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. 2007 Nov 7;2(11):e1124. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001124

Table 3. GBIF data for global the hotspots of Mittermeier et al. [19] .

Hotspot Name* GBIF records (rank) GBIF Species % Total % Total
Mediterranean Basin 18,156 515 3.4% 9.5%
Mesoamerica 9,714 595 1.8% 11.0%
Southwest Australia 7,499 598 1.4% 11.0%
Tropical Andes 2,918 472 0.5% 8.7%
Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands 1,413 246 0.3% 4.5%
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena 1,259 224 0.2% 4.1%
New Zealand 1,023 22 0.2% 0.4%
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands 762 217 0.1% 4.0%
Eastern Afromontane 567 265 0.1% 4.9%
Atlantic Forest 487 150 0.1% 2.8%
Guinean Forests of West Africa 303 136 0.1% 2.5%
Cerrado 240 117 0.0% 2.2%
Coastal Forests of Eastern Africa 222 118 0.0% 2.2%
Indo-Burma 157 106 0.0% 2.0%
California Floristic Province 115 67 0.0% 1.2%
East Melanesian Islands 104 37 0.0% 0.7%
Polynesia-Micronesia 87 25 0.0% 0.5%
Sundaland 69 40 0.0% 0.7%
Caribbean Islands 45 35 0.0% 0.6%
Caucasus 44 37 0.0% 0.7%
Cape Floristic Region 32 25 0.0% 0.5%
Irano-Anatolian 32 24 0.0% 0.4%
Wallacea 32 12 0.0% 0.2%
Horn of Africa 29 14 0.0% 0.3%
Chilean Winter Rainfall and Valdivian Forests 22 13 0.0% 0.2%
Philippines 15 14 0.0% 0.3%
Mountains of Southwest China 11 8 0.0% 0.1%
New Caledonia 11 4 0.0% 0.1%
Japan 5 1 0.0% 0.0%
Mountains of Central Asia 5 4 0.0% 0.1%
Succulent Karoo 3 2 0.0% 0.0%
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka 3 3 0.0% 0.1%
Himalaya 1 1 0.0% 0.0%
Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany 1 1 0.0% 0.0%
Total Inside a Hotspot 45,386 3,199 8.5% 59.0%
Outside Hotspots 487,640 3,644 91.5% 67.2%
Total 533,026 5,423 100.0% 100.0%