OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Environmental Conservation is 2. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Do beetles indicate more predators and fewer pests in Lao PDR organic farms?	44
Evaluating guidelines as key components of conservation policies: a conceptual framework and a pilot application	44
Trade of legally protected orchids in Indonesian e-commerce markets	30
Old-growth grasslands of Central Anatolia (Türkiye) require better conservation and management	22
Ecological representation and conservation gaps of South Korea’s protected areas	22
A machine learning approach to mapping canopy gaps in an indigenous tropical submontane forest using WorldView-3 multispectral satellite imagery	19
Plant genetic diversity hotspots in South America’s largest desert: implications for dryland conservation planning	15
Tropical forests and cocoa production: synergies and threats in the chocolate market	15
The green iguana paradox: balancing conservation, trade and ecological security in invasive species management – CORRIGENDUM	15
Collaborative governance in practice: power, networks and inclusion in a biocultural landscape	14
Assessment of the effect of landowner type on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon using remote sensing data	14
Exploring the impacts of biodiversity loss perceptions on preferences and behaviours related to animal fur and skin product consumption	14
From social networks to bird enthusiasts: reporting interactions between plastic waste and birds in Peru	13
Changes in a Neotropical insectivorous bat community associated with artificial clearing of the forest in a geothermal project	12
ENC volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Front matter	10
Economic valuation of changes in ecosystem services of 77 Ramsar wetlands in West Asia over 37 years (1984–2021)	10
Climate change associated with local extinction in peripheral populations of the threatened Italian endemic plant Santolina etrusca (Asteraceae)	10
Pervasive mercury contamination of a semi-aquatic apex predator across the Pantanal wetland	10
Protected areas, habitat integrity and terrestrial mammal biodiversity in Lebanon	9
Multi-species approaches are necessary to optimize conservation: integrating a genetic algorithm with stochastic models in the Murray–Darling Basin (Australia)	9
Methodological approaches to assessing population-level impacts of bird collisions with wind turbines: a critical perspective	8
Protected but noisy: the extent of transportation noise in protected areas in a sparsely populated country	8
Forest cover and environment type shape functional diversity of insectivorous birds within the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	8
Applying geostatistical hotspot analyses to a ‘double-invaded’ plant–pest co-occurrence scenario	8
Mapping high-altitude peatlands to inform a landscape conservation strategy in the Andes of northern Peru	8

Brazilian President Lula’s Climate Authority challenge: pragmatism versus coalition politics	8
Assessing United Nations conservation-oriented days, years and decades through the lens of a change model	7
The elephant in the room: reconciling wildlife commodification and conservation	7
ENC volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Back matter	7
Bridging gaps in ecological security: spatial conservation prioritization through balancing ecological features in a great Chinese city	7
Natural area visitors’ potential role in preventing pathogen threats to amphibian biodiversity	7
ENC volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter	7
Brazil: environment under attack	7
Towards understanding capacity development as a system: perceptions from multiple conservation stakeholder groups in Bhutan	7
Can conservation and ecological restoration affect human health outcomes? A call for multidisciplinary contributions to a special series of papers in Environmental Conservation<	7
Recreational agroecosystem service value evidenced by mobile phone data: implications for incentive enhancement in terraced paddy land	7
Integrating habitat models for threatened species with landownership information to inform coastal resiliency and conservation planning	7
Indigenous co-produced research reveals impacts of industrial landscape change on mammal populations in a boreal foothills landscape	7
Pseudo-legal deforestation due to changes in the classification of native vegetation in Mato Grosso, Brazil	6
Can artificial intelligence support Bactrian camel conservation? Testing machine learning on aerial imagery in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert – CORRIGENDUM	6
Mammals lost and at risk of extinction in Jordan: historical analysis of constitutions and hunting laws	6
Socio-environmental responsibility in Iranian universities: a multidimensional perspective	6
The impact of Amazon deforestation is magnified by changing the configuration of forest cover	6
Invasive plants can modify the soil environment through litter decomposition	5
‘… And We have made from water every living thing’: water conservation and the Holy Qur’an	5
Amazonian forest conservation through sustainable use: evidence based on Brazil nut life histories linked to human occupation	5
Safeguarding China’s irreplaceable natural legacy: combating the illicit trade of old trees	5
Developing land-use planning scenarios in Türkiye to reduce water-induced soil erosion	4
Commuters: a waterbird provides a new view of how species may utilize cities and wildlands	4
Gold mining-derived water pollution and treatment in Latin America	4
Sacred groves: a model of Zagros forests for carbon sequestration and climate change mitigation	4
Analysing policy gaps in protecting avian species from electrocution and power-line collision in Kenya	4
Droughts and controlled rivers: how Belo Monte Dam has affected the food security of Amazonian riverine communities	4
Governments commit to forest restoration, but what does it take to restore forests?	4
Modelling pinyon pine distribution in the northern Great Basin, USA	3
Both restored forest and birdsong promote psychological well-being	3
Seeking conservation behaviour change: an intervention model to integrate environmental education and social network analysis in Sorkhrud Wetland (Iran)	3
Climate-driven animal mass mortality events: is there a role for scavengers?	3
Urban water footprint in Mashhad, Iran’s second largest city	3
Vulnerability of wilderness areas to day-use visits	3
Effect of land-use changes on the space–time distribution of ant diversity in the south-western Brazilian Amazon	3
How science communications can help build societal perceptions of invasive alien species and their impacts on the environment	3
ENC volume 49 issue 3 Cover and Front matter	3
Relational values shape people’s connectedness to nature in a former military protected area of Ecuador	3
Madagascar’s environmental and human histories are dynamic, complex and deeply intertwined	3
A biocultural hypothesis of human–environment mediations and biodiversity increase	3
Identifying medium- and large-sized mammal species sensitive to anthropogenic impacts for monitoring in subtropical montane forests	2
Spatiotemporal modelling assessment of land-cover dynamics in a Srinagar (India) wetland from 1991 to 2031	2
Greenness and biodiversity of open spaces in primary schools and their local surroundings in England	2
The Ethiopian wolf can act as a flagship and umbrella species to protect the Afroalpine ecosystem and foster sustainable development	2
Reimagining stormwater management: sustainable drainage pathways for resilient Indian cities	2
Conservation and indigenous peoples’ struggles for livelihoods: Suba Park (Ethiopia)	2
Expert-based assessment of the climate change vulnerability of amphibians and reptiles of Uruguay	2
Grass fires and road structure influence plant invasions in a critical wildlife habitat in north-eastern India	2
Gaps and biases in vertebrate wildlife genetics from a global biodiversity hotspot	2

Market–community collaborative wildlife management in Malawi: subjectivities and shifting configurations of protests and celebrations	2
Community perceptions of environmental water: a review	2
Chasing net zero: critical uncertainties in coffee emissions calculations	2
On the effectiveness of public awareness campaigns for the management of invasive species	2
Social development and biodiversity conservation synergies for the West African giraffe in a human–wildlife landscape	2