Comparing Adaptive Radiations Across Space, Time, and Taxa.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive radiation plays a fundamental role in our understanding of the evolutionary process. However, the concept has provoked strong and differing opinions concerning its definition and nature among researchers studying a wide diversity of systems. Here, we take a broad view of what constitutes an adaptive radiation, and seek to find commonalities among disparate examples, ranging from plants to invertebrate and vertebrate animals, and remote islands to lakes and continents, to better understand processes shared across adaptive radiations. We surveyed many groups to evaluate factors considered important in a large variety of species radiations. In each of these studies, ecological opportunity of some form is identified as a prerequisite for adaptive radiation. However, evolvability, whic

SUBMITTER: Gillespie RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7931853 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature