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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Thermal mismatch explains fungal disease dynamics in Brazilian frogs	104
Strengthening top-down strategies are also required for conservation of the Araucaria Forest	37
Challenges and perspectives for the Brazilian semi-arid coast under global environmental changes	37
Considering counterfactual scenarios in conservation planning: Perspectives from a biodiverse mining area in the Atlantic Forest	33
To graze or not to graze: A core question for conservation and sustainable use of grassy ecosystems in Brazil	32
A framework for identifying and integrating sociocultural and environmental elements of indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ landscape transformations	30
Fire reduces taxonomic and functional diversity in Neotropical moist seasonally flooded forests	21
Conservation of forest cover in Mesoamerican biosphere reserves is associated with the increase of local non-farm occupation	18
A participatory approach to map strategic areas for conservation and restoration at a regional scale	15
Climate and land-use changes coupled with low coverage of protected areas threaten palm species in South Brazilian grasslands	14
Reducing negative economic and equity implications associated with conserving 30% of the planet by 2030	13
Beyond fear: a new paradigm to manage shark recovery in Brazilian marine protected areas	13
Genetics and community-based restoration can guide conservation of forest fragments for endangered primates	12
Implications of unreliable species identification methods for Neotropical deer conservation planning	12
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	12
Beyond patch size: The impact of regional context and habitat quality on three endangered primates	11
Environmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest endemism region	11
Are invasive marmosets harmful to Atlantic Forest birds?	11
Bird taxonomic and functional diversity in urban settlements within a forest biome vary with the landscape matrix	10
Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions	10
Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds	9
Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research	9
Avian assemblages associated with different grasslands managements in cattle production systems in the pampas of Argentina	9
Making the most of existing data in conservation research	8
Indigenous lands and conservation units slow down non-GHG climate change in the Cerrado-Amazon ecotone	8

Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan	8
Mapping the way: identifying priority potential corridors for protected areas connectivity in Colombia	8
Why is it so easy to undergo devegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado?	8
Integrating connectivity in marine protected area design: A case study between the Philippines and Taiwan	8
Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	7
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	7
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	6
Declining representation of imperiled Atlantic Forest birds in community-science datasets	6
Taxonomic, phylogenetic and functional responses of plant communities in different life-stages to forest cover loss	6
Matrix quality and habitat type drive the diversity pattern of forest steppe fragments	6
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	6
Human density, development, and roads are the main drivers of carnivore presence in urban areas	6
Cat and dog predation on birds: The importance of indirect predation after bird-window collisions	5
Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide	5
How to enhance Atlantic Forest protection? Dealing with the shortcomings of successional stages classification	5
The underestimated global importance of plant belowground coarse organs in open biomes for ecosystem functioning and conservation	5
Brazil’s Belo Monte license renewal and the need to recognize the immense impacts of dams in Amazonia	5
Female ecologists are falling from the academic ladder: A call for action	5
The agony of choice: Species richness and range size in the determination of hotspots for the conservation of phyllostomid bats	5
Longitudinal changes on ecological diversity of Neotropical fish along a 1700 km river gradient show declines induced by dams	5
The lost road: Do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence?	5
Does spring bring colors? Seasonal bird plumage color variation along urban-rural gradients	4
Maintenance of a scavenger ancient food web in insular remote areas	4
Identifying priority conservation areas for the Andean Condor in Colombia	4
How can Brazilian legislation on native seeds advance based on good practices of restoration in other countries?	4
Long-term contamination of the Rio Doce estuary as a result of Brazil’s largest environmental disaster	4
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	4
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	4
Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon	4
Legal reserves ensure alpha and beta ant diversity in highly modified agricultural landscapes	4
Phylogenetic structure and diversity among herpetofaunal communities along a successional gradient of a tropical dry forest in Mexico	4
Patterns of endemism in Amazonian floodplain birds	4
Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies	4
Combined impacts of climate and land use change and the future restructuring of Neotropical bat biodiversity	4
Environmental sound as a mirror of landscape ecological integrity in monitoring programs	4
Determining the location of protected areas in France: Does “scientific interest” matter?	4
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	4
Drivers of phytoplankton diversity in tropical artificial ponds	4
Chronic human disturbance and environmental forces drive the regeneration mechanisms of a Caatinga dry tropical forest	4
Is banning Persistent Organic Pollutants efficient? A quantitative and qualitative systematic review in bats	4
The São Paulo State (Brazil) Ecological Fiscal Transfer: Distributive and environmental effects	4
Most Mexican hummingbirds lose under climate and land-use change: Long-term conservation implications	4
Habitat loss and distribution of the Ornate Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata): implications for its conservation in South American temperate grasslands	4
Landscape forest loss decreases bird diversity with strong negative impacts on forest species in a mountain region	4
Does agricultural intensification impact pest regulation service by frogs in a natural multi-trophic system?	3
Large-scale variations of raptor communities in urban green spaces of neotropical cities	3
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	3
Are narrow-ranging species doomed to extinction? Projected dramatic decline in future climate suitability of two highly threatened species	3
Neglected diversity of crop pollinators: Lessons from the world’s largest tropical country	3
Out of sight, out of mind: Phylogenetic and taxonomic gaps imply great underestimations of the species’ vulnerability to global climate change	3

Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	3
Enhancing climate change resilience of ecological restoration — A framework for action	3
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	3
The Protected Areas network may be insufficient to protect bird diversity in a fragmented tropical hotspot under different climate scenarios	3
EcoLand: A multiscale niche modelling framework to improve predictions on biodiversity and conservation	3
Identifying areas for multidimensional biodiversity conservation, with a case study in Oaxaca, Mexico	3
Connectivity and policy confluences: a multi-scalar conservation approach for protecting Amazon riverine ecosystems	2
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	2
Jaguar at the Edge: movement patterns in human-altered landscapes	2
Divergent herb communities in drier and chronically disturbed areas of the Brazilian Caatinga	2
Differential effects of fire on the occupancy of small mammals in neotropical savanna-gallery forests	2
Future-proofing the Key Biodiversity Areas framework	2
Global change explains the neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Serpentes: Viperidae) range expansion in South America	2
Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil	2
Microevolutionary Perspectives for Conserving Plant Diversity in South Brazilian Grasslands (Campos Sulinos)	2
Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	2
Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot	2
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	2
Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring	2
Factors influencing bat road casualties in a Neotropical savanna	2
Selective logging in a chronosequence of Atlantic Forest: drivers and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services	2
Mapping the threat: projecting invasive plant distribution in the tropical Andes under climate change	2
Amazon climate extremes: Increasing droughts and floods in Brazil’s state of Acre	2
How do patch burnings affect ant communities and seed removal in a subtropical grassland?	2
Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach	2
Phylogenetic clustering of tree communities decreases with stand age and environmental quality along a mineland rehabilitation chronosequence	2
Assessing the contribution of local experts in monitoring Neotropical vertebrates with camera traps, linear transects and track and sign surveys in the Amazon	2
Shade coffee plantations favor specialization, decrease robustness and increase foraging in hummingbird-plant networks	2