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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	27
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	26
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	22
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	21
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	20
Changes in species and phylogenetic diversity in tropical seasonal rainforests on steep karst hillslopes in southwestern China: implications for conservation	15
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	15
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	15
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	14
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	14
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	14
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	14
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	13
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	13
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	12
Diving pattern and behavioral response to vessel traffic of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen, China: implications for conservation	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
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	11
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	10
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	10
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	9
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	8
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	8
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	7
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	7

Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	7
Vertebrates as victims of domestic cats and dogs: ten years of data from an Italian animal rescue centre (2015–2024)	7
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	7
First record of the white trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex) in the Black Sea: a new occurrence from Bulgarian coastal waters	7
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	6
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	6
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Dissecting the illegal pangolin trade in China: An insight from seizures data reports	6
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	6
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	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
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	5
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	5
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	5
Forest patches as important bird habitats in Malaysia's large-scale infrastructure development areas	5
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	5
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
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	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
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
A test of wildlife warning reflectors as a way to reduce risk of wildlife-train collisions	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	4
Viral threats: the role of TikTok in facilitating trade in CITES-listed species in Lomé, Togo	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
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	4
Promoting ecological solutions for sustainable infrastructure	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
The extent and nature of the commercial captive lion industry in the Free State province, South Africa	3
Cymbidium kanran can deceptively attract Apis cerana for free pollination by releasing specialized volatile compounds	3
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	3
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	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
Lost species, neglected taxonomy, and the role of natural history collections and synonymization in the identification of the World’s forgotten biodiversity	3
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	3
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	3
What shapes the mammal species poaching in protected areas: biophysical or anthropogenic factors? A case study in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve	3
Habitat compression exacerbates human-macaque conflicts: Implications for regional management in karst southwest China	3
Visual pollution assessment in Mu Ko Chang National Park, Thailand: A landscape-based approach	2
Establishing permanent monitoring plots of narrow endemic and threatened plants of Indonesia: a case study on Dipterocarpus cinereus Slooten (Dipterocarpaceae)	2
Invertebrate-biased diet of burrowing owls in a newly-restored coastal grassland	2
Towards a new global database of regional Red Lists (RegRed): metadata	2
Paleoclimate changes and ecosystem responses of the Bulgarian Black Sea zone during the last 26000 years	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

Structural diversity as an indicator of forest degradation in Quercus robur stands along the Tundzha river, Southeast Bulgaria	2
Advances in conservation physiology and ex situ propagation strategies for the rare moss Podperaea krylovii (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta)	2
Under the lion’s paw: lion farming in South Africa and the illegal international bone trade	2
Eight years after the Fundão tailings dam collapse: chaos on the muddy banks	2
Ecological interactions driving spring dynamics of Aurelia aurita medusae (Linnaeus, 1758) in the western and north-western Black Sea	2
Conservation biology meets medical science	2
Map of livestock density in Central Appenines: a standardised protocol	2
Successful translocation of the Transylvanian Bavius Blue - Pseudophilotes bavius hungarica (Diószeghy, 1913) (Lepidoptera, Lycaenidae) in Romania, for increased protection and conservation	2
Predation on endangered mussels by invasive raccoons: a case study from western Poland	2
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	2
Exploring 15 years of brown bear (Ursus arctos)-vehicle collisions in northwestern Greece	2
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	2
Do the roadkills of different mammal species respond the same way to habitat and matrix?	2
Plant functional structure varies across different management regimes in submontane meadows	2
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	2
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India	2
Effects of management, habitat and landscape characteristics on biodiversity of orchard meadows in Central Europe: A brief review	2