Distribution of variables used in the calculation of Proactive Conservation Index (PCI) for six species of land vertebrates. Values in spider plots were scaled between 0 and 1. Values on the upper part of each photograph indicate our assigned PCI scores (inner, values closer to 1 indicate a higher conservation priority, relative to other species in the same class), and their IUCN Red List categories (outer, LC, Least Concern; CR, Critically Endangered; DD, Data Deficient; NE, Non-Evaluated). To keep the area of spider plots proportional to PCI scores, the authors have inverted variables that reduce PCI score, and changed their names here accordingly: inverted brood size is named “Reproductive Restriction,” inverted range size is named “Range Restriction,” and inverted protected range is named “Unprotected Range.” Cyrtodactylus metropolis photograph provided by L. Lee Grismer, Latonia nigriventer image by UR, all other photographs obtained from Wikimedia Commons (authors: Momofelit, Ólafur Larsen, Charles Lam, Omid Mozaffari).
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