Spatial conservation priorities are highly sensitive to choice of biodiversity surrogates and species distribution model type

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors thank the private landholders who granted access to their properties for wildlife surveys. PL also thanks Joern Fischer, Philip Gibbons, Saul Cunningham, Brad Law and Tara Martin for their supervision during the design and implementation of the wildlife surveys. Discussions with Jane Elith helped improve the manuscript, as did the comments of Subject Editor Henrique Pereira. Financial support for this project was provided by the National Environmental Research Program Environmental Decisions Hub, the Paddy Pallin Foundation, the WildCountry Science Council, and an Australian Postgraduate Award and CSIRO top-up scholarship to PL. BW is supported by an ARC Future Fellowship (FT100100819).