Conservation Letters

Article	Citations
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!	182
Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists	116
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss	87
The disproportionately high value of small patches for biodiversity conservation	85
Human–nature connectedness as a pathway to sustainability: A global meta‐analysis	77
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic	62
Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science	60
Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritize policies to reduce mortality?	60
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts	53
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species	52
Advancing procedural justice in conservation	50
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	47
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking	46
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes	45
Global camera trap synthesis highlights the importance of protected areas in maintaining mammal diversity	43
A global map of human pressures on tropical coral reefs	42
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation	42
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome	38
Essential indicators for measuring site‐based conservation effectiveness in the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework	37
Integrating biobanking minimises inbreeding and produces significant cost benefits for a threatened frog captive breeding programme	34
African Swine Fever threatens Southeast Asia's 11 endemic wild pig species	34
Two thirds of species in a global shark fin trade hub are threatened with extinction: Conservation potential of international trade regulations for coastal sharks	31
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda	30
Exploring the ecological outcomes of mandatory biodiversity net gain using evidence from early‐adopter jurisdictions in England	29
A robust goal is needed for species in the Post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework	28

Setting robust biodiversity goals	27
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets	26
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology	26
Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany	25
Don't move a mussel? Parasite and disease risk in conservation action	24
Measuring the intensity of conflicts in conservation	23
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States	23
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora	23
Monitoring status and trends in genetic diversity for the Convention on Biological Diversity: An ongoing assessment of genetic indicators in nine countries	22
Insect threats and conservation through the lens of global experts	22
Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia	21
COVID‐19 and protected areas: Impacts, conflicts, and possible management solutions	21
Live reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade	20
A way forward for wild fungi in international sustainability policy	20
Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade	19
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors	19
Vector control reduces the rate of species invasion in the world's largest freshwater ecosystem	19
Legal hunting for conservation of highly threatened species: The case of African rhinos	18
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers	18
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation	17
Long‐term fallows rate best among agri‐environment scheme effects on farmland birds—A meta‐analysis	17
Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India	17
Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action	17
Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation	17
Biodiversity protection in the 21st century needs intact habitat and protection from overexploitation whether inside or outside parks	16
The return of the elephants: How two groups of dispersing elephants attracted the attention of billions and what can we learn from their behavior	16
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations	16
Understanding and responding to the environmental human rights defenders crisis: The case for conservation action	15
Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms	14
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds	14
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification	14
Teaching nonviolent communication to increase empathy between people and toward wildlife to promote human–wildlife coexistence	13
Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot	13
Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species	13
Conservation genetics: 50 Years and counting	13
How to diminish the geographical bias in IPBES and related science?	12
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands	12
Global distribution and conservation of avian diet specialization	12
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation	12
Erasure of Indigenous Peoples risks perpetuating conservation's colonial harms and undermining its future effectiveness	12
Certified community forests positively impact human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness and improve the performance of nearby national protected areas	12
Local disconnects in global discourses—The unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small‐scale fishers	11
Inclusivity via ontological accountability	11
Analysis of fish population size distributions confirms cessation of fishing in marine protected areas	11
Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research	11
Indo‐Pacific origins of silky shark fins in major shark fin markets highlights supply chains and management bodies key for conservation	11
Divergent views on trophy hunting in Africa, and what this may mean for research and policy	10
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories	10
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle	10
The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers	10

Election cycles affect deforestation within Brazil's Atlantic Forest	10
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon	10
Principles for climate resilience are prevalent in marine protected area management plans	9
Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries	9
Decadal changes in international advocacy toward the conservation of highly migratory fishes	9
A multidisciplinary framework to assess the sustainability and acceptability of wildlife tourism operations	9
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations	9
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate	9
Plastic ingestion is an underestimated cause of death for southern hemisphere albatrosses	9
Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration	9
Missing the bigger picture: Why insect monitoring programs are limited in their ability to document the effects of habitat loss	8
The landmark Escazú Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation	8
Putting conservation efforts in Central Africa on the right track for interventions that last	8
Using feathers to map continental‐scale movements of waterbirds and wetland importance	8
Perceived influence over marine conservation: Determinants and implications of empowerment	8
Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy	7
Fulfilling global marine commitments; lessons learned from Gabon	7
Tragic trade‐offs accompany carnivore coexistence in the modern world	7
Mammal and bird species ranges overlap with armed conflicts and associated conservation threats	7
Horticultural plant use as a so‐far neglected pillar of ex situ conservation	7
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature	7
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk	7
Effectiveness of interventions to shift drivers of roving banditry and reduce illegal fishing by Vietnamese blue boats	7
Environmental liability litigation could remedy biodiversity loss	7
Traversing the food‐biodiversity nexus towards coexistence by manipulating social–ecological system parameters	7
Call for integrating future patterns of biodiversity into European conservation policy	7
Increasing environmental outcomes with conservation tenders: The participation challenge	7
High overexploitation risk due to management shortfall in highly traded requiem sharks	7
Healthy planet healthy people	6
What is soil biodiversity?	6
Distinct pathways to stakeholder use versus academic contribution in climate adaptation research	6
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?	6
Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets	6
European Union needs urgent strategy for the European bison	6
An illicit artisanal fishery for North Pacific white sharks indicates frequent occurrence and high mortality in the Gulf of California	6
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation	6
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression	6
Socio‐ecological benefits of fine‐flavor cacao in its center of origin	6
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks	6
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond	6
Refining carbon credits to contribute to large carnivore conservation: The jaguar as a case study	6
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets	6
Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation	5
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts	5
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale	5
Management thresholds shift under the influence of multiple stressors: Eelgrass meadows as a case study	5
Integrating local ecological knowledge, ecological monitoring, and computer simulation to evaluate conservation outcomes	5
Patch‐scale edge effects do not indicate landscape‐scale fragmentation effects	5
Land privatization and deforestation in a commodity production frontier	5
Assisted gene flow from outcrossing shows the potential for genetic rescue in an endangered salmon population	5
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate	5
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas	5
Reimagining protected and conserved areas in Africa: Perspectives from the first Africa Protected Areas Congress	5
Tourism may threaten wildlife disease refugia	5
Empowering fishers for Great White Shark stewardship: Reply to Madigan et al. 2021	4
A toolkit for open and pluralistic conservation science	4
Threatened fauna protections compromised by agricultural interests in Australia	4
Woody plant phylogenetic diversity supports nature's contributions to people but is at risk from human population growth	4
Conservation responsibility for bird species in tropical logged forests	4
Overall protection of Asian elephants in China	4
Conservation fundraising: Evidence from social media and traditional mail field experiments	4
Pandemic prevention should not victimize Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities	4
The power of citizen science to advance fungal conservation	4
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States	4
Hidden in the deep: Distinct benthic trajectories call for monitoring of mesophotic reefs	4
US wildlife trade data lack quality control necessary for accurate scientific interpretation and policy application	4
The diversity of people's relationships with biodiversity should inform forest restoration and creation	4
Revisiting the evidentiary basis for ecological cascades with conservation impacts	4
Shark‐dust: Application of high‐throughput DNA sequencing of processing residues for trade monitoring of threatened sharks and rays	4
Rubber's inclusion in zero‐deforestation legislation is necessary but not sufficient to reduce impacts on biodiversity	4
The recent past is not a reliable guide to future climate impacts: Response to Caro et al. (2022)	4
Ocean protection quality is lagging behind quantity: Applying a scientific framework to assess real marine protected area progress against the 30 by 30 target	3
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia	3
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy	3
Operation mercury: Impacts of national‐level armed forces intervention and anticorruption strategy on artisanal gold mining and water quality in the Peruvian Amazon	3
Sustainability of social–ecological systems: The difference between social rules and management rules	3
Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts	3
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean	3
The effectiveness of UK protected areas in preventing local extinctions	3
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter	3

European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines	3
Mismatch between conservation needs and actual representation of lions from West and Central Africa in in situ and ex situ conservation	3
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research	3
Scrutinizing the impact of policy instruments on adoption of agricultural conservation practices using Bayesian expert models	3
The essence of soil biodiversity	3
Strengths and shortcomings of habitat exchange programs for species conservation	3
Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions	3
A wolf in fox's clothing? Using stable isotopes to quantify ecological replacement	3
Evaluating the mitigation effectiveness of forests managed for conservation versus commodity production using an Australian example	3
Rewilding giant tortoises engineers plant communities at local to landscape scales	3
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study	3
Testing a conservation compromise: No evidence that public wolf hunting in Slovakia reduced livestock losses	3