Question

1. List other considerations (beyond diversity of species) that might impact reserve selection. What might account for the emphasis on minimizing the number of sites in conservation planning?

Answer 1

Answer:

Habitat is the physical and biological setting in which organisms live and in which the other components of the environment are encountered (Krebs, 1985; Jones, 1987). The concept of habitat is critical to modern ecology and was adopted and promulgated in some of the earliest treatises and texts (Elton, 1927; Clements and Shelford, 1939); habitat is a basic requirement of all living organisms (e.g., McNaughton, 1989). Habitat is one of the four components of a species'