same climate that gives v. high productivity
also generates "wet desert" soils
unless taken up, nutrients rapidly leached
<1% nutrients penetrate >5cm.
so, very poor soil macrofauna
2/3 tropics have laterite soils, high in Al+Fe;
sequester nutrients => insoluble
EXTREMELY RAPID DECOMPOSITION
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