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| Hot Spots Of Biodiversity |
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| Biodiversity is not uniformly distributed across the geographical regions of the earth. |
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| Norma Myers developed the hot spots concept in 1988 to designate priority areas for in-situ conservation. The hot spots are the richest and the most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life on earth. |
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| The key criteria for determining a hot spot are: |
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| i) Number of endemic species i.e., the species that are found nowhere else |
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| ii) Degree of threat, which is measured in terms of habitat loss |
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| The terrestrial biodiversity hot spots |
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| Twenty-five terrestrial hot spots for conservation of biodiversity have been identified worldwide. Among the twentyfive hot spots of the world, two (Western Ghats and Eastern Himalayas) are found in India. |
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