On the other hand, certain canyons may contain a higher diversity of megafauna than the slopes and can be considered as hot spots of diversity as they may display high rates of endemism [1], [154].
Most genera are in temperate forests of the Northern Hemisphere, and they show a hot-spot of diversity in tropical zones of the Southern-East Asia [ 7].
Given this result, we did not attempt to krige our data to detect hot or cold spots of diversity at a centimorgan scale.
But Mexico, a hot spot of bat diversity, was largely untouched.
As the New York City Fire Department's first and only openly transgender firefighter, Guinan has been in the spotlight for years as a bright spot of gender diversity within one of New York's most conservative institutions.
The use of fingerprinting techniques indicated that marine mucilage is also a hot spot of bacterial diversity.
The Mediterranean region appears an interesting spot of Phragmites diversity for evolutionary biologists, geneticists, taxonomists, ecologists and ecophysiologists.
The Gulf Coast of North America (GC) is a 'hot spot' of Phragmites diversity as several lineages (defined according to the haplotypes of their chloroplast DNA) differing in origin, genetic traits and phenotype co-exist and interbreed in this area.
This may be especially urgent in what experts call the world's "hot spots" of biological diversity.
At the fronts of the immigration waves in particular, spots of increased diversity appeared.
Although some badland areas determine on- and off-site environmental issues, others are spots of landscape diversity that merit protection rather than reclamation.
