Communicating clearly about conservation corridors [Review]

摘要

Conflicting definitions lead to confusion when people communicate about 'corridors'. particularly when they come from different disciplinary backgrounds. Usage of 'corridor' in game management, island biogeography, and metapopulation literature focused on function, namely, the movement of flora and fauna from one area to another. A structural usage of the term arose in the field of landscape ecology as it developed in North America with the matrix-patch-corridor paradigm of landscape structure. 'Corridor' is now used to describe both the structural and functional aspects of linear landscape features, often implicitly, in a wide range of disciplinary literature.