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Conservation planning has tended to assume that thetargets of management, such as species or ecosystems, are static in space and time (Pressey et al. 2007). However, more than 12 % of the world’s vertebrates make long-distance movements, whether migratory or nomadic, and mobile species occur on every continent and in every ocean (Robinson et al. 2009). Theory for conserving mobile species is in its infancy, and there are only a few examples of conservation planning for migra-tory or nomadic species (Martin et al. 2007; Grantham e