biodiversity hotspot
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- ecoregion
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- topic's main category
- Category:Biodiversity hotspots
- greater than
- surroundings
- facet of
- biodiversity
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Climate change
- has characteristic
- biodiversity
- significant person
- Norman Myers
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Encyclopedic overview
Map of the world's biodiversity hot spots, all of which are heavily threatened by habitat loss and degradation
A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation. Norman Myers wrote about the concept in two articles in The Environmentalist in 1988 and 1990, after which the concept was revised following thorough analysis by Myers and others into "Hotspots: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions" and a paper published in the journal Nature, both in 2000.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “biodiversity hotspot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.