Conservation Biology

Article	Citations
Closing the gap between existing large‐area imaging research and marine conservation needs	129
Noted with Interest	121
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Global assessment of the biodiversity safeguards of development banks that finance infrastructure	80
Quantifying the impacts of future shoreline modification on biodiversity in a case study of coastal Georgia, United States	79
A call to include fungi in wildlife trade research and policy	65
How to prioritize species recovery after a megafire	60
Delayed plant genetic responses to forest edge dynamics and their conservation implications	59
Integrating expert range maps and opportunistic occurrence records of marine fish species in range estimates	52
How scientists can make the case for international cooperation in an age of diplomatic retrenchment	52
Issue Information	50
Impact of global change on the distribution of mountain mammals and birds	50
Conservation and coexistence at a crossroads	49
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Contributions of the IUCN Red List of Ecosystems to risk‐based design and management of protected and conserved areas in Africa	47
Centering geospatial data uncertainty and the potential for injustice in pastoralist rangeland conservation prioritization	44
Conservation priorities for functionally unique and specialized terrestrial vertebrates threatened by biological invasions	43
A Review and Critique of Methods and Knowledge Gaps in Quantifying Spillover Effects from Protected Areas	42
Optimizing efficiency and resilience of no‐take marine protected areas for fish conservation under climate change along the coastlines of China Seas	41
Forest citizens and people‐centered conservation in the Brazilian Amazon	40
Effects of snake fungal disease (ophidiomycosis) on the skin microbiome across two major experimental scales	38
Fragmentation effects on an endangered species across a gradient from the interior to edge of its range	38
Comparative species distribution model framework for marine conservation and its application to loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean	37
Using positionality and reflexivity to support equity in partnership‐driven research	37
Community engagement and power dynamics in conservation philanthropy grant making	36

Analysis of morphological attributes as a driver of trade in poison dart frogs	36
Avoiding an impending collision in international conservation	36
Book reviewers (June 2024 to June 2025)	36
Cover Caption	35
Noted with interest	35
Noted with Interest	34
Perspectives on inclusion, safety, and belonging from members of the North American LGBTQIA+ conservation community	34
Drivers of support for citizen science across state wildlife management agencies in the United States	34
Incorporation of human–wildlife interactions in ecosystem‐based management to enhance conservation of endangered guitarfish	34
Effects of restoration practices on biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests	34
Correction to Extent of threats to marine fish from the online aquarium trade in the United States	34
Lessons from Palau to end parachute science in international conservation research	34
Ecological impacts of traffication	33
Opportunities and challenges for Common Agricultural Policy reform to support the European Green Deal	32
Interdependencies between Indigenous peoples, local communities, and freshwater systems in a changing Amazon	32
Identifying climate change refugia for South American biodiversity	32
Emerging applications of large language models in ecology and conservation science	32
Debate, pluralism, and power in epistemological violence: Reply to Simpson et al. (2026)	32
Application of decision tools to ethical analysis in biodiversity conservation	32
Integrating traditional practices, livelihoods, and conservation with Indigenous‐led furbearer camera trapping	31
Uncovering correlates of decline and critical refuges for a threatened terrestrial mammal	31
Effects of climate and land‐cover change on the conservation status of gibbons	29
Landscape‐scale predictions of future grassland conversion to cropland or development	29
Diversification of refugia types needed to secure the future of coral reefs subject to climate change	29
Insights for conservation from the Ecological Knowledge Games project	29
Sensitivity of tropical montane birds to anthropogenic disturbance and management strategies for their conservation in agricultural landscapes	28
Systematic review of conservation interventions to promote voluntary behavior change	28
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Differences in climate change impacts on reptile embryos and adults	27
Assessing the performance of surrogate species in spatial conservation planning	24
Effects of agriculture and nature reserves on avian behavior in northwestern Costa Rica	24
In memoriam: Eleanor Jane Sterling (1960–2023)	24
Integrating data to assess occupancy patterns of an endangered bumble bee	24
Issue Information	24
Bibliometric investigation of the integration of animal personality in conservation contexts	23
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Factors associated with preemptive conservation under the U.S. Endangered Species Act	23
Issue Information	22
Scale of unregulated international trade in Australian reptiles and amphibians	22
Habitat and spatial trends of U.K. wintering waterbird populations over 50 years	22
Integrating biodiversity hotspots, ecological gradients, and ecosystem services for transboundary conservation in the Gaoligong Mountains	22
Importance of habitat heterogeneity in tidal flats to the conservation of migratory shorebirds	22
Social valuation of biodiversity relative to other types of assets at risk in wildfire	22
Three‐dimensional conservation planning of fish biodiversity metrics to achieve the deep‐sea 30×30 conservation target	22
Documenting the disappearance of primates from spaces where they once occurred	21
Defining performance thresholds for effective management of biodiversity within protected areas	21
Examining the structure of plant–lemur interactions in the face of imperfect knowledge	21
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Impacts of bat use of anthropogenic structures on bats and humans	21
Highlighting the importance of biodiversity conservation through the Holy Qur'an	21

Taxonomy, behavior, and intelligence of bees	21
Stimulating the capacity to govern the commons	21
Influence of interactive effects on long‐term population trajectories in multispecies reintroductions	20
Integrating the resist–accept–direct framework into natural resource decision‐making processes for climate adaptation	20
Modeling mammal response to fire based on species’ traits	20
Use of community characteristics to predict hunting and game harvests in western Amazonian forests	20
Insights from equitable governance assessments in conservation areas around the world	20
Diversifying Voices in Conservation	20
Using camera traps to enhance community‐based management of subsistence hunting in the Amazon	20
Enhancing global nature conservation by integrating geodiversity in policy and practice	20
Spatial mismatch between wild bee diversity hotspots and protected areas	20
Call for new criteria for monitoring and registering Natura 2000 species data	19
Supporting conservationists’ mental health through better working conditions	19
Enhancing disciplinary diversity and inclusion in conservation science and practice based on a case study of the Society for Conservation Biology	19
Establishing a protected area network in Xinlong with other effective area‐based conservation measures	19
The entanglement between the IUCN Red List and international biodiversity law	19
Challenges and a call to action for protecting European red wood ants	19
Measuring maternal line selection driven by differential survival in ex situ collections for plant conservation	19
A social network analysis of an epistemic community studying neoliberal conservation	19
Wildlife mortality risk posed by high and low traffic roads	18
A practical approach to meeting national obligations for sustainable trade under CITES	18
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Four challenges to an effective national nature assessment	18
Defaunation impacts on the carbon balance of tropical forests	18
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Linking extinction risk to the economic and nutritional value of sharks in small‐scale fisheries	18
Strategies for advancing inclusive biodiversity research through equitable practices and collective responsibility	18
Fundamental principles of the effect of habitat fragmentation on species with different movement rates	18
Effects of nitrogen deposition on territory numbers of breeding birds	18
An integrated approach to balance freshwater connectivity restoration and invasion risk	17
A framework for integrative socioecological conservation solutions	17
Noted with interest	17
Identifying inconsistencies in exotic pet regulations that perpetuate trade in risky species	17
Indigenous governance and the future of conservation	17
Quantifying and mapping species threat abatement opportunities to support national target setting	17
Quantifying the contribution of benefit, threat, and cost components of conservation return on investment to determining agreement levels over spatial protection priorities	17
Quantifying regulatory limits for multiple stressors in an open and transparent way	17
New opportunities and challenges for conservation evidence synthesis from advances in natural language processing	17
Spatial identification of areas suitable for other effective area‐based conservation measures in the European Union	17
Effects of organized guarding on mortality from human–elephant conflict in northeast India	17
Including the urbanization gradient in people‐centered wildlife conservation in Amazonia	16
Urbanization of seed dispersal networks	16
Exploring the potential for online data sources to enhance species threat mapping through the case study of global bat exploitation	16
Understanding variation in impacts from private protected areas across regions and protection mechanisms to inform organizational practices	16
Knowledge coproduction to improve assessments of nature's contributions to people	16
Issue Information	16
Synthesizing beaver coexistence messaging with the capability, opportunity, and motivation behavior model	16
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An update on allegations of invasive species denialism	16
Efficacy of created and restored nesting sites for the conservation of colonial Laridae in the South of France	16
Scientists’ warning on the global destruction of rock outcrop ecosystems	16
Free, prior, and informed consent, local officials, and changing biodiversity governance in Hin Nam No, Laos	16
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A standard approach for including climate change responses in IUCN Red List assessments	15
Facilitating biodiversity conservation through partnerships to achieve transformative outcomes	15
Evaluating hybrid speciation and swamping in wild carnivores with a decision‐tree approach	15
Impacts of climate change on herpetofauna diversity in the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau	15
Eliciting diverse perspectives to prioritize community actions for biodiversity conservation	15
Drivers of bat researchers’ intent to adopt field hygiene practices	15
Issue Information	15
Impact on species' online attention when named after celebrities	15
Achieving conservation and restoration outcomes through ecologically beneficial aquaculture	15
A habitat‐based approach to reporting the direct impacts of an organization on biodiversity	15
Issue Information ‐ Copyright page	15
A tiered assessment framework for interregional flows of ecosystem services from migratory species	15
Expert assessment of illegal collecting impacts on Venus flytraps and priorities for research on illegal trade	14
Prioritizing global tall forests toward the 30 × 30 goals	14
Scenarios and strategies for future‐proofing ecosystem management under climatic novelty	14
Combating parachute science in Latin America through Indigenous agency	14
Bottom‐up global biodiversity metrics needed for businesses to assess and manage their impact	14
The collective application of shorebird tracking data to conservation	14
Assessing limits of sustainable seed harvest in wild plant populations	14
Effects of wind turbine noise on songbird behavior during nonbreeding season	14
Habitat dynamics of flagship species for conservation prioritization in southern Europe	14
Trade and socioeconomic importance of an invasive giant snail in the endemic‐rich island of São Tomé, Central Africa	13
Use of the terms efficiency versus effective in conservation	13
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Assessing the Corn Belt as an anthropogenic barrier to migrating landbirds in the United States	13
Connectivity between countries established by landbirds and raptors migrating along the African–Eurasian flyway	13
Behavioral interventions to reduce demand for threatened freshwater turtles as pets	13

Systematic nature positive markets	13
Vulnerability of tropical fish communities across depth in the central Indian Ocean	13
A guide to qualitative attribution methods for evaluation in conservation	13
A multidisciplinary approach to estimating wolf population size for long‐term conservation	13
Design with nonhumans takes wildlife agency into account to reduce conflicts	13
Consumer characteristics and preferences for mobulid gill plates in China	13
Salary inequality as a predictor of biodiversity research output in Africa	13
Setting goals for pollinator gardens	13
Vulnerability of marine megafauna to global at‐sea anthropogenic threats	13
Assessing the global prevalence of wild birds in trade	13
Patterns and correlates of potential range shifts of bat species in China in the context of climate change	13
Improving the science and practice of using artificial roosts for bats	12
Using online reports of seahorse seizures to track their illegal trade	12
Evaluating the use of taxonomy in the IUCN Red List	12
Issue Information	12
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Reptile responses to fire across the western Mediterranean Basin	12
Navigating ethical challenges in online wildlife trade research	12
Relative effects of sacred forests and protected areas on forest conservation and structure in Japan	12
Biodiversity conservation, human–animal interactions, and zootherapy in ecological knowledge of Indonesian Healers	12
Assessing recovery and conservation of Australian freshwater fishes with the IUCN Green Status of Species and structured expert elicitation	12
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Identifying and developing effective post‐2020 conservation bridging leaders	12
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A spatial planning approach for the identification of critical habitat for threatened species	12
Improving climate and biodiversity outcomes through restoration of forest integrity	12
Noted with interest	12
Erratum to “Conceptual frameworks and key questions for assessing the contribution of marine protected areas to shark and ray conservation”	12
Weaving knowledges to support wildlife health surveillance in Kenya's pastoral rangelands	12
Using miniaturized laboratory equipment and DNA barcoding to improve conservation genetics training and identify illegally traded species	12
Persistent illegal sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea	12
Conserving the evolutionary history of birds	11
Revisiting two dogmas of conservation science	11
Effect of reserve protection level and governance on tree cover loss and gain	11
Enhancement of climate‐related plant translocations by reinforcing populations with nearby genotypes	11
Reconciling opposite conclusions in umbrella species evaluation	11
Use of bird‐borne radar to examine shearwater interactions with legal and illegal fisheries	11
Evidence‐based guidelines for automated conservation assessments of plant species	11
Global justice and the opportunity costs of conservation	11
An experimental approach to assess the combined effects of multiple stressors on a large vertebrate species	11
The scope of empowerment for conservation and communities	11
Intimidation as epistemological violence against social science conservation research	11
Coexisting with large carnivores based on the Volterra principle	11
Effectiveness of protected areas in conserving avian communities amid human impact in Nigeria	11
Adivasi (Tea Tribe) worldviews of living close to wild Asian elephants in Assam, India	11
A more‐than‐human political ecology of Indonesian songbird trade	11
Extreme site fidelity in long‐distance migratory shorebirds in Australia and potential implications for conservation	11
Identification, spatial distribution, and associated factors of urban protected areas in China	11
Challenges in assessing the effects of environmental governance systems on conservation outcomes	11
Twelve principles for successful governance of community‐based coastal marine restoration	11
Evaluating ecosystem protection and fragmentation of the world's major mountain regions	11
How expert insight into alpine peatland conservation complements global scientific evidence	11
Review of ecological valuation and equivalency analysis methods for assessing temperate nearshore submerged aquatic vegetation	11
Modeling total predation to avoid perverse outcomes from cat control in a data‐poor island ecosystem	11
Evaluating drivers of recent large whale strandings on the East Coast of the United States	11
A standard lexicon of terms for area‐based conservation version 1.0	10
Indigenous insights on human–wildlife coexistence in southern India	10
Pan‐boreal mapping of forest age and implications for conservation	10
Design and management considerations for the Kenya–Tanzania marine transboundary conservation area	10
Underrepresentation of bats in Africa's protected areas	10
Collective effects of rising average temperatures and heat events on oviparous embryos	10
Identifying priority areas for conservation to promote connectivity and mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance	10
Conservation benefits of a large marine protected area network that spans multiple ecosystems	10
Challenges and pathways for matching corporate value‐chain biodiversity losses and gains	10
Noted with interest	10
The controversy over p ‐values as an illustration of the difficulty of statistics: response to Mayo (2022)	10
Forest fire smoke as a threat to the health of river dolphins	10
Conservation implications of low contemporary connectivity along the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge in hydrothermal vent gastropods	10
Tracking the impact of bottom trawling on benthic habitat status	10
Role of freshwater availability and terrestrial land‐cover change in the distribution of a declining, terrestrial, insectivorous bird	10
Combining surface and soil environmental DNA with artificial cover objects to improve terrestrial reptile survey detection	10
In vitro culture, cryopreservation, and field reintroduction of the endangered Mingan thistle	10