Australia is a global leader in land clearing and biodiversity loss. The overwhelming majority of land clearing within Australia and, globally, is driven by agricultural conversion. The importance of agricultural lands also leads to the concentration of habitat protection in landscapes that do not support productive land uses, which might contribute to species conservation in marginal habitat. Using an integrated agricultural capability map and threatened vertebrate fauna range maps, we show that observed biases in protected area location have varied impacts at the species level. Specifically, threatened vertebrate fauna with habitat capable of supporting high-value productive lands received less protection and experienced greater habitat loss. Similarly, almost all species assessed received protection in the portions of their ranges less conducive to productive land uses. Finally, we identify regions of Australia at risk of future land clearing and the species likely to bear the brunt of the impacts. Our results demonstrate the importance of protecting land capable of supporting productive uses to conserve the most affected threatened species.

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澳大利亚农业利益损害了受威胁的动物群保护

澳大利亚在土地清理和生物多样性丧失方面处于全球领先地位。澳大利亚和全球范围内绝大多数土地清理都是由农业转变驱动的。农业用地的重要性还导致栖息地保护集中在不支持生产性土地利用的景观中，这可能有助于边缘栖息地的物种保护。使用综合农业能力图和受威胁脊椎动物群范围图，我们表明观察到的保护区位置偏差对物种水平有不同的影响。具体而言，具有能够支持高价值生产性土地栖息地的受威胁脊椎动物群受到的保护较少，并且栖息地丧失程度更大。同样，几乎所有接受评估的物种都在其分布范围内不利于生产性土地利用的部分获得了保护。最后，我们确定了澳大利亚未来面临土地清理风险的地区以及可能首当其冲受到影响的物种。我们的结果证明了保护能够支持生产用途的土地对于保护受影响最严重的受威胁物种的重要性。