Dear Reviewers:

Both Springer, the Publisher, and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Coastal Conservation would like to extend our sincere thanks and gratitude to all those scientists and experts who have devoted their time and effort to reviewing the papers we have sent you and for the excellent reviews and final decisions that have been made during 2021.

We would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge your invaluable contributions to the journal paper review process in the list below:

Gargi Akhoury

Nigar Alkan

Heba Al-Mimar

Juan Alvarado

Giorgio Anfuso

Iulia Alina Anton

Mohamed Arnous

S. Balaji

Jatisankar Bandyopadhyay

M D. Bharathi

Chad Boda

Helene Burningham

M.L. Bustos

Ruth Callaway

Pierpaolo Campostrini

E Cano

Pritam Chand

M.F Chow

Shofiqur Rahman Chowdhury

Beatrice Nunes Cosendey

Monica Costa

Juliana Costi

R.M. da Silva

Niladri Das

Priyanko Das

Sourav Das

Ashraf Dewan

Walter Dragani

Joanna Ellison

Douglas Evans

A.A. Fernandes

James Fitton

Sonali Ghosh

Cristina Gomez

Muthusankar Gowrappan

David Green

L.L. Huang

Maike Isermann

R Arthur James

Manuel Mojica Velez José

Lisa Kennedy

P. Krishnan

Ray Lawrenson

Yingjie Ma

Idris Mandang

Allie McCreary

Lluís Miret-Pastor

Kosuke Mizuno

P.M. Mohan

Naixia Mou

Jenia Mukherjee

Najamuddin Najamuddin

Thirunavukkarasu Natesan

Ana Ochoa

Hamdan Omar

Davide Pasquali

Mari Pohja-Mykra

Celso Santos

Ehab Sarhan

Allan Sarmento

Kumar Sathish

Gerald Schernewski

Klaus Schmitt

H. Schuettrumpf

Federica Semprucci

Nadav Shashar

Pichai Sonchaeng

Hannes Tõnisson

Stephen Totterman

Cascade Tuholske

Sudheesh V

Atsushi Watanabe

Michael Weston

Colin Woodroffe

Katherine H. Wyatt

Derong Xiao

Zaher Mundher Yaseen

Radwa Yehia

Bilel Zerouali

Xiaohong Zhou

With Best Wishes for the New Year

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David R. Green (Editor-in-Chief)