| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Complexities of conflict: the importance of considering social factors for effectively resolving human–wildlife conflict | Animal Conservation | 2010 | 972 |
| 2 | Crouching tigers, hidden prey: Sumatran tiger and prey populations in a tropical forest landscape | Animal Conservation | 2003 | 677 |
| 3 | An evaluation of camera traps for inventorying large‐ and medium‐sized terrestrial rainforest mammals | Animal Conservation | 2008 | 560 |
| 4 | Predators and people: using human densities to interpret declines of large carnivores | Animal Conservation | 2000 | 513 |
| 5 | The role of infectious diseases in biological conservation | Animal Conservation | 2009 | 409 |
| 6 | The use of photographic rates to estimate densities of tigers and other cryptic mammals | Animal Conservation | 2001 | 400 |
| 7 | Bias in species range estimates from minimum convex polygons: implications for conservation and options for improved planning | Animal Conservation | 2003 | 376 |
| 8 | Predators and people: conservation of large carnivores is possible at high human densities if management policy is favourable | Animal Conservation | 2001 | 360 |
| 9 | How large must populations be to retain evolutionary potential? | Animal Conservation | 1998 | 348 |
| 10 | Declines in the numbers of amateur and professional taxonomists: implications for conservation | Animal Conservation | 2002 | 284 |
| 11 | The sleeping policeman: understanding issues of enforcement and compliance in conservation | Animal Conservation | 2008 | 273 |
| 12 | The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species for biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau | Animal Conservation | 1999 | 272 |
| 13 | Livestock predation by lions, leopards, spotted hyenas, and their vulnerability to retaliatory killing in the Maasai steppe, Tanzania | Animal Conservation | 2008 | 269 |
| 14 | Wildlife conservation and animal temperament: causes and consequences of evolutionary change for captive, reintroduced, and wild populations | Animal Conservation | 2006 | 255 |
| 15 | Resistance to chytridiomycosis varies among amphibian species and is correlated with skin peptide defenses | Animal Conservation | 2007 | 250 |
| 16 | Roads as barriers to animal movement in fragmented landscapes | Animal Conservation | 2008 | 244 |
| 17 | Managing disease threats to wild mammals | Animal Conservation | 1999 | 219 |
| 18 | Taxonomic bias in reintroduction projects | Animal Conservation | 2005 | 219 |
| 19 | Edge effects and the impact of non‐protected areas in carnivore conservation: leopards in the Phinda–Mkhuze Complex, South Africa | Animal Conservation | 2010 | 215 |
| 20 | Behavioural trait assessment as a release criterion: boldness predicts early death in a reintroduction programme of captive-bred swift fox (Vulpes velox) | Animal Conservation | 2004 | 214 |
| 21 | Effects of forest fragmentation on the physiological stress response of black howler monkeys | Animal Conservation | 2007 | 212 |
| 22 | Do population size bottlenecks reduce evolutionary potential? | Animal Conservation | 1999 | 211 |
| 23 | Surveys using camera traps: are we looking to a brighter future? | Animal Conservation | 2008 | 207 |
| 24 | The critical effective size for a genetically secure population | Animal Conservation | 1998 | 206 |
| 25 | Human-wildlife conflicts in a fragmented Amazonian forest landscape: determinants of large felid depredation on livestock | Animal Conservation | 2006 | 206 |
| 26 | Conservation translocations: a review of common difficulties and promising directions | Animal Conservation | 2020 | 204 |
| 27 | Conservation benefits of marine reserves for fish populations | Animal Conservation | 2000 | 203 |
| 28 | Lethal control of African lions (Panthera leo): local and regional population impacts | Animal Conservation | 2005 | 196 |
| 29 | Oil industry, wild meat trade and roads: indirect effects of oil extraction activities in a protected area in north‐eastern Ecuador | Animal Conservation | 2009 | 191 |
| 30 | Can parks protect migratory ungulates? The case of the Serengeti wildebeest | Animal Conservation | 2004 | 188 |
| 31 | Crucial importance of pack size in the African wild dog Lycaon pictus | Animal Conservation | 2001 | 186 |
| 32 | The movement of African elephants in a human‐dominated land‐use mosaic | Animal Conservation | 2009 | 186 |
| 33 | Long-distance wolf recolonization of France and Switzerland inferred from non-invasive genetic sampling over a period of 10 years | Animal Conservation | 2003 | 179 |
| 34 | Patterns and perceptions of wildlife crop raiding in and around Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra | Animal Conservation | 2007 | 179 |
| 35 | Extinction risk in fragmented habitats | Animal Conservation | 2004 | 177 |
| 36 | Ecological impact of inside/outside house cats around a suburban nature preserve | Animal Conservation | 2004 | 173 |
| 37 | Endangered, apparently: the role of apparent competition in endangered species conservation | Animal Conservation | 2010 | 170 |
| 38 | Relative vulnerability of female turtles to road mortality | Animal Conservation | 2006 | 168 |
| 39 | Fragmentation of Asia's remaining wildlands: implications for Asian elephant conservation | Animal Conservation | 2003 | 163 |
| 40 | The genetic rescue of the Florida panther | Animal Conservation | 2006 | 154 |
| 41 | Disease as a threat to endangered species: Ethiopian wolves, domestic dogs and canine pathogens | Animal Conservation | 1998 | 153 |
| 42 | Simultaneous inbreeding and outbreeding depression in reintroduced Arabian oryx | Animal Conservation | 2000 | 153 |
| 43 | Flagship species, ecological complementarity and conserving the diversity of mammals and birds in sub-Saharan Africa | Animal Conservation | 2000 | 152 |
| 44 | Feral pigs facilitate hyperpredation by golden eagles and indirectly cause the decline of the island fox | Animal Conservation | 2001 | 152 |
| 45 | Biases associated with population estimation using molecular tagging | Animal Conservation | 2000 | 150 |
| 46 | Biological determinants of extinction risk: why are smaller species less vulnerable? | Animal Conservation | 2003 | 150 |
| 47 | Potential of trophy hunting to create incentives for wildlife conservation in Africa where alternative wildlife-based land uses may not be viable | Animal Conservation | 2006 | 150 |
| 48 | Effects of trapping effort and trap shyness on estimates of tiger abundance from camera trap studies | Animal Conservation | 2004 | 147 |
| 49 | Population‐level declines in Australian predators caused by an invasive species | Animal Conservation | 2009 | 145 |
| 50 | Less is more: the potential of qualitative approaches in conservation research | Animal Conservation | 2011 | 143 |
