Using expert-elicitation to deliver biodiversity monitoring priorities on a Mediterranean island

stakeholders were asked if they wished to be co-authors on the current manuscript. (XLSX) S3 File. Additional stakeholder comments from both an online questionnaire and work- shop. Additional stakeholder comments from both an online questionnaire and workshop involving stakeholders from the field of biodiversity monitoring in Cyprus. Stakeholders were asked to give further features or comments that they considered important and that might have missed out from either the online survey or that came up as part of the discussions. A facilitator summarised the workshop discussion points. This task was undertaken as part of a wider exercise on ranking the biodiversity monitoring needs for Cyprus. �Themes were added post-workshop. (DOCX) Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank all the participants who took part in the online questionnaire and workshop. The authors would also like to thank the Akrotiri Environmental Education Centre for hosting the workshop and for their support for our project, Dr Angeliki Martinou, our project partner, for her initiation of the work and role in the workshop, and Professor Helen Roy for her role in facilitating the expert-elicitation process. Author Contributions Conceptualization: J. Peyton, M. Hadjistylli. Data curation: J. Peyton. Formal analysis: J. Peyton, O. L. Pescott. Funding acquisition: J. Peyton, O. L. Pescott. Investigation: O. L. Pescott. Methodology: J. Peyton, O. L. Pescott. Project administration: J. Peyton. Supervision: O. L. Pescott. Validation: O. L. Pescott. Writing – original draft: J. Peyton, O. L. Pescott.

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