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Why Do Tropical Ecosystems Have Higher Biodiversity?

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Science 2.0

Publication Date
2014-10-14

Why is biodiversity is higher in the tropics than in colder regions? It's one of ecology’s unsolved puzzles and has been since the European explorers and naturalists of the 17th and 18th centuries discovered there is a stunningly rich biodiversity in the tropics compared to the temperate regions of the world.

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http://www.science20.com/news_articles/why_do_tropical_ecosystems_have_higher_biodiversity-146783