Origins and Maintenance of Tropical Biodiversity
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Contents 1. Introduction 2. Tropics: description, climate and ecosystems 3. Earth's biodiversity 4. Why are there so many different kinds of organisms in the Tropics? 5. Latitudinal gradients in species richness and their hypothesis 5.
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