Richard Hobbs is at the Division of Wildlife and Ecology, CSIRO, LMB 4, PO Midland, Western Australia 6056, Australia.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1992 Nov;7(11):389-92. doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(92)90010-9.
Corridors are currently a major buzzword in conservation biology and landscape ecology. These linear landscape features may perform numerous functions, but it is their role in facilitating movement of fauna that has attracted much recent debate. The database supporting the idea of corridors acting as faunal conduits is remarkably small, and few studies have actually demonstrated that movement along corridors is important for any given species. Such data are very difficult to obtain, and conservation biologists are thus faced with the problem of whether to recommend the allocation of resources to corridors on the assumption that they may be important.
走廊目前是保护生物学和景观生态学中的一个主要流行语。这些线性景观特征可能具有多种功能，但最近的争论主要集中在它们在促进动物群运动方面的作用上。支持走廊作为动物通道的想法的数据库非常小，而且很少有研究实际上证明了沿着走廊的运动对任何给定物种都是重要的。这种数据非常难以获得，因此保护生物学家面临着这样一个问题，即是否应该假设走廊可能很重要，就建议分配资源给走廊。
