Why Do So Many Species Live In Tropical Forests And Coral Reefs?
ScienceDaily (Nov. 6, 2007) The latest development in a major debate over a controversial hypothesis of biodiversity and species abundance is the subject of a paper to be published in the 1 November 2007 issue of the journal Nature. The authors report good agreement between the species richness of two of the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems — tropical forests and coral reefs — and a simple mathematical model building on the so-called “neutral theory of biodiversity.
