The importance of realistic dispersal models in conservation planning: application of a novel modelling platform to evaluate management scenarios in an Afrotropical biodiversity hotspot.

This study was supported by a VLIR-VLADOC scholarship and funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 661211 awarded to JA, research grants G.0055.08 G.0149.09 and G.0308.13 of Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and the FWO Research Network on Eco-Evolutionary dynamics. SCFP and JMJT were supported by the project TenLamas funded by the French Ministere de l'Energie, de l'Ecologie, du Developpement Durable et de la Mer through the EU FP6 BiodivERsA Eranet and by NERC grant NE/J008001/1. GB was supported by the SCALES project (www.scales-project.net). We acknowledge the Taita Research Station of the University of Helsinki for logistic support, and Taita field assistants and students from Ghent University for their help with data collection.