Hotspots within a global biodiversity hotspot-areas of endemism are associated with high mountain ranges

J Noroozi, A Talebi, M Doostmohammadi, SB Rumpf… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Conservation biology aims at identifying areas of rich biodiversity. Currently recognized
global biodiversity hotspots are spatially too coarse for conservation management and …

Patterns of endemism in Turkey, the meeting point of three global biodiversity hotspots, based on three diverse families of vascular plants

J Noroozi, G Zare, M Sherafati, M Mahmoodi… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Centers of endemism and areas of endemism are important biogeographic concepts with
high relevance for conservation and evolutionary biology. Turkey is located at the …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots of vascular plant endemism in a global biodiversity hotspot in Southwest Asia suffer from significant conservation gaps

J Noroozi, A Naqinezhad, A Talebi… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biodiversity loss due to human activities has dramatically increased in the last decades, and
attempts to protect threatened species should be accelerated. An important contribution …

Topography‐driven isolation, speciation and a global increase of endemism with elevation

MJ Steinbauer, R Field, JA Grytnes… - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Higher‐elevation areas on islands and continental mountains tend to be separated by
longer distances, predicting higher endemism at higher elevations; our study is the first to …

Spatial overlaps between the global protected areas network and terrestrial hotspots of evolutionary diversity

BH Daru, PC le Roux, J Gopalraj… - Global Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A common approach for prioritizing conservation is to identify concentrations (hotspots)
of biodiversity. Such hotspots have traditionally been designated on the basis of species …

Ecological and historical factors affecting distribution pattern and richness of endemic plant species: the case of the Maritime and Ligurian Alps hotspot

G Casazza, E Zappa, MG Mariotti… - Diversity and …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The aim of this study was to test a method to locate all the foci, centres, and areas of
endemism in a biodiversity hotspot in order to understand the influence of ecological and …

Endemic diversity and distribution of the Iranian vascular flora across phytogeographical regions, biodiversity hotspots and areas of endemism

J Noroozi, A Talebi, M Doostmohammadi… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Endemism is one of the most important concepts in biogeography and is of high relevance
for conservation biology. Nevertheless, our understanding of patterns of endemism is still …

Plant endemism centres and biodiversity hotspots in Greece

K Kougioumoutzis, IP Kokkoris, M Panitsa, A Kallimanis… - Biology, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Aiming to cope with the provisions of Aichi Biodiversity Targets, EU
Biodiversity Strategy and EU Green Deal, we conducted the first nationwide …

The Anatolian diagonal revisited: Testing the ecological basis of a biogeographic boundary

H Gür - Zoology in the Middle East, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The Asian part of Turkey, ie Anatolia, is the region where three of the world's 35 biodiversity
hotspots meet, and interact: the Caucasus, Irano-Anatolian, and Mediterranean basin …

Global hotspots of species richness are not congruent with endemism or threat

CDL Orme, RG Davies, M Burgess, F Eigenbrod… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Biodiversity hotspots have a prominent role in conservation biology,,,,,,,,, but it remains
controversial to what extent different types of hotspot are congruent,,,,,. Previous studies …