Sentences with phrase «rapid adaptive radiation»
This allowed the group led by Ole Seehausen (head of the Fish Ecology and Evolution department at Eawag and Professor of Aquatic Ecology at Bern University) to provide strong evidence for his theory that hybridization between divergent species, in conjunction with ecological opportunity, can facilitate rapid adaptive radiation.
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Adaptive radiation is the rapid speciation of one ancestral species to fill many empty ecological niches.
Andrew P. Hendry, Aspen S. Hendry & Cedar A. Hendry — 2013 (3)([email protected]) Keywords: adaptive radiation, constraint, contemporary evolution, diversification, local adaptation, natural selection, rapid evolution, stickleback