Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities. Mittermeier, R. A., Myers, N., Thomsen, J. B., da Fonseca, G. A. B., & Olivieri, S. 12(3):516–520. ![Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex [Excerpt] [] [...] [] The present reassessment of the biodiversity hotspots approach began in 1996 and is still underway. Therefore, what we present here are some initial conclusions; a more detailed presentation will be available in the near future. Our analysis is based first and foremost on species numbers, using plants as the principal indicator of biological diversity ( ” plants” here means the members of the Plant Kingdom, represented worldwide by some 270,000 species [Raven & Johnson 1991]). Hotspots were identified by two main criteria: first plant endemism and then degree of threat. [] [...] [] Looking in more detail at the hotspots list, it becomes obvious that there are top priorities within the list that can sharpen our focus still further. For example, the Tropical Andes hotspot by itself has 20,000 plant species, or 7.4\,% of the global total, endemic to it, whereas the Mediterranean Basin, a non-tropical hotspot, accounts for 13,000 plant species, or 4.8\,% of total global diversity, as endemics. The top 11 hotspots for plant endemism, harboring 5,000 or more plant species as endemics, account for 93,214 plant species, or 34.5\,% of total global plant diversity, as endemics. Again, total diversity in such areas is much higher than that represented by the endemics alone. [] [...] [] The original message of Myers' hotspots analysis echoes loud and clear: a very high percentage of global terrestrial biodiversity can be protected in a very small portion of Earth's land surface, and international efforts to conserve terrestrial biodiversity should focus heavily, but not exclusively, on these areas. [] [...]
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title = {Biodiversity Hotspots and Major Tropical Wilderness Areas: Approaches to Setting Conservation Priorities},
author = {Mittermeier, Russell A. and Myers, Norman and Thomsen, Jorgen B. and da Fonseca, Gustavo A. B. and Olivieri, Silvio},
date = {1998-06},
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[] The present reassessment of the biodiversity hotspots approach began in 1996 and is still underway. Therefore, what we present here are some initial conclusions; a more detailed presentation will be available in the near future. Our analysis is based first and foremost on species numbers, using plants as the principal indicator of biological diversity ( ” plants” here means the members of the Plant Kingdom, represented worldwide by some 270,000 species [Raven \& Johnson 1991]). Hotspots were identified by two main criteria: first plant endemism and then degree of threat.
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[] Looking in more detail at the hotspots list, it becomes obvious that there are top priorities within the list that can sharpen our focus still further. For example, the Tropical Andes hotspot by itself has 20,000 plant species, or 7.4\,\% of the global total, endemic to it, whereas the Mediterranean Basin, a non-tropical hotspot, accounts for 13,000 plant species, or 4.8\,\% of total global diversity, as endemics. The top 11 hotspots for plant endemism, harboring 5,000 or more plant species as endemics, account for 93,214 plant species, or 34.5\,\% of total global plant diversity, as endemics. Again, total diversity in such areas is much higher than that represented by the endemics alone.
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[] The original message of Myers' hotspots analysis echoes loud and clear: a very high percentage of global terrestrial biodiversity can be protected in a very small portion of Earth's land surface, and international efforts to conserve terrestrial biodiversity should focus heavily, but not exclusively, on these areas.
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