OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria is 1. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	45
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	26
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	22
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	18
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	18
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	17
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	14
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	13
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	13
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	12
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	12
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	12
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	11
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	11
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	11
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	10
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	9
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	9
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	9
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	9
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	8
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	8
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	8
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	7
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	7

DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	7
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	6
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	6
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	6
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	5
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	5
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	5
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production	4
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	4
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	4
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	4
Soundscapes and protected area conservation: Are noises in nature making people complacent?	4
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
Promoting ecological solutions for sustainable infrastructure	3
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	3
Habitat compression exacerbates human-macaque conflicts: Implications for regional management in karst southwest China	3
What shapes the mammal species poaching in protected areas: biophysical or anthropogenic factors? A case study in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve	3
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	3
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	3
Cymbidium kanran can deceptively attract Apis cerana for free pollination by releasing specialized volatile compounds	3
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	3
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	3
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	3
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	3
Unveiling prey preferences of endangered wild Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, in Peninsular Malaysia through scat analysis via COI DNA metabarcoding	3
Lost species, neglected taxonomy, and the role of natural history collections and synonymization in the identification of the World’s forgotten biodiversity	3
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	3
Effects of management complexity on the composition, plant functional dominance relationships and physiognomy of high nature value grasslands	3
Preliminary results on the bird protection effectiveness of animal deflectors on railway overhead lines based on electrical current evaluation	3
Conservation biology meets medical science	2
Under the lion’s paw: lion farming in South Africa and the illegal international bone trade	2
Exploring 15 years of brown bear (Ursus arctos)-vehicle collisions in northwestern Greece	2
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	2
Advances in conservation physiology and ex situ propagation strategies for the rare moss Podperaea krylovii (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta)	2
Predation on endangered mussels by invasive raccoons: a case study from western Poland	2
Plant functional structure varies across different management regimes in submontane meadows	2
Establishing permanent monitoring plots of narrow endemic and threatened plants of Indonesia: a case study on Dipterocarpus cinereus Slooten (Dipterocarpaceae)	2
The extent and nature of the commercial captive lion industry in the Free State province, South Africa	2
Ecological interactions driving spring dynamics of Aurelia aurita medusae (Linnaeus, 1758) in the western and north-western Black Sea	2

Tropical Important Plant Areas, plant species richness and conservation in the British Virgin Islands	2
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India	2
Invertebrate-biased diet of burrowing owls in a newly-restored coastal grassland	2
Eight years after the Fundão tailings dam collapse: chaos on the muddy banks	2
Do the roadkills of different mammal species respond the same way to habitat and matrix?	2
Effects of management, habitat and landscape characteristics on biodiversity of orchard meadows in Central Europe: A brief review	2
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	1
Reencounter with the past: occurrence of sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) in an old hunting area in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean	1
Comparison of methods to estimate the size of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) scale seizures using species-specific conversion parameters	1
Rubus plicatus Weihe & Nees: resilience to pollution caused by stone quarries	1
Speed thrills but kills: A case study on seasonal variation in roadkill mortality on National highway 715 (new) in Kaziranga-Karbi Anglong Landscape, Assam, India	1
A methodological framework for addressing environmental problems on aged transport infrastructure	1
Soil macroarthropod communities of Amazon degraded pastures restore differently during their natural regrowth	1
Successful translocation of the Transylvanian Bavius Blue - Pseudophilotes bavius hungarica (Diószeghy, 1913) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in Romania, for increased protection and conservation	1
Evaluating the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a sacred mountain in western China	1
Distribution range and population viability of Emys orbicularis in Slovakia: a review with conservation implications	1
Using drone imagery to obtain population data of colony-nesting seabirds to support Canada’s transition to the global Key Biodiversity Areas program	1
Effectiveness of wire netting fences to prevent animal access to road infrastructures: an experimental study on small mammals and amphibians	1
Integrating herbarium data with spatial biodiversity assessment into conservation plans: A case study of the genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae) in Saskatchewan, Canada	1
Identifying key risks to the achievement of protected area system objectives	1
Not only range, but quality: human influence and protected areas within the distribution of mammal species subject to use in the Department of Cundinamarca, Colombia	1
An overview of reviews of conservation flagships: evaluating fundraising ability and surrogate power	1
Paleoclimate changes and ecosystem responses of the Bulgarian Black Sea zone during the last 26000 years	1
Plant species diversity and composition in limestone forests of the Vietnamese Cat Ba National Park	1
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	1
Effect of ecological restoration on topsoil phosphorus following afforestation on abandoned ponds in northern Chaohu Lake, China	1
Ecology and conservation of the Dutch ground beetle fauna – Lessons from 66 years of pitfall trapping	1
Co-use of existing crossing structures along roads by wildlife and humans: Wishful thinking?	1
Spatial distribution models and biodiversity of phytoplankton cysts in the Black Sea	1
Establishing priorities for future land conservation to maximise biodiversity conservation and other ecosystem services in the Tilarán Mountains of Costa Rica	1
Connecting people to connect landscapes	1