Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

By N. Myers, R. Mittermeier, C. Mittermeier, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, J. Kent. Nature, 2000

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Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools (2012, methodology): “Biodiversity hotspot (10, 16) Hotspot area not”
Foraging, Food Choice, and Food Processing by Sympatric Ripe-Fruit Specialists: Lagothrix lagotricha poeppigii and Ateles belzebuth belzebuth (2005, background): “1 and 2), within the tropical Andes biodiversity hotspot, characterized by hyperdiverse lowland rain forest (Gentry, 1988; Myers et al., 2000; Pitman et al., 1999) and abundant fauna including ≥10 species of primates.”
Integrating Ecology and Environmental Ethics: Earth Stewardship in the Southern End of the Americas (2012, neutral): “In addition, less than 10% ( n = 34) of the world’s ILTER sites have been established within the tropical latitudinal range between 20° N and 20° south (S) (figure 1), where most of the world’s biodiversity is found (Myers et al. 2000).”
Effects of Habitat Structure and Adjacent Habitats on Birds in Tropical Rainforest Fragments and Shaded Plantations in the Western Ghats, India (2006, background): “This hill chain is recognised as a global biodiversity hotspot (Myers et al. 2000), one of the Global 200 most important eco-regions (Olson and Dinerstein 1998), and an Endemic Bird Area (Stattersfield et al. 1998).”
Linking fungi, trees, and hole-using birds in a Neotropical tree-cavity network: Pathways of cavity production and implications for conservation (2012, background): “The Atlantic forest is among the top five biodiversity hotspots in the world, characterized by high levels of endemism, habitat loss, and local extirpations of bird species, with very high numbers of globally threatened and near-threatened species (Myers et al., 2000; Ribeiro et al., 2009; Ribon et ”
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).”
Global Biodiversity Conservation and the Alleviation of Poverty (2012, background): “…role of vulnerability in existing global conservation priority strategies, we compared ESV under the four valuation alternatives between the set of 34 biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al. 2000, Mittermeier et al. 2004) and the set of 5 high-biodiversity wilderness areas (Mittermeier et al. 2003).”
Stygobiotic crustacean species richness: a question of numbers, a matter of scale (2010, background): “Stoch, 1995; Wilkens et al., 2000; Galassi et al., 2009b; Martin et al., 2009 ).”
Hot, dry and different: Australian lizard richness is unlike that of mammals, amphibians and birds (2010, background): “The Southwest Australia endemism hotspot identified by Myers et al. (2000) is also a richness hotspot of mammals, amphibians and, particularly, birds (Fig.”
A Global Deal For Nature: Guiding principles, milestones, and targets (2019, neutral): “S1I). ii) Biodiversity Hotspots (fig.”
In and out of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau: divergence time estimation and historical biogeography of the large arctic‐alpine genus Saxifraga L. (2017, background): “It stands out as an ideal system to study the evolution of mountain biodiversity because the mountain ranges flanking it to the south (Himalaya) and the southeast (Hengduan Mountains) constitute major biodiversity hotspots (Myers et al., 2000) with large proportions of alpine elements (Wen et al.”
Diversity and phylogenetic profiling of niche-specific Bacilli from extreme environments of India (2014, neutral): “India is one among 12 megabiodiversity countries and 25 hotspots of the richest and highly endangered eco-regions of the world (Myers et al. 2000).”
Geographical, temporal and taxonomic biases in insect GBIF data on biodiversity and extinction (2021, background): “Most of these intermediate human-modified landscapes correspond to biodiversity hotspots for other taxa (Myers et al., 2000).”