Hotspots revisited

de Russell A. Mittermeier, Patricio Robles Gil, John Pilgrim, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Thomas Brooks

"As part of its commitment to global biodiversity conservation, CEMEX - one of the largest cement producers in the world - publishes Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, the twelfth title in a collection devoted to these purposes, and the fifth in a series produced in collaboration with Conservation International and Agrupacion Sierra Madre. This book presents the results of a reanalysis 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. First conceived of by Myers (1988), and later comprehensively updated by Mittermeier et al. (1999) and Myers et al. (2000), the hotspots concept has probably been the most important and influential biodiversity priority-setting approach in conservation over the past 15 years." "Hotspots Revisited: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions provides stronger evidence than ever before of the fundamental role that the hotspots play in global biodiversity conservation."--BOOK JACKET.