Norman Myers

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World map highlighting Earth's terrestrial biodiversity hot spots in red, showing regions with exceptionally high levels of species richness and endemism. These hot spots are distributed across parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mediterranean basin, Africa, Madagascar, South and Southeast Asia, and islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as select areas in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Norman Myers

British conservationist

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Terrestrial hot spots
…led by British environmental scientist Norman Myers identified 25 terrestrial “hot spots” of the world—25 areas on land where species with small geographic ranges coincide with high levels of modern human activity (see the map). Originally, these hot spots encompassed about 17 million square km (6.6 million square miles) of…
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…led by British environmental scientist Norman Myers identified 25 terrestrial “hot spots” of the world—25 areas on land where species with small geographic ranges coincide with high levels of modern human activity (see the map). Originally, these hot spots encompassed about 17 million square km (6.6 million square miles) of…
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hot spot
…was introduced by British conservationist Norman Myers in articles written for The Environmentalist in 1988 and 1990, as well as in Nature in 2000. He claimed that a hot spot must meet two criteria: it ought to host more than 1,500 species of endemic vascular plants (that is, vascular plants…
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…was introduced by British conservationist Norman Myers in articles written for The Environmentalist in 1988 and 1990, as well as in Nature in 2000. He claimed that a hot spot must meet two criteria: it ought to host more than 1,500 species of endemic vascular plants (that is, vascular plants…
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