Fig 1.
Key stages in the development and prioritization of projects; a continuous cycle with new species added as they are listed on the Schedules of the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act (2016).
Fig 2.
Cumulative extinction risk curves for three IUCN Red List categories.
Vulnerable (V), Endangered (E), and Critically endangered (CE). Reproduced from Kindvall, O., and U. Gärdenfors (2003) Temporal extrapolation of PVA results in relation to the IUCN Red List criterion E. Conservation Biology 17: 316–321.
Fig 3.
Sensitivity of priority score to change in prioritization parameters.
Mean (+/-standard deviation) sensitivity to Benefit (solid circles), Likelihood of success (empty circles), and Cost (grey circles), to in relation to variation in priority score (P; categorised into 17 bins, on a log-log scale).
Fig 4.
Relationship between project cost and project priority score.
Total (50 year) project cost (C) (log scale) versus project priority score (P) (log scale) for 368 projects (R2 = -0.69, β = -1.49, p < 0.001). Exact values of C and P are presented (i.e. without incorporating uncertainty).
Fig 5.
Cumulative estimated total annual cost of securing increasing numbers of species in priority order.
50-year average annual project costs presented, not incorporating uncertainty in P.