| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Conservation evaluation and phylogenetic diversity | Biological Conservation | 1992 | 4,199 |
| 2 | The Brazilian Atlantic Forest: How much is left, and how is the remaining forest distributed? Implications for conservation | Biological Conservation | 2009 | 2,882 |
| 3 | Stakeholder participation for environmental management: A literature review | Biological Conservation | 2008 | 2,828 |
| 4 | Urbanization as a major cause of biotic homogenization | Biological Conservation | 2006 | 2,615 |
| 5 | Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers | Biological Conservation | 2019 | 2,001 |
| 6 | Genetics and extinction | Biological Conservation | 2005 | 1,754 |
| 7 | What to protect?—Systematics and the agony of choice | Biological Conservation | 1991 | 1,457 |
| 8 | Environmental DNA – An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity | Biological Conservation | 2015 | 1,421 |
| 9 | Biodiversity management in the face of climate change: A review of 22 years of recommendations | Biological Conservation | 2009 | 1,414 |
| 10 | Global food security, biodiversity conservation and the future of agricultural intensification | Biological Conservation | 2012 | 1,414 |
| 11 | eBird: A citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences | Biological Conservation | 2009 | 1,259 |
| 12 | Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones: Is single-species management passé in the landscape era? | Biological Conservation | 1998 | 1,249 |
| 13 | The island dilemma: Lessons of modern biogeographic studies for the design of natural reserves | Biological Conservation | 1975 | 1,240 |
| 14 | An assessment of the published results of animal relocations | Biological Conservation | 2000 | 1,196 |
| 15 | Does organic farming benefit biodiversity? | Biological Conservation | 2005 | 1,166 |
| 16 | Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on amphibians: A review and prospectus | Biological Conservation | 2006 | 1,065 |
| 17 | Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles | Biological Conservation | 2008 | 892 |
| 18 | How much habitat is enough? | Biological Conservation | 2001 | 795 |
| 19 | Classification of ecosystem services: Problems and solutions | Biological Conservation | 2007 | 744 |
| 20 | The implications of current and future urbanization for global protected areas and biodiversity conservation | Biological Conservation | 2008 | 732 |
| 21 | Genetics in conservation management: Revised recommendations for the 50/500 rules, Red List criteria and population viability analyses | Biological Conservation | 2014 | 729 |
| 22 | The seven impediments in invertebrate conservation and how to overcome them | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 728 |
| 23 | The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 713 |
| 24 | Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation | Biological Conservation | 2017 | 705 |
| 25 | The eBird enterprise: An integrated approach to development and application of citizen science | Biological Conservation | 2014 | 703 |
| 26 | Citizen science can improve conservation science, natural resource management, and environmental protection | Biological Conservation | 2017 | 703 |
| 27 | Climate change meets habitat fragmentation: linking landscape and biogeographical scale levels in research and conservation | Biological Conservation | 2004 | 701 |
| 28 | A method for assessing changes in the abundance of butterflies | Biological Conservation | 1977 | 697 |
| 29 | The impacts of roads and other infrastructure on mammal and bird populations: A meta-analysis | Biological Conservation | 2010 | 693 |
| 30 | Comparative biodiversity of rivers, streams, ditches and ponds in an agricultural landscape in Southern England | Biological Conservation | 2004 | 692 |
| 31 | Conservation of species interaction networks | Biological Conservation | 2010 | 689 |
| 32 | The role of nest sites in limiting the numbers of hole-nesting birds: A review | Biological Conservation | 1994 | 684 |
| 33 | Hard choices: Making trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and human well-being | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 681 |
| 34 | Scattered trees are keystone structures – Implications for conservation | Biological Conservation | 2006 | 675 |
| 35 | Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines | Biological Conservation | 2013 | 673 |
| 36 | Patterns in the modern decline of western Australia's vertebrate fauna: Causes and conservation implications | Biological Conservation | 1989 | 662 |
| 37 | Matrix habitat and species richness in tropical forest remnants | Biological Conservation | 1999 | 645 |
| 38 | The conservation status of the world’s reptiles | Biological Conservation | 2013 | 642 |
| 39 | Biological invasions of fresh water: Empirical rules and assembly theory | Biological Conservation | 1996 | 628 |
| 40 | Absent or undetected? Effects of non-detection of species occurrence on wildlife–habitat models | Biological Conservation | 2004 | 628 |
| 41 | Microenvironment variation within and among forest edge sites in the eastern United States | Biological Conservation | 1993 | 611 |
| 42 | Selecting networks of reserves to maximise biological diversity | Biological Conservation | 1988 | 610 |
| 43 | Extinction risk assessment of the world’s seagrass species | Biological Conservation | 2011 | 594 |
| 44 | Trophic cascades in Yellowstone: The first 15years after wolf reintroduction | Biological Conservation | 2012 | 590 |
| 45 | The characters of successful invaders | Biological Conservation | 1996 | 585 |
| 46 | Riverine landscapes: Biodiversity patterns, disturbance regimes, and aquatic conservation | Biological Conservation | 1998 | 577 |
| 47 | The amphibian decline crisis: A watershed for conservation biology? | Biological Conservation | 2005 | 574 |
| 48 | Quantifying effects of UV-B, temperature, and pH on eDNA degradation in aquatic microcosms | Biological Conservation | 2015 | 558 |
| 49 | Maximum foraging ranges in solitary bees: only few individuals have the capability to cover long foraging distances | Biological Conservation | 2010 | 551 |
| 50 | Predicting the impacts of edge effects in fragmented habitats | Biological Conservation | 1991 | 548 |
