Bennett and colleagues (2016) discerningly point out calls to integrate the social and natural sciences in conservation are “now routine.” Yet, these calls have a limited effect as they continue to go unheeded, although “everyone working in conservation, it seems, recognizes that natural science alone cannot solve conservation problems”. Highlighting the need for more comprehensive integration, the authors present a “framework for a collaborative and integrated conservation science and practice”, which ostensibly contains a set of structures for interdisciplinary team science. However, there is a conspicuous lack of explanation of these structures and, perhaps more importantly, no mention of the corresponding processes that are necessary to facilitate integration. By not detailing these aspects of their framework the authors leave their intent implicit, and miss a valuable opportunity to explicate the important role both structures and processes perform in interdisciplinary research. As other fields adjacent to conservation have come to understand, the synergistic relationship between structures and processes in interdisciplinary team science creates the hospitable environment required for integration and dispels the ad hoc approach of including other domains of knowledge. Acknowledging the importance of structures, processes, and their interactions in interdisciplinary research is essential at this nascent and critical stage of emerging interdisciplinarity in conservation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved