Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved	293
Impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on biodiversity conservation	261
COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown as a “Global Human Confinement Experiment” to investigate biodiversity conservation	175
The good, the bad and the ugly of COVID-19 lockdown effects on wildlife conservation: Insights from the first European locked down country	167
Genetic rescue: A critique of the evidence supports maximizing genetic diversity rather than minimizing the introduction of putatively harmful genetic variation	132
ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network	126
Endemism increases species' climate change risk in areas of global biodiversity importance	123
A global parasite conservation plan	115
The COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to weaken environmental protection in Brazil	115
Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment	95
Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival	87
Global wildlife trade permeates the Tree of Life	82
Connectivity metrics for conservation planning and monitoring	82
A global assessment of amphibian and reptile responses to land-use changes	74
Sustainability of protected areas: Vulnerabilities and opportunities as revealed by COVID-19 in a national park management agency	72
Guidelines for communicating about bats to prevent persecution in the time of COVID-19	72
A multi-scale, multi-species approach for assessing effectiveness of habitat and connectivity conservation for endangered felids	69
Taking the pulse of Earth's tropical forests using networks of highly distributed plots	68
Genetic diversity is considered important but interpreted narrowly in country reports to the Convention on Biological Diversity: Current actions and indicators are insufficient	67
Emerging diseases, livestock expansion and biodiversity loss are positively related at global scale	66
Cryobiotechnologies: Tools for expanding long-term ex situ conservation to all plant species	65
Sewage pollution, declining ecosystem health, and cross-sector collaboration	64
Power of the people: A review of citizen science programs for conservation	63
Poor availability of context-specific evidence hampers decision-making in conservation	61
Refuges for biodiversity conservation: A review of the evidence	59

COVID-19 pandemic impacts on conservation research, management, and public engagement in US national parks	57
Conservation implications of COVID19: Effects via tourism and extractive industries	56
What motivates the masses: Understanding why people contribute to conservation citizen science projects	55
Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review	54
Establishing the ecological basis for conservation of shallow marine life using Reef Life Survey	53
Scientists' warning to humanity on illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	53
No visit, no interest: How COVID-19 has affected public interest in world's national parks	53
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees	52
How does the beach ecosystem change without tourists during COVID-19 lockdown?	52
Navigating coasts of concrete: Pervasive use of artificial habitats by shorebirds in the Asia-Pacific	52
Wildlife-vehicle collisions - Influencing factors, data collection and research methods	51
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species	50
A global perspective on the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on freshwater fish biodiversity	49
Ecological and economic effects of COVID-19 in marine fisheries from the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea	48
Global trends in urban wildlife ecology and conservation	48
COVID-19 lockdown reveals tourists as seabird guardians	47
The Global Ecosystems Monitoring network: Monitoring ecosystem productivity and carbon cycling across the tropics	46
The scale of biodiversity impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in Southeast Asia	46
People plant trees for utility more often than for biodiversity or carbon	46
A modelled global distribution of the kelp biome	46
Rare species perform worse than widespread species under changed climate	44
Mapping biodiversity conservation priorities for protected areas: A case study in Xishuangbanna Tropical Area, China	44
Status and priority conservation actions for Australian frog species	44
Capitalizing on opportunistic citizen science data to monitor urban biodiversity: A multi-taxa framework	44
iNaturalist insights illuminate COVID-19 effects on large mammals in urban centers	43
What drives commercial poaching? From poverty to economic inequality	43
Overprediction of species distribution models in conservation planning: A still neglected issue with strong effects	42
Differential reporting of biodiversity in two citizen science platforms during COVID-19 lockdown in Colombia	41
Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats	41
Challenges and perspectives on tackling illegal or unsustainable wildlife trade	41
Divergent farmer and scientist perceptions of agricultural biodiversity, ecosystem services and decision-making	40
Potentially negative ecological consequences of animal redistribution on beaches during COVID-19 lockdown	40
Does public fear that bats spread COVID-19 jeopardize bat conservation?	40
Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions	40
Monitoring the world's bird populations with community science data	40
The conflict between scavenging birds and farmers: Field observations do not support people’s perceptions	40
Key information needs to move from knowledge to action for biodiversity conservation in Canada	39
Habitat loss, extinction predictability and conservation efforts in the terrestrial ecoregions	39
The hidden risk of using umbrella species as conservation surrogates: A spatio-temporal approach	39
Birds seen and not seen during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown measures on citizen science bird observations	39
A Reprieve from US wildlife mortality on roads during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
A global comparative analysis of impact evaluation methods in estimating the effectiveness of protected areas	38
Multi-scale estimation of the effects of pressures and drivers on mangrove forest loss globally	37
Assessing fatality minimization for hoary bats amid continued wind energy development	37
Eliminating the dark matter of data deficiency by predicting the conservation status of Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea sharks and rays	37
Using historical data to estimate bumble bee occurrence: Variable trends across species provide little support for community-level declines	37
Non-material costs of wildlife conservation to local people and their implications for conservation interventions	37
Forty-four years of global trade in CITES-listed snakes: Trends and implications for conservation and public health	36
In defence of soil biodiversity: Towards an inclusive protection in the European Union	36
To mix or not to mix gene pools for threatened species management? Few studies use genetic data to examine the risks of both actions, but failing to do so leads disproportionately to recommendations f	36

Using landscape connectivity to predict human-wildlife conflict	35
Regional variation in the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the quantity and quality of data collected by the project eBird	35
Body size is a good proxy for vertebrate charisma	34
Between biodiversity conservation and sustainable forest management – A multidisciplinary assessment of the emblematic Białowieża Forest case	34
Extent and potential impact of hunting on migratory shorebirds in the Asia-Pacific	34
Disturbance and resilience in the Luquillo Experimental Forest	33
COVID-19 related travel restrictions prevented numerous wildlife deaths on roads: A comparative analysis of results from 11 countries	33
COVID-19 pandemic drives changes in participation in citizen science project “City Nature Challenge” in Tokyo	33
A timely systematic review on pangolin research, commercialization, and popularization to identify knowledge gaps and produce conservation guidelines	32
Linking wilderness mapping and connectivity modelling: A methodological framework for wildland network planning	32
Effective population size remains a suitable, pragmatic indicator of genetic diversity for all species, including forest trees	32
Spatiotemporal mortality and demographic trends in a small cetacean: Strandings to inform conservation management	32
The hidden biodiversity risks of increasing flexibility in biodiversity offset trades	32
Extinction debt across three taxa in well-connected calcareous grasslands	31
Why so negative? Exploring the socio-economic impacts of large carnivores from a European perspective	31
Defining exceptional species—A conceptual framework to expand and advance ex situ conservation of plant diversity beyond conventional seed banking	31
Harvester ants as ecological engineers for Mediterranean grassland restoration: Impacts on soil and vegetation	30
Preventing wildlife roadkill can offset mitigation investments in short-medium term	30
Pervasive gender bias in editorial boards of biodiversity conservation journals	30
The political economy of human-wildlife conflict and coexistence	30
Indian Sundarbans mangrove forest considered endangered under Red List of Ecosystems, but there is cause for optimism	30
Overpopulation is a major cause of biodiversity loss and smaller human populations are necessary to preserve what is left	29
Ecology and conservation of a rare species: What do we know and what may we do to preserve Andean condors?	29
Bridging compassion and justice in conservation ethics	29
Prioritising conservation actions for biodiversity: Lessening the impact from habitat fragmentation and climate change	29
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	29
Persistent gender bias in marine science and conservation calls for action to achieve equity	28
Methods for the assessment and conservation of threatened animal parasites	28
Ecology versus society: Impacts of bark beetle infestations on biodiversity and restorativeness in protected areas of Central Europe	28
Range-wide declines of northern spotted owl populations in the Pacific Northwest: A meta-analysis	28
Linking threat maps with management to guide conservation investment	28
Effects of cumulated outdoor activity on wildlife habitat use	28
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on noise pollution in three protected areas in metropolitan Boston (USA)	28
European agreements for nature conservation need to explicitly address wolf-dog hybridisation	28
High fidelity of sea turtles to their foraging grounds revealed by satellite tracking and capture-mark-recapture: New insights for the establishment of key marine conservation areas	27
Version 2 of the world map of laminarian kelp benefits from more Arctic data and makes it the largest marine biome	27
Spider conservation in Europe: a review	27
COVID-19 impacts on participation in large scale biodiversity-themed community science projects in the United States	27
Bottom-up and top-down processes influence contemporary patterns of mammal species richness in Australia's monsoonal tropics	27
The power of national acoustic tracking networks to assess the impacts of human activity on marine organisms during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Mentorship, equity, and research productivity: lessons from a pandemic	26
A functional perspective for global amphibian conservation	26
Seeing beneath disputes: A transdisciplinary framework for diagnosing complex conservation conflicts	26
The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation	26
Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk	26
Jobs, game meat and profits: The benefits of wildlife ranching on marginal lands in South Africa	26
Impacts of habitat loss on migratory shorebird populations and communities at stopover sites in the Yellow Sea	26
Annual flowers strips benefit bumble bee colony growth and reproduction	25
Rethinking the natural regeneration failure of pedunculate oak: The pathogen mildew hypothesis	25
The risk of fake controversies for Brazilian environmental policies	25
Unwanted networks: Vessel traffic heightens the risk of invasions in marine protected areas	25
Dimension and impact of biases in funding for species and habitat conservation	25
Effects of captivity and rewilding on amphibian skin microbiomes	25
Unpacking the causes and consequences of the extinction of experience	25
Strict protected areas are essential for the conservation of larger and threatened mammals in a priority region of the Brazilian Cerrado	25
Responses from bees, butterflies, and ground beetles to different fire and site characteristics: A global meta-analysis	25
Management resourcing and government transparency are key drivers of biodiversity outcomes in Southeast Asian protected areas	24
Efficacy and management challenges of the zoning designations of China's national parks	24
COVID-19 restrictions provide a brief respite from the wildlife roadkill toll	24
Analysis of landrace cultivation in Europe: A means to support in situ conservation of crop diversity	24
Will the COVID-19 outbreak be a turning point for China's wildlife protection: New developments and challenges of wildlife conservation in China	24
Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?	24
Psychological and physical connections with nature improve both human well-being and nature conservation: A systematic review of meta-analyses	24
Changing seasonal, temporal and spatial crop-raiding trends over 15 years in a human-elephant conflict hotspot	24
Urbanisation affects ecosystem functioning more than structure in tropical streams	24
Forest loss in Indonesian New Guinea (2001–2019): Trends, drivers and outlook	24
Towards mitigation of seabird bycatch: Large-scale effectiveness of night setting and Tori lines across multiple pelagic longline fleets	24
Estimates of wildlife killed by free-ranging cats in China	24
Impacts of loss of free-flowing rivers on global freshwater megafauna	24
Monitoring canopy bird activity in disturbed landscapes with automatic recorders: A case study in the tropics	24
Why facts don't change minds: Insights from cognitive science for the improved communication of conservation research	24
Differences among protected area governance types matter for conserving vegetation communities at risk of loss and fragmentation	24
Prey availability modulates predicted range contraction of two large felids in response to changing climate	24
Myanmar's terrestrial ecosystems: Status, threats and conservation opportunities	24
Sealed in a lake — Biology and conservation of the endangered Saimaa ringed seal: A review	23
Positive impacts of important bird and biodiversity areas on wintering waterbirds under changing temperatures throughout Europe and North Africa	23
Restoration of plant-animal interactions in terrestrial ecosystems	23
Conservation, wildlife crime, and tough-on-crime policies: Lessons from the criminological literature	23
Sequential overgrazing by green turtles causes archipelago-wide functional extinctions of seagrass meadows	23
Compensating for lost nature values through biodiversity offsetting – Where is the evidence?	23

Identifying the anthropogenic drivers of declines in tropical dung beetle communities and functions	23
Trait-based prediction of extinction risk across terrestrial taxa	23
Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus?	23
Survival and cause-specific mortality of European wildcat (Felis silvestris) across Europe	22
Spatial management can significantly reduce dFAD beachings in Indian and Atlantic Ocean tropical tuna purse seine fisheries	22
Restricted human activities shift the foraging strategies of feral pigeons (Columba livia) and three other commensal bird species	22
Spatial conservation action planning in heterogeneous landscapes	22
An underrated habitat: Residential gardens support similar mammal assemblages to urban remnant vegetation	22
Delivering behavioural change at scale: What conservation can learn from other fields	22
Overcoming the concrete conquest of aquatic ecosystems	22
A synthesis of the prevalence and drivers of non-compliance in marine protected areas	22
Estimating the impacts of habitat loss induced by urbanization on bird local extinctions	22
COVID19-induced reduction in human disturbance enhances fattening of an overabundant goose species	22
Natural Language Processing as a tool to evaluate emotions in conservation conflicts	22
Scientists' warning of an imperiled ocean	22
Ecological consequences of human depopulation of rural areas on wildlife: A unifying perspective	21
Environmental solutions fast-tracked: Reversing public scepticism to public engagement	21
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	21
Predator-awareness training in terrestrial vertebrates: Progress, problems and possibilities	21
Options for prioritizing sites for biodiversity conservation with implications for “30 by 30”	21
A comparison of genetic and genomic approaches to represent evolutionary potential in conservation planning	21
Combining high temporal resolution whale distribution and vessel tracking data improves estimates of ship strike risk	21
The Kibale Chimpanzee Project: Over thirty years of research, conservation, and change	21
Moving from decision to action in conservation science	21
Unprecedented extinction of tree species by fungal disease	21
Microhabitat selection by giant pandas	21
Wild at heart: Programs to diminish negative ecological and evolutionary effects of conservation hatcheries	20
Land-based noise pollution impairs reef fish behavior: A case study with a Brazilian carnival	20
Minimizing cross-realm threats from land-use change: A national-scale conservation framework connecting land, freshwater and marine systems	20
Review: COVID-19 highlights the importance of camera traps for wildlife conservation research and management	20
Are protected areas well-sited to support species in the future in a major climate refuge and corridor in the United States?	20
Extending temporal baseline increases understanding of biodiversity change in European boreal waterbird communities	20
Application of ionomics and ecological stoichiometry in conservation biology: Nutrient demand and supply in a changing environment	20
Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future	20
Human disturbance is the most limiting factor driving habitat selection of a large carnivore throughout Continental Europe	20
Do biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments inform stakeholders how to simultaneously conserve biodiversity and increase ecosystem service provisioning in grasslands?	20
Navigating paved paradise: Evaluating landscape permeability to movement for large mammals in two conservation priority landscapes in India	20
Global footprint of mislabelled seafood on a small island nation	20
Deforestation and bird habitat loss in Colombia	20
Priorities of action and research for the protection of biodiversity and ecosystem services in continental Ecuador	20
The sound of logging: Tropical forest soundscape before, during, and after selective timber extraction	20
Reduction in seabird mortality in Namibian fisheries following the introduction of bycatch regulation	20
Time at risk: Individual spatial behaviour drives effectiveness of marine protected areas and fitness	20
Anthropogenic impacts on plant-animal mutualisms: A global synthesis for pollination and seed dispersal	19
Australia's most imperilled vertebrates	19
The changing dynamics of highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: Next steps for management & science in North America	19
Conceptualizing ecosystem degradation using mangrove forests as a model system	19
Cumulative habitat loss increases conservation threats on endemic species of terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	19
The influence of message framing on public beliefs and behaviors related to species reintroduction	19
Evaluating the performance of a protected area network in South Africa and its implications for megadiverse countries	19
Exploring coral reef biodiversity via underwater soundscapes	19
Beyond fortress conservation: The long-term integration of natural and social science research for an inclusive conservation practice in India	19
Integrating social science into conservation planning	19
The association between anthropomorphism of nature and pro-environmental variables: A systematic review	19
Every case is different: Cautionary insights about generalisations in human-wildlife conflict from a range-wide study of people and jaguars	19
Sparing or sharing land? Views from agricultural scientists	19
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	19
Climate niche mismatch and the collapse of primate seed dispersal services in the Amazon	19
Combining spatial modeling tools and biological data for improved multispecies assessment in restoration areas	19
A policy framework to accommodate both the analytical and normative aspects of biodiversity in ecological compensation	19
Renewable energy and biological conservation in a changing world	19
Global assessment of artificial habitat use by amphibian species	19
Consequences of fragmentation for Neotropical bats: The importance of the matrix	19
An ethical analysis of cloning for genetic rescue: Case study of the black-footed ferret	19
Incomplete species lists produced by pitfall trapping: How many carabid species and which functional traits are missing?	19
Shift in proximate causes of mortality for six large migratory raptors over a century	19
Genome-wide diversity loss in reintroduced Eurasian lynx populations urges immediate conservation management	19
Assessing the conservation status of coastal habitats under Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive	19
The application of reflexivity for conservation science	19
More than just a (red) list: Over a decade of using South Africa's threatened ecosystems in policy and practice	19
Listening to cities during the COVID-19 lockdown: How do human activities and urbanization impact soundscapes in Colombia?	19
Rapid amphibian community recovery following removal of non-native fish from high mountain lakes	18
Using systematic conservation planning to align priority areas for biodiversity and nature-based activities in marine spatial planning: A real-world application in contested marine space	18
Prey selection and predation behavior of free-roaming domestic cats (Felis catus) in an urban ecosystem: Implications for urban cat management	18
Intensification of açaí palm management largely impoverishes tree assemblages in the Amazon estuarine forest	18
Urban native vegetation remnants support more diverse native bee communities than residential gardens in Australia's southwest biodiversity hotspot	18
Evaluating created wetlands for bird diversity and reproductive success	18
Are fish in danger? A review of environmental effects of marine renewable energy on fishes	18
Conservation birding: A quantitative conceptual framework for prioritizing citizen science observations	18
How expansive were Malagasy Central Highland forests, ericoids, woodlands and grasslands? A multidisciplinary approach to a conservation conundrum	18
Effectiveness of hunting regulations for the conservation of a globally-threatened species: The case of the European turtle-dove in Spain	18
On the conservation value of historic canals for aquatic ecosystems	18
Decades of monitoring have informed the stewardship and ecological understanding of Australia's Great Barrier Reef	18
Quantifying wildlife responses to conservation fencing in East Africa	18
Different extinction debts among plants and arthropods after loss of grassland amount and connectivity	18
Quantifying factors for understanding why several small patches host more species than a single large patch	18
Conservation policy under a roadless perspective: Minimizing fragmentation in Greece	18
Ecology and the science of small-scale fisheries: A synthetic review of research effort for the Anthropocene	18
A hippo in the room: Predicting the persistence and dispersion of an invasive mega-vertebrate in Colombia, South America	18
Understanding drivers of human tolerance towards mammals in a mixed-use transfrontier conservation area in southern Africa	18
Source-sink dynamics promote wolf persistence in human-modified landscapes: Insights from long-term monitoring	18
Successful parks for sharks: No-take marine reserve provides conservation benefits to endemic and threatened sharks off South Africa	18
Co-occurrence of snow leopard, wolf and Siberian ibex under livestock encroachment into protected areas across the Mongolian Altai	18
Reduced human activity in shallow reefs during the COVID-19 pandemic increases fish evenness	18
Distribution and temporal trends in the abundance of nesting sea turtles in the Red Sea	17