biodiversity hotspot

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˌbaɪə(ʊ)daɪˌvɜːsɪti ˈhɒtˌspɒt/
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• General-American: /ˌbaɪoʊdəˌvɚsəti ˈhɑtˌspɑt/
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• General-American: [-ɾi]
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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.

35 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bihari: बायोडायवर्सिटी हॉटस्पॉट — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Catalan: zona sensible de la biodiversitat — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Chinese Mandarin: 生物多樣性熱點 /生物多样性热点 (shēngwùduōyàngxìngrèdiǎn) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Danish: hotspot — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Dutch: biodiversiteitshotspot — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Dutch: hotspot van de biodiversiteit — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Esperanto: biodiverseco-varmpunkto — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Esperanto: biodiverseco-riĉajejo — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Estonian: bioloogilise mitmekesisuse tulipunkt — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Estonian: elurikkuse tulipunkt — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Finnish: monimuotoisuuskeskus — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Finnish: luonnon monimuotoisuuden keskittymä — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• French: point chaud de biodiversité — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• French: zone critique de biodiversité — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• German: Biodiversitäts-Hotspot — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• German: Brennpunkt der Biodiversität — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Hebrew: נקודה חמה (n'kudá khamá) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Hindi: जैवविविधता हॉटस्पॉट (jaivvividhtā hŏṭaspŏṭ) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Indonesian: titik panas keanekaragaman hayati — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Italian: punto caldo di biodiversità — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Japanese: 生物多様性ホットスポット (seibutsu tayō-sei hotto supotto) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Japanese: ホットスポット (hotto supotto) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Kannada: ಜೀವವೈವಿಧ್ಯದ ಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮ ಪ್ರದೇಶಗಳು (jīvavaividhyada sūkṣma pradēśagaḷu) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Korean: 생물 다양성 핫스팟 (saengmul dayangseong hatseupat) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Macedonian: биоразно́видно жа́риште (bioraznóvidno žárište) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Malayalam: മഹാവൈവിധ്യപ്രദേശങ്ങൾ (mahāvaividhyapradēśaṅṅaḷ) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Portuguese: hotspot de biodiversidade — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Portuguese: hotspot ecológico — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Russian: оча́г биоразнообразия (očág bioraznoobrazija) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Spanish: punto caliente — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Swedish: biologisk hetfläck — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Ukrainian: гаря́ча то́чка біорізноманіття (harjáča tóčka bioriznomanittja) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Urdu: حیاتی تنوع علاقہ (jaivvividhtā hŏṭaspŏṭ) — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Vietnamese: điểm nóng về đa dạng sinh học — place with a significant level of biodiversity
• Welsh: llecyn cyfoethog o ran bioamrywiaeth — place with a significant level of biodiversity