Protecting moving targets
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 sp...