NOUN
- the development of many different forms from an originally homogeneous group of organisms as they fill different ecological niches
How To Use adaptive radiation In A Sentence
- Another model is adaptive radiation, such as when a species of bird first colonizes an island, then diversifies into a variety of forms to take advantage of the available niches. Continuation…
- Much of this diversification has occurred recently, creating spectacular examples of adaptive radiation and of speciation in action (table S1).
- Their adaptive radiation occurred in the Eocene when palms, figs, lipid-rich laurels, and other extant families were prominent.
- But this is not meant to belittle the magnitude of the adaptive radiations that took place in the Vendian and Cambrian periods.
- Adaptive radiation in sauropod dinosaurs: bone histology indicates rapid evolution of giant body size through acceleration. ‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part II
