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Most cited papers from Wildlife Conservation Society
Wildlife Conservation Society
What are the most cited papers from Wildlife Conservation Society?
The most cited paper from Wildlife Conservation Society is "A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems" (Benjamin S. Halpern, Shaun Walbridge, Kimberly A. Selkoe et al., 2008), with 6,637 citations. Next come "Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores" (3,722) and "Edge effects in fragmented forests: implications for conservation" (3,033).
Showing 50 of 60 papers. Every paper with more than 669 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems Benjamin S. Halpern, Shaun Walbridge, Kimberly A. Selkoe et al. · Science | 14 Feb 2008 | 6,637 |
| 2 | Status and Ecological Effects of the World’s Largest Carnivores William J. Ripple, James A. Estes, Robert L. Beschta et al. · Science | 9 Jan 2014 | 3,722 |
| 3 | Edge effects in fragmented forests: implications for conservation Carolina Murcia · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Feb 1995 | 3,033 |
| 4 | Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health Sarah Whitmee et al. · The Lancet | 16 Jul 2015 | 2,978 |
| 5 | A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity Luke Thompson et al. · Nature | 30 Oct 2017 | 2,968 |
| 6 | The performance and potential of protected areas James E. M. Watson, Nigel Dudley, Daniel B. Segan et al. · Nature | Nov 2014 | 2,385 |
| 7 | Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management Ellen K. Pikitch, Christine Santora, Elizabeth A. Babcock et al. · Science | 15 Jul 2004 | 2,315 |
| 8 | Rebuilding Global Fisheries Boris Worm et al. · Science | 30 Jul 2009 | 2,230 |
| 9 | Distance software: design and analysis of distance sampling surveys for estimating population size Len Thomas, Stephen T. Buckland, Eric A. Rexstad et al. · Journal of Applied Ecology | 17 Nov 2009 | 2,208 |
| 10 | Novel ecosystems: theoretical and management aspects of the new ecological world order Richard J. Hobbs, Salvatore Aricò, James C. Aronson et al. · Global Ecology and Biogeography | 2006 | 2,106 |
| 11 | Biodiversity: The ravages of guns, nets and bulldozers Sean Maxwell, Richard A. Fuller, Thomas M. Brooks et al. · Nature | 8 Aug 2016 | 2,016 |
| 12 | Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features Graham J. Edgar et al. · Nature | 4 Feb 2014 | 1,943 |
| 13 | Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation Oscar Venter, Eric W. Sanderson, Ainhoa Magrach et al. · Nature Communications | 23 Aug 2016 | 1,939 |
| 14 | Edge Effects and the Extinction of Populations Inside Protected Areas Roșie Woodroffe, Joshua R. Ginsberg · Science | 26 Jun 1998 | 1,778 |
| 15 | Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments John Terborgh, Lawrence Lopez, Percy Núñez et al. · Science | 30 Nov 2001 | 1,667 |
| 16 | Human‐Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide Adrian Treves, Kota Ullas Karanth · Conservation Biology | Dec 2003 | 1,633 |
| 17 | Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States Robert S. Lanciotti et al. · Science | 17 Dec 1999 | 1,622 |
| 18 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge Jan Schipper et al. · Science | 10 Oct 2008 | 1,553 |
| 19 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates Michael P. Hoffmann et al. · Science | 26 Oct 2010 | 1,548 |
| 20 | Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests Jingjing Liang et al. · Science | 13 Oct 2016 | 1,512 |
| 21 | The broad footprint of climate change from genes to biomes to people Brett R. Scheffers, Luc De Meester, Tom C. L. Bridge et al. · Science | 11 Nov 2016 | 1,444 |
| 22 | A spatial overview of the global importance of Indigenous lands for conservation Stephen Thomas Garnett, Neil D. Burgess, Julia E. Fa et al. · Nature Sustainability | 9 Jul 2018 | 1,443 |
| 23 | Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements Marlee A. Tucker et al. · Science | 25 Jan 2018 | 1,329 |
| 24 | The importance of correcting for sampling bias in MaxEnt species distribution models Stephanie Kramer‐Schadt et al. · Diversity and Distributions | 2 Jul 2013 | 1,329 |
| 25 | Climate change and coral reef bleaching: An ecological assessment of long-term impacts, recovery trends and future outlook Andrew Charles Baker, Peter W. Glynn, Bernhard Riegl · Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science | 18 Sep 2008 | 1,321 |
| 26 | Assessing species vulnerability to climate change Michela Pacifici et al. · Nature Climate Change | 24 Feb 2015 | 1,292 |
| 27 | Toward Principles for Enhancing the Resilience of Ecosystem Services Reinette Biggs, Maja Schlüter, Duan Biggs et al. · Annual Review of Environment and Resources | 10 Aug 2012 | 1,247 |
| 28 | Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas William Frederick Laurance et al. · Nature | 24 Jul 2012 | 1,223 |
| 29 | The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems James E. M. Watson et al. · Nature Ecology & Evolution | 24 Feb 2018 | 1,209 |
| 30 | ESTIMATION OF TIGER DENSITIES IN INDIA USING PHOTOGRAPHIC CAPTURES AND RECAPTURES Kota Ullas Karanth, James David Nichols · Ecology | Dec 1998 | 1,144 |
| 31 | Crouching tigers, hidden prey: Sumatran tiger and prey populations in a tropical forest landscape Timothy G. O’Brien, Margaret F. Kinnaird, Hariyo Tabah Wibisono · Animal Conservation | May 2003 | 1,124 |
| 32 | Flexibility and Specificity in Coral-Algal Symbiosis: Diversity, Ecology, and Biogeography of Symbiodinium Andrew Charles Baker · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics | Nov 2003 | 1,098 |
| 33 | Rate of tree carbon accumulation increases continuously with tree size Nathan L. Stephenson et al. · Nature | 14 Jan 2014 | 1,047 |
| 34 | Increasing carbon storage in intact African tropical forests Simon L. Lewis et al. · Nature | Feb 2009 | 1,045 |
| 35 | Area-based conservation in the twenty-first century Sean Maxwell, Victor Cazalis, Nigel Dudley et al. · Nature | 7 Oct 2020 | 1,008 |
| 36 | Asynchronous carbon sink saturation in African and Amazonian tropical forests Wannes Hubau et al. · Nature | 4 Mar 2020 | 968 |
| 37 | Bending the curve of terrestrial biodiversity needs an integrated strategy David Leclère et al. · Nature | 10 Sep 2020 | 963 |
| 38 | One-third of global protected land is under intense human pressure Kendall R. Jones, Oscar Venter, Richard A. Fuller et al. · Science | 17 May 2018 | 956 |
| 39 | Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally David Gill et al. · Nature | Mar 2017 | 952 |
| 40 | Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being Thomas O. McShane, PAUL D. HIRSCH, Tran Chi Trung et al. · Biological Conservation | 19 May 2010 | 914 |
| 41 | Interactions among ecosystem stressors and their importance in conservation Isabelle M. Côté, Emily S. Darling, Christopher James Brown · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 10 Feb 2016 | 901 |
| 42 | Corals' adaptive response to climate change Andrew Charles Baker, Craig John Starger, Tim R. McClanahan et al. · Nature | 11 Aug 2004 | 892 |
| 43 | Neotropical rainforest mammals: A field guide JoséMárcio Ayres · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | May 1991 | 881 |
| 44 | A Standard Lexicon for Biodiversity Conservation: Unified Classifications of Threats and Actions Nick Salafsky, Daniel W. Salzer, Alison J. Stattersfield et al. · Conservation Biology | 9 Jun 2008 | 867 |
| 45 | Effective fisheries management instrumental in improving fish stock status Ray Hilborn et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 13 Jan 2020 | 857 |
| 46 | People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years Erle C. Ellis, Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 19 Apr 2021 | 831 |
| 47 | Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection Evamaria W. Koch, Edward B. Barbier, Brian Reed Silliman et al. · Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | Feb 2009 | 823 |
| 48 | Evaluating life‐history strategies of reef corals from species traits Emily S. Darling, Lorenzo Álvarez‐Filip, Thomas A. Oliver et al. · Ecology Letters | 3 Sep 2012 | 821 |
| 49 | Moving towards acceleration for estimates of activity‐specific metabolic rate in free‐living animals: the case of the cormorant Rory Paul Wilson, Craig R. White, Flavio Quintana et al. · Journal of Animal Ecology | 29 Jun 2006 | 807 |
| 50 | Multiple Ebola Virus Transmission Events and Rapid Decline of Central African Wildlife Eric Maurice Leroy, Pierre Rouquet, Pierre B. H. Formenty et al. · Science | 15 Jan 2004 | 801 |
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