This research was designed to help
managers protect habitats and supervise land use.
Not exact matches
In order to
protect moth populations at risk of extinction, the authors suggest that land - use
managers should try to eliminate street lighting as much as possible in prime moth
habitats, for example by turning off light at critical times in the year.
To spread the risk of losing one
habitat type in a bleaching event or other natural disaster,
managers should
protect multiple examples (replicates) of the full range of marine
habitat types, and spread them out to minimize the chance that they will all be wiped out by the same disturbance.
Land
managers have realized that static
protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among
protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.
By 2005 the fishery was still in decline, and fishery
managers announced they would seek a new set of closures to
protect fish
habitat.