16.12–16.14
16.12–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.
Q
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
