I am wondering, do extreme environments mean less biodiversity?
I had the following idea; an extreme environment requires specialised organisms. So in an extreme environment, you would have a small range of species because they all need to be specialised.
However, in an environment that is conducive to growth of organisms (i.e. not extreme), a wider range of organisms would be able to grow as they don't need to be specialised and thus there would be more biodiversity.
Is this a logical idea? Is there any literature that could back this up?
Thanks
Oliver