Sentence examples for period of diversification from inspiring English sources

"This is a period of diversification, during which they are very sensitive to their internal nutritional state and needs," he adds.

In the last decades of the 20th century, Philip Morris embarked on a period of diversification in order to reduce dependence on the faltering tobacco market.

Thus, the tree ferns apparently were affected by the mass extinction event recorded across nearly all groups of organisms at the close of the Cretaceous Period, which opened ecological niches for another period of diversification.

Theridiidae dates back some 100 mya to the Cretaceous, a period of diversification in flowering plants and many groups of insects, including ants.

The clade containing H. medicinalis also seems to have undergone an intense period of diversification around the time of the breakup of Pangea.

This pattern follows into the Lujanian SALMA, when the genus likely experienced a second period of diversification, with several species occurring sympatrically: T. olivaresi, T cristatellus, T. mesopotamicus, T. rioplatensis, T. tarijensis [ 27].

The scientific study of evolution in Chile has experienced periods of diversification and stasis, depending upon the social and political context at different times.

If clades have different peak periods of diversification, even though average diversification rates are relatively similar among tribes, this would suggest that biological differences among tribes did matter in the build-up of present-day diversity.

The result holds even at peak periods of diversification in Lake Tanganyika, ruling out the age of the lake as an explanation for slow average rates, and is robust to uncertainties over the calibration of cichlid radiations in geological time.

In any case, on the basis of the normalized diversity curves in combination with the pattern of taxonomic rates, it can be concluded that anomodonts experienced three distinct periods of diversification and at least two extinction events, i.e. the end-Guadalupian and end-Permian events, before their final decline towards the end of the Triassic.

Grylloblatta lineages, clades and subclades in California are characterized by broadly overlapping periods of diversification.