OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria 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
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	26
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	23
Managed re-alignment: a multifaceted approach in ecological restoration of coastal floodplains	22
Beyond commercial interests lies an ecological responsibility: The dilemma of red-eared slider sales	21
To what extent is coastal wetland biodiversity endangered by climate change? How can we boost the resilience of coastal ecosystems?	16
The Cerrado crisis review: highlighting threats and providing future pathways to save Brazil's biodiversity hotspot	14
Cultural practices in European riverine floodplains: formation, typology, co-decline of biocultural diversity, and emerging drivers of conservation and sustainable management	13
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	11
Temporal variation in hotspots and the effects of climate and landscape on wildlife roadkill along the BR-319: conservation challenges in a high-biodiversity area in the Amazon	11
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	11
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	11
Changes in species and phylogenetic diversity in tropical seasonal rainforests on steep karst hillslopes in southwestern China: implications for conservation	10
Slipped through the narrow door: Effects of climate change on the distribution and conservation of a vulnerable tiger gecko, Goniurosaurus luii, from China and Vietnam	9
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	9
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	8
Wetlands in the EU policy context	8
Diving pattern and behavioral response to vessel traffic of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen, China: implications for conservation	8
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	7
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	7
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	6
Does the Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027 support the restoration of freshwater ecosystems?	6
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	6
First record of the white trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex) in the Black Sea: a new occurrence from Bulgarian coastal waters	6
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	6
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	6

Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	6
Hidden or inadvertent illegal amphibian trade? Genetic analyses reveal Quasipaa spinosa misidentified as Hoplobatrachus chinensis in the trade	6
Vertebrates as victims of domestic cats and dogs: ten years of data from an Italian animal rescue centre (2015–2024)	6
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	6
Decades of habitat destruction - is there any chance left for the endemic and Critically Endangered Cyrtodactylus gialaiensis in Vietnam?	6
Coastal beaver, Chinook, coho, chum salmon and trout response to nearshore changes resulting from diking and large-scale dam removals: synergistic ecosystem engineering and restoration in the coastal	5
Occupancy modeling confirms management concerns for Connecticut (USA) fisher, highlighting the importance of monitoring furbearer distributions	5
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	5
Restoring coasts and floodplains - Conclusions and recommendations for enabling action across science, policy, and practice	5
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	5
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	5
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	5
Corrigendum: Using drone imagery to obtain population data of colony-nesting seabirds to support Canada’s transition to the global Key Biodiversity Areas program. Nature Conservation 51: 155–166. doi	5
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	5
Analysis of amphibian diversity and its influencing factors in the coastal islands of southern Zhejiang	5
Map the Giants: a new citizen-science portal to map, study and protect the largest coral colonies	5
The impact of precipitation and temperature on seed ripening and germination dynamics of some meadow species of Western and Central Europe	5
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	5
Conservation gap analysis for Erica (Ericaceae)	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
Difference in sale strategies drive spatial heterogeneity in collection pressure through online auctions: the role of body colour variation in the Japanese freshwater crabs, Geothelphusa dehaani speci	4
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	4
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	4
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	4
Forest patches as important bird habitats in Malaysia's large-scale infrastructure development areas	4
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	4
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	4
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
Prioritizing stream network connectivity for species conservation and sustainable planning	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Acoustic analysis shows Clark’s Nutcracker seasonal and spatial habitat use during post-fire recovery of two endangered pine species	3
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	3
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	3
Population, expanded distribution, and conservation of the Sumatran endemic tree Magnolia sumatrae (Dandy) Figlar & Noot.	3
Unveiling prey preferences of endangered wild Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, in Peninsular Malaysia through scat analysis via COI DNA metabarcoding	3
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	3
Invertebrate-biased diet of burrowing owls in a newly-restored coastal grassland	3
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	3
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	3
Cymbidium kanran can deceptively attract Apis cerana for free pollination by releasing specialized volatile compounds	3
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	3
Assessing ecosystem services across scales to support nature-based solutions in river floodplains: a review of non-monetary tools	3
Habitat compression exacerbates human-macaque conflicts: Implications for regional management in karst southwest China	3
Case studies from Germany and Scotland indicate climate change mitigation potential of riverine and coastal wetlands	3
Establishing permanent monitoring plots of narrow endemic and threatened plants of Indonesia: a case study on Dipterocarpus cinereus Slooten (Dipterocarpaceae)	3
Effects of anthropogenic and environmental stressors on the current status of red mullet (Mullus barbatus L., 1758) populations inhabiting the Bulgarian Black Sea waters	3
Lost species, neglected taxonomy, and the role of natural history collections and synonymization in the identification of the World’s forgotten biodiversity	3
Evaluating the conservation effectiveness of Ammopiptanthus nanus (Fabaceae) under different ex situ strategies through multi-molecular marker analysis	3
Effects of management complexity on the composition, plant functional dominance relationships and physiognomy of high nature value grasslands	3
The extent and nature of the commercial captive lion industry in the Free State province, South Africa	3

Mapping Risk Zones: niche overlap between Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and endemic amphibians in Mexico’s Central-Southern Highlands	2
Conservation of threatened vascular plants in intensive agricultural landscapes in Canada	2
The long-term effect of repeated exposure to degraded nature via immersive virtual reality on environmental awareness and pro-conservation behavioral intention: A longitudinal approach	2
Evolutionary differentiation and adaptive divergence support the Yangtze finless porpoise as an independent species, a flagship of conservation value: A review	2
Plant functional structure varies across different management regimes in submontane meadows	2
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India	2
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	2
Eight years after the Fundão tailings dam collapse: chaos on the muddy banks	2
Under the lion’s paw: lion farming in South Africa and the illegal international bone trade	2
Local perception of the current state and threat factors of a critically endangered species, Celtis toka (Forssk.) Hepper & J.R.I. Wood, in Burkina Faso: implications for species conservation	2
Semi-natural meadow conservation under pressure: Farmers’ decision‑making in intensifying lowland agricultural systems	2
Map of livestock density in Central Appenines: a standardised protocol	2
Structural diversity as an indicator of forest degradation in Quercus robur stands along the Tundzha river, Southeast Bulgaria	2
Towards a new global database of regional Red Lists (RegRed): metadata	2
Wetlands in a changing climate: restoring coasts and floodplains	2
Wildlife at risk: A media-based analysis of wildlife poaching in Romania	2
Effects of management, habitat and landscape characteristics on biodiversity of orchard meadows in Central Europe: A brief review	2
Are cultural ecosystem services expressed in school songs associated with nature-related educational activities?	2
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	2
Adaptability of the alien Pacific oyster to the coastal marine environment of the Bulgarian Black Sea and potential implications for ecosystem conservation	2
Predation on endangered mussels by invasive raccoons: a case study from western Poland	2
Ecological interactions driving spring dynamics of Aurelia aurita medusae (Linnaeus, 1758) in the western and north-western Black Sea	2
Visual pollution assessment in Mu Ko Chang National Park, Thailand: A landscape-based approach	2
Advances in conservation physiology and ex situ propagation strategies for the rare moss Podperaea krylovii (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta)	2