OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Conservation Physiology is 5. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Cortisol in fish scales remains stable during extended periods of storage	35
Correction to: Effect of L-alanine exposure during early life stage on olfactory development, growth and survival in age-0 lake sturgeon	32
Nailing it: Investigation of elephant toenails for retrospective analysis of adrenal and reproductive hormones	28
Respiratory acidosis and O2 supply capacity do not affect the acute temperature tolerance of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	26
Validating enzyme immunoassays for non-invasive reproductive hormone monitoring in Temminck’s pangolin	24
Ecological features of upriver migration in Kitakami River chum salmon and their connection to aerobic thermal performance	22
Optimizing the prediction of discard survival of bottom-trawled plaice based on vitality indicators	20
Serum Virome of Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears (Ursus maritimus) during a period of rapid climate change	20
How can physiology best contribute to wildlife conservation in a warming world?	20
Transcriptomic evidence of cytokine storm and sepsis in little brown bats exposed to white-nose syndrome	20
Evaluating bat boxes: design and placement alter bioenergetic costs and overheating risk	17
Intake and growth histories modulate bone morphology, microarchitecture, and mineralization in juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas)	17
Comparing life history traits and tolerance to changing environments of two oyster species (Ostrea edulis and Crassostrea gigas) through Dynamic Energy Budget theory	17
Adrenal and metabolic hormones demonstrate risk–reward trade-offs for African elephants foraging in human-dominated landscapes	17
Repeatability of swimming activity of the Patagonian grouper Acanthistius patachonicus based on accelerometry	17
The habitat quality paradox: loss of riparian forest cover leads to decreased risk of parasitism and improved body condition in an imperiled amphibian	16
Reflections on a decade of service as founding Editor-in-Chief ofConservation Physiology	16
Correction to: Advancing urban ethnopharmacology: a modern concept of sustainability, conservation and cross-cultural adaptations of medicinal plant lore in the urban environment	15
The impacts of diel thermal variability on growth, development and performance of wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from two thermally distinct rivers	15
Etorphine induces pathophysiology in immobilized white rhinoceros through sympathomimesis that is attenuated by butorphanol	15
Strategies for oocyte collection and in vitro embryo production in free-roaming bison herds	14
Blubber biopsy biomarkers for baleen whales	14
How nesting time affects the health and survival of migratory birds	14
Variation in body condition, corticosterone response and immune function is related to the timing of nesting in Franklin’s Gull	14
New insights into risk variables associated with gas embolism in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) caught in trawls and gillnets	14

Multiple morphophysiological responses of a tropical frog to urbanization conform to the pace-of-life syndrome	13
Hatchery and wild larval lake sturgeon experience effects of captivity on stress reactivity, behavior and predation risk	12
Simultaneous determination of steroid hormones and pharmaceuticals in killer whale (Orcinus orca) faecal samples by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry	12
Guiding plant conservation using physiological tools: how mechanistic research can bridge disciplinary divides	12
The fast-food effect: costs of being a generalist in a human-dominated landscape	11
UV exposure causes energy trade-offs leading to increased chytrid fungus susceptibility in green tree frog larvae	11
Effects of disease on foraging behaviour and success in an individual free-ranging northern elephant seal	11
In sea trout, the physiological response to salmon louse is stronger in female than in males	11
Successful acclimatization of mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) translocated to Conkouati-Douli National Park, Republic of Congo, as measured by fecal glucocorticoid metabolites	11
Linking nutritional biochemistry and trophic ecology to health of adult female California sea lions in the Gulf of California	11
The role of temperature in vitality and survival assessments of beam-trawled and discarded European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)	11
Connecting the dots: relationship between heart rate and overall dynamic body acceleration in free-ranging cattle	10
Life cycle complexity and body mass drive erratic changes in climate vulnerability across ontogeny in a seasonally migrating butterfly	10
Correction to: Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) age at maturity is strongly affected by temperature, population and age-at-maturity genotype	10
Soil moisture and temperature drive emergence delays associated with fire seasonality in eucalypt forests	10
Elevating the impact of conservation physiology by building a community devoted to excellence, transparency, ethics, integrity and mutual respect	10
Energetic basis for bird ontogeny and egg-laying applied to the bobwhite quail	9
Bat cellular immunity varies by year and dietary habit amidst land conversion	9
Can scale cortisol concentration be quantified non-lethally in wild fish species?	9
Germination physiology of Cochlospermum fraseri (Bixaceae), a deciduous tree from Northern Australia with physical seed dormancy	9
The cost of sympatry: spatio-temporal patterns in leopard dietary and physiological responses to tiger competition gradient in Rajaji Tiger Reserve, Uttarakhand, India	9
Hot climate, hot koalas: the role of weather, behaviour and disease on thermoregulation	9
Land use influences the faecal glucocorticoid metabolites of multiple species across trophic levels	9
Growth in marine mammals: a review of growth patterns, composition and energy investment	9
Biofilm and invertebrate consumption by western sandpipers (Calidris mauri) and dunlin (Calidris alpina)during spring migratory stopover: insights from tissue and breath CO2 isotopic (	9
Increases in humidity will intensify lethal hyperthermia risk for birds occupying humid lowlands	9
Taking Conservation Physiology forward: editorial vision of the new editor-in-chief	9
Warm acclimation alters antioxidant defences but not metabolic capacities in the Antarctic fish, Notothenia coriiceps	9
Validation of an enzyme immunoassay for the detection of corticosterone metabolites from northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus) feces	9
Adrenal response to competitive singing: glucocorticoid metabolites in male Saltator similis (Aves, Thraupidae)	9
Reproductive phases coincide with changes in morphology and photosynthetic physiology in an endangered cycad species	9
The effect of temperature on specific dynamic action of juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon,Oncorhynchus tshawytscha	8
Does aerobic scope influence geographical distribution of teleost fishes?	8
A body composition model with multiple storage compartments for polar bears (Ursus maritimus)	8
Determining physiological responses of mussels (Mytilus edulis) to hypoxia by combining multiple sensor techniques	8
Survival estimates across five life stages of redfin (Perca fluviatilis) exposed to simulated pumped-storage hydropower stressors	8
Selecting auditory alerting stimuli for eagles on the basis of auditory evoked potentials	8
Correction to: Ocean warming favours a northern Argyrosomus species over its southern congener, whereas preliminary metabolic evidence suggests that hybridization may promote their adaptation	8
Health assessment of nesting loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in one of their largest rookeries (central eastern Florida coast, USA)	8
The comparative energetics of the carnivorans and pangolins	7
Can blubber steroid hormone measurements reveal reproductive state in narwhals?	7
Thermal tolerance of giant salmonfly nymphs (Pteronarcys californica) varies across populations in a regulated river	7
Quantifying microplastic ingestion, degradation and excretion in insects using fluorescent plastics	7
Correction to: Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) age at maturity is strongly affected by temperature, population and age-at-maturity genotype	7
Artificial light at night during early development directly affects embryonic but not larval quality in a wild coral reef fish	7
Putting the health in hidden Markov models: incorporating allostatic load indices into movement ecology analyses	7
No consistent effect of daytime versus night-time measurement of thermal tolerance in nocturnal and diurnal lizards	7
Swimming energetics of Atlantic salmon in relation to extended fasting at different temperatures	6
Capture heats up sharks	6
A review of elasmobranch catch-and-release science: synthesis of current knowledge, implications for best practice and future research directions	6

Ice-olating a health scoring system for wild polar bears	6
Neotropical stingless bees display a strong response in cold tolerance with changes in elevation	6
Dermal glucocorticoids are uncoupled from stress physiology and infection	6
Assessing variation in faecal glucocorticoid concentrations in gray whales exposed to anthropogenic stressors	6
The effects of different sample storage conditions on faecal corticosterone metabolite measurements in northern bobwhite (Colinus virginianus)	6
Mercury exposure and health challenges in Rapa Nui green turtles: urging conservation and long-term monitoring in the South Pacific	6
The lab-field continuum in conservation physiology research: leveraging multiple approaches to inform policy and practice	6
Abnormal expression of natural mating behaviour of captive adult giant pandas is related to physiological stress	6
Dynamic Energy Budget models: fertile ground for understanding resource allocation in plants in a changing world	6
Mechanistic characterization of waterborne selenite uptake in the water flea, Daphnia magna, indicates water chemistry affects toxicity in coal mine-impacted waters	6
Physiologically informed organismal climatologies reveal unexpected spatiotemporal trends in temperature	6
Aqueous exposure to a pyrethroid pesticide results in behavioural effects in early life stage sturgeon	6
Corrigendum to: Sex-specific differences in swimming, aerobic metabolism and recovery from exercise in adult coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) across ecologically relevant temperatures	6
An evolving roadmap: using mitochondrial physiology to help guide conservation efforts	5
Assessment of temperature optimum signatures of corals at both latitudinal extremes of the Red Sea	5
Effects of three immobilizing drug combinations on ventilation, gas exchange and metabolism in free-living African lions (Panthera leo)	5
Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) age at maturity is strongly affected by temperature, population and age-at-maturity genotype	5
Stress physiology of scalloped and great hammerhead sharks from a bottom longline fishery	5
Blood biochemistry and hematology of adult and chick brown pelicans in the northern Gulf of Mexico: baseline health values and ecological relationships	5
Extreme tolerance for nocturnal emergence at low body temperatures in a high-latitude lizard: implications for future climate warming	5
Building a natural repellent: effects of varying alarm cue exposure on swim activity and spatial avoidance in an invasive fish	5
Physiological responses to capture, handling and tagging in the critically endangered flapper skate (Dipturus intermedius)	5
Proteome profiling reveals opportunities to investigate biomarkers of oxidative stress and immune responses in blubber biopsies from free-ranging baleen whales	5
Spectrally non-overlapping background noise disturbs echolocation via acoustic masking in the CF-FM bat, Hipposideros pratti	5
Haematology and plasma biochemistry reference intervals of Española, San Cristobal and Eastern Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise species	5
Tracking reproductive events: Hoof growth and steroid hormone concentrations in hair and hoof tissues in moose (Alces alces)	5
Stable isotope approaches and opportunities for improving plant conservation	5
Pacific Cod metabolism and swimming performance are similar across temperatures following prolonged thermal acclimation	5
Skin pH and buffering ability vary between two co-occurring semi-aquatic frog species	5
Safety in the shallows: nearshore coastal habitats can provide physical and thermal features that optimize escape performance in newborn blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus)	5
Behavioral evidence of olfactory imprinting during embryonic and larval stages in lake sturgeon	5
Ocean warming favours a northern Argyrosomus species over its southern congener, whereas preliminary metabolic evidence suggests that hybridization may promote their adaptation	5
Capture and transport of white rhinoceroses (Ceratotherium simum) cause shifts in their fecal microbiota composition towards dysbiosis	5