16.12–16.14: We can develop strategies for effective conservation.
Effective conservation requires setting goals on which elements of biodiversity (genes, species, or ecosystems) to conserve and setting priorities among those elements.
Question 16.26
In conservation biology, what does the term “corridor” refer to?
- a) a section of habitat that organisms use to travel between two or more otherwise isolated patches of habitat
- b) the edge of a given patch of habitat
- c) the minimum range required by a keystone species in any habitat
- d) the path a conservation biologist takes through a habitat to minimize any negative effects on the habitat’s biodiversity
- e) the ancestral geographic range of a species
