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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Extinction risk categorization in the IUCN Red List: Comment on “The US Endangered Species Act and acceptable risk”190
A global review of landscape-scale analyses in bats reveals geographic and taxonomic biases and opportunities for novel research119
Editorial Board106
How risky is to live among us? Assessing the population viability of two South American wild canids in an agroecosystem90
Extreme climatic events modulate chytrid infection across the landscape87
Using deep learning to automate the detection of bird scaring lines on fishing vessels77
Running to stand still: The application of substandard OECMs in national and provincial policy in Canada76
Declines in greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis) geographic range and realised niche are best explained by the invasive red fox (Vulpes vulpes)72
Anthropogenic climate change increases vulnerability of Magnolia species more in Asia than in the Americas72
The minimum land areas required for maximizing biodiversity conservation66
Ecological Peace Corridors: A new conservation strategy to protect human and biological diversity63
Long-term trends in the extent of Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection in little brown myotis60
Evaluating strategies for managing koala chlamydiosis using dynamic models59
Local ecological predictions as input to adaptive management of natural plant communities58
Stakeholder workshops on western Baltic cod fisheries–conflict and consensus in the face of a highly dynamic ecosystem58
Book review56
Space use of a diverse megafauna community in a rewilding area in the southwestern Carpathians54
Shifts in habitat suitability for harbour porpoises leads to reduced importance of marine protected areas53
Disentangling the impacts of soil moisture and vapour pressure deficit on biodiversity patterns and conservation value of tropical forests in Ghana, West Africa50
Compassionate conservation in practice: A values-driven, interdisciplinary, pluralistic, and deliberative community49
Applying fuzzy logic cognitive modeling to integrate socio-ecological knowledge for carnivore conflict management49
Quantifying impacts of seabird bycatch using genetic assignment: A case study of black-footed albatross in U.S. fisheries49
Ecological mechanisms of canopy thinning: Insights into biodiversity recovery in neglected coppice47
The hidden dimension of poaching: A novel survey method shows that local demand for pets largely outnumbers domestic and international trade of neotropical parrots46
Distribution and temporal trends in the abundance of nesting sea turtles in the Red Sea46
Fire as a management tool for invasive woody plants in natural environments: A systematic review45
Place-based data justice practices for collaborative conservation research: A critical review44
How to halve the carbon and biodiversity impacts of biofuel-driven land-use change in Brazil44
Monitoring threatened species with environmental DNA and open ecological data: Local distribution and habitat preferences of scalloped hammerhead sharks (Sphyrna lewini)43
Positive effects of low grazing intensity on East African bee assemblages mediated by increases in floral resources43
Prevalence of endangered shark trophies in automated detection of the online wildlife trade43
Ecological assessment and identification strategy of key conservation areas: A case study of the south Taihang Mountains region42
Editorial Board42
An investigation of outdoor recreational users' willingness to participate in aquatic invasive plant control42
Communicating information about the psychology of a wild carnivore, the red fox, influences perceived attitudinal changes but not overall tolerance in people42
Current management practices do not adequately safeguard endangered plant species in conservation collections41
Understanding continent-wide variation in vulture ranging behavior to assess feasibility of Vulture Safe Zones in Africa: Challenges and possibilities41
The decline of large carnivores in Africa and opportunities for change41
Unraveling the real magnitude of illegal wildlife poisoning to halt cryptic biodiversity loss40
Connectivity-based approach to guide conservation and restoration of seagrass Posidonia oceanica in the NW Mediterranean40
Climate- and scale-dependent sex ratio in threatened Araucaria forests39
Assessing the ecosystem services and disservices provided by migratory wildlife across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem38
Ecosystem restoration with local or broad seed provenancing: Debates and perceptions in science and practice38
Variety among physical landscape features in natural grassland-plantation forestry mosaics promotes diverse butterfly assemblages38
The conservation potential of protected areas over time measured through design and ecological integrity indicators is affected by land conversion37
Large biodiversity datasets conform to Benford's law: Implications for assessing sampling heterogeneity37
Lessons learned from an interdisciplinary evaluation of long-term restoration outcomes on 37 restored coastal grasslands in California37
Measuring forest degradation via ecological-integrity indicators at multiple spatial scales36
Historical landscape matters for threatened species in French mountain forests36
Environmental and anthropogenic drivers of African leopard Panthera pardus population density36
In defence of soil biodiversity: Towards an inclusive protection in the European Union36
A review of two decades of government support for managing alien plant invasions in South Africa36
Shortfalls in tracking data available to inform North American migratory bird conservation36
Research and conservation priorities to protect wildlife from collisions with vehicles35
Saving the sea turtles of Anguilla: Combining scientific data with community perspectives to inform policy decisions35
Genetic integrity of European wildcats: Variation across biomes mandates geographically tailored conservation strategies34
Timing land protection to exploit favorable market conditions34
Trade-offs in the conservation of phylogenetically distinctive species33
Functional connectivity of an imperilled Arctic ungulate – where melting sea ice and human trails increase isolation33
Canopy cover mediates the effects of a decadal increase in time since fire on arboreal birds32
Environmental DNA as a management tool for tracking artificial waterhole use in savanna ecosystems32
Estimating reductions in the risk of vessels striking whales achieved by management strategies32
Editorial Board32
Editorial Board32
Quiet islands in a world of fear: Wolves seek core zones of protected areas to escape human disturbance31
Editorial Board31
Editorial Board31
Insights into the dynamics of wolf occupancy in human-dominated landscapes30
How much Araucaria Mixed Forest remains? Novel perspectives on conservation status based on satellite imagery and policy review30
Positive but un-sustained wildlife community responses to reserve expansion and mammal reintroductions in South Africa30
Landscape-scale peatland rewetting benefits aquatic invertebrate communities30
Anticipating the effects of climate warming and natural habitat conversion on waterbird communities to address protection gaps30
Diet responses of two apex carnivores (lions and leopards) to wild prey depletion and livestock availability30
Conservation assessment based on large-scale monitoring of eDNA: Application to freshwater mussels29
Evidence of widespread declines in Kenya's raptor populations over a 40-year period29
Putting eagle rays on the map by coupling aerial video-surveys and deep learning29
Abandonment or biomass production? Phytodiversity responses to land-use changes of semi-natural grasslands in northern Europe29
Cetacean conservation and the ethics of captivity29
An interview-based investigation of marine megafauna bycatch in the northern South China Sea28
Milkweed plants bought at nurseries may expose monarch caterpillars to harmful pesticide residues28
Science learning in biodiversity citizen science: Inputs from the analysis of online social interactions within a contributory project for pollinators' monitoring28
Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a south American deforestation hotspot28
Mechanisms of deer (Cervidae) impacts on birds: A comprehensive review28
Prioritizing restoration areas to conserve multiple sagebrush-associated wildlife species28
Using range size to augment regional priority listing of charismatic insects28
Scientists' warning of an imperiled ocean28
Combining simulation and empirical data to explore the scope for social network interventions in conservation28
Can vulture feeding stations have detrimental effects on Iberian Lynx conservation?27
Eagle effects on seabird productivity: Effects of a natural experiment27
Book review27
Editorial Board27
Rapid and continuing regional decline of butterflies in eastern Denmark 1993-201927
The mitigation hierarchy in environmental impact assessment and related legislation as a tool for species conservation: A case study of western chimpanzees and mining development27
First, do no harm? Dark logic models, social injustice, and the prevention of iatrogenic conservation outcomes27
Artificial ponds can be ecological traps for amphibians: A case study from Chuxiong Prefecture, Yunnan, China27
Editorial Board27
Cattle ranchers' tolerance to jaguar revealed through a spectrum of intended behaviours across a gradient of losses in a gamified survey-based field experiment27
Sparing old-growth maximises conservation outcomes within selectively logged Amazonian rainforest26
Extinction risk assessment of the endemic terrestrial vertebrates in Mexico26
Linnean and Wallacean shortfalls in the knowledge of arthropod species in Chile: Challenges and implications for regional conservation26
Book review26
Monitoring the online ant trade reveals high biological invasion risk26
Editorial Board26
Grazing regime effects on bird biodiversity overwhelmed by an interference competitor26
In the songs of Hainan gibbons: Automated individual dynamic monitoring from acoustic recordings25
Northern boreal caribou conservation should focus on anthropogenic disturbance, not disturbance-mediated apparent competition25
Long-term assessment of resilience of avian assemblages following a major hurricane25
Integrating opportunistic and structured non-invasive surveys with spatial capture-recapture models to map connectivity of the Pyrenean brown bear population25
Climate change adaptation for biodiversity in protected areas: An overview of actions25
Traditional shade coffee forest systems act as refuges for medium- and large-sized mammals as natural forest dwindles in Ethiopia25
Ignore rapid evolution at our peril: response to25
Prioritizing conservation of terrestrial orchids: A gap analysis for Italy25
The global distribution of protected areas management strategies and their complementarity for biodiversity conservation25
The asymptotic environmentally determined trajectory (aedt), key to understanding and managing ecological systems under climate change25
Translocation precipitates natural hybridisation and pervasive introgression between marine gastropods with divergent developmental modes24
Temporal dynamics of sagebrush songbird abundance in relation to energy development24
Reappraising the use of forearm rings for bat species24
Effects of landscape structure and land use on turtle communities across the eastern United States24
Do people who experience more nature act more to protect it? A meta-analysis24
The value of unprotected land for future conservation efforts under dynamic conditions24
Bending the curve: Operationalizing national Red Lists to customize conservation actions to reduce extinction risk24
The growing role of women in coral reef research in the Gulf Cooperation Council24
Navigating complex geopolitical landscapes: Challenges in conserving the endangered Arabian wolf24
When introduced prey violates trophic hierarchy: Conservation of an endangered predator24
Distribution models combined with standardized surveys reveal widespread habitat loss in a threatened turtle species24
The unknownness of biodiversity: Its value and ethical significance for conservation action24
Ant rarity and vulnerability in Brazilian Atlantic Forest fragments24
Birds seen and not seen during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of lockdown measures on citizen science bird observations24
Management plans for Korean national parks to conserve the habitat of the Korean fir (Abies koreana)23
Factors affecting the consumption intention of game meats: Integrating theory of planned behavior and norm activation model23
Concomitant effects of multiple disturbances (logging, fire, biological invasion) on native tree abundances into West Africa's semi-deciduous forests23
Limited cougar recolonization of eastern North America predicted by an individual-based model23
Visit, investigate, ignore: Olfactory misinformation reduces browsing damage to valued seedlings by a mammalian herbivore23
Visitors to national parks show positive attitudes towards recolonising wolves in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem23
Stuck in the mud: Persistent failure of ‘the science’ to provide reliable information on the ecological roles of Australian dingoes23
Ski resorts threaten climate refugia for high-elevation biodiversity under current and future conditions in the Alps23
Testing the thermal squeeze hypothesis: Do temperature and invasive species determine vital rates of New Zealand's forest birds?23
Mapping multigroup responses to land cover legacy for urban biodiversity conservation23
Predicting global seasonal distributions and population exchange routes of a Critically Endangered shark23
Adapting to novel fire regimes: Using movement to inform conservation of a threatened arboreal mammal23
Ecological and social justice should proceed hand-in-hand in conservation23
Climate change may affect the future of extractivism in the Brazilian Amazon22
Equal use of Indigenous and scientific knowledge in species assessments: A case study from the Northwest Territories, Canada22
Potential wilderness loss could undermine the post-2020 global biodiversity framework22
An organizational framework for effective conservation organizations22
Landscape-scale population trends in the occurrence and abundance of wildlife populations using long term camera-trapping data22
Challenges and opportunities in planning for the conservation of Neotropical seasonally dry forests into the future22
Advances, challenges, and directions for ecological restoration by direct seeding of trees: Lessons from Brazil22
Conservation of the critically endangered Box-gum grassy woodlands with ecosystem accounting in Australia22
Comparing occupancy and activity metrics for assessing temporal trends in vulnerable bat populations22
A systematic conservation plan identifying critical areas for improved chondrichthyan protection in South Africa22
Harlequin frog rediscoveries provide insights into species persistence in the face of drastic amphibian declines22
Re-centering social justice in conservation science: Progressive policies, methods, and practices22
What drives the illegal parrot trade? Applying a criminological model to market and seizure data in Indonesia22
Fighting neobiota with neobiota: Consider it more often and do it more rigorously22
Corrigendum to “Habitats, agricultural practices, and population dynamics of a threatened species: The European turtle dove in France” [Biol. Conserv. 274 (2022) 109730]21
Predator tourism improves tolerance for pumas, but may increase future conflict among ranchers in Chile21
Fine-grained data and models of protected-area management costs reveal cryptic effects of budget shortfalls21
Warming drives cryptic declines of amphibians in eastern Brazil21
Predicting the impacts of human population growth on forest mammals in the highlands of southwestern Ethiopia21
Using historical data to estimate bumble bee occurrence: Variable trends across species provide little support for community-level declines21
Potential distribution and connectivity for recolonizing cougars in the Great Lakes region, USA21
The last hotspots of structural complexity as conservation targets in the Mesoamerican Coral Reef21
Predicting range shifts for critically endangered plants: Is habitat connectivity irrelevant or necessary?21
Integrated assessments call for establishing a sustainable meta-population of Amur tigers in northeast Asia21
How Instagram users influence nature conservation: A case study on protected areas in Central Europe20
Do media reports reflect the real threats to wildlife?20
Anthropogenic vulnerability assessment of global terrestrial protected areas with a new framework20
Downscaling the Atlantic Forest biodiversity hotspot: Using the distribution of bats to find smaller hotspots with conservation priority20
Strong phenological shifts among bumblebee species in North America can help predict extinction risk20
Reducing seed predation by introduced rodents helps, but is insufficient, to prevent long-term decline of common forest trees20
Major threats to a migratory raptor vary geographically along the eastern Mediterranean flyway20
Pyrodiversity trade-offs: A simulation study of the effects of fire size and dispersal ability on native mammal populations in northern Australian savannas20
Even after armed conflict, the environmental quality of Indigenous Peoples' lands in biodiversity hotspots surpasses that of non-Indigenous lands19
Southwest China, the last refuge of continental primates in East Asia19
Size requirements of intact forest landscapes for effective biodiversity conservation under regional fire regimes and climate change19
Dust storms ahead: Climate change, green energy development and endangered species in the Mojave Desert19
Prioritizing taxa for genetic reference database development to advance inland water conservation19
Stealth advocacy in ecology and conservation biology19
Closely related aliens lead to greater extinction risk19
Spatial patterns, underlying drivers and conservation priorities of orchids in the central Himalaya19
Conserving nature's chorus: Local and landscape features promoting frog species richness in farm dams19
Integrating environmental, evolutionary, and socioeconomic vulnerability to future-proof coastal conservation planning19
Genetic footprints of fire: Understanding the genetic implications of fire regimes for fauna and effective conservation strategies19
When money meets tradition: How new cash incomes could be risky for a vulnerable ecosystem19
Predicting the loss of forests, carbon stocks and biodiversity driven by a neotropical ‘gold rush’19
The escalating global problem of accidental human-mediated transport of alien species: A case study using alien herpetofauna interceptions in New Zealand19
Spatial prioritization of amphibian intraspecific genetic diversity: The need of accounting for palaeoenvironmental legacies18
A systematic review of equity perceptions and outcomes in marine conservation18
Spatial conservation planning of forest genetic resources in a Mediterranean multi-refugial area18
Riparian forest patches are critical for forest affiliated birds in farmlands of temperate Chile18
Fruit trees and herbaceous plants increase functional and phylogenetic diversity of birds in smallholder rubber plantations18
Fifteen years of elasmobranchs trade unveiled by DNA tools: Lessons for enhanced monitoring and conservation actions18
Identification of biodiversity priority conservation areas in China by integrating genetic, species and ecosystem diversity18
Do as I say, not as I do – The paradoxical relationship between actual cat keeping practices and knowledge about wildcat conservation among Hungarian cat owners18
Natural shading is helpful but not sufficient for mitigating warming in green sea turtle nests in the tropical South China Sea18
Drivers of agricultural producers' tolerance towards less-charismatic avian species18
The impact factor of engaged research: Metrics for conservation outcomes18
Modeling coupled dynamics of an empirical predator-prey system to predict top predator recovery18
Jaguar conservation is caught in the crossfire of America's 'War on Drugs'18
Back from the dead? Not really. The tale of the Galapagos shark (Carcharhinus galapagensis) in a remote Brazilian archipelago18
The benefits of heterogeneity in spatial prioritisation within coral reef environments17
Not all farms are created equal: Shady African cocoa farms promote a richer bat fauna17
The application of reflexivity for conservation science17
Telemetry-based home range and habitat modelling reveals that the majority of areas important for pygmy blue whales are currently unprotected17
The fierce urgency of now for biodiversity conservation, reply to Briones-Hidrovo and Muñoz-Ulecia (2022)17
The values of biological diversity: A perspective from China17
Multiple measures of biodiversity change make for the strongest analyses with historical data – Reply to17
Drivers of transgression: What pushes people to enter protected areas17
Biodiversity of pollinators in agricultural landscapes and the role of weather and conservation management17
Is nuclear energy the way? A response to Mateo-Tomás & López-Bao (2022) “A nuclear future for biodiversity conservation?”17
Boldness cannot save osprey in its Mediterranean ecosystem: A reply to Martinez-Abrain et al17
Risk avoidance during dispersal: Temporal and behavioral shifts in selection by non-resident eastern wolves (Canis c.f. lycaon)17
The bear-berry connection: Ecological and management implications of brown bears' food habits in a highly touristic protected area17
Effects of agricultural intensity and landscape pattern on terrestrial birds in China's agroecosystem differ between temperature zones17
Understanding and predicting infection dynamics for an endangered amphibian using long-term surveys of wild and translocated frogs17
Assessing fatality minimization for hoary bats amid continued wind energy development17
Riding the elevator to extinction: Disjunct arctic-alpine plants of open habitats decline as their more competitive neighbours expand17
Changing the landscape: Short-term disruption of recruitment, height growth and flowering of endemic plants on macaronesian heathlands by invasive alien rabbits17
Dynamic behaviour of fish with swim bladders subjected to underwater explosions and methods for mitigating injuries17
Overview of the Great Barrier Reef sea cucumber fishery with focus on vulnerable and endangered species16
Prevalence of illegal turtle trade on social media and implications for wildlife trade monitoring16
Misrelating values and empirical matters in conservation: A problem and solutions16
Conservation concern for Europe's hedgehog species (Erinaceidae): Current statuses, issues and needs16
Trade-offs between passive and trophic rewilding for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning16
No more trouble: An economic strategy to protect taxonomic, functional and phylogenetic diversity of continental turtles16
Leopard population density varies across habitats and management strategies in a mixed-use Tanzanian landscape16
An assessment of spatial conservation priorities for biodiversity attributes: Composition, structure, and function of Neotropical biodiversity16
A low-density yet stable population of Indochinese tigers (Panthera tigris corbetti) may be the key to recovery in a half-empty landscape in eastern Thailand16
A minimum of 15% semi-natural habitat facilitates adequate wild pollinator visitation to a pollinator-dependent crop16
Many losers and few winners in dung beetle responses to Amazonian forest fragmentation16
Restoration measures foster biodiversity of important primary consumers within calcareous grasslands16
Recording tree-related microhabitats to assess riparian forest contribution to biodiversity in landscapes dominated by conifer plantations16
Addressing the urgent climate and biodiversity crisis through strategic ecosystem restoration in Brazil16
Current conservation policies in the UK and Ireland overlook endangered insects and are taxonomically biased towards Lepidoptera16
To mix or not to mix gene pools for threatened species management? Few studies use genetic data to examine the risks of both actions, but failing to do so leads disproportionately to recommendations f16
Management diversity begets biodiversity in production forest landscapes16
The normative postulate problem: Hidden values in ecology, evolution, and conservation16
Editorial Board16
Animal population decline and recovery after severe fire: Relating ecological and life history traits with expert estimates of population impacts from the Australian 2019-20 megafires16
Lost and found coastal wetlands: Lessons learned from mapping estuaries across the USA16
A review of the current global status of blast fishing: Causes, implications and solutions16
Traditional human practices protect diversity of open forests threatened by ticking nutrient time bomb15
Killing with kindness: Does widespread generalised provisioning of wildlife help or hinder biodiversity conservation efforts?15
Functional structure of European forest beetle communities is enhanced by rare species15
Centres of neo- and paleo-endemism for Chinese woody flora and their environmental features15
Social justice for traditional knowledge holders will help conserve Europe's nature15
Framework for assessing and mitigating the impacts of offshore wind energy development on marine birds15
Marine ecotourism for small pelagics as a source of alternative income generating activities to fisheries in a tropical community15
Counting plants: The extent and adequacy of monitoring for a continental-scale list of threatened plant species15
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