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Biodiversity Hotspots

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Biodiversity Hotspots

• These are Earth’s most biologically rich—yet


threatened—terrestrial regions.
• In 1988, British ecologist Norman Myers
published a seminal paper identifying 10
tropical forest “hotspots.”
• These regions were characterized both by
exceptional levels of plant endemism and
serious levels of habitat loss.
Biodiversity hotspots
India has 4 biodiversity hotspots

-The Himalayas
-Indo Burma
-Western Ghats
-Sundaland
Cold Spots

• Areas that have low species diversity and are home to rare
species.
Hope spots

Any special place that is critical to


the health of the ocean.
• India consists of

-2 Realms
India – A Megadiverse -5 Biomes
Nation -10 Biogeographic
zones
-25 Biogeographic
provinces
Biomes of India

• Tropical Humid Forests.


• Tropical Dry or Deciduous Forests (including
Monsoon Forests)
• Warm deserts and semi-deserts.
• Coniferous forests.
• Alpine meadows.

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