biodiversity hotspot

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌbaɪə(ʊ)daɪˌvɜːsɪti ˈhɒtˌspɒt/    美 /ˌbaɪoʊdəˌvɚsəti ˈhɑtˌspɑt/|[-ɾi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A place with a significant level of biodiversity, particularly if the flora and fauna are threatened with loss of their habitat.
    — Conservationists are far from able to assist all species under threat, if only for lack of funding. This places a premium on priorities: how can we support the most species at the least cost? One way is to identify ‘biodiversity hotspots’ where exceptional concentrations of endemic species are undergoing exceptional loss of habitat.

词形变化

biodiversity hotspots plural

词源

From biodiversity + hotspot. The word hotspot to describe such regions appears to have been first used by the British environmentalist Norman Myers (1934–2019) in a 1988 article in The Environmentalist.
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