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Species richness is highest in tropics because:
A
Tropics had more evolutionary time
B
Tropics has relatively constant environment
C
Tropics gets more solar energy
D
All the above
Explanation
Higher biodiversity in tropics is due to uninterrupted evolutionary time, a predictable environment, and higher solar productivity. [cite: 1, 62]
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