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 2022.

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

Dag G. Aasland

Hikari Akizawa

Margaret Allen

Swapan Arora

Alexandre Bachkirov

Yoann Bazin

Sophie Berlioz

Caleb Bernacchio

Marius Bertolucci

David Bevan

Anindo Bhattacharjee

Laurent Bibard

Thomas Blanchard

Vincent Blok

Kenneth Bohl

Martin Bolle

Simone Carmine

Irene Chu

Marc Cohen

Gabriele Contessa

Júlio César Costa Júnior

Joop de Zwart

Henk den Uijl

Mark Dibben

John Dobson

Philipp Dorstewitz

Marian Eabrasu

Mahaut Fanchini

Arran Gare

Cesar Gonzalez Canton

Jarrod Haar

Payam Hanafizadeh

Nathan Harter

Alicia Hennig

Sagar Hernández

Robert Hughes

Matthias Hühn

Muatasim Ismaeel

Rajesh Jain

Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila

Feyyat Kaymaz

Erwan Lamy

Yotam Lurie

David Lutz

Lidwine Maizeray

Muhammad Majeed

Piotr Makowski

Jean-Luc Moriceau

Rachel Muers

Michal Müller

Leandro Nascimento

Mathias Naudin

Matthias Niedenfuhr

Donald Nordberg

Tuomo Peltonen

Ashly Pinnington

Javier Pinto

Charilaos Platanakis

Wessel Reijers

Jacob Dahl Rendtorff

Ian Roderick

Gary Rubin

Brian Rutherford

Jonathan Sambugaro

Martin Sand

Peter Seele

Prashant singh

Mauricio Suárez

Job Timmermans

Eva Tsahuridu

Meghan Van Portfliet

Wim Vandekerckhove

John Varlaro

Max Visser

Robert White

David Wilson

Manuel Woersdoerfer

With Best Wishes for the New Year

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David R. Green (Editor-in-Chief)