Morena Mills

7.2k citations

86 papers · 4.3k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 36

Impact in

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law top 0.2%
- Coastal and Marine Management
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Marine and fisheries research
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services

Papers in

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law 29
- Coastal and Marine Management 20
Global and Planetary Change 51
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management 23
- Marine and fisheries research 19
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services 14

Co-authors: Robert L. Pressey Hugh P. Possingham Natalie C. Ban Megan I. Saunders Peter J. Mumby Catherine E. Lovelock Jutta Beher Vanessa M. Adams
Journals: Conservation Biology (12 papers)Biological Conservation (10 papers)Conservation Letters (8 papers)Conservation Science and Practice (6 papers)Ecological Applications (3 papers)
Partner nations: Australia United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Morena Mills

81 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Beyond ecology: ecosystem restoration as a process for social-ecological transformation 2023 · 88 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2023 Trends in Ecology & Evolution
2016 Ecological Applications
2013 Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Morena Mills, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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1	Community wellbeing moderates drought adaptation in South African rangelands Journal of Environmental Management ·J. Faltejsek, 李庆峰, Olivia Crowe, Thomas Pienkowski, 省人榊原, Mahdi Shabani, Morena Mills	2025	0
2	Conservation abandonment is a policy blind spot Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Thomas Pienkowski, J. Faltejsek, Michael B. Mascia, Kate Horsfall, Stefan Gelcich, Carly N. Cook, H. W. Popp, Arundhati Jagadish, Morena Mills	2025	0
3	Using environmental education to nurture positive human–wildlife interactions in India Conservation Science and Practice ·Ryuhji NAMIKOSHI, Mauricio Areiza, О.А. Шкурупій, Martha C. Monroe, Morena Mills, Krithi K. Karanth	2024	3
4	Spatial predictors of landowners' engagement in the restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest People and Nature ·Thomas Pienkowski, Anna Freni Sterrantino, Anazélia M. Tedesco, J. Faltejsek, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Arundhati Jagadish, Sultan TÜRKOĞLU, Ludmila Pugliese de Siqueira, Morena Mills	2024	1
5	Five lessons for avoiding failure when scaling in conservation Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Thomas Pienkowski, Arundhati Jagadish, Willow Battista, Inoue Michimi, (unknown), J. Faltejsek, 崇源, حسین محمدی نیکویی, Kristian Steensen Nielsen, Tom Powell, Thomas White, Morena Mills	2024	6
6	Assessing evidence on the impacts of nature-based interventions for climate change mitigation: a systematic map of primary and secondary research from subtropical and tropical terrestrial regions Environmental Evidence ·Samantha H. Cheng, Sébastien Costedoat, Amanda Sigouin, (unknown), C. J. Chamberlain, (unknown), Morena Mills, A. Justin Nowakowski, Eleanor J. Sterling, Jen Tinsman, Farrux Xojiyev, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Steven W. J. Canty, Suhas BN, Arundhati Jagadish, Kelly W. Jones, Michael B. Mascia, Ana Luz Porzecanski, Chris Zganjar, Shani Ben Haroush	2023	3
7	Comparison of carbon management and emissions of universities that did and did not adopt voluntary carbon offsets Climate Policy ·Tarekegn Girma Fanta, Neil Jennings, Morena Mills, Robert M. Ewers	2023	2
8	The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers People and Nature ·Yara Shennan‐Farpón, Morena Mills, Henry John Beardshaw, Katherine Homewood	2022	33
9	What evidence exists on the links between natural climate solutions and climate change mitigation outcomes in subtropical and tropical terrestrial regions? A systematic map protocol Environmental Evidence ·Samantha H. Cheng, Sébastien Costedoat, Eleanor J. Sterling, Catherine Chamberlain, Arundhati Jagadish, Taewoong Yoo, A. Justin Nowakowski, Albert Guigue, Jen Tinsman, Steven W. J. Canty, Margaret B. Holland, Kelly W. Jones, Morena Mills, MohammadReza Yeganeh RastehKenari, Seth A Huntington, Farrux Xojiyev, Michael B. Mascia, Shani Ben Haroush	2022	14
10	The challenge of measuring children’s attitudes toward wildlife in rural India International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education ·Ryuhji NAMIKOSHI, О.А. Шкурупій, Mauricio Areiza, Morena Mills, Martha C. Monroe, Krithi K. Karanth	2021	4
11	Insights on fostering the emergence of robust conservation actions from Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE program Global Ecology and Conservation ·Duan Biggs, Natalie C. Ban, Juan Carlos Castilla, Stefan Gelcich, Morena Mills, Edson Gandiwa, Michel Étienne, Andrew T. Knight, Pablo A. Marquet, Hugh P. Possingham	2019	18
12	Qualitative impact evaluation of a social marketing campaign for conservation Conservation Biology ·Ryuhji NAMIKOSHI, Morena Mills, Diogo Veríssimo	2018	61
13	Efficiently enforcing artisanal fisheries to protect estuarine biodiversity Ecological Applications ·Micheli Duarte de Paula Costa, Morena Mills, Anthony J. Richardson, Richard A. Fuller, Jose H Muelbert, Hugh P. Possingham	2018	7
14	Achieving the promise of integration in social-ecological research: a review and prospectus Ecology and Society ·Angela M. Guerrero, Nathan Bennett, Kerrie A. Wilson, Neil Carter, David Gill, Morena Mills, Christopher D. Ives, Matthew J. Selinske, Cecilia Larrosa, Sarah Bekessy, Fraser A. Januchowski‐Hartley, Henry Travers, Carina Wyborn, Ana Nuño	2018	77
15	Simple rules can guide whether land- or ocean-based conservation will best benefit marine ecosystems PLoS Biology ·Megan I. Saunders, Michael Bode, Scott Atkinson, Carissa J. Klein, Anna Meta×as, Jutta Beher, Maria Beger, Morena Mills, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Vivitskaia Tulloch, Hugh P. Possingham	2017	35
16	Understanding Characteristics that Define the Feasibility of Conservation Actions in a Common Pool Marine Resource Governance System Conservation Letters ·Morena Mills, Robert L. Pressey, Natalie C. Ban, Simon Foale, Shankar Aswani, Andrew T. Knight	2013	38
17	Where do national and local conservation actions meet? Simulating the expansion of ad hoc and systematic approaches to conservation into the future in Fiji Conservation Letters ·Morena Mills, Vanessa M. Adams, Robert L. Pressey, Natalie C. Ban, Stacy D. Jupiter	2012	21
18	Social networks supporting governance of coastal ecosystems in Solomon Islands Conservation Letters ·Philippa J. Cohen, Louisa Evans, Morena Mills	2012	106
19	Can Management Actions Within the Fiji Locally Managed Marine Area Network Serve to Meet Fiji's National Goal to Protect 30% of Inshore Marine Areas by 2020? eCite Digital Repository (University of Tasmania) ·Morena Mills, Stacy D. Jupiter, Vanessa M. Adams, Natalie C. Ban, A. A. Kuznetsov	2011	4
20	Exogenous Material in the Inner Ear of the Adult Port Jackson Shark, Heterodontus Portusjacksoni (Elasmbranchii) The Anatomical Record ·Morena Mills, 島畑淳史, Ulrike E. Siebeck, Shaun P. Collin	2011	11

About Morena Mills

Morena Mills is a scholar working on Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation, having authored 86 papers that have together received 4.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (31 papers), Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (23 papers), Coastal and Marine Management (20 papers), Marine and fisheries research (19 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (18 papers), Land Use and Ecosystem Services (14 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (9 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (1.3k citations), Global and Planetary Change (2.3k citations), Ecology (2.4k citations), Ecological Modeling (295 citations) and Nature and Landscape Conservation (566 citations). Morena Mills has collaborated with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Robert L. Pressey, Hugh P. Possingham, Natalie C. Ban, Megan I. Saunders, Peter J. Mumby, Catherine E. Lovelock, Jutta Beher, Vanessa M. Adams, Elisa Bayraktarov and Sabah Abdullah. Their work appears in journals such as Conservation Biology, Biological Conservation, Conservation Letters, Conservation Science and Practice and Ecological Applications.

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