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The latest issue (Volume 3, Issue 4 – August 2010) of Conservation Letters is now available free-of-charge online. This issue’s papers include 1 Mini-Review, 2 Policy Perspectives, 6 Letters, 1 Correspondence and 1 Response:

• Don Driscoll et al. – Resolving conflicts in fire management using decision theory: asset-protection versus biodiversity conservation
• Mark Colyvan et al. – The natural environment is valuable but not infinitely valuable
• William Sutherland et al. – Standards for documenting and monitoring bird reintroduction projects
• David Edwards et al. – Wildlife-friendly oil palm plantations fail to protect biodiversity effectively
• Kelly Haisfield et al. – An ounce of prevention: cost-effectiveness of coral reef rehabilitation relative to enforcement
• Luke Parry et al. – Rural–urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds
• Kyle Van Houtan et al. – Importance of estimating dispersal for endangered bird management
• Laura Prugh et al. – Reducing threats to species: threat reversibility and links to industry
• Aaron Savio Lobo et al. – Commercializing bycatch can push a fishery beyond economic extinction
• James Watson et al. – Mining and conservation: implications for Madagascar’s littoral forests
• Malika Virah-Sawmy – The difficult road toward real-world engagement: conservation science and mining in southern Madagascar

Another great line-up, for sure. You’ll also note that this is our greatest number of papers yet published in particular issue (sure sign that interest and demand is growing). As mentioned not too long ago, Conservation Letters was ISI-listed this year and will probably pick up a > 3 Impact Factor in June 2011.

Incidentally, one of Conservation Letters‘ Editors-in-Chief, Hugh Possingham, recently conducted a mini citation review of the major conservation biology journals and found the following:

Citation statistics in 2008 – average number of citations/paper to July 2010

Papers published in 2008

• Conservation Letters: 6.65
• Conservation Biology: 5.57
• Biological Conservation: 4.40
• Biodiversity and Conservation: 3.26

Papers published in 2009

• Conservation Letters: 2.11
• Conservation Biology: 1.77
• Biological Conservation: 1.53
• Biodiversity and Conservation: 0.74

Very interesting ;-)

CJA Bradshaw