricultural landscapes	4
Plant diversity conservation in highly deforested landscapes of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	3
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	3
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	3
No relationship between biodiversity and forest carbon sink across the subtropical Brazilian Atlantic Forest	3
Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds	3
Climate change and biological invasion as additional threats to an imperiled palm	3
Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes	3
Does spring bring colors? Seasonal bird plumage color variation along urban-rural gradients	3
Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide	3
Environmental diversity as a reliable surrogacy strategy of marine biodiversity: A case study of marine mammals	3
Beyond patch size: The impact of regional context and habitat quality on three endangered primates	3
Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	3
Determining the location of protected areas in France: Does “scientific interest” matter?	3
Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon	3
Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon	3