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Q. The concept of Hot-Spot was first introduced by

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The concept of hotspots was introduced by Norman Myers (1988), who initially identified 12 hotspots. Today the number of hotspots identified by ecologists is 34 covering an area less than 2% of land surface with about 20% of human population living there.