Climate adaptation benefits provide guidance to conservation practitioners on how to align their actions to avoid or minimise climate-related biodiversity loss. However, to achieve this some long-held principles need to be challenged. We cannot rely on strategies that seek to reconstruct or hold on to species and ecosystems in the places they were once found but are less suited to under future climate. Change must be accepted as inevitable, but we can influence the nature of that change and thereby conserve values, albeit within a dynamic setting.

Revegetation benefits are based on the principal of maximising representation of pre-clearing native vegetation communities through revegetation in areas that are expected to become suitable for target communities by 2070.

Revegetation benefits show where investment in restoring degraded landscapes will best increase the persistence of heavily cleared or degraded ecosystems under future climate.

Rates of loss used to weight the importance of communities are based on past clearing, degradation and fragmentation as well as future contractions, expansions and shifts of bioclimatic envelopes due to climate change.

Expected future distributions of bioclimatic class envelopes were derived by averaging the impacts of all NARCliM and 3C climate futures, topographically downscaled to 250m resolution.

Values have been scaled between 0 (no benefit) and 255 (high benefit). Using the supplied layer file, blue areas reflect lower benefit values and darker green areas reflect higher benefit values.