National Biodiversity Conservation Priority - Setting Workshop
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Table 2. LAND AREA OF MINDANAO ISLANDS & THEIR FOREST COVER"<br />
' not included in 1900 and 1987 Swedish Space Corporation Study<br />
" Environmental Science for Social Change. Inc. (1 999)<br />
Table 3. PRINCIPAL MOUNTAINS IN MINDANAO<br />
I Karnpalili I Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental 2,257<br />
Table 4. SUMMARY OF THE VARIOUS PLANT GROUPS IN THE PHILIPPINES*<br />
PLANT GROUP<br />
NO. OF SPECIES<br />
No.<br />
Flowering Plants<br />
8,000<br />
3,200<br />
Gymnosperms<br />
33<br />
6<br />
Pteridophytes<br />
1,059<br />
35 1<br />
Mosses<br />
625<br />
116<br />
Lichens<br />
790<br />
Fungi<br />
3,000<br />
Algae<br />
1,145<br />
Total No. of Species<br />
14,652<br />
'Madulid (1 994); Amoroso (1 997);Tan and lwatsuki (1 991 ); Zamora (1 998)<br />
Table 5. NUMBER OF ENDEMIC TREE SPECIES IN MINDANAO*<br />
Mainland Mindanao<br />
Davao<br />
Zamboanga<br />
Agusan<br />
Surigao<br />
Bu kidnon<br />
Lanao<br />
Basilan<br />
PROVINCE<br />
ENDEMIC SPECIES<br />
%<br />
68%<br />
18%<br />
37%<br />
23 O h<br />
NO. OF ENDEMIC SPECIES"<br />
90 (28%)<br />
73 (24%)<br />
59 (18%)<br />
56 (17%)<br />
45 (14%)<br />
35 (11%)<br />
34<br />
24
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