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The Ecology of Adaptive Radiation

Schluter, Dolph·2000
DOI 10.1093/oso/9780198505235.001.0001
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Abstract Adaptive radiation is a spectacular feature of evolution. It is also widespread, more so than the list of familiar cases, including the Galapagos finches, the cichlid fishes of East African lakes, and the Hawaiian silversword alliance, alone would suggest. Much of life’s diversity, perhaps even most of it, has arisen during similar episodes of speciation and phenotypic and ecological divergence. My main goal in this book is to assess how far we have come in understanding the causes of this remarkable process. Before I began the book I held the naive notion that my years of study on the Galapagos finches, where my fascination with adaptive radiation began, on African and American finches, and more recently on fishes of postglacial lakes, had taught me enough about adaptive radiation that my task would involve little more than writing down all I knew before I forgot it. As the book got underway the limits of my knowledge became distressingly apparent, and I now feel I learned most of its contents along the way. Here I aim to put the results of many studies together to ask whether they conform or contra st with the dominant ‘ecological’ theory of adaptive radiation that was formulated in the first half of the last century.

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  • Each of these possibilities involves the generation of new opportunities as the radiation continues, in contrast to the classic model of an adaptive radiation in which the suite of opportunities is available at the outset.

    “The important point is that each of these possibilities involves the generation of new opportunities as the radiation continues. This is in contrast to the classic model of an adaptive radiation in which the suite of opportunities is available at the outset of the radiation [13].”

    From Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life (2015) · cites this paper as [13]

  • More complex cross-level dynamics can also occur, as when predation or competition, which by definition negatively affect species at the organismic and population level, fragment populations or otherwise impose pressures that actually promote speciation or diversification rates.

    “predation or competition, which by definition negatively affect species at the organismic and population level, fragment populations or otherwise impose pressures that actually promote speciation or diversification rates”

    From SCALE AND HIERARCHY IN MACROEVOLUTION (2007) · cites this paper as Schluter 2000

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Authors
Schluter, D.
Affiliations
University of British Columbia (CA)
Corresponding author
Schluter, Dolph
ORCID
Schluter, Dolph
Publisher
Oxford University PressOxford
Published
2000-08-31
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198505235.001.0001
OpenAlex
W1603923763
Cited by
4,974
References
0
Citations by year
2026: 112 · 2025: 162 · 2024: 193 · 2023: 156 · 2022: 174 · 2021: 225 · 2020: 194 · 2019: 291 · 2018: 197 · 2017: 207 · 2016: 235 · 2015: 244 · 2014: 244 · 2013: 278 · 2012: 253
FWCI
56.75
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Behavior and Reproduction
Keywords
adaptive radiation, speciation, ecological divergence, phenotypic divergence, Galapagos finches, cichlid fish, evolutionary ecology, diversification

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