Fig. 1.

Frequency of ESA-listed species showing the relationship between their status (declining or increasing) and proportion of proposed funding that the species has received for recovery (deficit, less than proposed by the recovery team; surplus, more than proposed by the recovery team). The two are negatively correlated; funding influences the relative frequency of success (i.e., increasing population) or failure (i.e., decreasing population) with greater relative success with more funding (Kendall rank correlation, T = 0.05, z = 1.39, n = 84, P = 0.049).