Biological Conservation

Papers
(The TQCC of Biological Conservation is 11. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes126
How to halve the carbon and biodiversity impacts of biofuel-driven land-use change in Brazil99
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First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes88
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions86
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'76
Multiple measures of biodiversity change make for the strongest analyses with historical data – Reply to75
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks72
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs67
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade66
Editorial Board63
Building robust, practicable counterfactuals and scenarios to evaluate the impact of species conservation interventions using inferential approaches61
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices60
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands59
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies57
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?56
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity56
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition54
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles53
Traditional shade coffee forest systems act as refuges for medium- and large-sized mammals as natural forest dwindles in Ethiopia52
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians50
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models50
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas49
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests49
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people48
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity48
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa48
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]47
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna46
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages46
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation45
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies44
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density43
The unknownness of biodiversity: Its value and ethical significance for conservation action43
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population42
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area42
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model41
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps40
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert39
The application of reflexivity for conservation science39
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes38
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe38
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning38
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway37
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion37
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data37
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico37
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation36
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)36
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Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent36
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains36
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland36
Corrigendum to “Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits” [Biol. Conserv. 306 (2025) 111155]35
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation35
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion35
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia35
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries34
Overlooked jewels: Existing habitat patches complement sown flower strips to conserve pollinators34
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts34
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia34
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands33
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses33
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]33
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?33
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Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases32
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]32
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]32
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback31
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections31
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology31
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk31
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 11055931
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity31
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A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies31
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible31
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway30
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island30
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence30
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?30
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency30
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases30
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality30
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion30
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran29
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration29
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon29
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes29
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s29
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management29
Asking sensitive questions in conservation using Randomised Response Techniques29
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew29
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic29
Proportional sampling strategy often captures more genetic diversity when population sizes vary28
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?28
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers28
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists28
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature28
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation28
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review28
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years27
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization27
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world27
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent26
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework26
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions26
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade26
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts26
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx26
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Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people26
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world26
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison26
Insights from long-term shorebird monitoring for tracking change in ecological character of Australasian Ramsar sites26
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss26
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens25
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure25
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Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings24
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages24
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline24
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas24
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve24
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats24
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium24
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities24
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable24
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species24
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves23
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?23
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits23
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being23
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris23
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks23
Reforestation can compensate negative effects of climate change on amphibians23
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”22
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal22
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests22
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina22
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators22
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique22
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
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models22
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers22
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers21
Self-legitimacy among rangers in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An empirical assessment21
Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring21
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries21
Tracking juveniles confirms fisheries-bycatch hotspot for an endangered albatross21
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring21
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species21
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards21
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems21
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”21
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards21
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?21
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation21
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species21
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe21
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement20
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy20
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators20
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies20
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change20
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation20
Contrasting long-term population trends of beach-nesting shorebirds under shared environmental pressures20
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America20
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management20
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front20
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management20
Symbols, wolves and conflicts20
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species20
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure20
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments20
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming20
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond20
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges20
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status20
Growing grasses in unprofitable areas of US Midwest croplands could increase species richness20
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland19
Doubtful estimates of wildlife killed by free-ranging cats in China. A response to Y. Li et al. Biological Conservation 253 (2021) 10892919
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models19
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine19
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community19
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management19
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Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines19
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) 119
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””19
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses19
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species19
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics19
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery19
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes19
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data18
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival18
High bird mortality due to power lines invokes urgent environmental mitigation in a tropical desert18
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle18
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications18
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology18
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda18
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible18
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong18
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold18
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species17
Do apex predators need to regulate prey populations to be a right conservation target?17
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?17
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism17
Culturomics for (not against!) protected areas17
Conservation efforts fail to halt the decline of the regionally endangered Natterjack toad (Epidalea calamita) in Ireland17
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds17
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited17
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance17
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas17
Mass mortality events and declining obligate scavengers in the Anthropocene: Social feeders may be critical17
Protected areas in Central Mexico - are they fit in promoting species persistence under climate and land use changes?17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds17
Short-term gain, long-term loss: How a widely-used conservation tool could further threaten sea turtles17
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions17
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices17
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?17
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada17
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Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions17
Assessing the drivers of illegal resource use to improve wildlife conservation interventions17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?17
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches17
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world17
Practical models to guide the transition of California condors from a conservation-reliant to a self-sustaining species16
Flyways to hell? An empirical assessment of Palearctic migratory waterbird harvest practices in key wetlands of Sahel-sub-Saharan Africa16
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates16
Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot16
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Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator16
Tropical agricultural wooded land uses support high site use of forest birds16
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 ecosystems16
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 species16
Corrigendum to “Thinking coexistence in human-dominated landscapes with the lens of multi-species assemblages: Farmers, brown bears and other wild species in the Pyrenees” [Biol. Conserv. volume 302 (16
Enhancing coral bleaching predictive tools through integrating sensitivity to heat exposure16
Improving restoration outcomes of boreal Sphagnum-dominated peatlands after peat-extraction: The key role of phosphorus fertilization16
Integrating movement behaviours for intra-specific conservation: The caribou case16
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