Biodiversity and Conservation

Article	Citations
Biodiversity loss, emerging pathogens and human health risks	104
Functional ecology of wild bees in cities: towards a better understanding of trait-urbanization relationships	70
Challenges and opportunities of area-based conservation in reaching biodiversity and sustainability goals	46
Conserving orthodox seeds of globally threatened plants ex situ in the Millennium Seed Bank, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK: the status of seed collections	39
The role of environmental filtering, geographic distance and dispersal barriers in shaping the turnover of plant and animal species in Amazonia	33
Remote sensing of biodiversity: what to measure and monitor from space to species?	32
Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on biodiversity and biomass stock of Cerrado, the Brazilian savanna	32
Climate warming in the Himalayas threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services in the 21st century: is there a better solution?	30
High-resolution topographic variables accurately predict the distribution of rare plant species for conservation area selection in a narrow-endemism hotspot in New Caledonia	30
The importance of traditional agricultural landscapes for preventing species extinctions	28
Remote sensing enabled essential biodiversity variables for biodiversity assessment and monitoring: technological advancement and potentials	27
Identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps for conserving South Africa’s endemic flora	26
Prescribed burning benefits threatened mammals in northern Australia	25
Indigenous knowledge and rangelands’ biodiversity conservation in Tanzania: success and failure	25
Southern Canada’s crisis ecoregions: identifying the most significant and threatened places for biodiversity conservation	24
Regional Comparison of Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) Diet using DNA Metabarcoding	24
Local ecological knowledge to assist conservation status assessments in data poor contexts: a case study with the threatened sharks of the Brazilian Northeast	24
The Ancient Tree Inventory: a summary of the results of a 15 year citizen science project recording ancient, veteran and notable trees across the UK	23
Biobanking of vegetable genetic resources by in vitro conservation and cryopreservation	22
Macrofauna communities across a seascape of seagrass meadows: environmental drivers, biodiversity patterns and conservation implications	22
Identifying coastal and marine priority areas for conservation in the United Arab Emirates	22
Marine macroalgal biodiversity of northern Madagascar: morpho-genetic systematics and implications of anthropic impacts for conservation	22
Vanishing permanent glaciers: climate change is threatening a European Union habitat (Code 8340) and its poorly known biodiversity	21
The impacts of biofuel crops on local biodiversity: a global synthesis	21
Conservation of Brazilian freshwater biodiversity: Thinking about the next 10 years and beyond	21

Predicting biodiversity richness in rapidly changing landscapes: climate, low human pressure or protection as salvation?	20
eDNA metabarcoding illuminates species diversity and composition of three phyla (chordata, mollusca and echinodermata) across Indonesian coral reefs	20
How farmers think about insects: perceptions of biodiversity, biodiversity loss and attitudes towards insect-friendly farming practices	20
Botanical gardens as key resources and hazards for biosecurity	20
Beaver creates early successional hotspots for water beetles	20
Fragmented dry grasslands preserve unique components of plant species and phylogenetic diversity in agricultural landscapes	19
Using occupancy models to assess the direct and indirect impacts of agricultural expansion on species’ populations	19
Prolonged blooming season of flower plantings increases wild bee abundance and richness in agricultural landscapes	19
A century of pollen foraging by the endangered rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis): inferences from molecular sequencing of museum specimens	19
Seed production areas are crucial to conservation outcomes: benefits and risks of an emerging restoration tool	19
The Natura 2000 network and the ranges of threatened species in Greece	19
Green patches among a grey patchwork: the importance of preserving natural habitats to harbour cavity-nesting bees and wasps (Hymenoptera) and their natural enemies in urban areas	18
The ‘Goldilocks Zone’ of predation: the level of fox control needed to select predator resistance in a reintroduced mammal in Australia	18
Monoculture and mixture-planting of non-native Douglas fir alters species composition, but promotes the diversity of ground beetles in a temperate forest system	18
Foraging grounds of adult loggerhead sea turtles across the Mediterranean Sea: key sites and hotspots of risk	18
Drastic shifts in the Belgian bumblebee community over the last century	18
The relationship between green roofs and urban biodiversity: a systematic review	18
Hunting pressure modulates the composition and size structure of terrestrial and arboreal vertebrates in Amazonian forests	17
Value of artificial ponds for aquatic insects in drought-prone southern Africa: a review	17
Sacred natural sites and biodiversity conservation: a systematic review	17
Between a rock and a hard place: rugged terrain features and human disturbance affect behaviour and habitat use of Sumatran elephants in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia	17
Biodiversity in agricultural landscapes: different non-crop habitats increase diversity of ground-dwelling beetles (Coleoptera) but support different communities	17
Habitat selection of cave-restricted fauna in a new hotspot of subterranean biodiversity in Neotropics	17
Resolving the trade-off between production and biodiversity conservation in integrated forest management: comparing tree selection practices of foresters and conservationists	17
Do beds of subtidal estuarine seagrass constitute a refuge for macrobenthic biodiversity threatened intertidally?	16
Do not blame bats and pangolins! Global consequences for wildlife conservation after the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic	16
Patterns and drivers of understory macroalgal assemblage structure within subtidal kelp forests	16
How to build a biodiverse city: environmental determinants of bird diversity within and among 1581 cities	16
Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas (DINA): an interdisciplinary German research project	15
Landscape structure shapes activity levels and composition of aerial insectivorous bats at different spatial scales	15
Discolouring the Amazon Rainforest: how deforestation is affecting butterfly coloration	15
Patterns of distribution, abundance and composition of forest terrestrial orchids	15
Prediction of the minimum effective size of a population viable in the long term	15
Aquatic biosecurity remains a damp squib	15
Drying microclimates threaten persistence of natural and translocated populations of threatened frogs	14
Fine-scale roadkill risk models: understanding the intersection of wildlife and roads	14
Review of the biology, uses and conservation of the critically endangered endemic Himalayan species Nardostachys jatamansi (Caprifoliaceae)	14
A case study of a conservation flagship species: the monarch butterfly	14
How future climate change and deforestation can drastically affect the species of monkeys endemic to the eastern Amazon, and priorities for conservation	14
Low diversity or poorly explored? Mesophotic molluscs highlight undersampling in the Eastern Mediterranean	14
Identifying high priority conservation areas for Patagonian wetlands biodiversity	14
Addressing the implementation challenge of the global biodiversity framework	14
Assessing the storage potential of Australian rainforest seeds: a decision-making key to aid rapid conservation	14
Reframing urban “wildlife” to promote inclusive conservation science and practice	14
Climate change-related changes in cephalopod biodiversity on the North East Atlantic Shelf	14
Conservation of Mojave Desert springs and associated biota: status, threats, and policy opportunities	14
Biological invasions in World Heritage Sites: current status and a proposed monitoring and reporting framework	14
Counting cats for conservation: seasonal estimates of leopard density and drivers of distribution in the Serengeti	14
Assessing evolutionary processes over time in a conservation breeding program: a combined approach using molecular data, simulations and pedigree analysis	14
A species-specific qPCR assay provides novel insight into range expansion of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) by means of eDNA analysis	14

Landrace added value and accessibility in Europe: what a collection of case studies tells us	14
Assessing awareness on biodiversity conservation among Nigerians: the Aichi Biodiversity Target 1	13
A global analysis of habitat fragmentation research in reptiles and amphibians: what have we done so far?	13
Many cameras make light work: opportunistic photographs of rare species in iNaturalist complement structured surveys of reef fish to better understand species richness	13
Turtle biodiversity losses suggest coming sixth mass extinction	13
Applying genomic data to seagrass conservation	13
Intensive monitoring, the key to identifying cat predation as a major threat to native carnivore (Dasyurus geoffroii) reintroduction	13
A herpetofauna with dramatic endemism signals an overlooked biodiversity hotspot	13
Agricultural heritage systems and agrobiodiversity	13
Pollinator enhancement in agriculture: comparing sown flower strips, hedges and sown hedge herb layers in apple orchards	13
Reliability of multinomial N-mixture models for estimating abundance of small terrestrial vertebrates	13
The intrinsic value of Amazon biodiversity	13
Biodiversity associated with restored small-scale mussel habitats has restoration decision implications	13
Multi-taxa spatial conservation planning reveals similar priorities between taxa and improved protected area representation with climate change	13
Contrasting responses of large carnivores to land use management across an Asian montane landscape in Iran	13
Biodiversity and conservation of terricolous lichens and bryophytes in continental lowlands of northern Italy: the role of different dry habitat types	12
Rewilding the world’s large carnivores without neglecting the human dimension	12
Prevalence affects the evaluation of discrimination capacity in presence-absence species distribution models	12
Effect of forest fragmentation and disturbance on diversity and structure of woody species in dry Afromontane forests of northern Ethiopia	12
Restoring diversity of thermophilous oak forests: connectivity and proximity to existing habitats matter	12
Conservation planning of the genus Rhododendron in Northeast China based on current and future suitable habitat distributions	12
Recurring fires in Mediterranean habitats and their impact on bats	12
How estimated ant diversity is biased by the sampling method? A case study of Crete: a Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot	12
Conservation values of understory vascular plants in even- and uneven-aged Nothofagus antarctica forests	12
The Zygoptera/Anisoptera ratio as a tool to assess anthropogenic changes in Atlantic Forest streams	12
Bumble bee species distributions and habitat associations in the Midwestern USA, a region of declining diversity	12
Climate data source matters in species distribution modelling: the case of the Iberian Peninsula	12
The relevance of cloud forest fragments and their transition zones for butterfly conservation in Taita Hills, Kenya	12
Temporal and spatial patterns of orchid species distribution in Greece: implications for conservation	12
Political making of more-than-fishers through their involvement in ecological monitoring of protected areas	12
“Pink round stones”—rhodolith beds: an overlooked habitat in Madeira Archipelago	11
The persistent multi-dimensional biases of biodiversity digital accessible knowledge of birds in China	11
Contrasting wolf responses to different paved roads and traffic volume levels	11
Contribution of social media to cetacean research in Southeast Asia: illuminating populations vulnerable to litter	11
Large fire initially reduces bird diversity in Poland’s largest wetland biodiversity hotspot	11
Modelling the amphibian chytrid fungus spread by connectivity analysis: towards a national monitoring network in Italy	11
Biodiversity and conservation of Phoenix canariensis: a review	11
Mangrove fragments as key coastal reservoirs of taxonomic and functional biodiversity	11
Anthropogenic drivers leading to regional extinction of threatened plants: insights from regional Red Data Books of Russia	11
Conservation of Asian horseshoe crabs on spotlight	11
Using stacked SDMs with accuracy and rarity weighting to optimize surveys for rare plant species	11
Wildfires, heatwaves and human disturbance threaten insular endemic bats	11
Niche overlap between two sympatric frugivorous Neotropical primates: improving ecological niche models using closely-related taxa	11
The Biodiversity Promotion Areas: effectiveness of agricultural direct payments on plant diversity conservation in the semi-natural grasslands of the Southern Swiss Alps	11
Geospatial analysis to assess distribution patterns and predictive models for endangered plant species to support management decisions: a case study in the Balearic Islands	11
Contrasting multi-taxa functional diversity patterns along vegetation structure gradients of woody pastures	11
Unraveling the drivers of plant taxonomic and phylogenetic β-diversity in a human-modified tropical dry forest	11
Research Progress on endangered plants: a bibliometric analysis	11
Factors influencing persistence of a threatened amphibian in restored wetlands despite severe population decline during climate change driven weather extremes	10
Using spatial characteristics of apex carnivore communication and reproductive behaviors to predict responses to future human development	10
The value of local community knowledge in species distribution modelling for a threatened Neotropical parrot	10
How complete are insect inventories? An assessment of the british butterfly database highlighting the influence of dynamic distribution shifts on sampling completeness	10
A global summary of local residents’ perceptions of benefits and problems of protected areas	10
Implementing Brazil’s Forest Code: a vital contribution to securing forests and conserving biodiversity	10
Relict populations of Araucaria angustifolia will be isolated, poorly protected, and unconnected under climate and land-use change in Brazil	10
Conservation status of threatened land plants in China and priority sites for better conservation targets: distribution patterns and conservation gap analysis	10
Diversity, regeneration, and anthropogenic disturbance in major Indian Central Himalayan forest types: implications for conservation	10
Landscape characterization of floral resources for pollinators in the Prairie Pothole Region of the United States	10
Complementarity of grasslands and cereal fields ensures carabid regional diversity in French farmlands	10
Community completeness as a measure of restoration success: multiple-study comparisons across ecosystems and ecological groups	10
Just beautiful?! What determines butterfly species for nature conservation	10
An approach for using multiple indices for monitoring long-term trends of mesopredators at broad spatial scales	10
Subterranean “oasis” in the Brazilian semiarid region: neglected sources of biodiversity	10
Endangered monoxenous trypanosomatid parasites: a lesson from island biogeography	10
Genomic data inform conservation of rare tree species: clonality, diversity and hybridity in Eucalyptus series in a global biodiversity hotspot	9
Amphibian communities in two contrasting ecosystems: functional diversity and environmental filters	9
Central Asian wild tulip conservation requires a regional approach, especially in the face of climate change	9
Abandoned fields and high plant diversity support high spider diversity within an agricultural mosaic in a biodiversity hotspot	9
Priorities for cave fauna conservation in the Iuiú karst landscape, northeastern Brazil: a threatened spot of troglobitic species diversity	9
Local and landscape responses of biodiversity in calcareous grasslands	9
Ant-gardens: a specialized ant-epiphyte mutualism capable of facing the effects of climate change	9
Scat DNA provides important data for effective monitoring of mammal and bird biodiversity	9
Landscape features associated to wind farms increase mammalian predator abundance and ground-nest predation	9
A review of management actions on insect pollinators on public lands in the United States	9
Exploring interaction effects from mechanisms between climate and land-use changes and the projected consequences on biodiversity	9
South Africa’s private wildlife ranches protect globally significant populations of wild ungulates	9
Gap analyses of priority wild relatives of food crop in current ex situ and in situ conservation in Indonesia	9
GBIF information is not enough: national database improves the inventory completeness of Amazonian epiphytes	9
Application of protein nutrition in natural ecosystem management for European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) conservation	9
The Calluna life cycle concept revisited: implications for heathland management	9

Exploring the bushmeat market in Brussels, Belgium: a clandestine luxury business	8
Conserving the Chinese caterpillar fungus under climate change	8
Human activities associated with reduced Komodo dragon habitat use and range loss on Flores	8
Density trends of wild felids in northern Laos	8
Ecological inheritance for a post COVID-19 world	8
Enhancing seed conservation in rural communities of Guatemala by implementing the dry chain concept	8
In vitro conservation and genetic diversity of threatened species of Melocactus (Cactaceae)	8
Garry oak ecosystem stand history in Southwest British Columbia, Canada: implications of environmental change and indigenous land use for ecological restoration and population recovery	8
Sparing or expanding? The effects of agricultural yields on farm expansion and deforestation in the tropics	8
Diversity and distribution of Genus Primula in Kashmir region: an indicator genus of the western Himalayan mountain wetlands and glacial forelands	8
Conserving Galapagos landbirds in agricultural landscapes: forest patches of native trees needed to increase landbird diversity and abundance	8
Biodiversity conservation in climate change driven transient communities	8
Impacts of the removal of invasive Carpobrotus on spider assemblage dynamics	8
The importance of livestock grazing at woodland-grassland interface in the conservation of rich oakwood plant communities in temperate Europe	8
Agricultural expansion in African savannas: effects on diversity and composition of trees and mammals	8
Gap analysis of the Ramsar site network at 50: over 150 important Mediterranean sites for wintering waterbirds omitted	8
From global to local scale: where is the best for conservation purpose?	8
Exploring cultural differences in wildlife value orientations using student samples in seven nations	8
Extreme climate refugia: a case study of wild relatives of cacao (Theobroma cacao) in Colombia	8
Long-term ecology and conservation of the Kungur forest-steppe (pre-Urals, Russia): case study Spasskaya Gora	8
Cryptic extinction risk in a western Pacific lizard radiation	8
Spatially heterogeneous habitat use across distinct biogeographic regions in a wide-ranging predator, the Persian leopard	8
A highly diverse living benthic foraminiferal assemblage in the oxygen deficient zone of the southeastern Arabian Sea	8
Deep learning improves acoustic biodiversity monitoring and new candidate forest frog species identification (genus Platymantis) in the Philippines	8
Effect of non-native species on taxonomic and functional diversity of fish communities in different river types	8
Diatom Red Lists: important tools to assess and preserve biodiversity and habitats in the face of direct impacts and environmental change	8
Forest cover loss in the Nevado de Toluca volcano protected area (Mexico) after the change to a less restrictive category in 2013	8
Overexploitation and anthropogenic disturbances threaten the genetic diversity of an economically important neotropical palm	8
No statistical support for wolf control and maternal penning as conservation measures for endangered mountain caribou	8
Dynamics in plant diversity and composition on Australian alpine summits over time	8
2020 Pantanal’s widespread fire: short- and long-term implications for biodiversity and conservation	8
The relevance of transition habitats for butterfly conservation	8
Niche shift in invasive species: is it a case of “home away from home” or finding a “new home”?	7
Rodents of the Afar Triangle (Ethiopia): geographical isolation causes high level of endemism	7
Short term, but high risk of predation for endangered mountain caribou during seasonal migration	7
Predicting fish community responses to environmental policy targets	7
Land and deep-sea mining: the challenges of comparing biodiversity impacts	7
Range restriction leads to narrower ecological niches and greater extinction risk in Australian freshwater fish	7
Traditional forest-related knowledge and agrobiodiversity preservation: the case of the chagras in the Indigenous Reserve of Monochoa (Colombia)	7
The interaction of clonality, breeding system and genomics for a highly threatened plant species and the management implications	7
The first botanical explorations of bryophyte diversity in the Brazilian Amazon mountains: high species diversity, low endemism, and low similarity	7
Connectivity of Natura 2000 potential natural riparian habitats under climate change in the Northwest Iberian Peninsula: implications for their conservation	7
High evolutionary and functional distinctiveness of endemic monocots in world islands	7
Impact of weather conditions, seasonality and moonlight on the use of artificial canopy bridges by nocturnal arboreal mammals	7
An index of ecological value for European arable plant communities	7
Non-invasive genetic sampling is one of our most powerful and ethical tools for threatened species population monitoring: a reply to Lavery et al.	7
Understanding potential conflicts between human and non-human-primates: a large-scale survey in Malaysia	7
Distribution and phenology of monarch butterfly larvae and their milkweed hosts in the South Central US	7
Genetic evidence for sex-biased dispersal and cryptic diversity in the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum	7
Human presence drives bobcat interactions among the U.S. carnivore guild	7
Identifying typical and early warning species by the combination of functional-based diagnostic species and dark diversity	7
Understanding the sustainability of Chinese caterpillar fungus harvesting: the need for better data	7
Diversity and composition of plants species along elevational gradient: research trends	7
Ecological and acoustic responses of bush crickets to anthropogenic and natural ecotones	7
Threats to Australia’s rock-wallabies (Petrogale spp.) with key directions for effective monitoring	7
Ponds support higher bird diversity than rice paddies in a hilly agricultural area in Japan	7
Simplicity or complexity? Important aspects of high nature value grassland management in nature conservation	7
Natural forests of Pinus pinea in western Turkey: a priority for conservation	7
Species distribution models for conservation planning in fire‐prone landscapes	7
Agrobiodiversity and gender: the role of women in farm diversification among smallholder farmers in Sinana district, Southeastern Ethiopia	7
Modelling potential Pleistocene habitat corridors between Afromontane forest regions	7
Overcoming biases and identifying opportunities for citizen science to contribute more to global macroinvertebrate conservation	7
Species at risk habitat conservation on private land: the perspective of cattle ranchers	7
Urban remnant size alters fungal functional groups dispersed by a digging mammal	7
The Eurasian beaver range expansion reveals uneven future trends and possible conservation issues: an European assessment	7
Molecular evidence of species- and subspecies-level distinctions in the rare Orchis patens s.l. and implications for conservation	7
Species–genetic diversity correlation in phyllostomid bats of the Bodoquena plateau, Brazil	7