Fig 1.
The existing conservation reserve network and the Leadbeater’s Possum Reserve in the study area (Source: [30,37]).
Table 1.
Three weighting schemes for IUCN Red List categories used in this study.
Table 2.
The area of Leadbeater’s Possum Habitat required for a <5% chance of population decline below 500 females under varying scenarios of habitat decline and future fire impact in the Central Highlands over the next 200 years [18].
The ‘habitat decline’ and ‘future fire’ percentage changes indicate possible risks of impact, based on the smallest to largest of threats.
Fig 2.
Relative probability of occurrence of Leadbeater’s Possum, Greater Glider, Yellow-Bellied Glider and Sooty Owl in the Central Highlands of Victoria, ranked as values (0–1).
Table 3.
Percentage of cumulative habitat suitability values captured within the reserve system for Leadbeater’s Possum Reserve and the combined area of the Leadbeater’s Possum Reserve and surrounding reserve system.
Fig 3.
Three Zonation solutions modelling the expansion of the reserve system for Leadbeater’s Possum generated using: (a) equal, (b) linear and (c) log species weighting schemes based on threat status and the Maxent SDMs for each species. The equal weighted scenario resulted in the largest reserve expansion in area under scenario 1 and the linear scenario resulted in the largest area for reserve expansion in area under Scenario 2 (see text).
Table 4.
Percentages of the cumulative values for the four target species across all of the cells included in the expanded reserve scenarios.
Table 5.
Pairwise difference (%) of cumulative values of distributions captured under the reserve scenarios using the different species weighting schemes for each of the target species.