Figure 1. Study area and predicted habitat suitability for Emys trinacris.

Study area and presence records of the target species, Emys trinacris (Fritz et al., 2005); (A) the Protected Areas’ network (both nationally- and internationally-established) of study area is highlighted in blue. (B) Map of habitat suitability, discretized in 10 classes, obtained from the Ensemble Modelling process performed over Emys trinacris presence and pseudo-absences records.