Table 1.
Factors used to calculate the climate change vulnerability index.
Table 2.
Number (and percentage) of threatened species within each taxon affected by each vulnerability factor.
Fig 1.
The relationship between climate change vulnerability index and geographic range size.
Fig 2.
Mean climate change vulnerability for the five taxonomic groups of Australian threatened species considered in this study.
Error bars represent 1 SE. Letters represent groups with no significant difference at a 95% CI, according to Tukey’s honestly significant difference test.
Fig 3.
The spatial distributions of the species affected by the eight most important factors driving climate change vulnerability of threatened species in Australia.
The shading darkens as the proportion of species occurring in the bioregion is affected by each factor; a) reliance on particular abiotic features or derivatives for habitat, b) reliance on other species for habitat, c) reliance on a particular moisture regime or habitat, d) proximity to anthropogenic barriers, e) poor dispersal ability, f) pollinator versatility, g) reliance on a particular disturbance regime, and h) low genetic variation. To aid in the interpretation of proportions, the distribution of threatened species richness is shown in i). The spatial distributions of species’ vulnerability to seven supplementary factors is illustrated in (S1 Fig).