Read the following statements and choose the following option: 1. India, with much of its land area in the tropical latitudes, has more than 1,200 species of birds. 2. The latitudinal gradient shows that species diversity decreases as we move away from the equator. 3. A forest in a tropical region like Equador has up to 100 times as many species of vascular plants as a forest of equal area in a temperate region 4. Th