Table 1.
Short description of the four protected area categories selected for the analysis (for more detailed description see S1 Text).
Table 2.
Main sources for defining principles and criteria of climate change-robustness used in the evaluation protocol (listed in chronological order).
Table 3.
Principles and criteria of climate change-robustness (comprehensive list of principles and criteria with full titles, further description, rationale and references can be found in S1 Table).
Table 4.
Classification of performance of climate change-robustness principles as per rate and degree of accordance.
Fig 1.
Distribution of climate change-robustness scores for the 60 protected areas analyzed.
The climate change-robustness is the sum of the 44 individual scores for each management plan reached by scoring all plans against each of the respective four criteria of each principle on a 0–2 scale. Mean value = 18, median = 14.
Fig 2.
Distribution of protected area plans relative to the maximum performance of climate change-robustness.
The performance of plans was normalized relative to the maximum performance of a score of 46 out of a maximum of 88.
Fig 3.
Relationship between the four protected area categories and climate change-robustness.
BR = biosphere reserves, NLP = national parks, NP = nature parks, N2000 = Natura 2000 sites; different capital letters indicate significantly different groups.
Fig 4.
Relationship between protected area size and climate change-robustness of Natura 2000 sites.
R = 0.58, p-value = 0.001406.
Fig 5.
Standardised breadth, depth and total quality scores of the eleven robustness principles in descending order of total quality.
Breath score = Number of plans that address the principle (max. 1.00), depth = intensity of addressing the principle (max 1.00), total quality = sum of breadth and depth score (max. 2.00).
Fig 6.
Total quality scores for the principles of climate change-robust conservation management sorted by protected area category.
BR = biosphere reserves, NLP = national parks, NP = nature parks, N2000 = Natura 2000 sites.