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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. flora of Madagascar Kinabalu, Mount
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  • Daniel Costa
    Daniel Costa is a writer for Encyclopedia Britannica. He has studied applied linguistics, philosophy, and history.

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Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Hot Spots. Sep 28, 2026
Add new Web site: Khan Academy - What is a biodiversity hotspot? Apr 01, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Scientific Reports - Hotspots within a global biodiversity hotspot - areas of endemism are associated with high mountain ranges. Feb 18, 2025
Add new Web site: CiteSeerX - Biodiversity hotspots: hot for what? Dec 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research - Comprehensive Biodiversity Protection, Role of Hotspots: Geographical Overview. Aug 05, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - What�s hot and what�s not: making sense of biodiversity �hotspots�. Jun 14, 2024
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University Pressbooks - Introduction to Geography - Biodiversity Hotspots. May 02, 2024
Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions B - Identifying hotspots for ecosystem restoration across heterogeneous tropical savannah-dominated regions. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - What�s hot and what�s not: Making sense of biodiversity �hotspots�. Nov 24, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Warfare in biodiversity hotspots. Sep 19, 2023
Links added. Jun 01, 2023
Add new Web site: PennState - College of Earth and Mineral Sciences - Department of Geography - Biodiversity Hotspots. Mar 24, 2023
Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Hot Spots. Jan 27, 2023
Changed “two thirds” to “two-thirds.” Nov 30, 2022
New article added. Nov 21, 2022
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