Biological Conservation

Article	Citations
How much more carbon could be protected in mature and old-growth forests of the United States?	130
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas	118
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models	91
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes	79
Declining floral color diversity alters bee color preferences in fragmented habitats	78
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]	77
Editorial Board	77
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages	72
Editorial Board	72
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert	71
Establishing viable European bison metapopulations in Central Europe	69
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians	66
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion	66
Editorial Board	62
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'	59
Quantitative assessment of ecological conservation effectiveness and spillover effects of China's first group of national parks	57
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes	55
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico	54
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa	54
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning	53
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests	53
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes	52
The influence of culpability, harm to animals, and professional education on attitudes about killing animals in the name of conservation	51
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model	51
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions	50

Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs	49
Effects of invasive American bullfrogs and their removal on Northwestern pond turtles	48
The conservation of migratory shorebirds needs to account for the different habitat selection patterns across species and between day and night	47
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies	47
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies	45
Vegetation change in dry grasslands in Northeast Germany over two decades: A resurvey	44
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade	44
Mesoscale ocean dynamics structure fisheries interaction risk for an endangered seabird	43
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population	43
Integrating habitat suitability, connectivity, and individual-based models to guide priorities for the creation of a lynx metapopulation in Southeastern Europe	43
Susceptibility of bats to ecological and evolutionary traps	42
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices	41
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity	41
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data	41
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition	41
Managing light and nutrients to restore plant diversity in temperate woodlands	41
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people	40
Corrigendum to “Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model” [Biol. Conserv. volume 298 (2024)/110756]	40
Editorial Board	40
Spatio-temporal interactions between snow leopards, prey, and livestock- implications for coexistence	40
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density	40
Response of a carnivore community to water management in a semi-arid savanna	40
Corrigendum to “The role of blue carbon in reversing mangrove degradation trends in Mexico” [Biol. Conserv. 298 (2024) 110775]	40
How pyrodiversity shapes bat communities in a southeastern Australian woodland	39
Slaying the hydra of journal impact factor obsession in evaluating conservation biology research	39
An approximation approach to spatial connectivity for a data-limited endangered species with implications for habitat restoration	39
Editorial Board	39
“Nature's contributions to people” and peoples' moral obligations to nature	38
Unstructured spatial gradients in anthropogenic landscapes drive contrasting rodent and bat metacommunities, underscoring the need for multiscale conservation planning	38
Assessing the effectiveness of potential protected areas and OECMs in conserving biodiversity against subsurface resource extraction impacts	38
Addressing Knowledge Shortfalls in Conservation Science: A long way to go, as quickly as possible	38
Economic value of nature via healthcare savings and productivity increases	37
The continued deficiency in environmental law enforcement illustrated by EU sanitary regulations for scavenger conservation	37
Far from a distraction: Plastic pollution and the planetary emergency	36
The socio-environmental impacts of tropical crop expansion on a global scale: A case study in cashew	36
Prescribed burning in montane Nardus grasslands: Fire frequency is key to balance vegetation structure and diversity	35
Amateurs can be experts: A new perspective on collaborations with citizen scientists	35
Are commercial wild-harvested plants just ordinary? Traits, harvesting patterns and conservation implications in France	35
Nowhere to fly: Avian malaria is ubiquitous from ocean to summit on a Hawaiian island	35
Who gets the spotlight? Disparities in seabird research attention at scientific conferences	33
A systematic approach for detecting abrupt shifts in ecological timeseries	33
Turtles and turnarounds: Small animal exclusion fencing effectively reduces turtle road mortality	33
Effects of roads on animals and mitigation measures in Asia	33
Integrating conservation priorities into spatial planning for renewable energy development: The case of the Spanish imperial eagle	32
Real-time automated species level detection of trade document systems to reduce illegal wildlife trade and improve data quality	32
Impacts of logging, hunting, and conservation on vocalizing biodiversity in Gabon	32
Impact of a ‘reverse keystone species’ on the temporal dynamics of bird communities in Australia	32
Conditions for collapse: Chronic nutrient enrichment increases native insect density linked to salt marsh dieback	31
Are populations of trees threatened by non-native herbivorous mammals more secure in New Zealand's national parks?	31
Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation	31

Does artificial light interfere with the activity of nocturnal mammals? An experimental study using road underpasses	31
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]	31
Representing biodiversity decline data by manipulating familiar audio files to create emotional responses: A novel sonification method of soundwave-level deletion	30
Recovery of local agrobiodiversity after an extreme flood in Amazon floodplains	30
Corrigendum to “Snow leopards or solar parks? Reconciling wildlife conservation and green energy development in the high Himalaya” [Biol. Conserv. 299 (2024) 110793]	30
The intrinsic and extrinsic drivers of extinction risk in lemurs (Lemuroidea)	30
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management	30
Stakeholder solutions to human-wildlife conflicts: Co-created adaptive impact management for wild red deer, Cervus elaphus, in the English Lake District	29
Community-based conservation surveillance: an ethnographic analysis of the drivers and obstacles of local reporting on rhino and plains game poaching in Namibia	29
Determinants of livestock depredation risk by Persian leopards in southern Iran	29
Partitioning the influence of host specificity in amphibian populations threatened by multiple emerging infectious diseases	29
Non-native minnows cause much larger negative effects than trout on littoral macroinvertebrates of high mountain lakes	28
Comments on: “Rewilding a vanishing taxon–Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”. Stark and Schwarz 2024. Biological Conservation 292, 110559	28
A red listing gap analysis of molluscs and crustaceans in Northern Europe: What has happened in the last 10 years?	28
Reversing net loss but aggravating fragmentation of habitat in the global Asian elephant range in the mid-2010s	28
Maintaining shallow waters to maximize the potential of saltpans as foraging habitat for migratory shorebirds along an endangered flyway	28
Bumblebee queen mortality along roads increase with traffic	27
Forest gaps around wind turbines attract bat species with high collision risk	27
Higher levels of protection do not consistently improve habitat quality: Insights from Mediterranean and Alpine shrublands	27
Quantifying drivers of decline: A case study of long-term changes in arboreal marsupial detections	27
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion	27
The return of the kinga (saltwater crocodile): Population ‘bust then boom’ shapes shifting baselines in Indigenous biocultural knowledge in northern Australia	27
Where are we now with European forest multi-taxon biodiversity and where can we head to?	27
Evaluating different approaches to integrate genome-wide genetic diversity in spatial conservation prioritization	27
Understanding the diversity of values underpinning forest conservation	27
How far are birds, bats, and terrestrial mammals displaced from onshore wind power development? – A systematic review	27
Genetic networks in ecology: A guide to population, relatedness, and pedigree networks and their applications in conservation biology	27
Timber harvest and wildfires drive long-term habitat dynamics for an arboreal rodent	27
Poacher pays? Judges' liability decisions in a mock trial about environmental harm caused by illegal wildlife trade	26
Indicators of regional high capacity well impacts predicts fen floristic quality and composition in Wisconsin calcareous fens	26
Vulture feeding stations threaten Iberian lynx	26
Editorial Board	26
Cumulative effects on habitat networks: How greedy should we be?	26
Hunting regulations as a conservation tool: Hunters' views on the European turtle-dove moratorium	26
Editorial Board	26
Beyond classical invasions hypotheses: Investigating the impact of agricultural landscape simplification on wild pig populations	25
Social media data can inform the Global Biodiversity Framework	25
Rate and extent of genetic diversity loss under non-equilibrium scenarios of habitat loss	25
Impact of price shocks and payments on crop diversification and forest use among Malagasy vanilla farmers	25
Engaging citizens to monitor pollinators through a nationwide BioBlitz: Lessons learned and challenges remaining after four years	25
Expanding a network of marine protected areas based on functional rather than structural connectivity is more profitable	25
Framework for assessing species vulnerability whilst on migration to a spatially explicit anthropogenic pressure	25
Breeding season management is unlikely to improve population viability of a data-deficient migratory species in decline	24
Assessing ambitious nature conservation strategies in a below 2-degree and food-secure world	24
Connected Conservation: Rethinking conservation for a telecoupled world	24
Using stored seeds for plant translocation: The seed bank perspective	24
Beware of the impact of land use legacy on genetic connectivity: A case study of the long-lived perennial Primula veris	24
The effects of habitat heterogeneity, as measured by satellite image texture, on tropical forest bird distributions	24
Long-term changes of zooplankton in alpine lakes result from a combination of local and global threats	24
Impacts of nature deprivations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A pre-post comparison	24
Merging integrated population models and individual-based models to project population dynamics of recolonizing species	24
Exploring attitudes to biodiversity conservation and Half-Earth vision in Nigeria: A preliminary study of community attitudes to conservation in Yankari Game Reserve	23
The threat of COVID-19 to the conservation of Tanzanian national parks	23
Quantifying the landscape-scale recovery of bird communities over time in response to on-farm restoration plantings	23
Investigating the planning efficiency of species richness- and complementarity-based algorithms in data deficient areas	23
Assessing the potential for “assisted gene flow” to enhance heat tolerance of multiple coral genera over three key phenotypic traits	23
The incursion of free-ranging dogs into protected areas: A spatio-temporal analysis in a network of giant panda reserves	23
Terrestrial lidar reveals new information about habitats provided by large old trees	23
The sound of recovery: Integrating acoustics into fish status assessments and recovery strategies	23
Using automated passive acoustic monitoring to measure changes in bird and bat vocal activity around hedgerows of different ages	23
Argentina's rejection of 2030 agenda undermines environmental sustainability and human well-being	23
Reconnecting stranded public lands is a win-win for conservation and people	23
The impact assessment: A hidden form of flexibility in the mitigation hierarchy	22
Demography of endangered juvenile green turtles in face of environmental changes: 10 years of capture-mark-recapture efforts in Martinique	22
Reply to comments on “Rewilding a vanishing taxon – Restoring aquatic ecosystems using amphibians”	22
Response letter to correspondence letter: “Tropical deforestation: elections vs. bad governance”	22
Interpreting and integrating multiple endemism metrics to identify hotspots for conservation priorities	22
Smaller human populations are still not a necessary condition for biodiversity conservation: A response to Cafaro et al. (2023)	22
Forecasting hotspots of climatic suitability for grassland restoration under climate change in North America	22
Corrigendum to “Between Hype and Hope: De-extinction is a tool, not a panacea for the biodiversity crisis” [Biol. Conserv. volume 309 (2025) 111307]	22
The potential of semi-structured citizen science data as a supplement for conservation decision-making: Validating the performance of eBird against targeted avian monitoring efforts	22
Ecological cascades following trophic rewilding: A case of study with dung beetles in the Iberá wetlands of Argentina	22
A megafauna in distress: Unsustainable exploitation of tiger sharks in the Arabian Sea and implications for conservation	22
Spatial ecology of recolonized elk in agricultural landscapes of the Northern Great Plains	22
Regime shifts, extinctions and long transients in models of population dynamics with density-dependent dispersal	21
Synthesizing connectivity information from migratory marine species for area-based management	21
Extreme events delay the detection of marine protected area effects: Implications for monitoring and management	21
Assessing the impact of transport infrastructure construction on breeding birds: A long term before-during-after experiment on female bustards	21
Five years of the ivory ban in China: Developments, limitations, and potential for improvement	21
Corroboration and contradictions in global biodiversity indicators	21

Transboundary conservation opportunities for Cerrado's plant species	21
Towards achieving a twenty-fold increase in the coverage of freshwater species distributions within protected areas in Europe	21
Strategic monitoring to minimize misclassification errors from conservation status assessments	21
Long-term research presence mitigates hunting pressure and shapes mammal communities in the Congo Basin	21
Symbols, wolves and conflicts	21
Geodiversity conservation in the Cerrado: Representation of geophysical scenarios in the biome's protected areas network	21
Major mining road could be death knell for Sumatra's lowland rainforests	21
Fragile plant-frugivore interaction networks in tropical forest edges	20
Future increases in fire should inform present management of fire-infrequent forests: A post-smoke critique of “asbestos” paradigms in the northeastern USA and beyond	20
Anthropogenic water depletion outweighs climate change as a cause of wet grassland bird decline in Lake Neusiedl – Seewinkel National Park	20
Linking short-term movement rate of pelagic-broadcast spawning fishes to river fragment length and conservation status	20
Saharan vertebrate flagships are good ecosystem-wide climate response surrogates	20
Range-wide phylogeography of the golden jackals (Canis aureus) reveals multiple sources of recent spatial expansion and admixture with dogs at the expansion front	20
An expert-based global assessment of threats and conservation measures for subterranean ecosystems	20
CITES makes a measurable difference to the trade in live marine fishes: The pioneering case of seahorses	20
Plant endemic diversity in the Irano-Anatolian global biodiversity hotspot is dramatically threatened by future climate change	20
Designing locally-appropriate conservation incentives for small-scale fishers	20
Vanishing meadows — Quantitative analysis of factors driving population declines of endangered butterflies	20
Estimating nitrogen risk to Himalayan forests using thresholds for lichen bioindicators	20
A case for occupancy as a state variable for wild bee monitoring	20
Threatened European butterflies concentrate in areas of strong climatic change and atmospheric deposition pressure	20
Footprint of state border infrastructure extends beyond the border: Tree damage and roadkill along a road in Białowieża Forest, northeastern Poland	20
Honeybees prevail at native wildflowers distant from wildland apiaries	20
Applying sperm collection and cryopreservation protocols developed in a model amphibian to three threatened anuran species targeted for biobanking management	20
Is net illumination a silver bullet for mitigating sea turtle bycatch in set net fisheries?	20
Meadow orchards as a good practice example for improving biodiversity in intensive apple orchards	20
Taking natural harms seriously in compassionate conservation	20
How 30 years of land-use changes have affected habitat suitability and connectivity for Atlantic Forest species	19
Identifying complementary conservation and restoration priority areas for plant species	19
Book review	19
Road disturbance drives a more simplified soundscape in temperate forests revealed by deep learning and acoustics indices	19
Harnessing historic records and long-term monitoring data to evaluate amphibian extinction dynamics	19
IUCN Red List criteria fail to recognise most threatened and extinct species	19
Environmental factors and soil properties that drive the distribution and diversity patterns of weeds and ecosystem multifunctionality in alpine grassland	19
Too much of a good thing? Supplementing current species observations with fossil data to assess climate change vulnerability via ecological niche models	19
Small patches have high conservation value for primates	19
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) 1	19
Do pinch points in conservation corridors matter? A test case using localized butterflies and grasshoppers	19
Addressing agricultural labour issues is key to biodiversity-smart farming	19
Assessing costs and cost-effectiveness across the mitigation hierarchy: An example considering the reduction of bird mortality at power lines	19
Drivers of population dynamics of at-risk populations change with pathogen arrival	19
Agricultural certification as a complementary tool for environmental law compliance	18
Press, pulse, and squeeze: Is climatic equilibrium ever possible on mountains?	18
Conservation prioritization based on plant richness and endemism in Myanmar	18
Exclosure from browsing by invasive ungulates increases species richness and diversity of ground flora in rainforests of New Caledonia	18
Response to “Response to “Knowledge gaps do not preclude extinction risk assessments: a response to Gula et al. (2023)””	18
Climate change influences the risk of physically harmful human-wildlife interactions	18
Life-cycle analysis of an endangered migratory goose to assess the impact of conservation actions on population recovery	18
Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data	18
Psychological ownership of nature: A conceptual elaboration and research agenda	18
Demographic mechanisms and anthropogenic drivers of contrasting population dynamics of hummingbirds	18
Challenges and bottlenecks for butterfly conservation in a highly anthropogenic region: Europe's worst case scenario revisited	18
Witnessing mass extinction: What's invisible, what's visible, what's possible	18
Marine predator super-habitats: Channels used for foraging, resting, mating, and parturition in sharks	18
Environmental drivers of spatial variation in myrtle rust development on a critically endangered tree species	18
The Białowieża Forest as an example of the resilience of long-term studies in a changing world	18
Conservation assessment of raptors within the USA and Canada	18
Rediscovery and future approaches to conservation of the elusive giant salmon carp Aaptosyax grypus, a Critically Endangered megafish in the Mekong	18
Predicting carnivore habitat use and livestock depredation risk with false-positive multi-state occupancy models	18
Biodiversity and the human past: Lessons for conservation biology	17
Drivers of human-saiga antelope conflict in semi-arid rangelands of West Kazakhstan	17
Using movement models and systematic conservation planning to inform marine protected area design for a multi-species predator community	17
Conserving genetic diversity hotspots under climate change: Are protected areas helpful?	17
At sea mortality estimates of loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Southwestern Atlantic Ocean	17
The COVID19 confinement revealed negative anthropogenic effects of unsustainable tourism on endangered birds	17
Practical models to guide the transition of California condors from a conservation-reliant to a self-sustaining species	17
Dealing with a Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans outbreak in Italy: Are conservationists prepared?	17
Influence of traffic volume on mammal beta diversity within the road effect zone	17
Protected areas serve as climate refugia by reducing thermal stress in lizards	17
Genetic rescue attempt in a small, inbred population of a wild endangered passerine	17
Land-sparing and land-sharing provide complementary benefits for conserving avian biodiversity in coffee-growing landscapes	17
New methods to derive sea turtle nester abundance from nest counts: Ground truthing and the bias of current approaches	17
Representations of human–elephant interactions on YouTube: Analyzing content and engagement to inform sustainable practices for wildlife tourism	17
Snaring devastates terrestrial ungulates whilst sparing arboreal primates in Cambodia's Eastern Plains Landscape	17
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
How nature experience and nature connectedness matter to school students' attitudes towards biodiversity	17
Editorial Board	17
The role of ‘bright spots’ in elevating conservation success in Canada	17
Promising governance approaches for reversing biodiversity loss	17
Trends in the global trade of live CITES-listed raptors: Trade volumes, spatiotemporal dynamics and conservation implications	17
Considering behavioral state when predicting habitat use: Behavior-specific spatial models for the endangered Tasmanian wedge-tailed eagle	17
A global assessment of the prevalence of current and potential future infrastructure in Key Biodiversity Areas	17
Impacts of future permafrost degradation and human modification on terrestrial vertebrates	17
Prioritising challenges and actions for freshwater conservation in a tropical biodiversity hotspot	17
Jaguar (Panthera onca) density and population size across protected areas and indigenous lands in the Amazon biome, its largest stronghold	17
Environmental gradients drive context-dependent seed fate: Synergistic roles of forest succession, edge effects, and masting in shaping rodent dispersal dynamics	17
Feral cat video collars reveal differences in hunting behaviour between mammal, reptile and insect prey	16
Effects of fragmentation on grassland plant diversity depend on the habitat specialization of species	16
Population viability in data deficient nomadic species: What it will take to save regent honeyeaters from extinction	16
Contrasting effects of wind farm disturbances on multi-dimensional competition and coexistence of sympatric mesocarnivores	16
The transformative potential of local stakeholder engagement in the reintroduction of a contested species	16
Analysing land cover patterns in relation to fencing of African national parks	16
Land use-driven shifts in shorebird habitat connectivity along the Yellow and Bohai Sea coasts: Dynamics and scenario predictions	16
Understanding rogue behaviour provides insight for limiting damage by a global bird predator	16
Restoration of forests supports the conservation of pollinators in intensively managed agricultural landscapes	16