Toward Unifying Global Hotspots of Wild and Domesticated Biodiversity.

ABSTRACT: Global biodiversity hotspots are areas containing high levels of species richness, endemism and threat. Similarly, regions of agriculturally relevant diversity have been identified where many domesticated plants and animals originated, and co-occurred with their wild ancestors and relatives. The agro-biodiversity in these regions has, likewise, often been considered threatened. Biodiversity and agro-biodiversity hotspots partly overlap, but their geographic intricacies have rarely been investigated together. Here we review the history of these two concepts and explore their geographic relationship by analysing global distribution and human use data for all plants, and for major crops and associated wild relatives. We highlight a geographic continuum between agro-biodiversity hotspots that

SUBMITTER: Pironon S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569820 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature