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E-Mail Organizations and agencies charged with protecting biodiversity have a conundrum how do you protect something that will not stay still? An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, the University of Southern California and Virginia Tech has received a National Science Foundation grant to help conservation practitioners rethink biodiversity protection approaches for the new era of climate change. Much that we do as a society to protect species is ultimately tied to fixed geographies, said Paul Armsworth, an ecologist at UT. We protect special places on the landscape in nature reserves or ask state agencies to lead on protecting species found within their borders. That, however, is a very static understanding of biodiversity. We are going to need much more flexible and dynamic approaches if we are to continue to protect species as climate change accelerates. ....
E-Mail IMAGE: The image of a female Asian elephant in a tea plantation on the fringes of Kaziranga National Park in India, bordering the Eastern Himalaya biodiversity hotspot, exemplifies potential impacts to endangered species. view more Credit: Image courtesy of Sashanka Barbaruah-Wildlife Trust of India Protected areas are critical to mitigating extinction of species; however, they may also be in conflict with efforts to feed the growing human population. A new study shows that 6% of all global terrestrial protected areas are already made up of cropland, a heavily modified habitat that is often not suitable for supporting wildlife. Worse, 22% of this cropland occurs in areas ....