Biodiversity hotspot

A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is also threatened by human habitation. The concept was developed by the ecologist Norman Myers, who published his initial ideas in the journal The Environmentalist in 1988 and 1990 before refining them into a formal framework in 2000. Under Myers's 2000 criteria, a region qualifies as a biodiversity hotspot only if it contains at least 1,500 vascular plant species found nowhere else on Earth, representing more than 0.5 percent of the world's total, and if it has already lost at least 70 percent of its original vegetation cover. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/