Fig. 5: Conservation of genetic diversity across different combinations of populations.

Impacts of conserving differing numbers of populations for the black-footed tree-rat (Mesembriomys gouldii) on (a) the proportion of total alleles conserved relative to the entire dataset and (b) allelic richness of all conserved individuals. The number of populations conserved in each scenario corresponds with those in Table S2. Where more than one population was identified as an optimal choice for conservation by the iterative marxan analysis, both scenarios are presented and the relevant populations are shown and labelled.