| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Biological Consequences of Ecosystem Fragmentation: A Review | Conservation Biology | 1991 | 3,023 |
| 2 | Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity: A Hierarchical Approach | Conservation Biology | 1990 | 2,358 |
| 3 | A Method for Assessing Hydrologic Alteration within Ecosystems | Conservation Biology | 1996 | 1,955 |
| 4 | Review of Ecological Effects of Roads on Terrestrial and Aquatic Communities | Conservation Biology | 2000 | 1,898 |
| 5 | Correlation between Fitness and Genetic Diversity | Conservation Biology | 2003 | 1,891 |
| 6 | Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation | Conservation Biology | 1992 | 1,885 |
| 7 | Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity | Conservation Biology | 2002 | 1,518 |
| 8 | Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management | Conservation Biology | 1996 | 1,474 |
| 9 | Biodiversity and Ecological Redundancy | Conservation Biology | 1992 | 1,375 |
| 10 | Ecosystem Decay of Amazonian Forest Fragments: a 22‐Year Investigation | Conservation Biology | 2002 | 1,372 |
| 11 | Identifying Populations for Conservation on the Basis of Genetic Markers | Conservation Biology | 1998 | 1,276 |
| 12 | Rethinking Community-Based Conservation | Conservation Biology | 2004 | 1,221 |
| 13 | The Global 200: A Representation Approach to Conserving the Earth's Most Biologically Valuable Ecoregions | Conservation Biology | 1998 | 1,213 |
| 14 | Relationship of Genetic Variation to Population Size in Wildlife | Conservation Biology | 1996 | 1,208 |
| 15 | Natural Capital and Sustainable Development | Conservation Biology | 1992 | 1,194 |
| 16 | Human-Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide | Conservation Biology | 2003 | 1,179 |
| 17 | Conservation of the Brazilian Cerrado | Conservation Biology | 2005 | 1,122 |
| 18 | A Survey and Overview of Habitat Fragmentation Experiments | Conservation Biology | 2000 | 1,100 |
| 19 | Scenario Planning: a Tool for Conservation in an Uncertain World | Conservation Biology | 2003 | 1,068 |
| 20 | What Is Ecosystem Management? | Conservation Biology | 1994 | 1,049 |
| 21 | Quantification of Extinction Risk: IUCN's System for Classifying Threatened Species | Conservation Biology | 2008 | 1,048 |
| 22 | Extinction Rates of North American Freshwater Fauna | Conservation Biology | 1999 | 1,042 |
| 23 | Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities | Conservation Biology | 1998 | 1,032 |
| 24 | Five Potential Consequences of Climate Change for Invasive Species | Conservation Biology | 2008 | 997 |
| 25 | Edge Influence on Forest Structure and Composition in Fragmented Landscapes | Conservation Biology | 2005 | 985 |
| 26 | Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species | Conservation Biology | 2008 | 944 |
| 27 | Developing the Science of Reintroduction Biology | Conservation Biology | 2007 | 888 |
| 28 | When Are Peripheral Populations Valuable for Conservation? | Conservation Biology | 1995 | 876 |
| 29 | Focal Species: A Multi-Species Umbrella for Nature Conservation. Especies Focales: Una Sombrilla Multiespecifica para Conservar la Naturaleza | Conservation Biology | 1997 | 845 |
| 30 | Empirical Evaluation of a Test for Identifying Recently Bottlenecked Populations from Allele Frequency Data | Conservation Biology | 1998 | 843 |
| 31 | Conservation of Fragmented Populations | Conservation Biology | 1994 | 834 |
| 32 | Guidelines for Systematic Review in Conservation and Environmental Management | Conservation Biology | 2006 | 812 |
| 33 | Ecological Costs of Livestock Grazing in Western North America | Conservation Biology | 1994 | 805 |
| 34 | Ecological Consequences of Recent Climate Change | Conservation Biology | 2001 | 805 |
| 35 | When Good Animals Love Bad Habitats: Ecological Traps and the Conservation of Animal Populations | Conservation Biology | 2004 | 794 |
| 36 | Biodiversity Hotspots in the Mediterranean Basin: Setting Global Conservation Priorities | Conservation Biology | 1999 | 765 |
| 37 | Selectivity in Mammalian Extinction Risk and Threat Types: a New Measure of Phylogenetic Signal Strength in Binary Traits | Conservation Biology | 2010 | 748 |
| 38 | Deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia: History, Rates, and Consequences | Conservation Biology | 2005 | 743 |
| 39 | On the Use of Surrogate Species in Conservation Biology | Conservation Biology | 1999 | 742 |
| 40 | The Melting Himalayas: Cascading Effects of Climate Change on Water, Biodiversity, and Livelihoods | Conservation Biology | 2009 | 735 |
| 41 | Biodiversity Conservation in Traditional Coffee Systems of Mexico | Conservation Biology | 1999 | 734 |
| 42 | The Effect of Edge on Avian Nest Success: How Strong Is the Evidence? | Conservation Biology | 1994 | 733 |
| 43 | Global Warming and Extinctions of Endemic Species from Biodiversity Hotspots | Conservation Biology | 2006 | 728 |
| 44 | A Framework for Debate of Assisted Migration in an Era of Climate Change | Conservation Biology | 2007 | 727 |
| 45 | Assessing Extinction Threats: Toward a Reevaluation of IUCN Threatened Species Categories | Conservation Biology | 1991 | 725 |
| 46 | Usefulness of the Umbrella Species Concept as a Conservation Tool | Conservation Biology | 2004 | 698 |
| 47 | The role of agri‐environment schemes in conservation and environmental management | Conservation Biology | 2015 | 687 |
| 48 | The One-Migrant-per-Generation Rule in Conservation and Management | Conservation Biology | 1996 | 682 |
| 49 | Indicators of Biodiversity for Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management | Conservation Biology | 2000 | 679 |
| 50 | Relative Sensitivities of Mammalian Carnivores to Habitat Fragmentation | Conservation Biology | 2002 | 679 |
