How to use in-sentence of “adaptive radiation”:
+ Flying gave the birds access to many new habitats, and an adaptive radiation took place.
+ The subsequent adaptive radiation was spurred by a lack of competition and a wide variety of vacant niches.
+ Speciation processes in the adaptive radiation of Hawaiian plants and animals.
+ Much of this adaptive radiation has taken place at the same time as the evolution of the flowering plants.
+ Beetles went through a massive adaptive radiation early in their evolutionary history.
+ However, after the Permian-Triassic extinction event bivalves had a huge adaptive radiation while brachiopods were devastated, losing 95% of their diversity.
+ Megalosaurids were among the first major adaptive radiation They were a relatively primitive group of basal tetanurans with two main subfamilies, Megalosaurinae and Afrovenatorinae.
+ The adaptive radiation of birds in the Lower Cretaceous, teleosts in the Cretaceous, flowering plants in the Upper Cretaceous, mammals in the Eocene, moths in the Cretaceous are striking examples of macroevolution.
Example sentences of “adaptive radiation”:
+ The Permian was also a period of adaptive radiation in insects.
+ Molecular dating suggests that the family DeerCervidae originated and radiated in central Asia during the Late Odocoileini dispersed to North America during the Miocene/Pliocene boundary and underwent an adaptive radiation in South America after their Pliocene dispersal across the Isthmus of Panama.
+ The adaptive radiation of teleost fish meant their new prey were fast swimming and highly evasive.
+ The Permian was also a period of adaptive radiation in insects.
+ Molecular dating suggests that the family DeerCervidae originated and radiated in central Asia during the Late Odocoileini dispersed to North America during the Miocene/Pliocene boundary and underwent an adaptive radiation in South America after their Pliocene dispersal across the Isthmus of Panama.
More in-sentence examples of “adaptive radiation”:
+ The Maluridae are one of the many bird families to have evolved from a great adaptive radiation of what were crows to new ecological opportunities in Australasia.
+ This adaptive radiation produced the first members of the main groups of animals, called phyla.
+ Later adaptive radiation was caused by a lack of competition and a wide variety of vacant niches.
+ The Maluridae are one of the many bird families to have evolved from a great adaptive radiation of what were crows to new ecological opportunities in Australasia.
