Botany - Biodiversity and its Conservation Question with Solution | TestHub
Tropical rain forests once covered more than ____a____percent of the Earth surface, now covers not more than ___b___percent.
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The region near the middle of the Earth between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricon is considered as the Tropic region. This region receives the most amount of solar energy which leads to better productivity and higher species diversity. Also, the seasonal variations in such regions are low and environment mainly remains the same supporting high species richness and promoting niche specialization. Tropical rain forests used to cover more than 14 per cent of the Earth surface. Now due to human activities leading to destruction of habitat and pushing many species to the brink of extinction has tropical rainforests cover no more than 6 percent.
