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Ecological Opportunity

**Ecological Opportunity** is an ecological and evolutionary condition in which a lineage experiences access to evolutionarily accessible but underutilized resources and/or relaxed biotic constraints (e.g. from competitors, predators, or other antagonists), thereby reducing stabilizing selection on ecologically important traits and enabling diversification associated with adaptive radiation.

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Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism

Jonathan B. Losos · The American Naturalist · 2010 · 654 citations · Full text

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Ecological Opportunity and Adaptive Radiation

James T. Stroud, Jonathan B. Losos · Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics · 2016 · 589 citations · Full text

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Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation

Catherine E. Wagner, Luke J. Harmon, Ole Seehausen · Nature · 2012 · 522 citations

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ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE RATE OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF GREATER ANTILLEAN ANOLES

D. Luke Mahler, Liam J. Revell, Richard E. Glor et al. · Evolution · 2010 · 481 citations · Full text

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Ecological Causes of Adaptive Radiation

Dolph Schluter · The American Naturalist · 1996 · 480 citations

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  1. OS
    Ole Seehausen

    Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland

    9 publications · 1.3K citations

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  2. CE
    Catherine E. Wagner

    Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Switzerland

    4 publications · 1.1K citations

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  3. LJ
    Luke J. Harmon

    University of Idaho, United States

    4 publications · 1K citations

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  4. CH
    Christopher H. Martin

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    4 publications · 629 citations

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  5. ED
    Edward D. Burress

    Auburn University, United States

    3 publications · 137 citations

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  1. University of Bern

    Bern, Switzerland

    9 h-index

    29 publications

    3.2K citations

  2. Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

    Dübendorf, Switzerland

    9 h-index

    29 publications

    3.5K citations

  3. University of Idaho

    Moscow, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    1.4K citations

  4. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    1.5K citations

  5. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    571 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    4 h-index

    9 publications

    1.2K citations

  7. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    3 h-index

    8 publications

    388 citations

  8. Smithsonian Institution

    Washington, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    152 citations

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  2. Evolution

    9 publications · 870 citations

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  3. The American Naturalist

    AN · 7 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

    3 publications · 105 citations

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  5. Current Biology

    3 publications · 128 citations

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