What Makes Life Go At The Tropics? Study Points To Heat, Not Light, As Engine Driving Biodiversity
What causes tropical life to thrive: temperature, or sunlight?The answer is not necessarily “both.” According to a study published online this week in PNAS Early Edition, the explosion of species at the tropics has much more to do with warmth than with light.
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Filed under: Biology on June 1st, 2008