Biological Conservation

Papers
(The TQCC of Biological Conservation is 10. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes120
How to halve the carbon and biodiversity impacts of biofuel-driven land-use change in Brazil95
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First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes82
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes80
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions68
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'66
Multiple measures of biodiversity change make for the strongest analyses with historical data – Reply to65
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies62
Traditional shade coffee forest systems act as refuges for medium- and large-sized mammals as natural forest dwindles in Ethiopia60
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages58
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles56
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies56
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands52
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?51
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Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs48
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models47
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade47
Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches47
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians47
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning47
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests46
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas46
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people45
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity44
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population44
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]44
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data43
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa42
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity41
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico41
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density39
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area38
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps38
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition37
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna37
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway37
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert37
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices36
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe36
The application of reflexivity for conservation science35
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion35
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model35
The unknownness of biodiversity: Its value and ethical significance for conservation action35
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia34
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation34
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains33
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland33
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)33
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Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent33
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion32
Overlooked jewels: Existing habitat patches complement sown flower strips to conserve pollinators32
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands31
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Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]31
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway31
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts31
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]31
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?31
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew31
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia31
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases31
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback30
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]30
Proportional sampling strategy often captures more genetic diversity when population sizes vary30
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?30
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Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management29
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?29
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists29
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 11055929
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology29
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation29
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review29
Asking sensitive questions in conservation using Randomised Response Techniques28
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature28
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic28
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation28
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes28
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible28
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases28
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency28
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration28
A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies28
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island28
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion27
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran27
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk27
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries27
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses27
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality27
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections27
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon27
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages26
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks26
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves26
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers26
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization26
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable26
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years26
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve26
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people25
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework25
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world25
Insights from long-term shorebird monitoring for tracking change in ecological character of Australasian Ramsar sites25
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium25
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions25
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?25
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx25
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison25
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Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss24
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens24
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade24
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Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings23
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities23
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline23
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits23
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas23
Reforestation can compensate negative effects of climate change on amphibians23
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species23
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris23
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)22
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world22
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”22
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent22
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective22
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators22
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina22
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being22
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement21
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique21
Tracking juveniles confirms fisheries-bycatch hotspot for an endangered albatross21
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status21
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies21
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models21
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards21
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests21
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond21
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland21
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers21
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation20
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”20
Contrasting long-term population trends of beach-nesting shorebirds under shared environmental pressures20
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management20
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators20
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure20
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy20
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change20
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management20
Self-legitimacy among rangers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An empirical assessment20
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring20
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?20
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America20
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries19
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers19
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems19
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management19
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming19
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards19
Symbols, wolves and conflicts19
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species19
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments19
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe19
Growing grasses in unprofitable areas of US Midwest croplands could increase species richness19
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models18
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Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines18
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species18
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species18
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle18
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species18
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges18
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal18
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics18
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong18
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front18
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species18
Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring18
Doubtful estimates of wildlife killed by free-ranging cats in China. A response to Y. Li et al. Biological Conservation 253 (2021) 10892918
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””18
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery18
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation18
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses18
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices17
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications17
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology17
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?17
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival17
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions17
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible17
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas17
Do apex predators need to regulate prey populations to be a right conservation target?17
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds17
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance17
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean17
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world17
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?17
Corrigendum to “Effectiveness and design of marine protected areas for migratory species of conservation concern: A case study of post-nesting hawksbill turtles in Brazil” [Biol. Conserv. 261 (2021) 117
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold17
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia17
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data17
Short-term gain, long-term loss: How a widely-used conservation tool could further threaten sea turtles17
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches17
Biodiversity conservation and ecological restoration dominated vegetation dynamics during the 1980s-2010s in Yunnan, China16
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds16
High bird mortality due to power lines invokes urgent environmental mitigation in a tropical desert16
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes16
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?16
The biodiversity benefits of marine protected areas in well-regulated fisheries16
Mass mortality events and declining obligate scavengers in the Anthropocene: Social feeders may be critical16
Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions16
Assessing the drivers of illegal resource use to improve wildlife conservation interventions16
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited16
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda16
Protected areas in Central Mexico - are they fit in promoting species persistence under climate and land use changes?16
Protecting prey by deceiving predators: A field experiment testing chemical camouflage and conditioned food aversion16
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Conservation efforts fail to halt the decline of the regionally endangered Natterjack toad (Epidalea calamita) in Ireland16
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community16
Mitigation and conservation plant translocations: Do perspectives of practice, funding and success vary between sectors?16
Culturomics for (not against!) protected areas16
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Effects of a megafire vary with fire severity and forest type: The impact of Australia's ‘Black Summer’ fires on the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), an iconic forest species15
Practical models to guide the transition of California condors from a conservation-reliant to a self-sustaining species15
Iberian lynxes scavenging on ungulate carcasses: An overlooked important resource and potential risk for an endangered predator15
Individuals in focus: Individuals as the ecological and ethical center of human-wildlife conflict15
Flyways to hell? An empirical assessment of Palearctic migratory waterbird harvest practices in key wetlands of Sahel-sub-Saharan Africa15
Literature, social media and questionnaire surveys identify relevant conservation areas for Carcharhinus species in the Mediterranean Sea15
What Science in the tropics should not be about15
When a pest-control species becomes a pest: A shift in the foraging habitat of cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) and the threat to grazed natural ecosystems15
Snaring devastates terrestrial ungulates whilst sparing arboreal primates in Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape15
Estimating age and investigating epigenetic changes related to health across multiple bottlenose dolphin populations15
Tropical agricultural wooded land uses support high site use of forest birds15
Science-based, stakeholder-inclusive and participatory conservation planning helps reverse the decline of threatened species15
Colonization of new nesting areas could provide climate refuge to loggerhead turtles under climate change15
Population viability in data deficient nomadic species: What it will take to save regent honeyeaters from extinction15
Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator15
A 50-year perspective on conservation challenges and legacy effects in temperate Patagonian forests15
Exploring the potential of habitat banking in preserving freshwater biodiversity and imperiled species15
Majority positive attitudes cannot protect red wolves (Canis rufus) from a minority willing to kill illegally15
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