ABSTRACT
Biodiversity hotspot is a region which had to contain at least 1500 vascular plants as endemics (>0.5% of the world's total), and it had to have 30% or less of its original vegetation remaining. There are 36 biodiversity hotspots on the planet earth. These include (1) California Floristic Province, (2) Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands, (3) Mesoamerica, (4) North American Coastal Plain, (5) Caribbean Islands, (6) Atlantic Forest, (7) Cerrado, (8) Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests, (9) Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena, (10) Tropical Andes, (11) Mediterranean Basin, (12) Cape Floristic Region, (13) Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa, (14) Eastern Afromontane, (15) Guinean Forests of West Africa, (16) Horn of Africa, (17) Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands, (18) Maputaland-Pondoland- Albany, (19) Succulent Karoo, (20) Mountains of Central Asia, (21) Himalayas, (22) Indo-Burma, (23) Western Ghats–Sri Lanka, (24) East Melanesian Islands, (25) New Caledonia, (26) New Zealand, (27) Philippines, (28) Polynesia–Micronesia, (29) Eastern Australian Temperate forests, (30) Southwest Australia, (31) Sundaland and Nicobar Islands, (32) Wallacea, (33) Japan, (34) Mountains of Southwest China, (35) Caucasus, and (36) Irano-Anatolian.
