This new ecological food web grew even more complex.
"This is a major innovation, getting into a new ecological niche," said Petraglia.
Our own lineage, the primates, apparently blossomed during that event, filling new ecological niches.
Each variation in elevation creates new ecological zones for plant and animal life.
Now the task is to create a whole new ecological infrastructure for the region.
The previous ancestors did not have that technology, so it means you are now occupying a new ecological niche, you can now take animals down more efficiently".
Human activity has created a new ecological niche that bears and other adaptable species, like coyotes, foxes, raccoons and deer, adeptly exploit.
The dinosaurs were diversifying with new clades appearing, the pterosaurs saw the appearance of the derived pterodactyloids, and mammals were also adopting new ecological niches.
This event precipitated a worldwide firestorm that ended the reign of dinosaurs and opened new ecological niches for primates, leading to the eventual emergence of Homo sapiens.
The farms engaged with seasonal changes to have a positive environmental impact, creating a new ecological system rich with vegetables and waterbirds.
If only Collier had stuck to straight climate economics like Lord Nicholas Stern, or to new ecological research like the Indian Pavan Sukhdev.
