Crisis Ecoregions

Crisis Ecoregions

Crisis ecoregions are terrestrial biomes facing significant threat to their biodiversity and requiring well directed conservation efforts in order to curb the irreversible loss of plant and animal species and their surrounding habitats. Generally, an ecoregion is understood to be an area of particular ecological importance because of diminishing habitats and ecosystems, but a crisis ecoregion is one that is particularly vulnerable and is listed as 'critical'[1] because of a high Conservation Risk Index (CRI).

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References

  1. ^ Jonathan M. Hoekstra, Timothy M. Boucher, Taylor M. Ricketts, and Carter Roberts. Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection. Ecology Letters, 8:23-29, 2005

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