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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?133
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks115
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa102
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes86
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna85
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night71
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs70
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands70
Integrating habitat suitability, connectivity, and individual-based models to guide priorities for the creation of a lynx metapopulation in Southeastern Europe68
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population68
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density67
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies65
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion62
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition61
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model60
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes60
Editorial Board59
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]57
Editorial Board54
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people52
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages52
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert51
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 forests48
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles47
Editorial Board47
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data46
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation46
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade46
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico44
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'44
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats43
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies43
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions41
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices41
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity40
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps40
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes40
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe40
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area39
Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia39
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning39
Editorial Board39
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk38
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology38
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback38
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran37
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]37
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?37
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 11055937
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia37
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]37
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity36
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion36
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]36
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?36
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia36
Editorial Board36
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence36
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland36
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island35
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains35
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases34
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s34
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway34
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew33
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections33
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists33
Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses32
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation32
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency32
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)32
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
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration31
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes31
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management31
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries31
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible31
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion31
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases30
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation30
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands30
Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District30
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature29
A causal modelling approach to informing woodland caribou conservation policy from observational studies29
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon28
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation28
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic28
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?28
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review27
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?27
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers27
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality27
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss27
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent27
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization27
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens27
Editorial Board26
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade26
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats26
Editorial Board26
Editorial Board26
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison26
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework26
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable26
Coastal restoration success via emergent trait-mimicry is context dependent25
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure25
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations25
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline25
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx25
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages25
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits25
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve25
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective25
The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies25
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years25
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts24
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves24
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris24
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks24
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people24
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being24
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
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas24
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species24
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world24
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions23
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world23
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers23
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees23
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring23
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings23
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina23
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique23
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy22
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems22
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models22
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”22
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators22
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”22
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation22
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)22
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement22
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management21
Spatial ecology of recolonized elk in agricultural landscapes of the Northern Great Plains21
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments21
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies21
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland21
Corrigendum to “Between Hype and Hope: De-extinction is a tool, not a panacea for the biodiversity crisis” [Biol. Conserv. volume 309 (2025) 111307]21
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal21
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards21
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges21
Resilience of native amphibian communities following catastrophic drought: Evidence from a decade of regional-scale monitoring21
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species21
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species21
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation20
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests20
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers20
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
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species20
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries20
Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species20
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management20
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards20
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status20
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change19
Footprint of state border infrastructure extends beyond the border: Tree damage and roadkill along a road in Białowieża Forest, northeastern Poland19
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses19
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
Symbols, wolves and conflicts19
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?19
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming19
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front19
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines19
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management19
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America19
Book review19
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators19
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada19
Small patches have high conservation value for primates18
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance18
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean18
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks18
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism18
The role of ‘bright spots’ in elevating conservation success in Canada18
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible18
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications18
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds18
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions18
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches18
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community18
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models18
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited18
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices18
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics18
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle18
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold18
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival17
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species17
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia17
Commodity crops in biodiversity-rich production landscapes: Friends or foes? The example of cotton in the Mid Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe17
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates17
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 (17
Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator17
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas17
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””17
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?17
Exploring the relationships between landscape connectivity and urban biodiversity: Insights from citizen science on pollinators and birds in Paris, France17
Indirect impacts of commercial gold mining on adjacent ecosystems17
Editorial Board17
Enhancing coral bleaching predictive tools through integrating sensitivity to heat exposure17
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine17
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology17
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?17
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data17
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda17
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes17
Population genetics of museum specimens indicate decreasing genetic resiliency: The case of two bumble bees of conservation concern17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds17
Range expansion and reconnection of historical populations in the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) in France: Insights from heterogeneous data and integrated species distribution modelling17
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong17
Influence of traffic volume on mammal beta diversity within the road effect zone17
Editorial Board16
Dynamics of the Czech flora over the last 60 years: Winners, losers and causes of changes16
Improving restoration outcomes of boreal Sphagnum-dominated peatlands after peat-extraction: The key role of phosphorus fertilization16
Effect of habitat quality and quantity on the occurrence and persistence of the lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor) across two time periods16
Protecting prey by deceiving predators: A field experiment testing chemical camouflage and conditioned food aversion16
Changing determinants of international conservation funding committed to major deforestation regions in South America16
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
Estimating age and investigating epigenetic changes related to health across multiple bottlenose dolphin populations16
Literature, social media and questionnaire surveys identify relevant conservation areas for Carcharhinus species in the Mediterranean Sea16
Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions16
Assessing biodiversity patterns and conservation gaps in Mexican Opuntia: Integrating species richness, endemism, and protected area coverage16
The use and abuse of ecosystem service concepts and terms16
Editorial Board16
The biodiversity benefits of marine protected areas in well-regulated fisheries16
A 50-year perspective on conservation challenges and legacy effects in temperate Patagonian forests16
Iberian lynxes scavenging on ungulate carcasses: An overlooked important resource and potential risk for an endangered predator16
Colonization of new nesting areas could provide climate refuge to loggerhead turtles under climate change16
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
Integrating movement behaviours for intra-specific conservation: The caribou case16
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