| Status and ecological effects of the world’s largest carnivores WJ Ripple, JA Estes, RL Beschta, CC Wilmers, EG Ritchie, ... Science 343 (6167), 1241484, 2014 | 3861 | 2014 |
| Conservation social science: Understanding and integrating human dimensions to improve conservation NJ Bennett, R Roth, SC Klain, K Chan, P Christie, DA Clark, G Cullman, ... Biological conservation 205, 93-108, 2017 | 1344 | 2017 |
| The great new wilderness debate JB Callicott, MP Nelson University of Georgia Press, 1998 | 751 | 1998 |
| Mainstreaming the social sciences in conservation NJ Bennett, R Roth, SC Klain, KMA Chan, DA Clark, G Cullman, ... Conservation Biology 31 (1), 56-66, 2017 | 583 | 2017 |
| Summoning compassion to address the challenges of conservation AD Wallach, M Bekoff, C Batavia, MP Nelson, D Ramp Conservation Biology 32 (6), 1255-1265, 2018 | 297 | 2018 |
| Saving the world's terrestrial megafauna WJ Ripple, G Chapron, JV López-Bao, SM Durant, DW Macdonald, ... BioScience 66 (10), 807-812, 2016 | 279 | 2016 |
| Evaluating whether nature's intrinsic value is an axiom of or anathema to conservation JA Vucetich, JT Bruskotter, MP Nelson Conservation Biology 29 (2), 321-332, 2015 | 271 | 2015 |
| For goodness sake! What is intrinsic value and why should we care? C Batavia, MP Nelson Biological conservation 209, 366-376, 2017 | 259 | 2017 |
| On advocacy by environmental scientists: What, whether, why, and how MP Nelson, JA Vucetich Conservation Biology 23 (5), 1090-1101, 2009 | 228 | 2009 |
| The wilderness debate rages on: Continuing the great new wilderness debate MP Nelson, JB Callicott University of Georgia Press, 2008 | 223 | 2008 |
| Sustainability: virtuous or vulgar? JA Vucetich, MP Nelson BioScience 60 (7), 539-544, 2010 | 198 | 2010 |
| An environmental pedagogy of care: Emotion, relationships, and experience in higher education ethics learning L Goralnik, KF Millenbah, MP Nelson, L Thorp Journal of Experiential Education 35 (3), 412-428, 2012 | 183 | 2012 |
| Moral ground: Ethical action for a planet in peril KD Moore, MP Nelson Trinity University Press, 2010 | 170 | 2010 |
| Emotions and the ethics of consequence in conservation decisions: Lessons from Cecil the Lion MP Nelson, JT Bruskotter, JA Vucetich, G Chapron Conservation Letters 9 (4), 302-306, 2016 | 148 | 2016 |
| Congenital bone deformities and the inbred wolves (Canis lupus) of Isle Royale J Räikkönen, JA Vucetich, RO Peterson, MP Nelson Biological Conservation 142 (5), 1025-1031, 2009 | 125 | 2009 |
| Framing a philosophy of environmental action: Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and the importance of community L Goralnik, MP Nelson The Journal of Environmental Education 42 (3), 181-192, 2011 | 117 | 2011 |
| Promoting predators and compassionate conservation AD Wallach, M Bekoff, MP Nelson, D Ramp Conservation Biology 29 (5), 1481-1484, 2015 | 113 | 2015 |
| Four cultures: New synergies for engaging society on climate change MC Nisbet, MA Hixon, KD Moore, M Nelson Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 8 (6), 329-331, 2010 | 112 | 2010 |
| What are 60 warblers worth? Killing in the name of conservation JA Vucetich, MP Nelson Oikos 116 (8), 1267-1278, 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
| Resolving the value of the dingo in ecological restoration TM Newsome, GA Ballard, MS Crowther, JA Dellinger, PJS Fleming, ... Restoration Ecology 23 (3), 201-208, 2015 | 102 | 2015 |
