Conservation Letters

Papers
(The median citation count of Conservation Letters is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Land‐cover and land‐use change trajectory hopping facilitates estate‐crop expansion into protected forests in Indonesia221
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Correspondence: Challender et al. (2021) misinterpret the recommendations regarding an IUCN‐CITES interface in Frank and Wilcove (2019) and advocate poor policy104
European Habitats Directive has fostered monitoring but not prevented species declines99
Collaborative fisheries research reveals reserve size and age determine efficacy across a network of marine protected areas75
Simulating Demography, Monitoring, and Management Decisions to Evaluate Adaptive Management Strategies for Endangered Species74
Climate change and energy crisis drive an unprecedented EU environmental law regression71
Concrete Habitat Severely Decreases the Reproductive Output of Two Urban Birds65
First Evidence of Individual Sharks Involved in Multiple Predatory Bites on People63
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For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!58
Integrated systematic planning and adaptive stakeholder process support a 10‐fold increase in South Africa's Marine Protected Area estate50
Nature and equity47
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Phylogenetic relationships of invasive plants are useful criteria for weed risk assessments36
Toward a new framework for restoring lost wildlife migrations33
Remote seamounts are key conservation priorities for pelagic wildlife32
Co‐benefits for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem services available from contrasting land protection policies in the contiguous United States31
Risky business: Protecting nature, protecting wealth?30
Conservation and human rights: The public commitments of international conservation organizations30
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans30
Conserving urban biodiversity: Current practice, barriers, and enablers29
How Do We Identify Anthropogenic Allee Effects in the Wildlife Trade?28
Does biodiversity‐focused protection of the seabed deliver carbon benefits? A U.K. case study28
What is the value of biotic seed dispersal in post‐fire forest regeneration?28
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Leveraging shark‐fin consumer preferences to deliver sustainable fisheries27
Stakeholder‐derived recommendations and actions to support deep‐reef conservation in the Western Indian Ocean27
Kleptoparasitism in seabirds—A potential pathway for global avian influenza virus spread27
Positive effects of fragmentation per se on the most iconic metapopulation26
Empowering fishers for Great White Shark stewardship: Reply to Madigan et al. 202126
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Contributions of small‐scale and longline fishing to sea turtle mortality in the Solomon Islands22
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Conflict between cultural development and wildlife conservation: A potential threat to Reeves's pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii)22
The costs and benefits of publicising species discoveries22
Research biases create overrepresented “poster children” of marine invasion ecology21
What starts with laughter ends in tears: Invasive alien species regulations should not hinder scientific research21
Who cares about monarch butterflies? Comparing US State Wildlife Action Plans 2015–202520
Personal traits predict conservationists’ optimism about outcomes for nature19
Collective PES Contracts Can Motivate Institutional Creation to Conserve Forests: Experimental Evidence19
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Fish aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water marine protected areas17
Testing an intervention codesigned with stakeholders for altering wildlife consumption: Health messaging matters17
Sustainability of social–ecological systems: The difference between social rules and management rules16
Passive Acoustic Gliders Are Effective Monitoring Tools for Dynamic Management Plans Aimed at Mitigating Whale‐Vessel Strikes16
A consumption‐based analysis of extinction risk in Australia16
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Urgent Policy Change Is Needed to Understand the Dimensions of Legal International Wildlife Trade to Enable Targeted Management15
Realizing “30 × 30” in India: The potential, the challenges, and the way forward15
Insights from diplomacy for the prevention and resolution of conservation conflicts14
The fear factor—Snakes in Africa might be at an alarming extinction risk14
Quantifying the road‐effect zone for a critically endangered primate14
Enabling transformative economic change in the post‐2020 biodiversity agenda14
Horticultural plant use as a so‐far neglected pillar of ex situ conservation14
Existing indicators do not adequately monitor progress toward meeting invasive alien species targets13
Addressing the Southeast Asian snaring crisis: Impact of 11 years of snare removal in a biodiversity hotspot13
An inconvenient misconception: Climate change is not the principal driver of biodiversity loss13
Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands13
A Survey of Mammal and Fish Genetic Diversity Across the Global Protected Area Network13
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Fisheries outcomes of marine protected area networks: Levels of protection, connectivity, and time matter12
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Village modernization and reduced abundance of farmland birds: Why compensation for lost nesting sites may not be enough12
Village modernization may contribute more to farmland bird declines than agricultural intensification12
A criminal justice response to address the illegal trade of wildlife in Indonesia12
Foraging mode affects extinction risk of snakes and lizards, but in different ways12
Rewilding and Indigenous Community‐Led Land Care11
Mammal and bird species ranges overlap with armed conflicts and associated conservation threats11
Village modernization and farmland birds: A reply to Rosin et al. (2021)11
Advances and shortfalls in applying best practices to global tree‐growing efforts11
High‐resolution satellite imagery meets the challenge of monitoring remote marine protected areas in the Antarctic and beyond11
Using weather radar to help minimize wind energy impacts on nocturnally migrating birds11
What is soil biodiversity?10
The biodiversity adaptation gap: Management actions for marine protected areas in the face of climate change10
Quantitative impacts of hydroelectric dams on the trans‐Amazonian migrations of goliath catfish10
Wild goose chase: Geese flee high and far, and with aftereffects from New Year's fireworks10
Destructive fishing: An expert‐driven definition and exploration of this quasi‐concept10
Hunting for Sustainability: Indigenous Stewardship in the Cofán Territory of Zábalo9
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Benchmarking fish biodiversity of seaports with eDNA and nearby marine reserves9
Correction to: Using nonhuman culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action9
Too hot to hunt: Mechanistic predictions of thermal refuge from cat predation risk8
Do 50‐year‐old Ramsar criteria still do the best possible job? A plea for broadened scientific underpinning of the global protection of wetlands and migratory waterbirds8
Invasion trends: An interpretable measure of change is needed to support policy targets8
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Mismatch Between Global Importance of Peatlands and the Extent of Their Protection8
An equity lens on behavioral science for conservation8
Reimagining protected and conserved areas in Africa: Perspectives from the first Africa Protected Areas Congress8
Essential planetary health workers: Positioning rangers within global policy8
An antiracist, anticolonial agenda for urban greening and conservation8
Tropical field stations yield high conservation return on investment8
Local disconnects in global discourses—The unintended consequences of marine mammal protection on small‐scale fishers8
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Parachute conservation: Investigating trends in international research8
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Historical maps improve the identification of forests with potentially high conservation value7
Data‐driven counterfactual evaluation of management outcomes to improve emergency conservation decisions7
Recognizing culturally significant species and Indigenous‐led management is key to meeting international biodiversity obligations7
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Novel operational index reveals rapid recovery of genetic connectivity in freshwater fish species after riverine restoration7
Horizon scanning for potential invasive non‐native species across the United Kingdom Overseas Territories7
Asia's Wolves and Synergies With Big Cats7
Conservation responsibility for bird species in tropical logged forests7
Evolution and Viability of Asian Horseshoe Crabs Appear Tightly Linked to Geo‐Climatic Dynamics in the Sunda Shelf7
A conservation roadmap for the subterranean biome7
Fisher–shark interactions: A loss of support for the Maldives shark sanctuary from reef fishers whose livelihoods are affected by shark depredation7
Effectiveness of interventions to shift drivers of roving banditry and reduce illegal fishing by Vietnamese blue boats7
Unlocking the Value of Ranger‐Based Monitoring for Biodiversity Conservation and Protected Area Management7
Multispecies tracking reveals a major seabird hotspot in the North Atlantic7
Explicit incentives increase citizen science recordings7
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Urgent actions needed by digital services platforms to help achieve conservation and public health goals7
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Identifying climate‐smart tropical Key Biodiversity Areas for protection in response to widespread temperature novelty6
Corporate disclosures need a biodiversity outcome focus and regulatory backing to deliver global conservation goals6
Science‐based planning can support law enforcement actions to curb deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon6
Hunting trophy import bans proposed by the UK may be ineffective and inequitable as conservation policies in multiple social‐ecological contexts6
Could environmental and conservation sciences benefit from an anonymized journal?6
Important ecosystem function, low redundancy and high vulnerability: The trifecta argument for protecting the Great Barrier Reef's tabular Acropora6
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China's Ecological Conservation Redline policy is a new opportunity to meet post‐2020 protected area targets6
Megaherbivores and Mega‐Infrastructure in East Africa6
To conserve African tropical forests, invest in the protection of its most endangered group of monkeys, red colobus5
Ethical and mental health considerations for research into trade and trafficking of natural resources5
Bats as a Model for Enhancing IUCN Red List Assessments: Real‐Time Data, Contributor Networks, and Specialized Training to Address Common Challenges5
Protected areas still used to produce Brazil's cattle5
Creating an Authorizing Environment to Care for Country5
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Beyond inappropriate fire regimes: A synthesis of fire‐driven declines of threatened mammals in Australia4
Performance of protected areas in conserving African elephants4
Assessing the value of citizen scientist observations in tracking the abundance of marine fishes4
A roadmap integrating research, policy, and actions to conserve Afro‐Palearctic migratory landbirds at a flyway scale4
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Fostering landscape immunity to protect human health: A science‐based rationale for shifting conservation policy paradigms4
The last stand: Demographic and population genomic analysis reveals terminal endangerment in tropical timber species Vatica guangxiensis4
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An operational methodology to identify Critical Ecosystem Areas to help nations achieve the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework4
Undescribed species have higher extinction risk than known species4
How can the European Common Agricultural Policy help halt biodiversity loss? Recommendations by over 300 experts4
Over 80% of Africa's savannah conservation land is failing or deteriorating according to lions as an indicator species4
Overall protection of Asian elephants in China4
The perils of measuring biodiversity responses to habitat change using mixed metrics4
Flexible Climate Adaptation Can Substantially Reduce Conservation Costs and Mitigate Risk4
Live reptile smuggling is predicted by trends in the legal exotic pet trade4
Evaluating the mitigation effectiveness of forests managed for conservation versus commodity production using an Australian example4
Helping to save pangolins from extinction4
Trees on farms improve dietary quality in rural Malawi3
Rapid population response to a hunting ban in a previously overharvested, threatened landbird3
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Toward monitoring forest ecosystem integrity within the post‐2020 Global Biodiversity Framework3
Certified community forests positively impact human wellbeing and conservation effectiveness and improve the performance of nearby national protected areas3
Decadal changes in international advocacy toward the conservation of highly migratory fishes3
Rotational fishery closures could enhance coral recovery in systems with alternative states3
Lead‐based ammunition is a threat to the endangered New Zealand Kea (Nestor notabilis)3
Threatened Mammals With Alien Populations: Distribution, Causes, and Conservation3
Nature benefit hypothesis: Direct experiences of nature predict self‐reported pro‐biodiversity behaviors3
Environmental liability litigation could remedy biodiversity loss3
Toward a global strategy for seabird tracking3
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The geography of international conservation interest in South American deforestation frontiers3
Now is not tomorrow3
Using ecosystem services to identify inequitable outcomes in migratory species conservation3
European Native Oyster Reef Ecosystems Are Universally Collapsed3
Collaborative conservation for snow leopards: Lessons learned from successful community‐based interventions3
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