Emily Roycroft

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Evolutionary biologist • Head of the Evolutionary & Conservation Genomics Group at Monash University • ARC DECRA Fellow • genomics • museums • phylo • conservation • #ozmammals • she/her • Wurundjeri & Bunurong Country, Australia

A photo of a mountain dragon (Rankinia diamensis) by R. Richter

Taken from Figure 4 of the paper, maps of south-eastern Australia showing the projected suitable habitat for the mountain dragon by 2100 under a RCP8.5 future climate model, with 53% of the species current range predicted to be suitable.

Taken from Fig 3 of the paper, this image shows a morphological PCA identifying unknown jaw fossils as Rankinia, and also shows the morphospace relates to other related agamid species

Taken from Fig 5 of the paper, this image shows two scatter plots with a significant positive relationship between heterozygosity and habitat suitability, and heterozygosity and altitude.

Figure 2 from the publication, with five panels. Panel A shows a PCA plot with high differentiation between geographic populations of the mountain dragon. Panel B shows a heat-map matrix of Fst values that show that NSW and Tasmanian populations are more differentiated from Victorian populations. Panel C shows a barplot of observed and expected heterozygosity at a population level, with northern NSW, Flinders Island, and Tasmania having the lowest values, and Alpine National Park the highest. Panel D shows boxplots of observed heterozygosity with samples grouped into eastern and western groups, with east higher than west. Panel E shows heterozygosity as boxplots on an individual basis, grouped by populations, with patterns the same as those seen in panel C.