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Turning up the heat on hotspots

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Different measures are used to define concentrations of biodiversity — so-called ‘hotspots’. More rigorous, global-scale analyses of how they compare will be essential for efficient resource allocation to conservation.

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Possingham, H., Wilson, K. Turning up the heat on hotspots. Nature 436, 919–920 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/436919a

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