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The conservation profession is increasingly seeking effective ways to reduce societal impact on biodiversity, including through targeted behavior change interventions. Multiple conservation behavior change programs exist, but there is also great uncertainty regarding which behaviors are most strategic to target. Behavioral prioritization is a tool that has been used effectively to support behavior change decision‐making in other environmental disciplines and more recently for a small sub‐set of biodiversity behavior change challenges. Here, we use behavioral prioritization to identify individual behaviors that could be modified to achieve biodiversity benefits in the state of Victoria, Australia. We use an adapted nominal group technique method to identify potential biodiversity behaviors and, for each behavior, estimate the corresponding plasticity (or capacity for change) and positive impact on biodiversity outcomes. We elicited 27 behaviors that individuals could undertake to benefit or reduce their negative impact on biodiversity. This list was then used to prioritize 10 behaviors as determined by their likely effect(s) on biodiversity, plasticity, and current prevalence in Victoria. We take a first step in outlining a list of behaviors that can direct Victorian decision‐makers toward increasing positive and reducing negative impacts of society on biodiversity, guide motivated individuals to reduce their own biodiversity footprint, and more broadly, develop a behavior change research agenda for behaviors most likely to benefit biodiversity.

Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) data reveal heterogeneous pyroclastic flow processes and variable flow directions within the intra-caldera setting of the Permian rhyolitic welded Ora ignimbrite. Magnetic fabric is primary, orientated during the pyroclastic flow emplacement, and is controlled by paramagnetic and ferromagnetic mineral phases. The ignimbrite has typically weak mean magnetic susceptibilities (1.32–21.8×10−4 SI) but with a large spread and low anisotropy degrees (1.003–1.023), which vary in different parts of the caldera. The intra-caldera magnetic fabric provides significant information on the dynamics of the intra-caldera setting, relating to changing vertical and lateral flow emplacement processes. AMS shape ellipsoids range from oblate to prolate; these are interpreted to reflect the heterogeneous nature of the flow resulting from the influence of underlying topography, constraints of the caldera walls, primary welding and post-emplacement mineral growth. We have identified different depositional units and possible eruptive source regions, indicating that more than one source fissure vent was active during eruption within this caldera system. The lateral variations demonstrate a meandering of flow pulses. The caldera margin acts as an obstacle in preventing and rebuffing certain flows from scaling the caldera margin.

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