Environment & Ecology · Biodiversity Drivers
What is the primary ecological mechanism through which higher solar insolation in tropical regions contributes to elevated biodiversity?
- 1It drives widespread physical habitat fragmentation, promoting localized speciation.
- 2It provides abundant energy, leading to higher primary productivity and supporting greater biomass and diversity.✓
- 3It prevents historical glaciations, keeping ecosystems completely undisturbed for millions of years.
- 4It creates extreme seasonal variation that accelerates natural selection and adaptive evolution.
Correct answer
It provides abundant energy, leading to higher primary productivity and supporting greater biomass and diversity.
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