Conservation Letters

Article	Citations
Biodiversity policy beyond economic growth	140
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	126
Working landscapes need at least 20% native habitat	115
How many bird and mammal extinctions has recent conservation action prevented?	104
Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists	94
Safeguarding freshwater life beyond 2020: Recommendations for the new global biodiversity framework from the European experience	92
The past and future role of conservation science in saving biodiversity	79
Land‐use history determines ecosystem services and conservation value in tropical agroforestry	69
Toward a climate‐informed North American protected areas network: Incorporating climate‐change refugia and corridors in conservation planning	61
Field sizes and the future of farmland biodiversity in European landscapes	60
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	59
Motivations for (non‐)compliance with conservation rules by small‐scale resource users	58
Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis	58
Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science	56
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic	54
The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation	53
Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?	53
Protected areas are now the last strongholds for many imperiled mammal species	52
Emerging illegal wildlife trade issues: A global horizon scan	51
Public attitudes toward biodiversity‐friendly greenspace management in Europe	48
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	41
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	39
Dams and protected areas: Quantifying the spatial and temporal extent of global dam construction within protected areas	38
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking	38
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	36

Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity	36
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation	34
A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs	33
Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme	33
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes	32
African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species	31
Advancing procedural justice in conservation	31
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome	31
Essential indicators for measuring site‐based conservation effectiveness in the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework	29
Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory biodiversity net gain using evidence from early‐adopter jurisdictions in England	27
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda	27
A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	26
Improving scientific rigour in conservation evaluations and a plea deal for transparency on potential biases	26
Use of the nucleotide diversity in COI mitochondrial gene as an early diagnostic of conservation status of animal species	25
Exotic animal cafes are increasingly home to threatened biodiversity	24
Setting robust biodiversity goals	23
Two thirds of species in a global shark fin trade hub are threatened with extinction: Conservation potential of international trade regulations for coastal sharks	23
Conservation behavior and effects of economic and environmental message frames	23
Coloring and size influence preferences for imaginary animals, and can predict actual donations to species‐specific conservation charities	22
How far have we come? A review of MPA network performance indicators in reaching qualitative elements of Aichi Target 11	22
Evaluating the relationships between the legal and illegal international wildlife trades	22
Insect threats and conservation through the lens of global experts	21
Consequences of information suppression in ecological and conservation sciences	21
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology	21
Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany	20
Does forest thinning reduce fire severity in Australian eucalypt forests?	20
COVID‐19 and protected areas: Impacts, conflicts, and possible management solutions	20
Private rhino conservation: Diverse strategies adopted in response to the poaching crisis	19
Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation	19
Live reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade	18
Associations between socio‐environmental factors and landscape‐scale biodiversity recovery in naturally regenerating tropical and subtropical forests	18
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets	17
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States	17
Are pangolins scapegoats of the COVID‐19 outbreak‐CoV transmission and pathology evidence?	17
Don't move a mussel? Parasite and disease risk in conservation action	16
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora	16
Designing effective incentives for living shorelines as a habitat conservation strategy along residential coasts	16
A way forward for wild fungi in international sustainability policy	15
Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade	15
The return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior	15
Avian cultural services peak in tropical wet forests	15
Life below water: Fish spawning aggregations as bright spots for a sustainable ocean	14
Biodiversity protection in the 21st century needs intact habitat and protection from overexploitation whether inside or outside parks	14
Human adaptation strategies are key to cobenefits in human–wildlife systems	14
Vector control reduces the rate of species invasion in the world's largest freshwater ecosystem	14
The need for a more inclusive science of elephant conservation	14
Long‐term fallows rate best among agri‐environment scheme effects on farmland birds—A meta‐analysis	14
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action	14
Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos	13
Integrating oceans into climate policy: Any green new deal needs a splash of blue	13

Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	13
Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India	13
We have a steak in it: Eliciting interventions to reduce beef consumption and its impact on biodiversity	12
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	12
Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	12
Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation	12
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms	12
Simultaneously operating threats cannot predict extinction risk	12
Incentivizing co‐management for impact: mechanisms driving the successful national expansion of Tonga's Special Management Area program	11
Conservation genetics: 50 Years and counting	11
Squeezed by a habitat split: Warm ocean conditions and old‐forest loss interact to reduce long‐term occupancy of a threatened seabird	11
Erasure of Indigenous Peoples risks perpetuating conservation's colonial harms and undermining its future effectiveness	10
Nationwide revisitation reveals thousands of local extinctions across the ranges of 713 threatened and rare plant species	10
Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot	10
Analysis of fish population size distributions confirms cessation of fishing in marine protected areas	10
Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species	10
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	10
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	10
Certified community forests positively impact human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness and improve the performance of nearby national protected areas	10
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands	10
Monitoring status and trends in genetic diversity for the Convention on Biological Diversity: An ongoing assessment of genetic indicators in nine countries	10
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	10
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	10
Indo‐Pacific origins of silky shark fins in major shark fin markets highlights supply chains and management bodies key for conservation	9
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	9
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors	9
How to diminish the geographical bias in IPBES and related science?	9
Election cycles affect deforestation within Brazil's Atlantic Forest	8
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	8
Decadal changes in international advocacy toward the conservation of highly migratory fishes	8
Using feathers to map continental‐scale movements of waterbirds and wetland importance	8
Plastic ingestion is an underestimated cause of death for southern hemisphere albatrosses	8
Coupling property rights with responsibilities to improve conservation outcomes across land and seascapes	8
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate	8
Global distribution and conservation of avian diet specialization	8
Community management yields positive impacts for coastal fisheries resources and biodiversity conservation	8
Environmental liability litigation could remedy biodiversity loss	8
Principles for climate resilience are prevalent in marine protected area management plans	7
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle	7
Teaching nonviolent communication to increase empathy between people and toward wildlife to promote human–wildlife coexistence	7
The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers	7
Local disconnects in global discourses—The unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small‐scale fishers	7
Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy	7
Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration	7
A multidisciplinary framework to assess the sustainability and acceptability of wildlife tourism operations	7
Tragic trade‐offs accompany carnivore coexistence in the modern world	7
Inclusivity via ontological accountability	7
Three Key considerations for biodiversity conservation in multilateral agreements	6
Putting conservation efforts in Central Africa on the right track for interventions that last	6
Refining carbon credits to contribute to large carnivore conservation: The jaguar as a case study	6
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	6
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries	6
The landmark Escazú Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation	6
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	6
Policy interactions in large‐scale marine protected areas	6
Traversing the food‐biodiversity nexus towards coexistence by manipulating social–ecological system parameters	6
An illicit artisanal fishery for North Pacific white sharks indicates frequent occurrence and high mortality in the Gulf of California	6
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	6
Increasing environmental outcomes with conservation tenders: The participation challenge	6
Horticultural plant use as a so‐far neglected pillar of ex situ conservation	6
Fulfilling global marine commitments; lessons learned from Gabon	6
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	5
Effectiveness of interventions to shift drivers of roving banditry and reduce illegal fishing by Vietnamese blue boats	5
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories	5
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk	5
Call for integrating future patterns of biodiversity into European conservation policy	5
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation	5
Transformative scenarios for biodiversity conservation and sustainability	5
European Union needs urgent strategy for the European bison	5
Mammal and bird species ranges overlap with armed conflicts and associated conservation threats	5
Distinct pathways to stakeholder use versus academic contribution in climate adaptation research	5
High overexploitation risk due to management shortfall in highly traded requiem sharks	5
Missing the bigger picture: Why insect monitoring programs are limited in their ability to document the effects of habitat loss	4
What is soil biodiversity?	4
Implications of the World Bank's environmental and social framework for biodiversity	4
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	4
The recent past is not a reliable guide to future climate impacts: Response to Caro et al. (2022)	4
Land privatization and deforestation in a commodity production frontier	4
Management thresholds shift under the influence of multiple stressors: Eelgrass meadows as a case study	4
Revisiting the evidentiary basis for ecological cascades with conservation impacts	4

Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation	4
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	4
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale	4
Tourism may threaten wildlife disease refugia	4
Integrating local ecological knowledge, ecological monitoring, and computer simulation to evaluate conservation outcomes	4
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	4
Perceived influence over marine conservation: Determinants and implications of empowerment	4