Endangered Species Research

Article	Citations
Occupancy of four endangered aquatic species on Bitter Lake National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico, USA, using environmental DNA	111
The future for Australia’s flatback turtles	86
Reconstructing and forecasting the dynamics of an internationally important population of Manx shearwaters	42
Contemporary sightings of eastern North Pacific right whales, 2006 to 2023	30
A conservation status review of the Arabian bustard Ardeotis arabs	29
First genetically confirmed record of the copper shark Carcharhinus brachyurus in Chilean waters: implications for conservation	27
Post-stocking condition of endangered pallid sturgeon released at age 0	24
Photogrammetry and multievent modeling to determine effects of disturbance on seabird colony nest success	22
A focus on flatback turtles: the social acceptability of conservation interventions in two Australian case studies	21
Recovery of a green turtle (Chelonia mydas) rookery on the South Atlantic Island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil: 35 years of conservation efforts	21
Expanding the known range and practical conservation issues of the Endangered Australian brook lamprey Mordacia praecox	20
Behavioral context of male fin whale Balaenoptera physalus call production on a western North Atlantic summer foraging ground	18
Characteristics of ocelot populations in Tamaulipas, Mexico, using capture-recapture techniques	17
Foraging ecology of southern sea otters at the northern range extent informs regional population dynamics	15
Fisher-based assessments of sea turtle bycatch in small-scale fisheries in Pacific Mexico	13
Global research priorities for historical ecology to inform conservation	13
Projected future changes in the geographic distributions of the threatened Plethodon nettingi and a potential competitor	13
Incorporating prey fields into North Atlantic right whale density surface models	13
Unexpected population genetic structure in Bayou darter Nothonotus rubrus in the geomorphically dynamic Bayou Pierre, Mississippi, USA	12
Widespread occupancy of the endangered northern myotis on northeastern Atlantic Coastal Plain islands	12
Extralimital sightings of a gray whale in the western North Atlantic	12
Using ‘pup multipliers’ to estimate demographic parameters of Mediterranean monk seals in the eastern Mediterranean Sea	11
Habitat use and movement patterns of adult male and juvenile scalloped hammerhead sharks Sphyrna lewini throughout the Hawaiian archipelago	11
Unveiling the trophic ecology of immature green turtles in the Gulf of Guinea, a key eastern Atlantic foraging ground	11
Conditioning effect on survival of foster parents of reintroduced masked bobwhite broods	10

Use of expert elicitation to understand the future viability of a threatened salmonid	10
Annual, seasonal, and diel patterns in blue whale call occurrence off eastern Canada	10
CORRECTION: Environmental DNA mitochondrial markers to assess potential occupancy of Endangered Yaqui catfish in the Yaqui River basin, Mexico	10
Beyond Calanus: changes to the copepod community in the northeast USA and implications for North Atlantic right whale foraging energetics	10
The Red Sea's largest coastal lagoon is a reproductive site for endangered whiprays and guitarfish	9
Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species	9
Trophic ecology of sooty albatross, segregating mechanisms from the congeneric light-mantled sooty albatross, and conservation implications	9
Classifying the effects of human disturbance on denning polar bears	9
A multistate capture-recapture model to estimate reproduction of North Atlantic right whales	9
Acoustic detections and sightings of blue whales Balaenoptera musculus in the Seychelles, western tropical Indian Ocean (2020-2022)	9
Status of Pinna nobilis populations before and after a mass mortality event in the Tabarca Marine Reserve, SE Spain	9
Life history, population dynamics and impacts of cat predation on an endemic gadfly petrel in Cabo Verde	9
Reassessing distribution and population estimates of the golden-headed lion tamarin Leontopithecus chrysomelas (Primates, Callitrichidae)	9
Impact of ecologically relevant road salt levels and captivity on redside dace Clinostomus elongatus thermal tolerance and gene expression	9
Comparative non-targeted lipidomic profiles in blubber of endangered St. Lawrence Estuary belugas and their potential prey	8
Mitigating collisions between vessels and North Atlantic right whales in US waters	8
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis prey selection in Cape Cod Bay	8
Spatiotemporal patterns and causes of sea turtle strandings in Chile between 2009 and 2022	8
Acoustic telemetry reveals cross-border movements and conservation opportunities for reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in southern Africa	8
Predicting core areas of flatback turtle hatchlings and potential exposure to threats	8
Maternal den preferences, reproductive behavior, and spatial use of a wild Manis javanica during maternal and non-maternal stages in Sabah, Borneo	8
Refining capture-recapture recruitment estimation methods for Atlantic sturgeon	8
Ex situ protection and climate refugia of the Critically Endangered Beshanzu fir Abies beshanzuensis	8
Behavioral reactions of non-denning polar bears to industry activities, North Slope, Alaska, 2009–2023	7
Thermal conditions of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nests in the largest rookery in the eastern Mediterranean	7
Past and present sawfish (Pristidae) records from India	7
Identifying social clusters of endangered main Hawaiian Islands false killer whales	7
Top predators, shared prey: isotopic niche dynamics and trophic interactions among dusky, tiger and white sharks	7
First demographic parameter estimates for the Mediterranean monk seal population at Madeira, Portugal	7
Age and repeated collection interval effects on sperm motility in the endangered delta smelt Hypomesus transpacificus	6
Acoustic detections of North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica along the eastern Aleutian Chain and northern Gulf of Alaska, 2009-2023	6
Population distribution, aggregation sites and seasonal occurrence of Australia’s western population of the grey nurse shark Carcharias taurus	6
Estimation of short-tailed albatross Phoebastria albatrus population on the Senkaku Islands using satellite images	6
Discriminating Canadian Arctic beluga management stocks using dentine oxygen and carbon isotopes	6
Assessing the effects of incubation temperature on the cognitive ability of post-hatchling loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta	6
Population genetics of freshwater stingray require investigation to confirm DNA contamination: Reply to Alshari et al. (2023)	6
Long-term migratory alterations to whooping crane arrival and departure on the wintering and staging grounds	6
Quantifying the relative importance of survival threats to a long-lived reptile using expert elicitation	6
Preliminary insight into the reproductive traits of the flapper skate Dipturus intermedius using in-field ultrasonography and circulating hormone concentrations	5
Apparent survival probability and abundance of juvenile green turtles in the foraging ground at Kuroshima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago	5
Evaluating the efficacy of real-time passive acoustic monitoring near offshore wind energy development activities to help mitigate risks to North Atlantic right whales	5
Temporal dynamics of Japanese eel distribution in the Yangtze River basin	5
Long-term wild recovery and resilience of green turtles Chelonia mydas to various anthropogenic injuries	5
DNA contamination and taxonomic diversity hinder eDNA research on freshwater stingray species: Comment on Lim & Then (2022)	5
A habitat suitability model for testing and refining the range of Zuni fleabane, a threatened plant species	5
Occupancy, movement, and behaviour of namew (lake sturgeon Acipenser fulvescens) in an intact river in Canada	5
Status of the largetooth sawfish in Ecuador and Peru, and use of rostral teeth in cockfighting	5
News and social media in mapping the endangered Mediterranean monk seal: exceptional data gains but persistent bias	5
Determinants of post-release survival and space use for an endangered quail	5
Using environmental DNA to identify priority areas for sawfish conservation in Costa Rica, Central America	5

Naturally sampled environmental DNA helps determine the distribution of Critically Endangered species in a global hotspot of marine biodiversity	5
High historical movement rates of Antarctic blue whales on Southern Ocean feeding grounds estimated from Discovery mark data	5
Endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow ecology: actions towards recovery through landscape-scale ecosystem restoration	5
Camera-trapping reveals globally threatened mammalian biodiversity in Mindoro, Philippines	5
Summer movements of marbled murrelets from Canada to Alaska	5
An apparent case of Pb toxicosis in an American crocodile Crocodylus acutus in South Florida, USA	5
Non-lethal metabarcoding analysis of cloacal swabs from Siberian taimen Hucho taimen reveals parasitic infections and an instance of mammalophagy	5
Female reproductive dynamics in Caribbean green turtles Chelonia mydas	5
Severe sawfish population decline in the northern Bay of Bengal	4
Risks associated with the spatial overlap between humpback dolphins and fisheries in Sindhudurg, Maharashtra, India	4
Tracking sarus crane movements in Cambodia and Vietnam reveals seasonal vulnerabilities and gaps in protected area coverage	4
Summer and winter surveys of deep waters of the Hellenic Trench, Greece, provide insights into the spatial and temporal distribution of odontocetes	4
North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis summer habitat in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada: 2017-2019	4
Underwater soundscapes within critical habitats of the endangered Hawaiian monk seal: implications for conservation	4
Growth rates of the Critically Endangered fan mussel Pinna nobilis in the Slovenian Sea (northern Adriatic)	4
Current status, biology, threats and conservation priorities of the vulnerable Mediterranean monk seal	4
Developing respirometry methodology for the Critically Endangered delta smelt	4
Movement patterns and space use of a large, aquatic turtle, with a comparison of GPS, VHF, and acoustic transmitters	4
From the sky and on the beaches: complementary tools to evaluate common dolphin bycatch in the Bay of Biscay	4
High female desert tortoise mortality in the western Sonoran Desert during California’s epic 2012-2016 drought	4
Genetic diversity and source rookeries of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta from bycatch and strandings around the Korean Peninsula	4
Movements and behaviour of southern right whales satellite-tracked in and beyond a subantarctic archipelago wintering ground	4
Intraspecific variability in flatback turtle habitat use: δ15N as an indicator of foraging locations	4
Foraging behavior of Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales is associated with ambient noise, prey density, and the acoustic behavior of conspecifics	4
Long-term aerial monitoring of Florida manatees Trichechus manatus latirostris in a diverse Gulf Coast environment	4
Application of epigenetics to understand the demography of the Lahille’s bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus gephyreus	4
A preliminary assessment of the reproductive morphology and endocrinology of European blind cave salamander Proteus anguinus	4
Factors regulating incubation temperature and thermal stress in hawksbills in St. Croix, USVI	4
Anthropogenic activity and Cook Inlet beluga whale presence in two Alaska rivers	4
First trophic ontogeny data for the scalloped bonnethead Sphyrna corona in the Colombian Pacific	4
Drone photogrammetry reveals age-structure shifts with potential consequences for the viability of spinner dolphins in Hawai'i	4
Pupping grounds for the Critically Endangered tope shark Galeorhinus galeus around the Dutch Wadden Islands	4
Adipose tissue estimation of foraging and nesting green turtles Chelonia mydas using bioelectrical impedance analysis	3
Rediscovery of the giant featherback Chitala lopis (Notopteridae) in its type locality resolves decades of taxonomic confusion	3
Acoustic abundance estimation for Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, USA	3
High sea turtle density in a Mediterranean foraging ground revealed by UAV surveys and machine learning	3
Acoustic occurrence of beaked whales off eastern Canada, 2015-2017	3
Satellite telemetry reveals high-use internesting areas and international foraging extent for loggerhead turtles tagged in southeast Florida, USA	3
Ship-strike forecast and mitigation for whales in Gitga’at First Nation territory	3
Current water pollution status at an important wintering site of the black-faced spoonbill Platalea minor in Xinghua Bay, south China	3
Predicted distribution of ‘ua‘u (Hawaiian petrel Pterodroma sandwichensis) nest sites on Haleakalā, Maui	3
Variation in glider-detected North Atlantic right, blue, and fin whale calls in proximity to high-traffic shipping lanes	3
Quality of thermal refuges influences use by the cold-intolerant Florida manatee	3
Vessel Avoidance Behavior in Green Turtles off the West Coast of Florida	3
Extended aquarium opening hours during tourist rush season cause temporary threshold shifts in an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin	3
Leopard sharks Stegostoma tigrinum in southern Mozambique: population structure, spatial ecology, and first observations of courtship behaviour	3
Prediction of climate-driven habitat shifts of the rare and threatened moss Buxbaumia viridis in Slovenia	3
Combining UAVs and multi-sensor dataloggers to estimate fine-scale sea turtle density at foraging areas: a case study in the central Mediterranean	3
A long-term study of green turtles on Lanyu Island, Taiwan, suggests resilience to global climate change	3
What ecological similarities and differences reveal about a status disparity between pallid sturgeon and shovelnose sturgeon	3
Regionally endothermic traits in planktivorous basking sharks Cetorhinus maximus	3
Body condition differs among social clusters and across years in endangered false killer whales in Hawai‘i	3
Influence of nearby environment on recreational bycatch of sea turtles at fishing piers in the eastern Gulf of Mexico	3
Preliminary life history of the Critically Endangered bottlenose wedgefish Rhynchobatus australiae from Southeast Asia	3
Association of delta smelt with other small pelagic fishes suggests the potential for competition and proxy monitoring	3
Movement behaviour of clinically treated olive ridleys released from Maldives	3
Notable abundance of two Critically Endangered elasmobranch fishes near an area of intensive coastal development in the Arabian Gulf	3
Reproductive timing and putative mating behavior of the oceanic whitetip shark Carcharhinus longimanus in the eastern Bahamas	2
Monitoring the ocelot population in the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge	2
Modeling to aid in the planning for reintroduction of Mediterranean monk seals	2
A trans-Pacific movement reveals regular migrations of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae between Russia and Mexico	2
Pan-oceanic distribution of mercury (Hg) in sea turtles: a review	2
Ecology, natural history, and conservation status of Scolopendra abnormis, a threatened centipede endemic to Mauritius	2
Vulnerability of the Critically Endangered leatherback turtle to fisheries bycatch in the eastern Pacific Ocean. II. Assessment of mitigation measures	2
Morphometric variation and sexual dimorphism of endangered longfin smelt Spirinchus thaleichthys in the San Francisco Estuary	2
Otolith-based comparisons of wild versus hatchery-origin delta smelt	2
Combining isotopic analyses and satellite telemetry to assess geographic variability in the trophic ecology of Amazon River dolphins Inia geoffrensis	2
Horizontal and vertical movement ecology of shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in coastal and offshore waters of Taiwan	2
Optimisation of potential distribution area of the endangered herb Glehnia littoralis (Apiaceae) based on interspecific competition	2
Recombinant luteinizing hormone as a tool towards understanding reproductive dysfunction in captive Macquarie perch Macquaria australasica	2
Age-related spatial ecology of Audouin’s gull during the non-breeding season	2
Identifying impactful sea turtle conservation strategies: a mismatch between most influential and most readily manageable life-stages	2
Revisiting the imposex queen conch Aliger gigas near Port Everglades, Florida: demographics, histopathology, and sediment contamination	2
New insights reveal a temporally distinct two-stock genetic structure for Suwannee River Gulf sturgeon	2
Forage preferences and size-mediated trophic segregation among green turtles Chelonia mydas in a resource-limited tropical marine ecosystem	2
Fisher insights into rhino ray status, utilisation, and conservation at five major fishing harbours in India	2
Vulnerability of the Critically Endangered leatherback turtle to fisheries bycatch in the eastern Pacific Ocean. I. A machine-learning species distribution model	2
Flatback futures—evaluating conservation interventions to reduce threats to an endemic Australian turtle	2
Examining the effect of environmental variability on the viability of endangered Steller sea lions using an integrated population model	2
Anatomical evidence that arribada olive ridley sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea feed at breeding and nesting grounds to maintain high reproductive output	2

Migratory diversity and growth of Sakhalin taimen Parahucho perryi collected from rivers in northern Hokkaido, Japan	2
Feeding ecology of harbour porpoises Phocoena phocoena stranded on the Galician coast (NW Spain) between 1990 and 2018	2
Review of three southwestern Indian Ocean species of Rhinobatos (Rhinopristiformes: Rhinobatidae)	2
Oviposition substrate preferences of two endangered prairie butterflies in an ex situ conservation environment	2
Habitat use of the micro-endemic day gecko Phelsuma antanosy in Sainte Luce, Madagascar, and the case for translocation	2
Assessing the suitability of habitat for the Endangered pygmy bluetongue lizard	2
Fecal and cloacal microbiomes of cold-stunned loggerhead Caretta caretta, Kemp’s ridley Lepidochelys kempii, and green sea turtles Chelonia mydas	2
Assessing the viability of bull trout conservation units: integrating the NatureServe process with the USA’s Endangered Species Act	2
Resource use by Sphyrna mokarran and S. lewini (Chondrichthyes) neonates and juveniles in the western Arabian Gulf: a stable isotope analysis	2
Post-release movements of leatherback turtles captured by the Peruvian small-scale driftnet fishery: insights from satellite telemetry	2
How compromised is reproductive performance in the endangered North Atlantic right whale?	2
Anatomical location and severity of watercraft injuries in sea turtles	2
Distribution of three mobulid ray species (Mobula tarapacana, M. mobular, and M. thurstoni) in the western Atlantic and Caribbean	2
Occurrence of leatherback turtles around Australia	1
Nesting habitat characteristics of flatback Natator depressus, green Chelonia mydas and loggerhead Caretta caretta turtles in eastern Queensland, Australia	1
Phenology, population size, and factors influencing variation in density of an endangered butterfly, the mottled duskywing Erynnis martialis	1
Population genetics of gharial Gavialis gangeticus in the Chambal River, India, using novel polymorphic microsatellite markers	1
Diving behaviour of North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and vulnerability to vessel strikes and entanglement in fixed-gear fisheries	1
DNA metabarcoding for diet analysis of an endangered endemic bitterling, Acheilognathus majusculus (Teleostei; Cyprinidae)	1
Oceanic manta rays aggregating near a major population center have far higher injury rates than at an offshore protected area	1
Effect of moisture, temperature, and maternal influence on the hatching, phenotype, and performance of hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata	1
Long-term assessment of the translocation of an endangered primate into an agroforestry system	1
mtDNA variation of humpback whales in their wintering grounds of Guerrero, southern Mexican Pacific	1
Microhabitat selection by François’ langur Trachypithecus francoisi in Mayanghe National Nature Reserve, China	1
Observations of reproductive behaviors in the Critically Endangered bowmouth guitarfish Rhina ancylostoma	1
Inter-nesting habitat use by green turtles Chelonia mydas in the Great Barrier Reef	1
Combining reproductive endocrinology and ROC analysis to identify changes with sex, age, and pregnancy status in botos Inia geoffrensis	1
Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions	1
Quantifying behavior and collision risk of humpback whales surfacing near large ships: implications for detection and avoidance	1
Aerial hearing thresholds and ecoacoustics of a threatened pursuit-diving seabird, the marbled murrelet Brachyramphus marmoratus	1
Natural history, fisheries, and conservation of the Pacific guitarfish: signs of trouble in Peruvian waters	1
Using ensemble ecological niche models to predict long-term core habitat of sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus in the southwest Indian Ocean under future climate scenarios	1
Fast ice variability in East Antarctica: observed repercussions for emperor penguins	1
Population viability analysis of the endangered copper redhorse Moxostoma hubbsi	1
Global status and research priorities for rhino rays	1
CORRECTION: Influences of natural and anthropogenic habitat variables on Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins Sousa chinensis in Hong Kong	1
Satellite tracking reveals critical habitats and migratory pathways for green and hawksbill turtles nesting in Montserrat, Eastern Caribbean	1
Dispersal patterns of male loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta from a high-latitude summer foraging ground in the North Pacific	1
Sounds of Atlantic sturgeon spawning: first description and opportunities for riverine endangered species conservation with passive acoustic monitoring	1
Endocrine data provide further evidence of physiologic derangement in sea turtles affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill	1
Using sonobuoys and visual surveys to characterize North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) calling behavior in the Gulf of St. Lawrence	1
An integrated model improves inferences about survival in the Mojave desert tortoise	1
Potential habitats and historical distribution changes of three species of musk deer in China under habitat fragmentation	1
While they’re still here: assessing status and habitat for the last populations of the Carson wandering skipper Pseudocopaeodes eunus obscurus	1
Applying distance sampling to estimate densities of fin whale calls recorded by ocean bottom seismometers in the Marianas region	1
New insights into trace element offloading and bioaccumulation in endangered Hawaiian monk seal bones	1
Demographic response of a high-Arctic polar bear (Ursus maritimus) subpopulation to changes in sea ice and subsistence harvest	1
Movement behaviour of endangered white sturgeon Acipenser transmontanus responds to changing environmental conditions below a dam	1
Atlantic connectivity of a major green sea turtle Chelonia mydas foraging aggregation at the Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania	1
Western snowy plover breeding dispersal in response to nest failure in Monterey Bay, California, USA	1
Challenges and priorities for river cetacean conservation	1
Endurance or extinction: long-term declines in albatrosses at South Georgia highlight threats from South Atlantic fisheries and climate change	1
A density surface model describing the habitat of the Critically Endangered Rice’s whale Balaenoptera ricei in the Gulf of Mexico	1
Tracking trends in foraging sea turtle aggregations at Reunion Island using aerial and photo-ID surveys (2008-2023)	1
Integrating ensemble habitat suitability models to guide conservation strategies for the endangered Houston toad Anaxyrus houstonensis	1
Regression models forecasting seasonal variations in Korean Delphinus delphis bycatch in its key coastal habitat	1
Evaluation of post-stocking re-encounters of an endangered fish using a large, multi-agency database to inform recovery	1
False killer whales and fisheries in Hawaiian waters: evidence from mouthline and dorsal fin injuries reveal ongoing and repeated interactions	1
Increased abundance and range expansion of harlequin ducks Histrionicus histrionicus wintering in Eastern Canada	1
Post-nesting habitat selection by female loggerhead turtles in Japan	1
Predicting the occurrence of an endangered salamander in a highly urbanized landscape	1
Nesting female hawksbill sea turtles trending smaller in the western Indian Ocean	1
Drone surveys reveal strong inter- and intra-annual site fidelity of oceanic manta rays Mobula birostris to a turbid coastal bay in Fiji	1
Updated global conservation status and priorities for marine turtles	1
The elusive sex: satellite tracking contributions to male sea turtle spatial ecology	1
Determining abundance and survival of sea turtles at foraging areas: a logistically feasible field approach using multiple analytical methods	1
Ship sturgeon is close to disappearing in the Caspian Sea: What should we do?	1
Increasing mortality of Endangered Antillean manatees Trichechus manatus manatus due to watercraft collisions in Belize	1