Biodiversity hotspot
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A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is under threat from humans. Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in “The Environmentalist” (1988), revised after thorough analysis by Myers and others in “Hotspots: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions” and a paper published in the journal Nature.
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Distribution by region
- Atlantic Forest •4•
- Cerrado •6•
- Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests •7•
- Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena •5•
- Tropical Andes •1•
- Mediterranean Basin •14•
- Cape Floristic Region •12•
- Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa •10•
- Eastern Afromontane •28•
- Guinean Forests of West Africa •11•
- Horn of Africa •29•
- Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands •9•
- Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany •27•
- Succulent Karoo •13•
- Eastern Himalaya, Nepal •32•
- Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar •19•
- Western Ghats, India•21•
- Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka•21•
South East Asia and Asia-Pacific
- East Melanesian Islands •34•
- New Caledonia •23•
- New Zealand •24•
- Philippines •18•
- Polynesia-Micronesia •25•
- Southwest Australia •22•
- Sundaland •16•
- Wallacea •17•
- Japan •33•
- Mountains of Southwest China •20•
- Caucasus •15•
- Irano-Anatolian •30•
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