OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Conservation-Bulgaria is 4. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Changes in landscape disturbance intensity of sloping land in mountainous areas and their relationship with ecosystem services	26
The Cerrado crisis review: highlighting threats and providing future pathways to save Brazil's biodiversity hotspot	21
Beyond commercial interests lies an ecological responsibility: The dilemma of red-eared slider sales	19
Managed re-alignment: a multifaceted approach in ecological restoration of coastal floodplains	18
To what extent is coastal wetland biodiversity endangered by climate change? How can we boost the resilience of coastal ecosystems?	17
Biodiversity monitoring with intelligent sensors: An integrated pipeline for mitigating animal-vehicle collisions	16
Natura 2000-sites: Legal requirements for agricultural and forestry land-use	15
Dogs, not wolves, most likely to have caused the death of a British tourist in northern Greece	14
Morphological and genetic characteristics of garfish Belone belone (L., 1760) (Belonidae, Teleostei) population from the southern Bulgarian Black Sea coast	14
Changes in species and phylogenetic diversity in tropical seasonal rainforests on steep karst hillslopes in southwestern China: implications for conservation	13
Cultural practices in European riverine floodplains: formation, typology, co-decline of biocultural diversity, and emerging drivers of conservation and sustainable management	13
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	12
A baseline assessment of anthropogenic macrolitter on dunes along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast using visual census and Unmanned Aerial Systems	12
Old trees: Precious natural heritage on isolated islands	11
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	11
Diving pattern and behavioral response to vessel traffic of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in Xiamen, China: implications for conservation	10
Important plant areas (IPAs) in the Fergana Valley (Central Asia): The badlands of the northern foothills	8
Safeguarding China’s threatened cycads: Strategies to combat alarming habitat degradation and anthropogenic collection pressure	7
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	7
Wetlands in the EU policy context	7
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	6
First record of the white trevally (Pseudocaranx dentex) in the Black Sea: a new occurrence from Bulgarian coastal waters	6
Brown bear occurrence along a proposed highway route in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains	6
Decades of habitat destruction - is there any chance left for the endemic and Critically Endangered Cyrtodactylus gialaiensis in Vietnam?	6

Vegetation changes at oligotrophic grasslands managed for a declining butterfly	6
Maps of area of habitat for Italian amphibians and reptiles	6
Vertebrates as victims of domestic cats and dogs: ten years of data from an Italian animal rescue centre (2015–2024)	6
Hidden or inadvertent illegal amphibian trade? Genetic analyses reveal Quasipaa spinosa misidentified as Hoplobatrachus chinensis in the trade	6
Has climate change hijacked the environmental agenda?	5
Impact associated with water sources: An environmental analysis	5
DNA metabarcoding reveals distinct trophic niches among sympatric aerial insectivores (Family: Apodidae and Hirundinidae) in central Peninsular Malaysia	5
Occupancy modeling confirms management concerns for Connecticut (USA) fisher, highlighting the importance of monitoring furbearer distributions	5
Does the Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027 support the restoration of freshwater ecosystems?	5
MIAU: An analysis-ready dataset on presence-only and presence-absence data of Neotropical carnivores (Mammalia, Carnivora) from 2000 to 2021	5
Ritualistic hunts: exploring the motivations and conservation implications in West Bengal, India	5
Assessment of the threat status of the amphibians in Vietnam - Implementation of the One Plan Approach	5
Conservation and ecological screening of small water bodies in temperate riverine wetlands using UAV Photogrammetry (Middle Danube)	5
Prioritising areas for conservation within Tropical Important Plant Areas of the British Virgin Islands, Caribbean	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	4
Conservation gap analysis for Erica (Ericaceae)	4
Applying landscape ecological principles in comprehensive landscape protection: Šumava National Park as a case study	4
Restoring coasts and floodplains - Conclusions and recommendations for enabling action across science, policy, and practice	4
Forest patches as important bird habitats in Malaysia's large-scale infrastructure development areas	4
Potential for informal guardianship in community-based wildlife crime prevention: Insights from Vietnam	4
Climatic niche modelling and genetic analyses highlight conservation priorities for the Spotted Softshell Turtle (Pelodiscus variegatus)	4
Lost in hostile lands: moths of conservation concern in cultivated and suburban areas of south Italy	4
Artificial breeding of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in a captive facility in the Republic of Korea	4
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	4
The potential of electrified barriers to keep black bears out of fenced road corridors at low volume access roads	4
Forage harvesting using branch pruning compromises sustainable use and conservation of Pterocarpus erinaceus Poir., an endangered species	4
Map the Giants: a new citizen-science portal to map, study and protect the largest coral colonies	4