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Andes
Steep gradients in temperature and rainfall and Earth's highest biodiversity make this a perfect laboratory for studying species distributions and climate change. Find out more...

Amazon
There are as many species of trees in a hectare of tropical rain forest as there are in all of North America. The Amazon is our lab for asking why.

Paleo
Theories of community structure are usually tested using space as a proxy for time. Paleoecology allows us to look at time directly.