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'''Ghat Barat''' atau '''Sahyadri''' adalah pegunungan yang terletak di ujung barat [[Dataran Tinggi Dekkan]] di [[anak benua India]]. Pegunungan ini merupakan [[Situs Warisan Dunia]] [[UNESCO]] dan salah satu dari delapan "titik panas" keanekaragaman hayati di dunia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6772/fig_tab/403853a0_T6.html
|title=''Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities''|publisher=Nature|access-date=16 Nov 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-07-02/flora-fauna/32507340_1_world-heritage-list-western-ghats-border-town
|title=''UN designates Western Ghats as world heritage site''|publisher=Times of India|access-date=2 July 2012
}}</ref> Pegunungan ini terbentang sepanjang 1.600 km dari dekat perbatasan [[Gujarat]] dan [[Maharashtra]] hingga [[Kanyakumari]] di ujung selatan India. Perbukitan tersebut meliputi wilayah seluas 160.000 km<sup>2</sup>. Pegunungan ini membuat angin [[muson]] barat daya tidak dapat menjangkau Dataran Tinggi Dekkan.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.westernghatsforum.org/abstract_12_05.pdf | author=V.S. Vijayan | title=''Research needs for the Western Ghats'' | publisher=Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE) | access-date=21 June 2007 }}</ref> Rata-rata ketinggiannya adalah sekitar 1.200 m.<ref name="APMN">{{cite web|url= http://apmn.icimod.org/mountains/ch2_peninsula.php|title= The Peninsula|access-date=19 March 2007|work=Asia-Pacific Mountain Network |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070812064356/http://apmn.icimod.org/mountains/ch2_peninsula.php <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 12 August 2007}}</ref>
Di wilayah pegunungan ini terdapat lebih dari 7.402 spesies tumbuhan berbunga, 1.814 spesies tumbuhan tak berbunga, 139 spesies [[mamalia]], 508 spesies [[burung]], 179 spesies [[amfibi]], 6000 spesies serangga dan 290 spesies ikan air tawar; kemungkinan masih banyak spesies yang belum ditemukan di Ghat Barat. Paling tidak terdapat 325 spesies yang terancam di spesies Barat.<ref name="Flowering plants">{{cite book|last1=Nayar|first1=T.S.|last2=Rasiya Beegam|first2=A|last3=Sibi|first3=M.|title=Flowering Plants of the Western Ghats, India (2 Volumes)|date=2014|publisher=Jawaharlal Nehru Tropical Botanic Garden and Research Institute. p.1700|location=Palode, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Myers | first1 = N. | last2 = Mittermeier | first2 = R.A. | last3 = Mittermeier | first3 = C.G. | last4 = Fonseca | first4 = G.A.B. Da | last5 = Kent | first5 = J. | year = 2000 | title = Biodiversity Hotspots for Conservation Priorities | url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v403/n6772/abs/403853a0.html | journal = Nature | volume = 403 | issue = | pages = 853–858 | doi=10.1038/35002501 | pmid=10706275}}</ref><ref name="NeeleshFish">{{cite journal | last1 = Dahanukar | first1 = N. | last2 = Raut | first2 = R. | last3 = Bhat | first3 = A. | year = 2004 | title = Distribution, endemism and threat status of freshwater fishes in the Western Ghats of India. | url = | journal = Journal of Biogeography | volume = 31 | issue = 1| pages = 123–136 | doi=10.1046/j.0305-0270.2003.01016.x}}</ref>
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