Management solutions
- Decrease habitat fragmentation by establishing connectivity between fragments. This would decrease the number of metapopulations and the local extinction rate.
- Identify species with low dispersal capabilities.
- Identify source-sinks. Sources may need expanding.
- Prevent extinction and encourage recolonisation. Recolonisation is enhanced by proximity to large source patch, corridors, or stepping stones. It is encouraged by a less hospitable matrix, low inter-patch distances and high density of patches that decrease isolation. Every element in the landscape may be important for maintaining species.
- Management needs to be directed
toward controlling external influences (Forman,
1995).
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