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State any two criteria for determining biodiversity hotspots. Name any two hotspots designated in India.

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Answered by Anonymous
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To qualify as a biodiversity hotspot on Myers 2000 edition of the hotspot-map, a region must meet two strict criteria: it must contain at least 0.5% or 1,500 species of vascular plants as endemics, and it has to have lost at least 70% of its primary vegetation.

Answered by kingofself
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Two criteria for determining biodiversity hotspots:

To authorize as a "Hotspot of biodiversity" on the "Myers 2000 edition" of the "hotspot-map", a region should meet two types of strict criteria:

  • It must hold at least "0.5% or 1,500 species" of vascular plants as the endemics.
  • It has to lost at least "Seventy percent" of its type of 'primary vegetation'.

Criteria for determining biodiversity hotspots are:

  • High levels of species richness.
  • High degree of endemism. Hotspots in "India - Western Ghats", Himalaya (Indo-Burma/Sunderland).

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