Fuente: U-M News Service - Releases - engineering environment health infotech lsa physicsmath science socialsci
Expuesto el: miércoles, 05 de mayo de 2010 6:00
Autor: U-M News Service - Releases - engineering environment health infotech lsa physicsmath science socialsci
Asunto: Climate change and mountain building led to mammal diversity patterns
| Travel from the tropics to the poles, and you'll notice that the diversity of mammals declines with distance from the equator. Move from lowland to mountains, and you'll see diversity increase as the landscape becomes more varied. Ecologists have proposed various explanations for these well-known "biodiversity gradients," invoking ecological, evolutionary and historical processes |
