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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Are several small wildlife crossing structures better than a single large? Arguments from the perspective of large wildlife conservation	44
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	20
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	18
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	17
The effect of habitat reduction by roads on space use and movement patterns of an endangered species, the Cabrera vole Microtus cabrerae	17
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	13
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	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
The drums of war are beating louder: Media coverage of brown bears in Romania	12
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	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
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	11
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	11
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	10
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
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	9
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	9
Rapid linear transport infrastructure development in the Carpathians: A major threat to the integrity of ecological connectivity for large carnivores	9
Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	9
Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade	8
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	7
Ecological Solutions for Linear Infrastructure Networks: The key to green infrastructure development	7
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	7

Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	7
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
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
Conservation priorities for threatened mammals of Vietnam: Implementation of the IUCN´s One Plan Approach	6
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	6
Assessing behaviour states of a forest carnivore in a road-dominated landscape using Hidden Markov Models	6
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	5
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	5
‘Animals under wheels’: Wildlife roadkill data collection by citizen scientists as a part of their nature recording activities	5
Strict laws fail to deter illegal trade of China’s largest and most endangered freshwater turtle	5
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	5
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	5
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
Germany’s federal waterways – A linear infrastructure network for nature and transport	4
Evaluating resampled and fused Sentinel-2 data and machine-learning algorithms for mangrove mapping in the northern coast of Qeshm island, Iran	4
Seeking serpents: Ball python trade in Benin, West Africa	4
Recent changes in tropical-dry-forest connectivity within the Balsas Basin Biogeographic Province: potential effects on endemic-bird distributions	4
Economic effects of climate change on global agricultural production	4
Soundscapes and protected area conservation: Are noises in nature making people complacent?	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
Unveiling prey preferences of endangered wild Malayan tiger, Panthera tigris jacksoni, in Peninsular Malaysia through scat analysis via COI DNA metabarcoding	3
Promoting ecological solutions for sustainable infrastructure	3
Hydrological regime and forest development have indirect effects on soil fauna feeding activity in Central European hardwood floodplain forests	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
Conserving the threatened woody vegetation on dune slopes: Monitoring the decline and designing adaptive strategies for restoration	3
Numerous uncertainties in the multifaceted global trade in frogs’ legs with the EU as the major consumer	3
Cymbidium kanran can deceptively attract Apis cerana for free pollination by releasing specialized volatile compounds	3
Sensitivity mapping informs mitigation of bird mortality by collision with high-voltage power lines	3
What shapes the mammal species poaching in protected areas: biophysical or anthropogenic factors? A case study in Pendjari Biosphere Reserve	3
Establishing permanent monitoring plots of narrow endemic and threatened plants of Indonesia: a case study on Dipterocarpus cinereus Slooten (Dipterocarpaceae)	3
Potential climatic and elevational range shifts in the Italian narrow endemic Bellevalia webbiana (Asparagaceae) under climate change scenarios	3
The unregulated nature of the commercial captive predator industry in South Africa: Insights gained using the PAIA process	3
Lost species, neglected taxonomy, and the role of natural history collections and synonymization in the identification of the World’s forgotten biodiversity	3
Habitat compression exacerbates human-macaque conflicts: Implications for regional management in karst southwest China	3
First exhaustive distribution and habitat modelling of Morimus asper (Sulzer, 1776) sensu lato (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) in Bulgaria	3
Invertebrate-biased diet of burrowing owls in a newly-restored coastal grassland	3
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
Advances in conservation physiology and ex situ propagation strategies for the rare moss Podperaea krylovii (Amblystegiaceae, Bryophyta)	2
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India	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
Do the roadkills of different mammal species respond the same way to habitat and matrix?	2
Tropical Important Plant Areas, plant species richness and conservation in the British Virgin Islands	2
Effects of management, habitat and landscape characteristics on biodiversity of orchard meadows in Central Europe: A brief review	2
Eight years after the Fundão tailings dam collapse: chaos on the muddy banks	2
Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples	2

Plant functional structure varies across different management regimes in submontane meadows	2
Predation on endangered mussels by invasive raccoons: a case study from western Poland	2
An overview of reviews of conservation flagships: evaluating fundraising ability and surrogate power	1
Use of linear transportation infrastructure rights-of-way as an ecological shelter: National asset estimate and stakeholder involvement	1
Effect of ecological restoration on topsoil phosphorus following afforestation on abandoned ponds in northern Chaohu Lake, China	1
Plant species diversity and composition in limestone forests of the Vietnamese Cat Ba National Park	1
Effectiveness of wire netting fences to prevent animal access to road infrastructures: an experimental study on small mammals and amphibians	1
Soil macroarthropod communities of Amazon degraded pastures restore differently during their natural regrowth	1
Identifying key risks to the achievement of protected area system objectives	1
Paleoclimate changes and ecosystem responses of the Bulgarian Black Sea zone during the last 26000 years	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
Conservation biology meets medical science	1
A methodological framework for addressing environmental problems on aged transport infrastructure	1
Amphibians and reptiles of the Transvolcanic Belt biogeographic province of Mexico: diversity, similarities, and conservation	1
Comparison of methods to estimate the size of Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) scale seizures using species-specific conversion parameters	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
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
Ecology and conservation of the Dutch ground beetle fauna – Lessons from 66 years of pitfall trapping	1
Evaluating the effectiveness of vegetation conservation on a sacred mountain in western China	1
Spatial distribution models and biodiversity of phytoplankton cysts in the Black Sea	1
Promoting private forests for biodiversity conservation and ecosystems restoration in the Sahel region	1
Connecting people to connect landscapes	1
Co-use of existing crossing structures along roads by wildlife and humans: Wishful thinking?	1
Spatial distribution of sand dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast: inventory, UAS mapping and new discoveries	1
Distribution range and population viability of Emys orbicularis in Slovakia: a review with conservation implications	1
Drivers of snow leopard poaching and trade in Pakistan and implications for management	1
Establishing priorities for future land conservation to maximise biodiversity conservation and other ecosystem services in the Tilarán Mountains of Costa Rica	1
Integrating herbarium data with spatial biodiversity assessment into conservation plans: A case study of the genus Carex L. (Cyperaceae) in Saskatchewan, Canada	1
Reencounter with the past: occurrence of sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) in an old hunting area in the south-eastern Pacific Ocean	1
Rubus plicatus Weihe & Nees: resilience to pollution caused by stone quarries	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