{"id":149925,"date":"2024-03-19T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=149925"},"modified":"2024-03-19T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T12:21:49","slug":"tropical-regions-harbour-more-species-than-the-temperate-regions-how-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/quiz\/tropical-regions-harbour-more-species-than-the-temperate-regions-how-have","title":{"rendered":"Tropical regions harbour more species than the temperate regions. How have&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tropical regions harbour more species than the temperate regions.<br \/>\nHow have biologists tried to explain this in their own ways? Explain.<\/h2>\n<h3>Ans.<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<h3>Productivity Hypothesis: Higher productivity in tropical regions supports a greater diversity of plant species, which in turn provides more resources and niches for other organisms, leading to higher species richness.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Habitat Heterogeneity Hypothesis: Greater habitat diversity in tropical regions, with diverse ecosystems occurring in close proximity, supports a wide range of species with varying ecological requirements, contributing to higher species richness.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Evolutionary Time Hypothesis: Longer periods of stable climate and habitat in tropical regions allow for the accumulation of diverse species through processes such as speciation and adaptation, resulting in higher species richness.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h3>Environmental Stability Hypothesis: Less seasonal and climatic variation in tropical regions reduces the risk of extinction and facilitates the persistence of diverse species populations over time, contributing to higher species richness.<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical regions harbour more species than the temperate regions. How have biologists tried to explain this in their own ways? Explain. Ans. Productivity Hypothesis: Higher productivity in tropical regions supports a greater diversity of plant species, which in turn provides more resources and niches for other organisms, leading to higher species richness. Habitat Heterogeneity Hypothesis: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":114041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12119],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-149925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-quiz"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149929,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149925\/revisions\/149929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}