Planning priority conservation areas for biodiversity under climate change in topographically complex areas: A case study in Sichuan province, China

of data collected from field survey (species with 30 occurrence records) and expert knowledge, we selected indicator species that are sensitive to climate change, including 118 kinds of indi- cator species with 49 kinds of wild plants and 69 kinds of wild animals, respectively. The Fig 2. The methodological framework proposed to identify priority conservation areas for climate change. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243425.g002 PLOS ONE Planning priority conservation areas for biodiversity under climate change in topographically complex areas PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243425 December 23, 2020 4 / 15