OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental heterogeneity and sampling relevance areas in an Atlantic forest endemism region	130
Climate and land-use changes coupled with low coverage of protected areas threaten palm species in South Brazilian grasslands	46
Birds in agroscapes: effects of forest cover and landscape heterogeneity on dryland bird diversity and composition	45
Climate influence on future suitability of high-altitude wetlands in two natural protected areas from the Central Andes of Argentina	39
Challenges and perspectives for the Brazilian semi-arid coast under global environmental changes	29
Landscape composition regulates the spillover of beneficial insects between forest remnants and adjacent coffee plantations	23
Patterns of endemism in Amazonian floodplain birds	22
Does spring bring colors? Seasonal bird plumage color variation along urban-rural gradients	22
Brazil’s Belo Monte license renewal and the need to recognize the immense impacts of dams in Amazonia	15
Natural grassland remnants in dynamic agricultural landscapes: identifying drivers of fragmentation	15
Projected responses of Cerrado anurans to climate change are mediated by biogeographic character	14
Environmental DNA and biodiversity patterns: a call for a community phylogenetics approach	13
Spatial networks reveal how forest cover decreases the spread of agricultural pests	12
Climate-driven loss of taxonomic and functional richness in Brazilian Atlantic Forest anurans	11
How habitat loss and fragmentation are reducing conservation opportunities for vertebrates in the most threatened savanna of the World	11
Mapping the threat: projecting invasive plant distribution in the tropical Andes under climate change	11
Top-down local management, perceived contribution to people, and actual detriments influence a rampant human‒top predator conflict in the Neotropics	11
Predicting the range expansion of invasive alien grasses under climate change in the Neotropics	10
High-diversity Atlantic Forest restoration plantings fail to represent local floras	10
Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest to the conservation of the Amazon	10
From whom and for what? Deforestation in Dry Chaco from local-urban inhabitants’ perception	10
Populations across bird species distribution ranges respond differently to habitat loss and fragmentation: implications for conservation strategies	10
Neutral processes and reduced dispersal across Amazonian rivers may explain how rivers maintain species diversity after secondary contact	9
Conserving biodiversity in coffee agroecosystems: Insights from a herpetofauna study in the Colombian Andes with sustainable management proposal	9
Anthropogenic factors do not affect male or female jaguar habitat use in an Amazonian Sustainable Reserve	9

Insectivorous birds and potential pest control services: An occupancy study of functional groups in a coffee landscape in Oaxaca, Mexico	9
Fire reduces taxonomic and functional diversity in Neotropical moist seasonally flooded forests	9
Sailing into the past: Nautical charts reveal changes over 160 years in the largest reef complex in the South Atlantic Ocean	9
To graze or not to graze: A core question for conservation and sustainable use of grassy ecosystems in Brazil	8
From silos to solutions: Navigating transdisciplinary conservation research for early career researchers	8
Olfactory repellents as perceptual traps for mesocarnivores immersed in livestock systems	8
Why is it so easy to undergo devegetation in the Brazilian Cerrado?	8
Macroscale climate change predictions have little influence on landscape-scale habitat suitability	7
Habitat loss and distribution of the Ornate Horned Frog (Ceratophrys ornata): implications for its conservation in South American temperate grasslands	7
Environmental sound as a mirror of landscape ecological integrity in monitoring programs	7
Large herbivore-palm interactions modulate the spatial structure of seedling communities and productivity in Neotropical forests	7
Jaguar (Panthera onca) population density and landscape connectivity in a deforestation hotspot: The Paraguayan Dry Chaco as a case study	6
The Protected Areas network may be insufficient to protect bird diversity in a fragmented tropical hotspot under different climate scenarios	6
Selective logging in a chronosequence of Atlantic Forest: drivers and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services	6
Edges as hotspots and drivers of forest cover change in a tropical landscape	6
Beyond data labor: sowing synthesis science in the Global South	6
Guiding transdisciplinary synthesis processes for social-ecological policy decisions	6
Trait shifts in bird communities from primary forest to human settlements in Mexican seasonal forests. Are there ruderal birds?	6
Identifying areas for multidimensional biodiversity conservation, with a case study in Oaxaca, Mexico	6
Estimating mammal density from track counts collected by Indigenous Amazonian hunters	6
Habitat protection and restoration: Win–win opportunities for migratory birds in the Northern Andes	6
Peatlands in the Brazilian Cerrado: insights into knowledge, status and research needs	6
Green royalties: Keeping offshore Amazon free of oil	6
Network science: Applications for sustainable agroecosystems and food security	6
Neotropical understory birds and mammals show divergent behaviour responses to human pressure	6
Estimating occupancy and detection probability of the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), in Central Amazon, Brazil	6
Functional trait perspective on suitable habitat distribution of invasive plant species at a global scale	6
Business, biodiversity, and innovation in Brazil	6
Conservation of forest cover in Mesoamerican biosphere reserves is associated with the increase of local non-farm occupation	5
Making the most of existing data in conservation research	5
Longitudinal changes on ecological diversity of Neotropical fish along a 1700 km river gradient show declines induced by dams	5
Bird taxonomic and functional diversity in urban settlements within a forest biome vary with the landscape matrix	5
A participatory approach to map strategic areas for conservation and restoration at a regional scale	5
Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions	5
Reducing negative economic and equity implications associated with conserving 30% of the planet by 2030	5
Mapping the way: identifying priority potential corridors for protected areas connectivity in Colombia	5
Legal reserves ensure alpha and beta ant diversity in highly modified agricultural landscapes	5
Protection status and density-dependent effects mediate the abundance-suitability relationship of a threatened species	4
Bird communities in the Dry Chaco of South America: vegetation structure and climate effects	4
How to enhance Atlantic Forest protection? Dealing with the shortcomings of successional stages classification	4
Phylogenetic clustering of tree communities decreases with stand age and environmental quality along a mineland rehabilitation chronosequence	4
Long-term persistence of the large mammal lowland tapir is at risk in the largest Atlantic forest corridor	4
Key Biodiversity Areas are proving useful for spatial planning if the criteria are applied correctly	4
Power lines and birds: An overlooked threat in South America	4
Landscape forest loss decreases bird diversity with strong negative impacts on forest species in a mountain region	4
Shade coffee plantations favor specialization, decrease robustness and increase foraging in hummingbird-plant networks	4
Overcoming biases of birds research in the Caatinga	4
Belo Monte Dam impacts: Protagonism of local people in research and monitoring reveals ecosystem service decay in Amazonian flooded vegetation	4
Amazon climate extremes: Increasing droughts and floods in Brazil’s state of Acre	4
Assessing the contribution of local experts in monitoring Neotropical vertebrates with camera traps, linear transects and track and sign surveys in the Amazon	4

Ensuring the quality of historical data for wildlife conservation: A methodological framework	4
Are threatened species important for glueing interaction networks together?	3
Past references are insufficient for Latin American biodiversity conservation in the Anthropocene	3
Integrating connectivity in marine protected area design: A case study between the Philippines and Taiwan	3
Is banning Persistent Organic Pollutants efficient? A quantitative and qualitative systematic review in bats	3
Global South leadership towards inclusive tropical ecology and conservation	3
Intraspecific variation of invaded pollination networks – the role of pollen-transport, pollen-transfer and different levels of biological organization	3
Indigenous lands and conservation units slow down non-GHG climate change in the Cerrado-Amazon ecotone	3
Challenges for reducing carbon emissions from Land-Use and Land Cover Change in Brazil	3
Effectiveness of community-based monitoring projects of terrestrial game fauna in the tropics: a global review	3
Climate change and biodiversity in Brazil: What we know, what we don’t, and Paris Agreement’s risk reduction potential	3
Declining representation of imperiled Atlantic Forest birds in community-science datasets	3
Minimum costs to conserve 80% of the Brazilian Amazon	3
Global change explains the neotropical rattlesnake Crotalus durissus (Serpentes: Viperidae) range expansion in South America	2
Chronic human disturbance and environmental forces drive the regeneration mechanisms of a Caatinga dry tropical forest	2
Matrix quality and habitat type drive the diversity pattern of forest steppe fragments	2
Solving the problem of wildfires in the Pantanal Wetlands	2
Environmental diversity as a reliable surrogacy strategy of marine biodiversity: A case study of marine mammals	2
Expected impacts of climate change on tree ferns distribution and diversity patterns in subtropical Atlantic Forest	2
Brazil’s democracy and sustainable agendas: A nexus in urgent need of strengthening	2
How different farming practices influence the activity of insectivorous Neotropical bats	2
AMACRO: the newer Amazonia deforestation hotspot and a potential setback for Brazilian agriculture	2
Integrating farmers’ decisions on the assessment of forest regeneration drivers in a rural landscape of Southeastern Brazil	2
Phylogenetic structure and diversity among herpetofaunal communities along a successional gradient of a tropical dry forest in Mexico	2
Ecosystem services delivered by Brazilian mammals: spatial and taxonomic patterns and comprehensive list of species	2
Identifying priority conservation areas for the Andean Condor in Colombia	2
Vegetation cover restricts habitat suitability predictions of endemic Brazilian Atlantic Forest birds	2
Optimal references for ecological restoration: the need to protect references in the tropics	2
Low contribution of Caribbean-based researchers to academic publications on biodiversity conservation in the insular Caribbean	2
Scale affects the understanding of biases on the spatial knowledge of Atlantic Forest primates	2
Cerrado wetlands: multiple ecosystems deserving legal protection as a unique and irreplaceable treasure	2
Connectivity and policy confluences: a multi-scalar conservation approach for protecting Amazon riverine ecosystems	2
Insufficient protection and intense human pressure threaten islands worldwide	2
Does agricultural intensification impact pest regulation service by frogs in a natural multi-trophic system?	2
Forest-biased terminology does not help to include open ecosystems in conservation policies	2
Deforestation projections imply range-wide population decline for critically endangered Bornean orangutan	2
Passando a boiada: degazettement and downsizing threaten protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon	2
Nature's Contributions to People (NCPs) and biodiversity hotspots: a step towards multifunctionality of conservation areas in Peru	2