Sentence examples for ecological diversification from inspiring English sources

Jurassic fossils show that ecological diversification and the developmental mechanisms behind it occurred in early mammals.

Among closely related species of finches or sticklebacks, we can see operating the process that has contributed greatly to the extraordinary ecological diversification of life.

Adaptive radiation is the rapid and extensive ecological diversification of an organismal lineage to generate both phenotypic disparity (divergence) and similarity (convergence).

"The total range of ecological diversification is so much greater than we thought possible 5 years ago," says Zhexi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Theory predicts that such ecological diversification should lead to selection for reproductive isolation.

Despite these lines of evidence, the specific hypothesis of ecological diversification remains largely untested for corals.

Numerous observations indicate that ecological diversification may be important in coral evolution.

How particular changes in functional morphology can repeatedly promote ecological diversification is an active area of evolutionary investigation.

Habitat partitioning and ecological diversification have also been observed for the photosymbiotic partners (Symbiodinium) of scleractinian corals.

Ecological release is coupled with adaptive radiation and ecological diversification yet little is known about the molecular basis of phenotypic changes associated with this phenomenon.

Ecological diversification can arise through various sources of divergent selection (reviewed in [2]), including sexual selection (e.g. selection on mate recognition traits) and ecological interactions (e.g. interspecific competition).