Prioritizing regions to conserve a specialist folivore: considering probability of occurrence, food resources, and climate change

摘要: For species that are increasingly threatened by the combined impacts of habitat loss and climate change, identification priority regions for conservation planning efforts is urgently required. In case specialist folivores, consideration effects change on distributions their essential food resources should be a key component planning. The koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) was listed in 2012 as vulnerable under Australian Commonwealth Government law. Here, we incorporate distribution models koala, an arboreal marsupial, its specialized resources, to identify broad-scale regions. We demonstrate spatial prioritization approach informs links shifting this declining critical change. find inclusion plants affected conserving koalas, predicted shift considerably, often outside current range species, posing additional challenges conservation.