Standout Papers
- Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity. (1987)
- Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity (1986)
- Conservation: Tactics for a Constant Crisis (1991)
- What Is Conservation Biology? (1985)
- Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity. (1987)
Citation Impact
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2006
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2012
Genetics and conservation biology
2003
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1989 Standout
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1995
A globally coherent fingerprint of climate change impacts across natural systems
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2007
Evolutionary biology and practical conservation: bridging a widening gap
2007
Global trends in emerging infectious diseases
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2011
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2008
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2009
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1995 Standout
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2011 Standout
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2011
Top predators, mesopredators and their prey: interference ecosystems along bioclimatic productivity gradients
2010
Gene Flow and Genetic Restoration: The Florida Panther as a Case Study
1995
Extinction
2000
Offspring fitness in relation to population size and genetic variation in the rare perennial plant species Gentiana pneumonanthe (Gentianaceae)
1994
Global patterns in biodiversity
2000 StandoutNature
Selection against inbred song sparrows during a natural population bottleneck
1994 Nature
Beyond opportunism: Key principles for systematic reserve selection
1993
Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species
2008
Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure : a simulation study
2005 Standout
Seed supply for broadscale restoration: maximizing evolutionary potential
2008
Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived?
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2003
Climate change and evolutionary adaptation
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Strategies to Protect Biological Diversity and the Evolutionary Processes That Sustain It
2002
Predicting and Detecting Reciprocity between Indirect Ecological Interactions and Evolution
2013
Predator control of ecosystem nutrient dynamics
2010
Does interference competition with wolves limit the distribution and abundance of coyotes?
2007
Quantitative Analysis of Forest Fragmentation in the Atlantic Forest Reveals More Threatened Bird Species than the Current Red List
2013
Ecological responses to recent climate change
2002 StandoutNature
Quantitative evidence for global amphibian population declines
2000 Nature
Molecular Basis for Species-Specific Sensitivity to “Hot” Chili Peppers
2002 StandoutNobel
Ecosystem restoration with teeth: what role for predators?
2012
Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity
2010 StandoutNature
Commonness, population depletion and conservation biology
2007
Do species’ traits predict recent shifts at expanding range edges?
2011
High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks
2013 Nature
Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities
2000 StandoutNature
Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health
2012 StandoutNature
Kin selection is the key to altruism
2005
FLYING FOXES CEASE TO FUNCTION AS SEED DISPERSERS LONG BEFORE THEY BECOME RARE
2006
Plant diversity in mediterranean-climate regions
1996 Standout
Predator control promotes invasive dominated ecological states
2010
The Struggle to Govern the Commons
2003 StandoutScienceNobel
Good dog! Using livestock guardian dogs to protect livestock from predators in Australia’s extensive grazing systems
2012
Does a top‐predator provide an endangered rodent with refuge from an invasive mesopredator?
2009
The Decline of the Sharp-Snouted Day Frog (Taudactylus acutirostris): The First Documented Case of Extinction by Infection in a Free-Ranging Wildlife Species?
2006
Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature
2002 Science
The environmental basis of North American species richness patterns among Epicauta (Coleoptera: Meloidae)
1999
Increased Probability of Extinction Due to Decreased Genetic Effective Population Size: Experimental Populations of Clarkia pulchella
1997
Scale Dependence and the Species-Area Relationship
1994
Mycorrhizal fungal diversity determines plant biodiversity, ecosystem variability and productivity
1998 StandoutNature
RAPD variation in relation to population size and plant fitness in the rare Gentianella germanica (Gentianaceae)
1998
Ecological Traits Predicting Amphibian Population Declines in Central America
2003
The Impact of Infection and Disease on Animal Populations: Implications for Conservation Biology
1988
Mexican wolves, elk, and aspen in Arizona: Is there a trophic cascade?
2010
MODELING THE GENETIC BASIS OF HETEROSIS: TESTS OF ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES
1997
Saving the "library of life".
1992
Edge effects on nest predation in Mediterranean fragmented forests
1992
Edge effects in tropical forest fragments: Application of a model for the design of nature reserves
1991
Consequences of changing biodiversity
2000 StandoutNature
Risks of Population Extinction from Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity and Random Catastrophes
1993 Standout
What Is the Allee Effect?
1999
Current patterns of habitat transformation and future threats to biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
2003
Reproductive allometry in Malaysian rain forest trees: Biomechanics versus optimal allocation
1996
Trophic cascades linking wolves (Canis lupus), coyotes (Canis latrans), and small mammals
2012
INBREEDING AND ITS FITNESS EFFECTS IN AN INSULAR POPULATION OF SONG SPARROWS (MELOSPIZA MELODIA)
1998
Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization
2005 Standout
Modeling Survival and Testing Biological Hypotheses Using Marked Animals: A Unified Approach with Case Studies
1992 Standout
Population Declines and Priorities for Amphibian Conservation in Latin America
2001
Tropical Deforestation and Habitat Fragmentation in the Amazon: Satellite Data from 1978 to 1988
1993 Science
Biodiversity components and conservation of mediterranean healthlands in Southern Spain
1995
Environmental variables associated with population patterns of the Kagu Rhynochetos jubatus of New Caledonia
1996
Avian Nest Predation in Tropical Wet Forest: An Experimental Study
1991
Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean
2007 StandoutScience
Environmental dependence of inbreeding depression and purging in Drosophila melanogaster
1999
Fragmentation and Flow Regulation of the World's Large River Systems
2005 StandoutScience
Top Predators as Conservation Tools: Ecological Rationale, Assumptions, and Efficacy
2008
Effects of Local Habitat Characteristics and Landscape Context on Grassland Butterfly Diversity
2003
Inbreeding depression in an isolated population of adders Vipera berus
1996
Applications of Marine Refugia to Coastal Fisheries Management
1993
Measuring genetic diversity in translocation programmes: principles and application to a chimpanzee release project
2002
Analysis of the relationship between allozyme heterozygosity and fitness in the rare Gentiana pneumonanthe L.
1995
Productivity and sustainability influenced by biodiversity in grassland ecosystems
1996 StandoutNature
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges
2001 StandoutScience
Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15years after wolf reintroduction
2011
Are dingoes a trophic regulator in arid Australia? A comparison of mammal communities on either side of the dingo fence
2009
Carbon Pools and Flux of Global Forest Ecosystems
1994 StandoutScience
Global Consequences of Land Use
2005 StandoutScience
Mass extinctions: what can the past tell us about the present and the future?
1990
A Retrospective Evaluation of the Global Decline of Carnivores and Ungulates
2014
In Situ Conservation of Wild Chiles and Their Biotic Associates
1999
Linking a cougar decline, trophic cascade, and catastrophic regime shift in Zion National Park
2006
Persistence of Large Mammal Faunas as Indicators of Global Human Impacts
2007
Fifty millennia of catastrophic extinctions after human contact
2005
Insularization of Tanzanian Parks and the Local Extinction of Large Mammals
1996
Declining biodiversity can alter the performance of ecosystems
1994 Nature
The Human Footprint and the Last of the Wild
2002 Standout
Directions in Conservation Biology
1994 Standout
Habitat destruction and the extinction debt
1994 StandoutNature
Ecological Impacts of Deer Overabundance
2004 Standout
DNA Banks for Endangered Animal Species
2000 StandoutScienceNobel
Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife-- Threats to Biodiversity and Human Health
2000 StandoutScience
Wolves and the Ecology of Fear: Can Predation Risk Structure Ecosystems?
2004
An Environment‐metapopulation Approach to Population Viability Analysis for a Threatened Invertebrate
1990
Large predators and trophic cascades in terrestrial ecosystems of the western United States
2009
Time Lag between Deforestation and Bird Extinction in Tropical Forest Fragments
1999
Emerging Infectious Diseases and Amphibian Population Declines
1999
Global Change and the Ecology of Cities
2008 StandoutScience
Range Contractions of North American Carnivores and Ungulates
2004
Widespread mesopredator effects after wolf extirpation
2013
Satellite imagery, human ecology, anthropology, and deforestation in Madagascar
1994
Temporal analysis of archived samples indicates marked genetic changes in declining North Sea cod (Gadus morhua)
2003
Where lynx prevail, foxes will fail – limitation of a mesopredator in E urasia
2013
Geographic Distribution of Endangered Species in the United States
1997 Science
Current knowledge on non‐native freshwater fish introductions
2010
Rarity of a top predator triggers continent-wide collapse of mammal prey: dingoes and marsupials in Australia
2006
The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection
2014 StandoutScience
Influence of fire and soil nutrients on native and non‐native annuals at remnant vegetation edges in the Western Australian wheatbelt
1992
Inbreeding and reproductive success in a natural chacma baboon, Papio cynocephalus ursinus, population
1988
Urban effects on native avifauna: a review
2004 Standout
Developmental instability and inbreeding in natural bird populations exposed to different levels of habitat disturbance
2000
Range, population abundance and conservation
1993
Disturbance versus edge effects in sugar-maple/beech forest fragments
1990
The Effects of Urban Patterns on Ecosystem Function
2005
Inbreeding Depression and Genetic Rescue in a Plant Metapopulation
2000
Linking Wolves and Plants: Aldo Leopold on Trophic Cascades
2005
Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy
2002
Does inbreeding affect the extinction risk of small populations?: predictions from Drosophila
2000
A MAMMALIAN PREDATOR–PREY IMBALANCE: GRIZZLY BEAR AND WOLF EXTINCTION AFFECT AVIAN NEOTROPICAL MIGRANTS
2001
A Useful Role for Theory in Conservation
1994
Genetic structure and AFLP variation of remnant populations in the rare plant Pedicularis palustris (Scrophulariaceae) and its relation to population size and reproductive components
2000
Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas
2006 StandoutScience
Rapid Range Shifts of Species Associated with High Levels of Climate Warming
2011 StandoutScience
Heterosis, Marker Mutational Processes and Population Inbreeding History
2001
Estimated inbreeding in a small, wild muskox Ovibos moschatus population and its possible effects on population reproduction
1997
Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
1997 StandoutScience
Systematic conservation planning.
2000 Standout
Conceptual Issues Relevant to Marine Harvest Refuges: Examples from Temperate Reef Fishes
1993
Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine Ecosystems
2008 StandoutScience
Interspecific Competition and the Geographical Distribution of Red and Arctic Foxes Vulpes Vulpes and Alopex lagopus
1992
Challenges in the Quest for Keystones
1996
Tracking the Long-Term Decline and Recovery of an Isolated Population
1998 Science
GENETIC SIMILARITY BETWEEN PARENTS PREDICTS HATCHING FAILURE: NONINCESTUOUS INBREEDING IN THE GREAT REED WARBLER?
1994
Defaunation in the Anthropocene
2014 StandoutScience
A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems
2008 StandoutScience
Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation
2006 StandoutScience
Lack of phylogeography in European mammals before the last glaciation
2004 StandoutNobel
MICROSATELLITE LOCI REVEAL SEX-DEPENDENT RESPONSES TO INBREEDING AND OUTBREEDING IN RED DEER CALVES
1999
Fishing Down Marine Food Webs
1998 StandoutScience
The Rise of the Mesopredator
2009
Ecological characteristics and rarity of endemic plants from southeast France and Corsica: Implications for biodiversity conservation
1997
Metapopulation dynamics
1998 StandoutNature
Contrasting patterns of elevational zonation for birds and mammals in the Andes of southeastern Peru
1998
Ecological Degradation in Protected Areas: The Case of Wolong Nature Reserve for Giant Pandas
2001 Science
Unprecedented Low Levels of Genetic Variation and Inbreeding Depression in an Island Population of the Black‐Footed Rock‐Wallaby
1999
Genetics and Demography in Biological Conservation
1988 StandoutScience
Species Loss in Fragments of Tropical Rain Forest: A Review of the Evidence
1996
Biological Consequences of Ecosystem Fragmentation: A Review
1991 Standout
Restoration of genetic variation lost – the genetic rescue hypothesis
2001
The Gaps between Theory and Practice in Selecting Nature Reserves
1999
Extinction, Substitution, and Ecosystem Services
1983
Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth
2001 Standout
Basin‐Wide Effects of Game Harvest on Vertebrate Population Densities in Amazonian Forests: Implications for Animal‐Mediated Seed Dispersal
2007
Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics
2011 StandoutNobel
Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems
2007 StandoutScienceNobel
Mass extinctions: what can the past tell us about the present and the future?
1990
Hybridization rapidly reduces fitness of a native trout in the wild
2009
Whose conservation?
2014 StandoutScience
Patterns in the abundance of kangaroo populations in arid Australia are consistent with the exploitation ecosystems hypothesis
2012
Status and Trends of Amphibian Declines and Extinctions Worldwide
2004 StandoutScience
INBREEDING IN DARWIN'S MEDIUM GROUND FINCHES ( GEOSPIZA FORTIS )
1989
Urbanization, Biodiversity, and Conservation
2002 Standout
Inbreeding effects in wild populations
2002 Standout
Are predators good for your health? Evaluating evidence for top-down regulation of zoonotic disease reservoirs
2004
Trophic Dynamics in Urban Communities
2005
Works of Michael E. Soulé being referenced
A pH/UV‐B Synergism in Amphibians
1995
Pleistocene Rewilding: An Optimistic Agenda for Twenty‐First Century Conservation
2006
The Importance of Large Carnivores to Healthy Ecosystems
2001
Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective
1981
Evaluating the role of the dingo as a trophic regulator in Australian ecosystems
2007
Extinction and Colonization of Birds on Habitat Islands
2001
Viable Populations for Conservation
1989
Mesopredator release and avifaunal extinctions in a fragmented system
1999 Nature
HETEROZYGOSITY AND DEVELOPMENTAL STABILITY: ANOTHER LOOK
1979
Reconstructed Dynamics of Rapid Extinctions of Chaparral‐Requiring Birds in Urban Habitat Islands
1988
What do genetics and ecology tell us about the design of nature reserves?
1986
What Is Conservation Biology?
1985 Standout
Response of Rodents to Habitat Fragmentation in Coastal Southern California
1997
The Real Work of Systematics
1990
Conserving nature at regional and continental scales—a scientific program for North America
1999
Conservation: Tactics for a Constant Crisis
1991 StandoutScience
Ecological Effectiveness: Conservation Goals for Interactive Species
2003
Strongly Interacting Species: Conservation Policy, Management, and Ethics
2005
The Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Chaparral Plants and Vertebrates
1992
A pH/UV-B Synergism in Amphibians
1995
Saving the Tropical Forests
1990
Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity.
1987 Standout
Conservation and Evolution.
1982
Occurrence Patterns of Bird Species in Habitat Fragments: Sampling, Extinction, and Nested Species Subsets
1991
Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity
1986 Standout
Conservation Biology. An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective.
1981
Directions in Conservation Biology: Comments on Caughley
1996
Conservation Biology: The Science of Scarcity and Diversity.
1987 Standout
ECOLOGY: Conservation Targets: Do They Help?
1998 Science
Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective
1981
Benign neglect: A model of faunal collapse in the game reserves of East Africa
1979
Heterozygosity and Developmental Stability: Another Look
1979
Land Use Planning and Wildlife Maintenance: Guidelines for Conserving Wildlife in an Urban Landscape
1991