Hotspots: Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions

by Norman Myers, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier, Russell A. Mittermeier

Book Overview

Polynesia, the mountains of south-central China, the coastal forest of Tanzania, New Zealand--all are breathtakingly beautiful sites with a crucial fact in common. They are four of the Earth's twenty-five "hotspots," geographical areas which, according to scientists and naturalists, are home to the world's greatest plant and animal diversity. The numbers are staggering: fully sixty percent of all terrestrial animal and plant species are found in these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9686397582
• ISBN13: 9789686397581
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 9.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 11.5" x 13.5"