The future-focused Proactive Conservation Index highlights unrecognized global priorities for vertebrate conservation

• Gabriel Henrique de Oliveira Caetano ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gabrielhoc@gmail.com

  Affiliations Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech, Ecologie Systématique et Evolution, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes of Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4472-5663

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• Gopal Murali,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Jacob Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Center for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

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• Daniel Pincheira-Donoso,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom

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• Reut Vardi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Lior Greenspoon,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

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• Shai Meiri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shai Meiri, Uri Roll

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Uri Roll

  Contributed equally to this work with: Shai Meiri, Uri Roll

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes of Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel

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