OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Wildlife Research 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Effective corridor width: linking the spatial ecology of wildlife with land use policy	26
Automated detection of European wild mammal species in camera trap images with an existing and pre-trained computer vision model	22
Use of a novel camera trapping approach to measure small mammal responses to peatland restoration	21
Mammal use of wildlife crossing structures along a new motorway in an area recently recolonized by wolves	18
Review on methods used for wildlife species and individual identification	18
Wildlife and infrastructure: impact of wind turbines on bats in the Black Sea coast region	18
Density of wild felids in Sonora, Mexico: a comparison of spatially explicit capture-recapture methods	16
The accuracy and precision of age determination by dental cementum annuli in four northern cervids	16
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in a free ranging leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) in India	14
How many gamebirds are released in the UK each year?	14
Attitudes towards hunting in Polish society and the related impacts of hunting experience, socialisation and social networks	13
One tool in the box: the role of hunters in mitigating the damages associated to abundant wildlife	13
Attacks on hunting dogs: the case of wolf–dog interactions in Croatia	13
Modelling Eurasian beaver foraging habitat and dam suitability, for predicting the location and number of dams throughout catchments in Great Britain	12
Survival rates on pre-weaning European hares (Lepus europaeus) in an intensively used agricultural area	12
Livestock grazing affects movements and activity pattern of Italian roe deer in Southern Italy	12
Concentrations of cadmium, lead, arsenic, and some essential metals in wild boar from Sweden	12
European beaver (Castor fiber) in open agricultural landscapes: crop grazing and the potential for economic damage	12
Thirty years of trade data suggests population declines in a once common songbird in Indonesia	12
Importance of predictable anthropogenic food subsidies for an opportunistic gull inhabiting urban ecosystems	12
New rules or old concepts? The golden jackal (Canis aureus) and its legal status in Central Europe	11
Building a perceptual zone of influence for wildlife: delineating the effects of roads on grizzly bear movement	11
Ungulate-vehicle collision risk and traffic volume on roads	11
Reeves’ muntjac populations continue to grow and spread across Great Britain and are invading continental Europe	11
Housed in a lodge: occurrence of animal species within Eurasian beaver constructions in Central Italy	10

Influence of invasive Prosopis juliflora on the distribution and ecology of native blackbuck in protected areas of Tamil Nadu, India	10
Renewed coexistence: learning from steering group stakeholders on a beaver reintroduction project in England	10
Identifying the variation in utilization density estimators and home ranges of elephant clans in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia	10
Distribution of the European turtle dove (Streptopelia turtur) at the edge of the South-Western Palaearctic: transboundary differences and conservation prospects	10
Beware of dogs! Domestic animals as a threat for wildlife conservation in Alpine protected areas	10
Physical capture and chemical immobilization procedures for a mammal with singular anatomy: the giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)	9
Caught red handed: iDNA points to wild source for CITES-protected contraband leeches	9
Investigating people’s perceptions of alien parakeets in urban environments	9
Citizen science contribution to national wolf population monitoring: what have we learned?	9
Invasive raccoon dog depredation on nests can have strong negative impact on the Dalmatian pelican’s breeding population in Bulgaria	9
Surveillance and habitat diversity affect European brown hare (Lepus europaeus) density in protected breeding areas	9
Estimating red deer (Cervus elaphus) population size based on non-invasive genetic sampling	9
Assessing trends in wolf impact on livestock through verified claims in historical vs. recent areas of occurrence in Italy	8
Red-legged partridge Alectoris rufa productivity in relation to weather, land use, and releases of farm-reared birds	8
Protocol to classify the stages of carcass decomposition and estimate the time of death in small-size raptors	8
Feral rabbit populations in a peri-urban area: insights about invasion dynamics and potential management strategies	8
Shrinking striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena Linnaeus, 1758) distribution in Nepal	8
Bear trade in the Czech Republic: an analysis of legal and illegal international trade from 2005 to 2020	8
Effects of a new waste collection policy on the population of yellow-legged gulls, Larus michahellis, in the historic centre of Venice (Italy)	8
Random encounter model to estimate density of mountain-dwelling ungulate	8
Spatial and temporal dynamics of wild boars Sus scrofa hunted in Alpine environment	8
The forgotten mountain monarch? Understanding conservation status of the Vulnerable Ladakh urial in India	8
Ophidiomyces ophidiicola detection and infection: a global review on a potential threat to the world’s snake populations	7
Revealing the origin of wildcat reappearance after presumed long-term absence	7
Lunar phase as a cue for migrations to two species of explosive breeding amphibians—implications for conservation	7
The faded stripes of Bengal: a historical perspective on the easternmost distribution of the striped hyena	7
Enterobacteriaceae and Salmonella contamination of wild boar (Sus scrofa) carcasses: comparison between different sampling strategies	7
Spatio-temporal overlap of leopard and prey species in the foothills of Shiwalik, Himalaya	7
Migration patterns of Swedish Greylag geese Anser anser—implications for flyway management in a changing world	7
Spatio-temporal movement patterns and habitat choice of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and racoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides) along the Wadden Sea coast	7
Which bait should I use? Insights from a camera trap study in a highly diverse cerrado forest	7
Moving from intentions to actions for collecting hunting bag statistics at the European scale: some methodological insights	7
Insights into illegal wildlife hunting by forest guards of selected tiger reserves in Central India	7
A long-term survey on Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in wild mammals from a bovine tuberculosis low prevalence area	6
Social and environmental factors influencing contemporary cases of wolf aggression towards people in Poland	6
A small cat saving food for later: caching behavior in the European wildcat (Felis silvestris silvestris)	6
Survival of wild and farmed-released mallards: the Swedish example	6
Wild boar visits to commercial pig farms in southwest England: implications for disease transmission	6
Livestock displace European mouflon from optimal foraging sites	6
Effect of landscape type, elevation, vegetation period, and taxonomic plant identification level on diet preferences of Alpine mountain hares (Lepus timidus varronis)	6
Mono-specific forest plantations are valuable bat habitats: implications for wind energy development	6
The need to consider searcher efficiency and carcass persistence in railway wildlife fatality studies	6
Tools and opportunities for African swine fever control in wild boar and feral pigs: a review	6
Diet differences between males and females in sexually dimorphic ungulates: a case study on Siberian ibex	6
Height and tension of electric lines: how should an electric fence be installed to effectively mitigate human-wildlife conflict?	6
Phenotypic and genotypic resistance to colistin in E. coli isolated from wild boar (Sus scrofa) hunted in Italy	6
Brucella sp. sequence-type 27 associated with abortion in dwarf sperm whale Kogia sima	6
Seeking the least urbanized landscape: white stork nest abundance variation in a Mediterranean capital city	6
Potential importance of urban areas for water voles: Arvicola amphibius	6
Colonisation, impacts in conservation woodland and management of Reeves’ muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi) in an English county	6

Slow and ultra-rapid freezing protocols for cryopreserving roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) epididymal sperm collected at different times of year	5
Survival, spatial behaviour and resting place selection of translocated Iberian hares Lepus granatensis in Northwestern Spain	5
The elephant at the fence: almsman, panhandler, friend or foe?	5
Does the American mink displace the European polecat? A need for more research on interspecific competition between invasive and native species	5
Human-elephant conflict in West Bengal, India: present status and mitigation measures	5
Life history modelling reveals trends in fitness and apparent survival of an isolated Salamandra salamandra population in an urbanised landscape	5
Human-driven genetic differentiation in a managed red deer population	5
Effects of sika deer density on the diet and population of red foxes	5
Challenges for recovery of large carnivores in humanized countries: attitudes and knowledge of sheep farmers towards brown bear in Western Pyrenees, Spain	5
Edge effect in rodent populations at the border between agricultural landscapes and forests	5
The wolves are coming: understanding human controversies on the return of the wolf through the use of socio-cultural values	5
Long-distance dispersal and home range establishment by a female sub-adult tiger (Panthera tigris) in the Panna landscape, central India	5
The relationship between quotas and harvest in the alpine reindeer population on Hardangervidda, Norway	5
Habitat scarcity forms an ecological trap for the grey partridge (Perdix perdix) within a central European agricultural landscape	5
The DeepFaune initiative: a collaborative effort towards the automatic identification of European fauna in camera trap images	5
Tuning oral-bait delivery strategies for red deer in Mediterranean ecosystems	5
Reproductive potential of free-living wild boar in Central Europe	5
Potential invasion range of raccoon in Iran under climate change	4
Habitat selection and density of common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) in Northern Italy: effects of land use cover and landscape configuration	4
Eurasian otter Lutra lutra diet mirrors the decline of native fish assemblages in a semi-arid catchment (River Segura, SE Spain)	4
Divergent trends of large carnivore populations within the Bénoué Complex, North Cameroon, shown by long-term fine-scale monitoring	4
Hazel dormice (Muscardinus avellanarius) in a regenerating clearing: the effects of clear-felling and regrowth thinning on long-term abundance dynamics	4
Temporal patterns of ungulate-vehicle collisions in a sparsely populated country	4
Patterns of visitation of the Linnaeus’s two-toed sloth (Choloepus didactylus) at Amazonian mineral licks	4
Citizen science to monitor the distribution of the Egyptian mongoose in southern Spain: who provide the most reliable information?	4
Monitoring of the last stronghold of native pool frogs (Pelophylax lessonae) in Western Europe, with implications for their conservation	4
Insect-repelling behavior in goitered gazelles: responses to biting fly attack	4
First-year dispersal in white-tailed eagles Haliaeetus albicilla	4
Invasive non-native species in Great Britain—policy and delivery, with specific reference to Reeves’ muntjac	4
Spatial and numerical responses of Red Kites Milvus milvus to the Common Vole Microtus arvalis population outbreak in central Europe	4
Human and environmental associates of local species-specific abundance in a multi-species deer assemblage	4
Usutu virus in blackbirds (Turdus merula) with clinical signs, a case study from northern Italy	4
Anthropogenic threats drive spatio-temporal responses of wildcat on Mt. Etna	4
Functionality of two canopy bridge designs: successful trials for the endangered black lion tamarin and other arboreal species	4
Prevalence of Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella britovi in wild boars in the northeast of Spain	4
Mammalian fatalities on roads: how sampling errors affect road prioritization and dominant species influence spatiotemporal patterns	4
History of introduction of Reeves’ muntjac in Great Britain and ecological characteristics facilitating expansion of feral populations	4
Vertebrate diet of the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) and barn owl (Tyto alba) in rain-fed crops: implications to the pest control programs	4
Mink on the brink: comparing survey methods for detecting a critically endangered carnivore, the European mink Mustela lutreola	4
Limited evidence for negative effects of highway widening on North American large mammals	4
Error in trapper-reported sex of lynx (Lynx canadensis) and wolverine (Gulo gulo): implications for analyses of harvest records	4
Using species distribution models to gauge the completeness of the bat checklist of Eswatini	4
Habitat use of golden jackals (Canis aureus) in riverine areas of northern Bosnia and Herzegovina	4
Seasonal pattern in browsing trees and shrubs by reintroduced Cuvier’s gazelles: a study in Morocco with management implications	4
Increased mortality in wild tits in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in 2020 with a special focus on Suttonella ornithocola and other infectious pathogens	4