Evolution Of Biodiversity Flashcards
1
Q
Ecological opertunity
A
Open ecological niches
2
Q
Key adaptions
A
Features that enable a lineage to interact with the environment in a new way to use new resources
3
Q
Identifying a key adaption
A
Sister group comparison
4
Q
Species selection
A
Consistent correlation between trait and an increase/decrease of species richness
5
Q
Lineage though time plot
A
Changes in rates of splitting in a phylogenetic tree can be followed through time
Erroneous as it does not represent the extinction events
6
Q
Competitive displacement
A
Later clade causes extinction of earlier clade
7
Q
Incumbent displacement
A
An ecologically similar taxon prevents similar taxon from diversifying, as it already occupied resources
8
Q
Incumbent replacement
A
Extinction of incumbent taxon permits second taxon to diversify
