Concealed patterns beneath life's variety
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 - 05:20
in Biology & Nature
Although the tropics appear to the casual observer to be busily buzzing and blooming with life's rich variety when compared with temperate and polar regions - a fact that scientists have thoroughly documented - the distribution of species in space and time actually varies around the globe in surprising and subtle ways. So explains Janne Soininen of the University of Helsinki in an article published in the June 2010 issue of BioScience...