Subtitle on jacket: Earth’s biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial ecoregions.

"As part of its commitment to global biodiversity conservation, CEMEX - one of the largest cement producers in the world - publishes Hotspots Revisited: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, the twelfth title in a collection devoted to these purposes, and the fifth in a series produced in collaboration with Conservation International and Agrupacion Sierra Madre. This book presents the results of a reanalysis of the biodiversity hotspots - those discrete, biogeographic regions that are known to hold at least 1,500 plants as endemics and that have lost at least 70% of their primary native vegetation. First conceived of by Myers (1988), and later comprehensively updated by Mittermeier et al. (1999) and Myers et al. (2000), the hotspots concept has probably been the most important and influential biodiversity priority-setting approach in conservation over the past 15 years." "Hotspots Revisited: Earth’s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions provides stronger evidence than ever before of the fundamental role that the hotspots play in global biodiversity conservation."--BOOK JACKET.

Published simultaneously in Spanish as: Hotspots : biodiversidad amenazada II

Updated ed. of: Hotspots : earth’s biologically richest and most endangered terrestrial ecoregions / Russell A. Mittermeier, Norman Myers, Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier ; coordinator, Patricio Robles Gil ; foreword, Harrison Ford. c1999

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction --
Tropical Andes --
Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena --
Atlantic forest --
Cerrado --
Chilean winter rainfall-Valdivian forests --
Mesoamerica --
Caribbean Islands --
California floristic province --
Giunean forests of West Africa --
Cape floristic region --
Succulent Karoo --
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands --
Mediterranean Basin --
Caucasus --
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka --
Mountains of Southwest China --
Sundaland --
Wallacea --
Phillipines --
Southwest Australia --
New Zealand --
New Caledonia --
Polynesia-Micronesia --
Madrean Pine-Oak woodlands --
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany --
Eastern Afromontane --
Eastern Arc Mountains and Southern Rift --
Albertine Rift --
Ethiopian Highlands --
Horn of Africa --
Irano-Anatolian --
Mountains of Central Asia --
Himalaya --
Indo-Burma --
Japan --
East Melanesian Islands --
Taiwan Queensland wet tropics.