A biodiversity is termed as a hotspot if −It has at least 1,500 vascular plants as endemic. It must be threatened or under threat of destruction to a considerable extent.Across the world, about 35 areas are marked as hotspots of biodiversity and they represent 2.3 percent of the Earth’...
Summary Plant elemental properties are fundamentally important for physiology and biogeochemical cycling in ecosystems. No study has examined foliar elements and their interaction with soil and climate conditions at large geographic scales in Karst areas of China, a biodiversity hotspot in the world. Yet...
Cenozoic history of the tropical marine biodiversity hotspot A reconstruction of Cenozoic marine biodiversity in the Indo-Australian Archipelago reveals decreasing rates of net diversification and identifies the factors that have established it as the richest marine biodiversity hotspot. Skye Yunshu Tian ...
Summary Plant elemental properties are fundamentally important for physiology and biogeochemical cycling in ecosystems. No study has examined foliar elements and their interaction with soil and climate conditions at large geographic scales in Karst areas of China, a biodiversity hotspot in the world. Yet...
this dataset, we quantify forest degradation impacts on the above-ground biomass stocks, tree species richness, and multiple species properties. More specifically, we assess the extent and magnitude of those impacts by asking: (i) how pervasive negative impacts are across this biodiversity hotspot?
Biotechnology for saving rare and threatened flora in a biodiversity hotspot The Southwest Australian Floristic Region (SWAFR) is a plant biodiversity hotspot with a geographically isolated and predominantly endemic flora. Known thr... E Bunn,SR Turner,KW Dixon - 《Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biol...
Assessing Local and Surrounding Threats to the Protected Area Network in a Biodiversity Hotspot: The Hengduan Mountains of Southwest China Protected areas (PAs) not only serve as refuges of biodiversity conservation but are also part of large ecosystems and are vulnerable to change caused by h......
With a geological history of 4 million years, Lake Biwa is the third oldest lake in the world. It is considered a biodiversity hotspot, where 1,769 aquatic species including 61 endemics are recorded, providing a rare opportunity to study the evolutionary diversification of aquatic biota and its...
Biodiversity Hotspot – Ecuador Endangered Contributed to TLB by Author, Researcher & Activist: John Seed The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic vertebrates, and endemic plants. Ecuador has more orchid and hum...
Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands represent a unique marine biodiversity hotspot because of the overlap between two major biogeographic provinces (Indian and Pacific Ocean) and the high proportion of endemic species. In this paper, we compile existing scientific literature pertaining to ...