Environment > Biodiversity richness: Countries Compared

Author: Edria Murray, Staff editor

Biodiversity richness refers to the number of species present and the number of endemic

species.

This index has defined three groups:

<li>Group 1 - These are the twenty five countries with the greatest

biodiversity.</li>

<li>Group 2 - The next twenty five countries most biodiverse countries.</li>
<li>Group 3 - Island nations or groups of islands which have fewer total species, but

a large proportion of unique native species.</li>

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DEFINITION: Caldecott, J.O., M.D. Jenkins, T. Johnson and B. Groombridge. 1994. Priorities for Conserving Global Species Richness and Endemism. In World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Biodiversity Series No. 3 (N. Mark Collins, ed.) pp. 17. World Conservation Press, Cambridge, UK.

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CONTENTS

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INTERESTING
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Totals

#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
=1	Mauritius	3	1994
=1	Japan	3	1994
=1	Federated States of Micronesia	3	1994
=1	Palau	3	1994
=1	Taiwan	3	1994
=1	Fiji	3	1994
=1	Vanuatu	3	1994
=1	Haiti	3	1994
=1	Seychelles	3	1994
=1	Samoa	3	1994
=1	Jamaica	3	1994
=1	Comoros	3	1994
=13	Kenya	2	1994
=13	Laos	2	1994
=13	Panama	2	1994
=13	Cuba	2	1994
=13	Nigeria	2	1994
=13	Guyana	2	1994
=13	Thailand	2	1994
=13	Uganda	2	1994
=13	Sudan	2	1994
=13	Botswana	2	1994
=13	Suriname	2	1994
=13	Iran	2	1994
=13	Chile	2	1994
=13	Zambia	2	1994
=13	Turkey	2	1994
=13	Paraguay	2	1994
=13	Cambodia	2	1994
=13	Ghana	2	1994
=13	Guatemala	2	1994
=13	Angola	2	1994
=13	Gabon	2	1994
=13	Burma	2	1994
=35	Malaysia	1	1994
=35	China	1	1994
=35	Vietnam	1	1994
=35	Guinea	1	1994
=35	Ecuador	1	1994
=35	Australia	1	1994
=35	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1	1994
=35	Philippines	1	1994
=35	Colombia	1	1994
=35	Brazil	1	1994
=35	Venezuela	1	1994
=35	Ethiopia	1	1994
=35	Cameroon	1	1994
=35	Argentina	1	1994
=35	Bolivia	1	1994
=35	Tanzania	1	1994
=35	Madagascar	1	1994
=35	India	1	1994
=35	Indonesia	1	1994

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