Hot-Spots Analysis for Conservation of Plant Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin

Abstract

e to the increase of human impact on the world scale, there is an urgent need to identify the sectors of the pne biodiversity that are also the most endangered.Examination of the plant biodiversity of the five regions wit iterranean climate (SW Australia, the Cape region of South Africa, California, in) cle arly demonstrates their key role in the world context.The delimitation and definition of 10 red alert the Mediterranean basin and in Macaronesia are explained in detail.The 10 sectors or "hot-spots" situated in mediterranean Chile, and the Mediteridentified are: the Canary Islands and Madeira, the High and Middle Atlas mountains, the Baetic-Rifan complex, the aritime and Ligurian Alps, the Tyrrhenian Islands, editerranean berian Peninsula Southern and Central Greece, Crete, mene? and Cyprus, the Syria-Lebanon-Israel area and, lastly, the Cyrenaic Mediterranean.There are two main cen asin in the west that pisc the I and Moroc includes "Turkey and Gases.This analysis demonstrates the uniqueness and fragility of do island.чена ev AME in the in the East that RÉsUMÉ L'augmentation de l'impact anthropique à l'échelle du Globe nécessite d'identifier de facon urgente les secteurs de plus haute biodiversité, qui présentent également les plus grandes menaces .L'examen de la biodiversité végétale des cinq régions soumises au bioclimat méditerranéen (S.