Biodiversity Hotspot List
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Biodiversity hotspot
A biodiversity hotspot is a bio-geography region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human ( habitation, activities, industry, poaching ).
Biodiversity hotspot concept was given by Norman Myers in 1988. Biodiversity hotspot concept important criteria.
A . Species endemic - It must contain at least 1500 species of vascular plants (> 0.5% of the world total) as endemics
B . Degree of threat - It has to have lost at least 70 % of its original habitat.
Each of the world's biodiversity hot spots represents an abundance of extraordinary flora and fauna, who struggle to survive in an exceptionally shrinking ecosystem to survive their lives.
More than 50% of plant species found in the world and 42% of all terrestrial vertebrate species are endemic to hotspot with only 36 biodiversity.
Global biodiversity hotspots list
North and Central America
1. California Floristic Province
2. Mesoamerica
3. North American Coastal Plain
4. Madrean pine–oak woodlands
The Caribbean
5. Caribbean Islands
South America
6. Atlantic Forest
7. Tumbes–Chocó–Magdalena
8. Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests
9. Cerrado
10. Tropical Andes
Europe
11. Mediterranean Basin
Africa
12. Eastern Afromontane
13. Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa
14. Guinean Forests of West Africa
15. Succulent Karoo
16. Horn of Africa
17. Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany
18. Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands
19. Cape Floristic Region
Central Asia
20. Mountains of Central Asia
South Asia
21. Western Ghats and Sri Lanka
22. Indo-Burma, India and Myanmar
23. Eastern Himalaya
Southeast Asia and Asia-Pacific
24. New Caledonia
25. East Melanesian Islands
26. Philippines
27. New Zealand
28. Eastern Australian temperate forests
29. Polynesia-Micronesia
30. Wallacea
31. Sundaland and Nicobar islands of India
32. Southwest Australia
East Asia
33. Mountains of Southwest China
34. Japan
West Asia
35. Irano-Anatolian
36. Caucasus
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