Why more species live in the Amazon rainforests

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 - 09:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than two hundred years, the question of why there are more species in the tropics has been a biological enigma.  A particularly perplexing aspect is why so many species live together in a small area in the tropics, especially at some sites in the rainforests of the Amazon Basin in South America.

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