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It is down to the amount of rainfall the places receive, rather than the obvious things like whether trees exist at one place than another.

Rainfall is the reason large parts of Antarctica is considered desert. It gets very little rain.

This has knock-on effects to plants and wildlife living in those areas. Forests having a much larger diversity of plant and animal life.

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