Biodiversity Hotspots Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas

From the reviews:

“A ‘hotspot’ here signifies an area with high levels of biodiversity, endemism, and habitat loss. … these are regions of great concern to conservation biologists and the focus of this important volume, which stems from a conference held in Luxembourg in 2009. The book includes 26 chapters by 81 contributors. … Figure quality, including many color maps and images, is excellent. Summing Up:  Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals in conservation biology.” (E. J. Sargis, Choice, Vol. 49 (8), April, 2012)

“Biodiversity Hotspots: Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas nicely … addresses other areas of high levels of interest for biodiversity. This volume is organized into six large parts, with 26 contributions. … the whole set provides a very solid and stimulating read for professionals studying biodiversity, both academics and practitioners, and will be a basic reference for the current state of research on biodiversity hotspots.” (Franck Courchamp, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 88 (1), March, 2013)