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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Birds in agroscapes: effects of forest cover and landscape heterogeneity on dryland bird diversity and composition	62
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	33
Effects of human activities on zooplankton biodiversity in aquatic systems across three vegetation domains: A landscape analysis approach	29
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	28
Brazil’s Belo Monte license renewal and the need to recognize the immense impacts of dams in Amazonia	19
Patterns of endemism in Amazonian floodplain birds	18
Landscape structure coupled to instream features shape freshwater biodiversity in Cerrado agricultural landscapes	17
Do thermal drones outperform traditional surveys in detecting and estimating population density of sloths?	17
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	15
Conservation and restoration of riparian zones: impacts of legal and land use changes	14
Spatial networks reveal how forest cover decreases the spread of agricultural pests	14
Intensification of drought-associated wildfires challenges actions for Amazonia’s sustainable development	14
Mapping the threat: projecting invasive plant distribution in the tropical Andes under climate change	14
Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach	13
High-diversity Atlantic Forest restoration plantings fail to represent local floras	13
Predicting the range expansion of invasive alien grasses under climate change in the Neotropics	13
Harmonizing nature and power: Mainstreaming biodiversity into electric grid expansion	13
Climate-driven loss of taxonomic and functional richness in Brazilian Atlantic Forest anurans	12
Populations across bird species distribution ranges respond differently to habitat loss and fragmentation: implications for conservation strategies	12
Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean	11
Pivotal steps to consistently advance invasion science in a megadiverse country	11
Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon	11
Conserving biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems: Insights from a herpetofauna study in the Colombian Andes with sustainable management proposal	11
Insectivorous birds and potential pest control services: An occupancy study of functional groups in a coffee landscape in Oaxaca, Mexico	10
Fire reduces taxonomic and functional diversity in Neotropical moist seasonally flooded forests	10

Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	10
Why is it so easy to undergo devegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado?	10
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	10
From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers	10
Human-wildlife conflicts in Brazil: Navigating through shared and spared landscapes	10
Landscape composition drives taxonomic and functional diversity of bats and small rodents in human-modified tropical landscapes	9
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	9
Habitat loss and distribution of the Ornate Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata): implications for its conservation in South American temperate grasslands	9
The Protected Areas network may be insufficient to protect bird diversity in a fragmented tropical hotspot under different climate scenarios	9
Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil	8
Roadway seizures reveal widespread illegal wild meat use and faunal downsizing in Brazil	8
Guiding transdisciplinary synthesis processes for social-ecological policy decisions	8
Woody vegetation removal as a management strategy to benefit grassland birds in legally protected areas	8
Shark hotspot: Drivers for distribution and conservation in a tropical oceanic archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean	8
Identifying areas for multidimensional biodiversity conservation, with a case study in Oaxaca, Mexico	8
Edges as hotspots and drivers of forest cover change in a tropical landscape	8
Estimating mammal density from track counts collected by Indigenous Amazonian hunters	8
Açaí palm management and the multidimensional erosion of beta diversity across tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest	8
Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	8
Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes	8
Tropical and temperate ecology: How historical geopolitical relations have influenced the structure of knowledge	8
Beyond data labor: sowing synthesis science in the Global South	8
Forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon: Trends and conservation strategies	7
Business, biodiversity, and innovation in Brazil	7
Peatlands in the Brazilian Cerrado: insights into knowledge, status and research needs	7
A long road to resilience: Large-scale forest recovery but limited persistence in the Atlantic Forest	7
It takes two: the value of integrating citizen science and scientific collections in biodiversity research	7
Spatial and temporal changes in the amount of shorebird foraging and roosting habitats in Brazil	7
Climate-driven potential distribution of the invasive tree tobacco and its overlap with biodiversity conservation areas worldwide	7
Conservation of forest cover in Mesoamerican biosphere reserves is associated with the increase of local non-farm occupation	6
A participatory approach to map strategic areas for conservation and restoration at a regional scale	6
Reducing negative economic and equity implications associated with conserving 30% of the planet by 2030	6
Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions	5
Making the most of existing data in conservation research	5
Landscape forest loss decreases bird diversity with strong negative impacts on forest species in a mountain region	5
How to enhance Atlantic Forest protection? Dealing with the shortcomings of successional stages classification	5
Relevance of ecological and phylogenetic structure of hummingbird-plant relationships in the face of global climate change	5
Longitudinal changes on ecological diversity of Neotropical fish along a 1700 km river gradient show declines induced by dams	5
Legal reserves ensure alpha and beta ant diversity in highly modified agricultural landscapes	5
Mapping the way: identifying priority potential corridors for protected areas connectivity in Colombia	5
Comparing local ecological knowledge and camera traps to estimate the abundance of mammals and game birds in the Eastern Amazon	5
Shade coffee plantations favor specialization, decrease robustness and increase foraging in hummingbird-plant networks	5
Phylogenetic clustering of tree communities decreases with stand age and environmental quality along a mineland rehabilitation chronosequence	5
The comeback of a top predator and its effects on a population of feral horses	4
Landscape structure influences prey consumption and ecosystem services of Aplomado Falcons in agroecosystems of central Argentina	4
Ensuring the quality of historical data for wildlife conservation: A methodological framework	4
Amazon climate extremes: Increasing droughts and floods in Brazil’s state of Acre	4
Topographic drivers of anthropization in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	4
Overcoming biases of birds research in the Caatinga	4
Partitioning autochthonous and allochthonous carbon in mangroves of the Brazilian Amazon coast	4

Assessing the contribution of local experts in monitoring Neotropical vertebrates with camera traps, linear transects and track and sign surveys in the Amazon	4
Homogenization and differentiation of Andean ecoregion floras driven by non-native plants: the role of political and environmental factors	3
Global South leadership towards inclusive tropical ecology and conservation	3
A hundred birds or more: Large-scale assessment of raptor electrocutions across Argentina	3
Nature-based activities improve human-nature connectedness: A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Brazil as a global player in fungal conservation: A rapid shift from neglect to action	3
Alignment of Cultural Interest and Conservation Priority in sub-Saharan Africa National Parks	3
Bird communities in the Dry Chaco of South America: vegetation structure and climate effects	3
Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together?	3
Power lines and birds: An overlooked threat in South America	3
Key Biodiversity Areas are proving useful for spatial planning if the criteria are applied correctly	3
A call to restore the value of forests: refining definitions of tree-dominant ecosystems for social wellbeing	3
Belo Monte Dam impacts: Protagonism of local people in research and monitoring reveals ecosystem service decay in Amazonian flooded vegetation	3
Long-term persistence of the large mammal lowland tapir is at risk in the largest Atlantic forest corridor	3
Climate change and biodiversity in Brazil: What we know, what we don’t, and Paris Agreement’s risk reduction potential	3
Intraspecific variation of invaded pollination networks – the role of pollen-transport, pollen-transfer and different levels of biological organization	3
Beyond Boundaries: Rethinking Biomes Interdependencies in Conservation Policies	3
AMACRO: the newer Amazonia deforestation hotspot and a potential setback for Brazilian agriculture	2
Phylogenetic structure and diversity among herpetofaunal communities along a successional gradient of a tropical dry forest in Mexico	2
Indigenous lands and conservation units slow down non-GHG climate change in the Cerrado-Amazon ecotone	2
Wind energy expansion in Brazil and implications for the conservation of threatened amphibians, birds and reptiles	2
Declining representation of imperiled Atlantic Forest birds in community-science datasets	2
Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide	2
Is banning Persistent Organic Pollutants efficient? A quantitative and qualitative systematic review in bats	2
Heterogeneity in mesocarnivore occupancy highlights the complexity of biodiversity changes in a threatened ecoregion	2
Climatic driver of chytrid prevalence in the Critically Endangered Admirable Redbelly Toad	2
Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon	2
The emerging problem of the irrigation system for wildlife in the Brazilian Cerrado	2
Effectiveness of community-based monitoring projects of terrestrial game fauna in the tropics: a global review	2
Chronic human disturbance and environmental forces drive the regeneration mechanisms of a Caatinga dry tropical forest	2
Ecosystem services delivered by Brazilian mammals: spatial and taxonomic patterns and comprehensive list of species	2
Solving the problem of wildfires in the Pantanal Wetlands	2
Global change explains the neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Serpentes: Viperidae) range expansion in South America	2
Connectivity and policy confluences: a multi-scalar conservation approach for protecting Amazon riverine ecosystems	2
Legally protected, practically overlooked: The neglect of diffuse seeps in the conservation of Cerrado non-floodplain wetlands	2
Identifying priority conservation areas for the Andean Condor in Colombia	2
Integrating connectivity in marine protected area design: A case study between the Philippines and Taiwan	2
Challenges for reducing carbon emissions from Land-Use and Land Cover Change in Brazil	2
Past references are insufficient for Latin American biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene	2
The potential of estuarine fishes in supplying micronutrients to coastal and traditional populations in Northeast Brazil	2
On protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures to conserve biodiversity. Exploring their contribution to Colombian snakes	2
Does agricultural intensification impact pest regulation service by frogs in a natural multi-trophic system?	2