A conservation group has approached you to provide recommendations for purchasing land to help an endangered species and increase the overall biodiversity of a forest in a landscape that has been fragmented by agriculture. In the landscape, there are several medium to large fragments and a number of small fragments. Provide recommendations to the conservation group about where in the landscape they should devote their limited resources for a maximum impact. Justify your recommendations based on metapopulation dynamics of the endangered forest breeding species and island biogeography theory (overall biodiversity). A diagram supplementing your written answer is encouraged.

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Conservation Biology

The study of how to prevent the loss of biological diversity on the planet is called conservation. Biological diversity, also termed biodiversity, consists of various life forms found in a specific location or across the entire planet, including ecosystems, species, populations, and genes. Conservation thus aims to protect the diversity of life at all levels of biological organization.