Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions

By R. Mittermeier, P. Gil, M. Hoffman, J. Pilgrim, T. Brooks, C. Mittermeier, John F. Lamoreux, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca. 2000

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• European Red List of vascular plants (2011, background): “Photographs © Javier Fabado Alós and Juan Mota Poveda/Proyecto AFA. a global “biodiversity hotspot” (Mittermeier et al. 2004, Cuttelod et al. 2008).”
• Humidity levels drive reproductive modes and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2012, background): “In this study we examine the relative importance of the humidity level as a determinant of the variation in species richness among amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, a global biodiversity hotspot (Mittermeier et al., 2005).”
• Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (2019, background): “5Sustaining Biodiversity and EcosystemServices in the Hindu Kush Himalaya Coordinating Lead Authors Jianchu Xu, World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia Regional Programme; Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming Yunnan Province, P.R. China, e-mail: J.C.Xu@cgiar.org; jxu@mail.kib.ac.cn Ruchi Ba”
• Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata) (2009, background): “Tropical forest habitat is declining nearly everywhere, and the most threatened species are often those that have small distributions in areas of declining habitat (Mittermeier et al. 2005).”
• An overview of Brazilian mammalogy: trends, biases and future directions (2009, background): “…is true and particularly worrisome for Brazil, a megadiverse country (MITTERMEIER et al. 1997) with two biodiversity hotspots (Atlantic Forest and Cerrado) (MYERS et al. 2000, MITTERMEIER et al. 2005) and three wilderness areas (Amazon, Caatinga and Pantanal) (MITTERMEIER et al. 1998, 2002, 2003).”
• Plant Biodiversity in China: Richly Varied, Endangered, and in Need of Conservation (2006, background): “Three of the 34 listed world hotspots in 2005 (Mittermeier et al. 2005) are located almost completely (‘South-Central China’) or partially (‘Indo-Burma’ and ‘Himalaya’) withinChina’s borders.”