{"id":56,"date":"2010-04-13T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/13\/biodiversity-hotspots\/"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T15:57:37","slug":"biodiversity-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/13\/biodiversity-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"Biodiversity Hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityhotspots.org\/xp\/hotspots\/Pages\/default.aspx\" title=\"Biodiversity Hotspots\">Biodiversity Hotspots<\/a>\u00a0are some of the world&#8217;s richest areas for plant and animal species as well as some of the world&#8217;s most threatened habitats. \u00a0In 1988, Norman Myers created this notion of a hotspot, which in turn sparked the search for regions deemed vital in the conservation of biodiversity. \u00a0Today, there are 34 identified hotspots scattered across the planet. \u00a0Of the entire world&#8217;s plant species, 50% are endemic to these few locations. \u00a0This is remarkable, because hotspots only take up 2.3% of the terrestrial surface of the planet. \u00a0This website, funded by Conservation International, provides not only a drop-down tab that lists all of the hotspots, but it also provides a map showing their locations. \u00a0By clicking on a certain hotspot, one can learn about the region&#8217;s unique biodiversity, the human impacts, the conservation action and much more. \u00a0Information like the number of species gone extinct, the human density in the region and the amount of habitat already lost can also be found. \u00a0In the face of a mass extinction and minimal funding, many have turned to hotspots as the best method for biodiversity conservation.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/specieslist.com\/images\/external\/ci-hotspots.jpg\" height=\"401\" width=\"560\" alt=\"Map of Biodiversity Hotspots\" \/>This is the map of the world&#8217;s hotspots taken from google images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biodiversity Hotspots\u00a0are some of the world&#8217;s richest areas for plant and animal species as well as some of the world&#8217;s most threatened habitats. \u00a0In 1988, Norman Myers created this notion of a hotspot, which in turn sparked the search for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/2010\/04\/13\/biodiversity-hotspots\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1223,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1046,44770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosphere","category-spring-2010"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1223"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geog250\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}