Description |
390 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps ; 36 cm |
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Cemex books on nature |
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Cemex books on nature.
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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 |
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MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE |
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THREATENED COMMUNITIES |
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TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS |
Notes |
Cover subtitle: Earth's biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-389) |
Subject |
Biodiversity conservation.
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Biodiversity -- Pictorial works.
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Endangered ecosystems -- Pictorial works.
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Biodiversity.
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Endangered ecosystems.
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Nature conservation.
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Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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Author |
Brooks, Thomas, author
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Fonseca, Gustavo A. B. da, author
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Ford, Harrison, 1942- writer of foreword
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Robles Gil, Patricio, author
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Hoffmann, Michael, author
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Lamoreux, John, author
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Goettsch Mittermeier, Cristina, author
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Mittermeier, Russell A., author
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Pilgrim, John, author
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Seligmann, Peter A., author
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Cemex, S.A. de C.V.
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ISBN |
9686397779 |
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