The highest elevations of Mount Kinabalu are home to the Kinabalu mountain alpine meadow, an alpine shrubland notable for its numerous endemic species, including many orchids.

Its distribution within the Americas, however, is most likely restricted to the United States and Mexico, where the highest species diversity occurs.

A July 2012 assessment found that exploitation of natural resources since the 2009 coup have had dire consequences for the island's wildlife: 90 percent of lemur species were found to be threatened with extinction, the highest proportion of any mammalian group.

There is evidence that the species was found in highest numbers in the once extensive bottom land river forests and swamps of the southeastern United States.

Locations with the highest density of red pandas include an area in the Himalayas that has been proposed as having been a refuge for a variety of endemic species in the Pleistocene.

He praised the unmarried state as the highest ( De monogamia, xvii ; Ad uxorem, i. 3 ), called upon Christians not to allow themselves to be excelled in the virtue of celibacy by Vestal Virgins and Egyptian priests, and he pronounced second marriage a species of adultery ( De exhortations castitatis, ix ).

The highest concentration of large deer species in temperate North America lies in the Canadian Rocky Mountain and Columbia Mountain regions between Alberta and British Columbia where all five North American deer species ( White-tailed deer, Mule deer, Caribou, Elk, and Moose ) can be found.

The highest concentration of large deer species in temperate Asia occurs in the mixed deciduous forests, mountain coniferous forests, and taiga bordering North Korea, Manchuria ( Northeastern China ), and the Ussuri Region ( Russia ).

The highest concentration of large deer species in the tropics occurs in Southern Asia in Northern India's Indo-Gangetic Plain Region and Nepal's Terai Region.

The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution ; the highest diversity is found in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, but many species also occur in South America and Africa, including at high altitudes on mountains in the tropics.

In terms of aquatic life, the Congo River Basin has a very high species richness, and among the highest known concentrations of endemics.

The center of diversity is in subtropical and tropical southeast Asia, while the highest number of species occur in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra.

Przewalski ’ s horse is known to have the highest diploid chromosome number among all equine species.

This genus has the highest number of species among the white-eyes by far.

Few species have been researched, however, with the highest density of sampled taxa being from Micronesia.

For all other beaked whale species studied, the highest recorded age is between 27 and 39 years.

Approximately 26 % of all species of fish, reptiles, birds, and mammals in South Florida are exotic — more than in any other part of the U. S .— and the region hosts one of the highest numbers of exotic plant species in the world.

In the former case, the number of fish species living in the area often is the highest of any reef zone.

In addition, the Table Mountain range has the highest concentration of threatened species of any continental area of equivalent size in the world.

The highest incidence of this disease in these areas occurs on golf courses due to the highly managed areas of susceptible turfgrass species such as Creeping Bentgrass ( Agrostis stolonifera ) and Annual Bluegrass ( Poa annua ).

The reserve has the highest number of bird species recorded at any inland site in the United Kingdom, at 274.

Polyploidy in lower plants ( ferns, horsetails and psilotales ) is also common, and some species of ferns have reached levels of polyploidy far in excess of the highest levels known in flowering plants. Polyploidy in animals is much less common, but it has been significant in some groups. Polyploid series in related species which consist entirely of multiples of a single basic number are known as euploid.

Out of Africa is also supported by the fact that mitochondrial genetic diversity is highest among African populations.

Reticulated and Masai giraffes have the highest mtDNA diversity, which is consistent with the fact that giraffes originated in eastern Africa.

According to scientific studies, natural human skin colour diversity within populations is highest in Sub-Saharan African populations, with skin reflectance values ranging from 19 to 46 ( med.

They reach highest diversity in reef environments but are also widespread on shallow shores, around the poles — refugia where crinoids are at their most abundant — and throughout the deep ocean, where bottom-dwelling and burrowing sea cucumbers are common — sometimes accounting for up to 90 % of organisms.

They have a cosmopolitan distribution across the world's oceans, with the highest diversity being around New Zealand.

Although Rubiaceae are found in nearly every major region of the world ( with the exception of continental Antarctica, the high arctic, and portions of central Africa and Asia ), diversity is highest in the humid tropics.

Their populations crashed during the Snowball Earth episodes, when all or very nearly all of the Earth's surface was covered by ice or snow, but they proliferated in the Cambrian explosion and reached their highest diversity in the Paleozoic.

* The Raja Ampat Islands in Indonesia's West Papua province offer the highest known marine diversity.

The highest attainment, according to Yoga, does not reveal the experienced diversity of the world to be an illusion.

The highest diversity of seabirds apparently existed during the Late Miocene and the Pliocene.

The highest diversity is found in the warmer parts of the Americas, but at least one species occurs in a major part of the world.

Biogeography of the fossil record suggests that the genus evolved in the northern Atlantic and spread globally during the Pliocene, when species diversity seems to have been highest as with most seabirds.

Typical warblers occur in the temperate to tropical regions of Europe, western and central Asia, and Africa, with the highest species diversity centred around the Mediterranean.

The highest diversity is in the North Pacific.

By far the highest species diversity is in China, where 50 species occur.

It has one of the highest land-based biological diversity in terms of flora and fauna per unit area.

The tapaculos ( pronounced ta-pa-COO-lo ) are a group of small suboscine passeriform birds with numerous species, found mainly in South America and with the highest diversity in the Andean regions.

The habitats of tropical lowland evergreen forest and montane evergreen forest have the highest single site species diversity while many habitats including rivers, palm forest, white sand forest, tropical deciduous forest edge, southern temperate forest, southern temperate forest edge, semi-humid / humid montane scrub, and northern temperate grassland have the lowest single species diversity.

A study by the University of the Philippines in the 1980s, found that the Batangas, Puerto Galera area has one of the highest diversity of marine species in the world.