A GIS-based policy support tool to determine national responsibilities and priorities for biodiversity conservation

S4 File. Performance and possibilities for optimization. (PDF) S5 File. (ZIP) S1 Data. Example for the content of the output files (dBase) for the results based on the Polygon Count-Approach and the Polygon Area-Approach shown in Figs 8 and 9. (ODS) S2 Data. Comparison of results for countries having medium national responsibility for at least one out of 258 species studied. (ODS) Acknowledgments We would like to thank BirdLife International (http://www.birdlife.org) for provision of geo- graphical distributions of 258 bird species, The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ [44] for the provision of geographical distribution for 4 shrew species, ESRI [43] for the publicly avail- able continental borders, EuroGeographics [45] for publicly available data of administrative borders, and Natural Earth [46] for the background map. We thank the two anonymous reviewers, whose comments / suggestions have contributed significantly to the improvement and clarification of this manuscript, and Alessandra Moyer for linguistic proofreading. Author Contributions Conceptualization: Yu-Pin Lin, Dirk S. Schmeller. Data curation: Yu-Pin Lin, Tzung-Su Ding, Yung Chieh Wang, Wan-Yu Lien, Reinhard A. Klenke. Formal analysis: Yu-Pin Lin, Tzung-Su Ding, Yung Chieh Wang, Wan-Yu Lien. Funding acquisition: Yu-Pin Lin, Klaus Henle. Methodology: Yu-Pin Lin, Dirk S. Schmeller, Tzung-Su Ding, Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke. Project administration: Yu-Pin Lin, Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke. Resources: Yu-Pin Lin, Reinhard A. Klenke. Software: Yu-Pin Lin, Reinhard A. Klenke.

Supervision: Yu-Pin Lin, Dirk S. Schmeller, Tzung-Su Ding. Validation: Dirk S. Schmeller, Yung Chieh Wang, Reinhard A. Klenke. Visualization: Yu-Pin Lin, Wan-Yu Lien, Reinhard A. Klenke. Writing – original draft: Yu-Pin Lin, Dirk S. Schmeller, Reinhard A. Klenke. Writing – review & editing: Klaus Henle, Reinhard A. Klenke. References 1. Schmeller DS, Evans D, Lin Y-P, Henle K. The national responsibility approach to setting conservation priorities—recommendations for its use. Journal for Nature Conservation 2014; 22: 349–57. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.jnc.2014.03.002 PLOS ONE GIS-based policy support tool to determine national responsibilities for biodiversity conservation PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0243135 December 3, 2020 19 / 23