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SUBMITTER: Arbour JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5013758 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Arbour Jessica Hilary JH López-Fernández Hernán H
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20160801 1836
Adaptive radiations have been hypothesized to contribute broadly to the diversity of organisms. Models of adaptive radiation predict that ecological opportunity and ecological release, the availability of empty ecological niches and the response by adapting lineages to occupy them, respectively, drive patterns of phenotypic and lineage diversification. Adaptive radiations driven by 'ecological opportunity' are well established in island systems; it is less clear if ecological opportunity influen ...[more]