Title Hotspots revisited / Russell A. Mittermeier ... [and others] ; preface: Peter A. Seligmann ; foreword: Harrison Ford

Edition First English edition Published Mexico City : CEMEX, 2004 Mexico City : CEMEX, [2004] ©2004

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Description 390 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 36 cm Series Cemex books on nature Cemex books on nature. Contents Preface / CEMEX -- Preface / Peter A. Seligmann -- Preface / Patricio Robles Gil -- Foreword / Harrison Ford -- Introduction -- An Update of Existing Hotspots -- Tropical Andes -- Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena -- Atlantic Forest -- Cerrado -- Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests -- Mesoamerica -- Caribbean Islands -- California Floristic Province -- Guinean Forests of West Africa -- Cape Floristic Region -- Succulent Karoo -- Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands -- Mediterranean Basin -- Caucasus -- Western Ghats and Sri Lanka -- Mountains of Southwest China -- Sundaland -- Wallacea -- Philippines -- Southwest Australia -- New Zealand -- New Caledonia -- Polynesia-Micronesia -- Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands -- Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany -- Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa -- Eastern Afromontane -- Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift -- Albertine Rift -- Ethiopian Highlands -- Horn of Africa -- Irano-Anatolian -- Mountains of Central Asia -- Himalaya -- Indo-Burma -- Japan -- East Melanesian Islands -- Taiwan -- Queensland Wet Tropics -- References Summary This book presents the results of the biodiversity hotspots - those discrete, biogeographic regions that are known to hold at least 1,500 plants as endemics and that have lost at least 70% of their primary native vegetation Analysis ECOSYSTEMS MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE THREATENED COMMUNITIES TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS Notes Cover subtitle: Earth's biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-389) Subject Biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity -- Pictorial works. Endangered ecosystems -- Pictorial works. Biodiversity. Endangered ecosystems. Nature conservation. Genre/Form Illustrated works. Author Brooks, Thomas, author Fonseca, Gustavo A. B. da, author Ford, Harrison, 1942- writer of foreword Robles Gil, Patricio, author Hoffmann, Michael, author Lamoreux, John, author Goettsch Mittermeier, Cristina, author Mittermeier, Russell A., author Pilgrim, John, author Seligmann, Peter A., author Cemex, S.A. de C.V. ISBN 9686397779

Other Titles Hotspots revisited : earth's biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial ecoregions

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