Archivo: Biodiversity Hotspots

Description: The twenty-five biodiversity hotspots (green) as indicated in Myers, N., et al. (2000) "Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities." Nature 403:853–858. doi:10.1038/350025011. The Tropical Andes 2. Mesoamerica 3. The Caribbean Islands 4. The Atlantic Forest 5. Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena 6. The Cerrado 7. Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests 8. The California Floristic Province 9. Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands 10. The Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa 11. The Guinean Forests of West Africa 12. The Cape Floristic Region 13. The Succulent Karoo 14. The Mediterranean Basin 15. The Caucasus 16. Sundaland 17. Wallacea 18. The Philippines 19. Indo-Burma 20. The Mountains of Southwest China 21. Western Ghats and Sri Lanka 22. Southwest Australia 23. New Caledonia 24. New Zealand 25. Polynesia and Micronesia An additional ten hotspots (blue) have since been added [1][2]: 26. The Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands 27. Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany 28. The Eastern Afromontane 29. The Horn of Africa 30. The Irano-Anatolian 31. The Mountains of Central Asia 32. Eastern Himalaya 33. Japan 34. East Melanesian Islands 35. The Forests of East AustraliaSee also

Lamoreux, J. F., et al. (2006) "Global tests of biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism." Nature 440:212–214 doi:10.1038/nature04291

Pimm, S. L., et al. (2014) "The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection" Science 344:–6187 doi:10.1126/science.1246752
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