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Published online 2 February 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050131-10
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Nine more crisis areas for biodiversity
Threatened 'hotspots' harbour half the world's plant species.
A four-year project by nearly 400 ecologists has produced a reanalysis of global biodiversity that reveals which regions are the most important, and the most threatened.
The effort, coordinated by the non-profit organization Conservation International, adds 9 biodiversity hotspots to the 25 originally recognized in 20001.
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