Conservation Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Conservation Letters is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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The recent past is not a reliable guide to future climate impacts: Response to Caro et al. (2022)182
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A 150‐Year Avian Extinction Debt Forewarns a Global Species Crisis and Highlights Conservation Opportunities87
Unlocking the Value of Ranger‐Based Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management85
Beyond the Hype: Navigating the Conservation Implications of Artificial Intelligence77
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate62
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Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets59
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts50
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss47
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European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines45
Helping to save pangolins from extinction45
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Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic38
Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia37
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Online wildlife trade in species of conservation concern30
Toward more equitable ecosystem investment programs—Adaptation and equity are central to the design and functioning of successful water funds29
Conservation responsibility for bird species in tropical logged forests27
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression26
Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy26
Welcome small patches; beware of the risks of changing conservation priorities25
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Historical maps improve the identification of forests with potentially high conservation value24
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking23
Decadal changes in international advocacy toward the conservation of highly migratory fishes23
Biodiversity protection in the 21st century needs intact habitat and protection from overexploitation whether inside or outside parks22
Hidden in the deep: Distinct benthic trajectories call for monitoring of mesophotic reefs22
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A wolf in fox's clothing? Using stable isotopes to quantify ecological replacement20
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk20
Collaborative conservation for snow leopards: Lessons learned from successful community‐based interventions19
Successful eradication of invasive American bullfrogs leads to coextirpation of emerging pathogens19
Rotational fishery closures could enhance coral recovery in systems with alternative states19
Horticultural plant use as a so‐far neglected pillar of ex situ conservation19
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot18
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome18
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas17
Perceived influence over marine conservation: Determinants and implications of empowerment17
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands17
The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers17
Safeguarding human–wildlife cooperation16
Inclusivity via ontological accountability16
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda16
Genomic conservation of Mongolian horses promoted by preservation of the intangible cultural heritage of Naadam in Mongolia15
Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi14
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors14
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia13
Rubber's inclusion in zero‐deforestation legislation is necessary but not sufficient to reduce impacts on biodiversity13
Explicit incentives increase citizen science recordings13
Existing land uses constrain climate change mitigation potential of forest restoration in India12
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High overexploitation risk due to management shortfall in highly traded requiem sharks12
Now is not tomorrow12
Nature and equity11
Patch‐scale edge effects do not indicate landscape‐scale fragmentation effects11
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A global analysis reveals a collective gap in the transparency of offset policies and how biodiversity is measured11
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Evolution and Viability of Asian Horseshoe Crabs Appear Tightly Linked to Geo‐Climatic Dynamics in the Sunda Shelf10
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Effects of Freshwater Protected Areas on Survival of a Critically Endangered Cetacean10
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Certified community forests positively impact human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness and improve the performance of nearby national protected areas9
Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions9
Environmental liability litigation could remedy biodiversity loss9
European Native Oyster Reef Ecosystems Are Universally Collapsed9
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories9
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations9
Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework8
Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation8
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate8
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Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification8
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People7
Ocean protection quality is lagging behind quantity: Applying a scientific framework to assess real marine protected area progress against the 30 by 30 target7
For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!7
Lead‐based ammunition is a threat to the endangered New Zealand Kea (Nestor notabilis)7
Belt and Road Initiative in Central Asia: Anticipating socioecological challenges from large‐scale infrastructure in a global biodiversity hotspot7
Concerning data absent from LEMIS wildlife trade records7
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Rapid population response to a hunting ban in a previously overharvested, threatened landbird7
Mischaracterizing wildlife trade and its impacts may mislead policy processes7
Women and Global South strikingly underrepresented among top‐publishing ecologists7
Restored oyster reefs match multiple functions of natural reefs within a decade7
Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter7
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Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation6
Identifying key federal, state, and private lands strategies for achieving 30 × 30 in the United States6
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Mammal and bird species ranges overlap with armed conflicts and associated conservation threats6
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Sustainable commodity sourcing requires measuring and governing land use change at multiple scales6
Woody plant phylogenetic diversity supports nature's contributions to people but is at risk from human population growth5
Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough5
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?5
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife5
Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration5
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States5
Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments5
Increasing environmental outcomes with conservation tenders: The participation challenge5
Putting conservation efforts in Central Africa on the right track for interventions that last5
Where have all the young wolves gone? Traffic and cryptic mortality create a wolf population sink in Denmark and northernmost Germany5
Refining carbon credits to contribute to large carnivore conservation: The jaguar as a case study5
Biodiversity post‐2020: Closing the gap between global targets and national‐level implementation5
Effectiveness of interventions to shift drivers of roving banditry and reduce illegal fishing by Vietnamese blue boats4
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation4
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts4
Setting robust biodiversity goals4
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds4
Threatened fauna protections compromised by agricultural interests in Australia4
Integrating local ecological knowledge, ecological monitoring, and computer simulation to evaluate conservation outcomes4
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways4
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans4
Shark‐dust: Application of high‐throughput DNA sequencing of processing residues for trade monitoring of threatened sharks and rays4
Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations4
Advancing procedural justice in conservation4
Industry and conservation goals are complementary for the most valuable fishery in the United States under climate‐driven life history changes4
Essential indicators for measuring site‐based conservation effectiveness in the post‐2020 global biodiversity framework4
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations4
The power of citizen science to advance fungal conservation4
Urgent actions needed by digital services platforms to help achieve conservation and public health goals4
Ecosystem extent is a necessary but not sufficient indicator of the state of global forest biodiversity4
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Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)3
Establish an US Interagency Wildlife Trade Data System to meet scientific and policy goals3
Long‐distance Friends and Collective Action in Fisheries Management3
The long‐term impacts of Marine Protected Areas on fish catch and socioeconomic development in Tanzania3
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Policy diffusion in global biodiversity conservation: Learning, competition, coercion, and emulation amid US–China great‐power politics3
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Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish3
Biodiversity Conservation in Human‐Dominated Landscapes: Toward Collaborative Management of Blue–Green Systems3
Building a coordinated framework for research and monitoring in large‐scale international marine protected areas: The Ross Sea region as a model system3
Distinct pathways to stakeholder use versus academic contribution in climate adaptation research3
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Changes in wild meat hunting and use by rural communities during the COVID‐19 socio‐economic shock3
A primer for the practice of reflexivity in conservation science3
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora3
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers3
High Fish Biomass and Low Nutrient Enrichment Synergistically Enhance Stability in a Seagrass Meta‐Ecosystem3
China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets3
The essence of soil biodiversity2
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Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves2
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean2
The landmark Escazú Agreement: An opportunity to integrate democracy, human rights, and transboundary conservation2
Improving well‐being and reducing deforestation in Indonesia's protected areas2
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Revisiting the evidentiary basis for ecological cascades with conservation impacts2
Tourism may threaten wildlife disease refugia2
Testing a conservation compromise: No evidence that public wolf hunting in Slovakia reduced livestock losses2
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change2
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon2
Strengths and shortcomings of habitat exchange programs for species conservation2
An illicit artisanal fishery for North Pacific white sharks indicates frequent occurrence and high mortality in the Gulf of California2
Could environmental and conservation sciences benefit from an anonymized journal?2
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Tragic trade‐offs accompany carnivore coexistence in the modern world2
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