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The Philippines is one of the world’s 17 megadiversity countries that collectively claim two-thirds of the earth’s biological diversity within their borders. However, the Philippines is also one of 34 global biodiversity hotspots, which means that the nation’s high biodiversity and endemism is under a high level of threat. The primary threats to Philippine biodiversity are habitat alteration and loss caused by destructive resource use, developmental activities, and human population pressure. It is an archipelago consisting of 7,100 islands with a total land area of about 300,000 km2 (30 million hectares). Despite its relatively small land area, the Philippines supports numerous and diverse habitats with highly diverse and unique species.
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Amoroso, V.B. (2012). Plant Diversity in Two Philippine Long-Term Ecological Research Sites. In: Nakano, Si., Yahara, T., Nakashizuka, T. (eds) The Biodiversity Observation Network in the Asia-Pacific Region. Ecological Research Monographs. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54032-8_4
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