OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is 5. 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
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	12
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
Are invasive marmosets harmful to Atlantic Forest birds?	11
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
Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions	10
Bird taxonomic and functional diversity in urban settlements within a forest biome vary with the landscape matrix	10
Avian assemblages associated with different grasslands managements in cattle production systems in the pampas of Argentina	9
Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds	9
Conservation biology: four decades of problem- and solution-based research	9
Integrating connectivity in marine protected area design: A case study between the Philippines and Taiwan	8
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
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	7
Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	7
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
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
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
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