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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Brazil’s catastrophic fires: Causes, consequences and policy needed to prevent future tragedies	80
Emerging threats linking tropical deforestation and the COVID-19 pandemic	42
The lost road: Do transportation networks imperil wildlife population persistence?	31
Opportunities and challenges of other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) for biodiversity conservation	30
Biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Campo Rupestre: A road map for the sustainability of the hottest Brazilian biodiversity hotspot	29
Multiple dimensions of climate change on the distribution of Amazon primates	24
Landscape ecology in the Anthropocene: an overview for integrating agroecosystems and biodiversity conservation	23
Enhancing climate change resilience of ecological restoration — A framework for action	21
Land-use changes lead to functional loss of terrestrial mammals in a Neotropical rainforest	20
Mining activity in Brazil and negligence in action	17
Long-term contamination of the Rio Doce estuary as a result of Brazil’s largest environmental disaster	17
A Model of Collaborative Governance for Community-based Trophy-Hunting Programs in Developing Countries	16
Climate change threatens the woody plant taxonomic and functional diversities of the Restinga vegetation in Brazil	15
The importance of Indigenous Territories for conserving bat diversity across the Amazon biome	15
The emergence of a new deforestation hotspot in Amazonia	15
Climate and land-use change refugia for Brazilian Cerrado birds	14
Challenges and perspectives for the Brazilian semi-arid coast under global environmental changes	14
Recognizing sources of uncertainty in disease vector ecological niche models: An example with the tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato	14
Assessing the SARS-CoV-2 threat to wildlife: Potential risk to a broad range of mammals	13
Sugarcane: Brazilian public policies threaten the Amazon and Pantanal biomes	12
EcoLand: A multiscale niche modelling framework to improve predictions on biodiversity and conservation	12
Species distribution model reveals only highly fragmented suitable patches remaining for giant armadillo in the Brazilian Cerrado	11
Population viability analysis as a tool for giant anteater conservation	11
Cerrado wetlands: multiple ecosystems deserving legal protection as a unique and irreplaceable treasure	11
Are narrow-ranging species doomed to extinction? Projected dramatic decline in future climate suitability of two highly threatened species	10

Using functional diversity and taxonomic diversity to assess effects of afforestation of grassland on bird communities	10
Climate change will reduce the potential distribution ranges of Colombia’s most valuable pollinators	10
Use of unfenced highway underpasses by lowland tapirs and other medium and large mammals in central-western Brazil	10
Combined impacts of climate and land use change and the future restructuring of Neotropical bat biodiversity	10
Biological invasions are as costly as natural hazards	10
Effects of riparian deforestation on benthic invertebrate community and leaf processing in Atlantic forest streams	10
Fragment size and the disassembling of local bird communities in the Atlantic Forest: A taxonomic and functional approach	9
Opportunities to close the gap between science and practice for Marine Protected Areas in Brazil	9
Birds’ gap-crossing in open matrices depends on landscape structure, tree size, and predation risk	9
Expected impacts of climate change on tree ferns distribution and diversity patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forest	9
Environmental sound as a mirror of landscape ecological integrity in monitoring programs	9
Does patch quality drive arboreal mammal assemblages in fragmented rainforests?	8
Most Mexican hummingbirds lose under climate and land-use change: Long-term conservation implications	8
To graze or not to graze: A core question for conservation and sustainable use of grassy ecosystems in Brazil	8
Bird Conservation in Brazil: Challenges and practical solutions for a key megadiverse country	8
Climate and land-use changes coupled with low coverage of protected areas threaten palm species in South Brazilian grasslands	8
Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research	8
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	8
Diet of invasive cats, rats and tegu lizards reveals impact over threatened species in a tropical island	8
Divergent herb communities in drier and chronically disturbed areas of the Brazilian Caatinga	7
Negative results provide valuable evidence for conservation	7
Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan	7
The underestimated role of small fragments for carnivore dispersal in the Atlantic Forest	7
Landscape changes decrease genetic diversity in the Pallas’ long-tongued bat	7
A framework for identifying and integrating sociocultural and environmental elements of indigenous peoples’ and local communities’ landscape transformations	7
Collaborative management as a way to enhance Araucaria Forest resilience	7
Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil	6
Combining DNA and people power for healthy rivers: Implementing the STREAM community-based approach for global freshwater monitoring	6
Legislation and pollination: Recommendations for policymakers and scientists	6
The fate of endemic birds of eastern Brazilian mountaintops in the face of climate change	6
Differential effects of fire on the occupancy of small mammals in neotropical savanna-gallery forests	6
Free-roaming domestic cats near conservation areas in Chile: Spatial movements, human care and risks for wildlife	5
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	5
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	5
Sarcoptic mange: An emerging threat to Chilean wild mammals?	5
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	5
Environmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest endemism region	5
Functional trait perspective on suitable habitat distribution of invasive plant species at a global scale	5
Predicting the invasion of the acoustic niche: Potential distribution and call transmission efficiency of a newly introduced frog in Cuba	5
Biased research generates large gaps on invertebrate biota knowledge in Brazilian freshwater ecosystems	5
Assessing the impact of roadkill on the persistence of wildlife populations: A case study on the giant anteater	4
COVID-19 pandemic as a learning path for grounding conservation policies in science	4
Management of vampire bats and rabies: a precaution for rewilding projects in the Neotropics	4
Modeling invasive species risk from established populations: Insights for management and conservation	4
How effective are conservation areas to preserve biodiversity in Mexico?	4
Global South leadership towards inclusive tropical ecology and conservation	4
Cat and dog predation on birds: The importance of indirect predation after bird-window collisions	4
Are invasive marmosets harmful to Atlantic Forest birds?	4
Intraspecific variation of invaded pollination networks – the role of pollen-transport, pollen-transfer and different levels of biological organization	4
Drivers of change in tropical protected areas: Long-term monitoring of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot	4

Female ecologists are falling from the academic ladder: A call for action	4
Avian assemblages associated with different grasslands managements in cattle production systems in the pampas of Argentina	3
Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean	3
Fire and flood: How the Pantanal ant communities respond to multiple disturbances?	3
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	3
Neglected diversity of crop pollinators: Lessons from the world’s largest tropical country	3
Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon	3
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	3
Phylogenetic structure and diversity among herpetofaunal communities along a successional gradient of a tropical dry forest in Mexico	3
Implications of unreliable species identification methods for Neotropical deer conservation planning	3
The effects of natural forest and eucalyptus plantations on seven water-related ecosystem services in Cerrado landscapes	3
Assessing the conservation of eastern Ecuadorian cloud forests in climate change scenarios	3
Selective logging in a chronosequence of Atlantic Forest: drivers and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services	3
Ponds, puddles, floodplains and dams in the Upper Xingu Basin: could we be witnessing the ‘lentification’ of deforested Amazonia?	3
Determining the location of protected areas in France: Does “scientific interest” matter?	3
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	3
Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds	3
Effects of habitat loss on Brazilian primates: assessing extinction thresholds in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest	3
Climate change will have an important impact on scorpion’s fauna in its most diverse country, Mexico	3
Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	3
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	3
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	3
Invasion by a non-native willow (Salix × rubens) in Brazilian subtropical highlands	3
Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide	3