Conservation Letters is a scientific journal publishing empirical and theoretical research with significant implications for the conservation of biological diversity. The journal welcomes submissions across the biological and social sciences - especially interdisciplinary submissions – that advance pragmatic conservation goals as well as scientific understanding. Manuscripts will be published on a rapid communications schedule and therefore should be current and topical.  Research articles should clearly articulate the significance of their findings for conservation policy and practice.


Three types of article are published in Conservation Letters:

Letters: novel findings with high relevance for practice or policy
Reviews: overviews of emerging subjects that merit urgent coverage or succinct syntheses of important topics that are rarely encountered in the mainstream literature
Policy Perspectives: brief essays for a general audience on issues related to conservation and society
Conservation Letters welcomes manuscripts in all biomes (marine, terrestrial, and freshwater), ecosystems, and cultural settings, and will strive for balanced coverage of each.

Editor-in-Chief
Edward T. Game, The Nature Conservancy
conservationletters@wiley.com

Senior Associate Editors
E.J. Milner-Gulland, University of Oxford
Harini Nagendra, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India
Mark W. Schwartz, University of California, Davis


Managing Editor
Katie Simmons, Wiley
conletter@wiley.com

Founding Editors
Richard M. Cowling, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Michael B. Mascia, Conservation International, Arlington, VA,USA
Hugh P. Possingham, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
William J. Sutherland, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Editorial Board

Krister Andersson, governance of forests, University of Colorado at Boulder
Derek Armitage, environmental governance, University of Waterloo
Andras Baldi, community ecology, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary
Xavier Basurto, marine resource governance, Duke University
Sarah Bekessy, Interdisciplinary conservation science, RMIT University
Hawthorne Beyer, spatial ecology and conservation planning, University of Queensland
Claudia Bieling, landscape management and environmental sociology, University of Hohenheim, Germany
Michael Bode, conservation planning, University of Melbourne
Christopher J. Brown, marine conservation and modelling, Griffith University
Jonah Busch, environmental economics, Center for Global Development
Roman Carrasco, ecological economics, National University of Singapore
Ashwini Chhatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Colyvan, environmental philosophy, University of Sydney
Finn Danielsen, participatory monitoring and management of natural resources, NORDECO
Lynn Dicks, invertebrates, agriculture, evidence-based conservation, University of Cambridge
Nick Dulvy, fisheries ecology, Simon Fraser University
Megan Evans, environmental policy, governance and economics, Australian National University
Paul J. Ferraro, impact evaluation and causal inference, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University
Joern Fischer, conservation ecology, Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany)
Brendan Fisher, environmental economics, University of Vermont
Beth Fulton, ecosystem dynamics and sustainable management, CSIRO
Meredith Gore, human dimensions of wildlife, Michigan State University
Matt Hayward, conservation ecology of large animals, Bangor University (U.K.)
Michel Kaiser, sustainable aquaculture, Bangor University
Krithi Karanth, conservation ecology, Center for Wildlife Studies (India)
Ryan P. Kelly, molecular ecology, law, and policy, University of Washington
Andrew T. Knight, conservation planning, Imperial College, London (U.K.)
Claire Kremen, community ecology, University of California-Berkeley
Emma Ladouceur, vegetation and restoration ecology, Museo delle Scienze (MUSE), Italy
Phillip Levin, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Rebecca Lewison, conservation ecology and natural resource management, San Diego State University
David Lindenmayer, landscape ecology, Australian National University
Wayne Linklater, wildlife ecology and management, Victoria University (Wellington)
Julie Lockwood, invasion ecology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Amanda (Mandy) T. Lombard, conservation planning, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Mark Lubell, environmental politics & policy, University of California-Davis
Douglas C. MacMillan Conservation Economics and Policy, University of Kent, UK
Pablo A. Marquet, macroecology, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Daniel C. Miller, conservation and development politics & policy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Pamela McElwee, governance and human dimensions of environmental change, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Robin Naidoo, ecological economics, World Wildlife Fund-US
Patrick O'Farrell, applied ecology, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
Michelle Pinard, forest ecology and management, University of Aberdeen
Andrew Rosenberg, fisheries ecology, Union of Concerned Scientists
Mary Ruckelshaus, ecology and environment services, Stanford University
Erin Sills, environment and development economics, North Carolina State University
Javier Simonetti, community ecology, Univeridad de Chile
Navinder J. Singh, wildlife ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Edward Webb, plant ecology, National University of Singapore
George Wittemyer, applied ecology and conservation science; Colorado State University
Lu Zhi, wildlife conservation, Peking University