Habitat Loss and Extinction in the Hotspots of Biodiversity

By T. Brooks, R. Mittermeier, C. Mittermeier, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, A. Rylands, W. Konstant, Penny Flick, J. Pilgrim, S. Oldfield, G. Magin and 1 more. 2002

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Invasive Exotic Plants in the Tropical Pacific Islands: Patterns of Diversity (2009, background): “…endemic species and relatively large numbers of threatened and endangered species (e.g., Brooks et al. 2002); small populations put endemic species at risk of extinction under competition from invasive exotics (Meyer & Florence 1996, Loope 1998, Meyer 2000, Myers et al. 2000, Brooks et al. 2002).”
Hotspots of species richness, threat and endemism for terrestrial vertebrates in SW Europe (2011, background): “The current biodiversity crisis clearly calls for the identification of biodiversity hotspots, usually defined as the most threatened areas among those of exceptionally high biodiversity and/or rates of endemism (Myers, 1988; Mittermeier et al., 1998; Reid, 1998; Brooks et al., 2002).”
Factoring species, non-species values and threats into biodiversity prioritisation across the ecoregions of Africa and its islands (2006, background): “Past studies have shown that there is a correlation between biological importance and human population density, language diversity, smaller reserve sizes, and extinction risks (Balmford et al., 2001a,b; Harcourt et al., 2001; Moore et al., 2002; Brooks et al., 2002).”
Status of a protected area system in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: An analysis of PA coverage (2008, background): “Many researchers (Brooks et al. 2002, 2004; Chape et al. 2005; Rodrigues et al. 2004) consider that several important habitat types and species are far from covered by the current PA network, and many existing PAs face severe habitat loss and fragmentation.”
Combining genetic and geospatial analyses to infer population extinction in mygalomorph spiders endemic to the Los Angeles region (2006, background): “Southern California is home to a large number of endemic plant, vertebrate and invertebrate species (Cincotta, Wisnewski & Engelman, 2000; Myers et al., 2000; Brooks et al., 2002), vying for space with two of the largest urban centers in North America (Los Angeles and San Diego).”
Inferring habitat-suitability areas with ecological modelling techniques and GIS: A contribution to assess the conservation status of Vipera latastei (2006, background): “The impact of these activities ultimately caused habitat fragmentation and dramatic results for biodiversity, as about 15% of all endemic animal and plant (12% of the reptiles) species from the Mediterranean Basin biodiversity hotspot are currently threatened with extinction (Brooks et al., 2002).”
Plant Biodiversity in China: Richly Varied, Endangered, and in Need of Conservation (2006, background): “Most areas of small range species co-occurrence (centers of endemism) are severely threatened by human activities and have suffered significant habitat loss; i.e., the ‘biodiversity hotspots’ (Myers et al. 2000; Brooks et al. 2002).”
Modeling species’ geographic distributions for preliminary conservation assessments: an implementation with the spiny pocket mice (Heteromys) of Ecuador (2004, background): “The small, fragmented current distribution of Heteromys teleus bodes poorly for its long-term survival, especially considering current deforestation rates and limited overlap with the governmental system of protected areas (Harrison, 1991; Brooks et al., 2002).”
The decline of moths in Great Britain: a review of possible causes (2013, background): “sity loss (Diamond et al., 1989; Brooks et al., 2002; Dirzo & Raven, 2003; Fahrig, 2003).”
Plant Community Structure in Tropical Rain Forest Fragments of the Western Ghats, India 1 (2006, background): “For the Western Ghats–Sri Lanka hotspot, Brooks et al. (2002) predicted that in addition to the 1067 endemic plant species already C© 2005 The Author(s) Journal compilation C© 2005 by The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation 143 threatened or extinct, another 12 species will go extinct…”
Interactions between climate and habitat loss effects on biodiversity: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2012, background): “Yet most studies reporting effects of climate change (e.g. Williams et al., 2003; Miles et al., 2004; Parmesan, 2006) or habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity (e.g. Brooks et al., 2002; Fahrig, 2003; Cushman, 2006) have examined each in isolation.”
Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. (2010, background): “…deforested, secondary forest has regrown (e.g. in Ascension, Puerto Rico, or Seychelles; Kueffer and Vos, 2004; Lugo, 2004; Wilkinson, 2004), while on others deforestation rates remain among the highest in the world (e.g., some islands in the Caribbean and the Philippines, Brooks et al., 2002).”
Unreported yet massive deforestation driving loss of endemic biodiversity in Indian Himalaya (2006, background): “…(Brooks et al. 1997, 1999a; Laurance 1999; Sala et al. 2000), few studies have investigated the impacts of deforestation in tropical biodiversity hotspots (Mittermeier et al. 1999; Myers et al. 2000; Conservation International 2005; for exception, see Brooks et al. 2002; Sodhi and Brook 2006).”
Ancient forest fragmentation or recent radiation? Testing refugial speciation models in chameleons within an African biodiversity hotspot (2011, background): “…(Parmesan, 2006; Chen et al., 2009; Forister et al., 2010), and substantial anthropogenic pressures that are already great enough to threaten unique floras and faunas (Brooks et al., 2002; Driver et al., 2005; Burgess et al., 2007; Menegon et al., 2008; Forister et al., 2010; Sinervo et al., 2010).”