Context: The provision of the law in Section 4 that establishes critical habitat is a regulatory link between habitat protection and recovery goals, requiring the identification and protection of all lands, water and air necessary to recover endangered species. To determine what exactly is critical habitat, the needs of open space for individual and population growth, food, water, light or other nutritional requirements, breeding sites, seed germination and dispersal needs, and lack of disturbances are considered.

Question: What section of the Endangered Species Act establishes critical habitat regulations?
Answer: Section 4

Question: Critical habitat regulation links what two topics?
Answer: habitat protection and recovery goals

Question: What does critical habitat regulation require?
Answer: the identification and protection of all lands, water and air necessary to recover endangered species

Question: What is an example of a critical habitat consideration that would apply to plant wildlife?
Answer: seed germination and dispersal needs

Question: What section establishes recovery goals?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What type of link is formed between identification and protection?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What are cataloguing disturbances are not necessary for determining?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What are water and air unnecessary for?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What does Section 4 separate?
Answer: Unanswerable