Question

Which of the following characters is not related to biodiversity hotspot?
a) High species richness
b) High Endemism
c) Lesser interspecific interaction
d) Habitat loss

Answer 1

Hint: The biodiversity hotspot is the reserve land area which is used to protect the flora and fauna of that area. The hotspots have a great and huge variety of the flora and fauna present in that land area. The hotspots have three regions present according to which the human activity in that area is regulated.

Complete step by step answer:
The interaction between different species living in an area is known as the interspecific relationship or interspecific interaction. This kind of relationship may affect the individuals personally and have positive, negative, or the neutral effects. This relationship is not a characteristic feature of the biological hotspot.

So, the answer is ‘lesser interspecific interaction’.

Additional information: The biological hotspots are those which are biogeographical areas that are a reservoir of biodiversity and they are threatened due to their destruction because of human activities. For a region to be considered as a biodiversity hotspot the land area should have 1500 endemic vascular plants and less than thirty percent should be threatened. By the term endemic, it means that the plant species is found in that particular region only and would not survive if placed in some other region. There are 36 biodiversity hot spots present around the world. The Andes mountain present is the world’s largest biodiversity hotspot and is located in New Zealand.

Note:
The biological diversity hotspots present in India are the Himalayas, the Western ghats, and the Indo-Burma region. We need to protect the biodiversity on the Earth as the human interference has led to their destruction. If the destruction level reaches to a point where the species won’t be able to be restored then that would cause huge loss for us and for the generations to come.