This website is dedicated to Terrence J. McManus whose vision for leveraging technology for biodiversity conservation made this project a reality.

Biodiversity Hotspots is managed by the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science at Conservation International. We gratefully acknowledge Intel Corporation's Environmental Health and Safety Division for financial support.

Producers
Jennifer Carr, Penny Langhammer

Editors
Thomas Brooks, Naamal De Silva, Matt Foster, Mike Hoffmann, David Knox, Penny Langhammer, John Pilgrim, Nathan Ratledge, Amy Sweeting

Design
Fusion Design, Inc.

Production Team
Lani Asato, Michelle Brydges, Reid Dossinger, Laara Manler, Doan Nguyen, Nathan Ratledge, Jaya Sawhney, Lindsay Walter-Cox

Species Database
Mike Hoffmann, John Pilgrim

Database Integration
Industrial Medium; Tanya Zimmerli

Cartography
Mark Denil; National Geographic Maps

Photo Editor
Doan Nguyen

Project Advisors
Lani Asato, Flavia Castro, Gustavo Fonseca, Tom Lacher, Cristina Mittermeier, Russell Mittermeier, Clare Nielsen

Photography
Bruce Beehler, Geoff Bolan, Thomas Brooks, Rafe Brown, Bob Burch, John Cancalosi, Santiago Carrizosa, Haroldo Castro, Chris Catton, Diane Chang, Don Church, Densey Clyne, Nigel Collar, John Corder, Tui De Roy, Gertrud and Helmut Denzau, Peter Paul van Dijk, Fulvio Eccardi, Jean-Paul Ferrero/Auscape, Michael and Patricia Fogden, Patricio Robles Gil, C. T. Hanashiro, Larry Heaney, Wolcott Henry, Michael Hoffman, Yin Kaipu, Tom Lamb, Peter LaTourette, Anna Lushchekina, Francisco Marquez, Roderic B. Mast, Tessa Mildenhall, Andrea Milos, Cristina Mittermeier, Russell Mittermeier, David Moyer, Juan Carlos Muñoz, Piotr Naskrecki, Jim Nations, Haroldo Palo Jr., C. Patterson-Jones, Otto Pfister, John Pilgrim, Richard Porter, Hernan Povedano, G. Rathburn, Jim Sanderson, Seitre/Bios, Mingma Sherpa, Leandro Silveria, Michael Smith, Line Sørensen, James Stanfield, Todd Stevenson, Peter Steyn, Pu Tao, Tom Till, Andrew Tordoff, Andre Bartschi Vaduz, Pablo Valenzuela, Carly Vynne, John Watkin, Doug Wechsler, Tim Wemer, D. Willard, Stuart Williams, Art Wolfe, Wang Xiaodong, Sterling Zumbrunn

Web text reviewers
Luciano Andriamaro, James Atherton, Kamal Bawa, Henri Blaffart, Philip Chou, Arundhati Das, Bruce Beehler, Tom Butynski, Jessica Donovan, Guven Eken, Frank Hawkins, Owen Henderson, Andrew Huggett, Roger James, Viviane Junqueira, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Ricardo Machado, François Martel, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Luiz Paulo Pinto, Harison Rabarison, Zo Lalaina Rakotobe, Harison Randrianasolo, Anthony Rylands, Paul Salaman, Sun Shan, Mingma Sherpa, Jamie Skinner, Andrew Smith, Andrew W. Tordoff, Romeo Trono, Liza Valenzuela-Duya, Peter Paul van Dijk, John Watkin, Iwan Wijayanto, Nugzar Zazanashvili

Hotspots Revisited authors
Keith Alger, Allen Allison, Luciano Andriamaro, Fabio Arjona, Mary T. Kalin Arroyo, Mohamed Bakarr, Ozge Balkiz, Aaron Bauer, John S. Beard, Bruce Beehler, Mathias Behangana, Robert Bensted-Smith, Roxanne Bittmane, Katrina Brandon, Fredrick Boltz, Peter D. Bostock, Philippe Bouchet, David E. Boufford, Thomas Brooks, Aaron Bruner, William Buck, Alexander Bukhnikashvili, Neil Burgess, Tom Butynski, Lena Bykova, Assheton Carter, Roberto Cavalcanti, Lohengrin Cavieres, Don Church, G. Philip Clark, Leonardo Co, Trisha Consiglio, Richard M. Cowling, Lisa Curran, Tim Davenport, Gerrit Davidse, Ron Demey, Philip Desmet, Peter Paul van Dijk, Nike Doggart, Tony Dold, Guy Dutson, Gerald Eilu, Guven Eken, Lucius G. Eldredge, Susie Ellis, Barbara Ertter, Mike Evans, Corneille Ewango, Jakob Fahr, John Fellowes, Atticus Fleming, Gustavo A. B. da Fonseca, Eduardo Forno, Matthew Foster, Claude Gascon, Engin Gem, Justin Gerlach, Hubert Geraux, Patricio Robles Gil, David R. Given, Barbara Goettsch, Steven Goodman, Ian Gordon, Larry Gorenflo, Brian Gratwicke, Marianne Guerin-McManus, Lee Hannah, Frank Hawkins, Lawrence Heaney, S. Blair Hedges, Arlo Hemphill, Yasushi Hibi, David Hoare, Michael Hoffmann, Chang-Fu Hsieh, Sixto Inchaustegui, Victor Hugo Inchausty, Michael A. Ivie, Roger James, Ma Jinshuang, Peter Jorgensen, Charles Kahindo, Andrei Kandaurov, Evrim Karacetin, Ahmet Karatas, Aysegul Karatas, Ensermu Kelbessa, Felician Kilahama, Tuba Kilic, Robert Kityo, David Knox, Patricia Koleff, William Konstant, Alexander Kreuzberg, Elena Kreuzberg-Mukhina, Thomas Lacher, John Lamoreux, Penny Langhammer, Olivier Langrand, Nicholas Lapham, Michael Lau, Scott Robbins Loarie, Jon Lovett, Porter P. Lowry II, David Mallon, Pablo Marquet, Francois Martel, Clodomiro Marticorena, Dan Martin, Don Martina, Michael Maunder, Keith R. McDonald, Frederic Medail, Erik Meijaard, Cristina G. Mittermeier, Russell A. Mittermeier, Divya Mudappa, Jerome Munzinger, Norman Myers, Evarist Nashanda, Piotr Naskrecki, Gertrud Neumann-Denzau , Keri Nielson, John F. Oates, Perry Ong, Javier Francisco Ortega, Nuri Ozbagdatli, Michael Parr, Marc Parren, David Pearson, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Shirley M. Pierce, John Pilgrim, Andrew Plumptre, Jose Luis Vivero Pol, Glenn Prickett, Harison Rabarison, Zo Lalaina Rakotobe, Olga Ramilijaona, Noro Raminosoa, Manuel Ramirez, Harison Randrianasolo, Gopal Rawat, Dick Rice, Mark-Oliver Rodel, Alan Rodgers, Jose Vincente Rodriguez-Mahecha, Franklin Rojas, Ricardo Rozzi, Anthony Rylands, Paul Salaman, John Salehe, Giorgi Sanadiradze, Ria Saryanthi, Alan Saunders, Jan Schipper, Wes Sechrest, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, George Schatz, Mingma Sherpa , Anteneh Shimelis, Jose Maria Cardosa da Silva, Andrew Smith, Gideon Smith , Michael Leonard Smith, Jorge Soberon, Steven Spawls, Francisco Squeo, Paul Ssegawa, James Peter Stanton, Yolande Steenkamp, Marc Steininger, Todd Stevenson, Simon Stuart, Luis Suarez, Peter Sumbi, Jatna Supriatna, Hiromi Tada, Dean Taylor, Antonio Telesca, Alan Tennyson, Jorgen Thomsen, Andrew W. "Jack" Tordoff, Michael Totten, Dave Towns, David Tarkhnishvili, Romeo Trono, Janine Victor, David Wake, Justin Ward, Garry L. Werren, Tony Whitten, Eric Wikramanayake, Stuart Williams, Peter Wood, Braam van Wyk, Nugzar Zazanshvili, Lu Zhi

Special Thanks

We would also like to acknowledge the following individuals and institutions, either for providing or reviewing data or information used in the hotspots revisted book, this website and the terrestrial vertebrate species database, or for other forms of assistance or support over the last few years that helped make it possible. In particular, we thank Tony Abbott, Thomas Akre, Thomas Allnutt, Allen Allison, Carlos Álvarez, Katama Amberbirr, Laura Arriaga, John Ash, Fred R. Barrie, Bruce Bartholomew, Afework Bekelle, Hesiquio Benitez, Jocelyn Bentley, Philippe BOuchet, Donald Broadley, David E. Brown, Neil Burgess, Scott Burnett, Tom Butynski, James Cambray, Chris Carpenter, Alan Channing, Janice Chanson, Lawrence Chau, Fernando Chiang, Arnaud Collin, Neil Cox, João Crawford-Cabral, Thomas B. Croat, Neil Crouch, Jennifer D’Amico, Thomas F. Daniel, Stoffel de Jager, Richard Dean, Roberto de la Maza, Ron Demey, Sebsebe Demissew, Pedro Díaz, Michael Donoghue, Robert L. Dressler, Bob Drewes, Amanda Driver, Sue Edwards, Gerald Eilu, Guven Eken, Fan Enyuan, José Manuel Espinosa, John Fa, Neil Fairall, John Fellowes, María Hilda Flores Olvera, Oscar Flores-Villela, David Frodin, Carlos Galindo, Hubert Geraux, Justin Gerlach, Michael Gilbert, Francisco González-Medrano, Janice Golding, Steven Goodman, Katharine Gotto, Werner Greuter, Robert Guldenmond, Ron Gutberlet, Sun Hang, James Harrison, Billy Hau, Larence Heaney, S. Blair Hedges, Rod Henderson, Vernon Heywood, Kris Helgen, David Hibbett, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Carsten Hobohm, Tseng-Chieng Huang, Wayne Hsu, Luke Hunter, Brian Huntley, Lucas Human, Clyde Imada, Dean Impson, Raúl Jiménez, Yin Kaipu, Andrei Kandaurov, Sam Kanyamibwa, Mark Keith, Philippe Keith, Susan L. Kelley, Michael Kennedy, Ronan Kirsch, Sandra Knapp, Maurice Kottelat, Chien-wei Kuan, Gigi Laidler, Malcolm Largen, Michael Lau, Sebastien Lavergne, Pei-Jen Lee, Keng-hsien Lin, Frida Lindemalm, Porter P. Lowry II, David Mallon, Staci Markos, Michael Maunder, Rodrigo Medellín, Erik Meijaard, James Miller, Scott Miller, John Miskell, Dick Moe, Sanjay Molur, Elizabeth Moreno, Rob Morely, John Morrison, Enrique Muñoz, Adolfo Navarro, John Neldner, Susana Ocegueda, Javier Ortega, N. Parthasarathy, Brian Perry, Rohan Pethiyagoda, Otto Pfister, J.Danuta Plisko, Derek Pomeroy, John F. Pruski, Chris Puttock, Richard H. Ree, Jerzy Rzedowski, Jan Schipper, Wes Sechrest, R. Uma Shaanker, Kuang-chao Shao, Jevgeni Shergalin, Lee Kwok Shing, Tatyana Shulkina, Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Hester Steyn, Hannelie Snyman, Yolande Steenkamp, Warren Douglas Stevens, Daryn Storch, Holly Strand, Simon Stuart, Julie L. Tessler, Laurence E. Skogg, Wu Sugong, David Tarkhnishvili, Ming-chang Tu, Charlotte M. Taylor, Michele Thieme, Andrew W. Jack Tordoff, Lana Troy, Baz van Pinto, Berndt J. van Rensburg, Rudi van Aarde, James Vonesh, David Wake, Wes Wettengel, Stuart Williams, Daniel Winkler, Derek Yalden, Xie Yan, Jen-te Yen, Jia Yu, James L. Zarucchi, Wang Zheng, Yang Zhuliang, the Avian Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town, the KwaZulu-Natal Conservation Service, the World Wildlife Fund-US, and the National Science Foundation.

Other special thanks are due to Fabio Cassola, Richard Freitag, Karl Werner, W. Dan Sumlin and Dave Brzoska for the use of data pertaining to tiger beetles, and to Peter Raven and colleagues (in particular Peter Stevens) at the Missouri Botanical Garden for kindly lending us their botanical expertise and insights.

We would also like to acknowledge the help and advice received from our friends and colleagues at BirdLife International, and the support of Craig Hilton-Taylor and Caroline Pollock in the IUCN Red List Office in Cambridge, UK.

We are also grateful for support received from various staff of Conservation International during the course of this project, including Gerry Allen, Jake Brunner, Chuck Burg, Roberto Cavalcanti, Shannon Charlton, Jason Cole, Philip Chou, Jessica Donovan, Sarah Frazee, Stuart Gottlieb, Nicole Guanzon, John Hanks, Frank Hawkins, Brian Hutchinson, Bobby Jo Kelso, Olivier Langrand, Janice Long, Jill Lucena, Laara Manler, Nina Marshall, Judy Mills, John Musinsky, Ella Outlaw, Adriano Paglia, Ana Rodrigues, Jose Vicente Rodriguez-Mahecha, Anthony Rylands, Paul Salaman, James Sanderson, Alexander Shenkin, Chris Stone, Carly Vynne, John Watkin, Michele Zador, Sterling Zumbrunn.

We are indebted to those who were instrumental in developing the original version of the website: Art Blundell, Kari Brown, Greg Buppert, Dirck Byler, Joe Clift, Andrea Curran, Dana Demange, Jeff Flocken, Sarah Frazee, Carlos Galindo-Leal, Christian Heltne, Thomas Jacobsen, Fausto Lopez, Kudzai Nyagura, Silvio Olivieri, Perry Ong, Paulo Gustavo Prado, Sahondra Radilofe, Grace Rosell-Amball, Todd Stevenson, Suer Suryadi, Carly Vynne, Kristen Wayne, Ellen Winters.