Extended Data Fig. 1: Sensitivity analysis.
Sensitivity analysis showing how the percentage of climatic partitions that are adequately represented by protected areas for different species (n = 19,937) depends on the number of partitions used to subdivide the distributions of those species. Generally, a smaller proportion of species’ partitions tend to be adequately represented as the total number of partitions increases. Despite this trend, it is clear that many species have a very low proportion of their partitions adequately represented, regardless of the total number of partitions. This analysis also shows the effect of setting different target caps for species with distributions larger than 10,000,000 km2. However, the effect of this is negligible, because only a small fraction of the species in our dataset were subjected to the cap (1.03%).
