"This volume owes existence to a conference on Biodiversity Hotspots--Evolution and Conservation" held in Luxembourg in March 2009"--P. v. "Never intended to be a 'conference proceedings volume'"--P. v. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Biodiversity hotspots : concluding remarks and perspectives / Global biodiversity conservation : the critical role of hotspots / Frank E. Zachos, Russell A. Mittermeier, Jan C. Habel. Tough choice : approaches towards the setting of global conservation priorities / Christine B. Schmitt -- Quantifying biodiversity : does it matter what we measure? / T. Jonathan Davies, Marc W. Cadotte -- Human population and the hotspots revisited : a 2010 assessment / John N. Williams -- Vascular plant diversity in a changing world : global centres and biome-specific patterns / Jens Mutke ... [et al.] -- Genetic basis of human biodiversity : an update / Guido Barbujani, Vincenza Colonna -- Biodiversity in the palaearctic. Mediterranean peninsulas : the evolution of hotspots / Godfrey M. Hewitt -- Global change effects on Alpine plant diversity / Georg Grabherr, Michael Gottfried, Harald Pauli -- European hotspots as evidenced by the Palearctic distribution of songbirds / Ronald Sluys, Mansour Aliabadian, Cees S. Roselaar -- Patterns and hotspots of carabid beetle diversity in the Palaearctic : insights from a hyperdiverse invertebrate taxon / Andreas Schuldt, Thorsten Assmann -- Carpathians as a major diversity hotspot in Europe / Miklós Bálint ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity in Madagascar. Conservation in a biodiversity hotspot : insights from cultural and community perspectives in Madagascar / Nadine V.M. Fritz-Vietta ... [et al.] -- Kingdom of the frogs : anuran radiations in Madagascar / Philip-Sebastian Gehring ... [et al.] -- Hotspots, conservation, and diseases : Madagascar's megadiverse amphibians and the potential impact of chytridiomycosis / Stefan Lötters ... [et al.] -- Biodiversity in the tropics. Impacts of biofuel expansion in biodiversity hotspots / Janice S.H. Lee, John Garcia-Ulloa, Lian Pin Koh -- Forests of east Australia : the 35th biodiversity hotspot / Kristen J. Williams ... [et al.] -- Status and threats in the dynamic landscapes of northern Australia's tropical rainforest biodiversity hotspot : the wet tropics / Nigel E. Stork, Steve Goosem, Stephen M. Turton -- Explosive speciation and adaptive radiation of East African cichlid fishes / Christian Sturmbauer, Martin Husemann, Patrick D. Danley -- Inter- and intraspecific genetic biodiversity in South East Asian rodents : new insights for their conservation / Marie Pagès, Alice Latinne, and Michaux Johan -- Amphibians and reptiles of Sulawesi : underestimated diversity in a dynamic environment / André Koch -- Brazilian Atlantic forest : a shrinking biodiversity hotspot / Milton Cezar Ribeiro ... [et al.] -- Sustainable development and conservation of biodiversity hotspots in Latin America : the case of Ecuador / Marco Rieckmann ... [et al.] -- When hotspots meet : the Galápagos Islands : a hotspot of species endemism based on a volcanic hotspot centre / Sebastian Steinfartz -- Marine biodiversity. Hotspots on global coral reefs / Marjorie L. Reaka, Sara A. Lombardi -- Biodiversity of a unique environment : the Southern Ocean benthos shaped and threatened by climate change / Angelika Brandt, Julian Gutt -- Conclusions. Biodiversity hotspots : concluding remarks and perspectives / Frank E. Zachos, Russell A. Mittermeier, Jan C. Habel.
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