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Opportunity-driven Diversification

Opportunity-Driven Diversification is a macroevolutionary process in which the proliferation of species arises from the adaptive exploitation of underutilized ecological resources or vacant niches, distinguished by the causal role of ecological opportunity in triggering phenotypic divergence and speciation.

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Population diversity and the portfolio effect in an exploited species

Daniel E. Schindler, Ray Hilborn, Brandon E. Chasco et al. · Nature · 2010 · 1.6K citations

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Density-dependent diversification in North American wood warblers

Daniel L. Rabosky, Irby J. Lovette · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2008 · 424 citations · Full text

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Mutualism with sea anemones triggered the adaptive radiation of clownfishes

Glenn Litsios, Carrie A. Sims, Rafael O. Wüest et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2012 · 142 citations · Full text

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Determinants of diversity in higher taxonomic categories

James W. Valentine · Paleobiology · 1980 · 140 citations

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Apparent signal of competition limiting diversification after ecological transitions from marine to freshwater habitats

Ricardo Betancur‐R, Ariel M. Stein, Alexandre Pires Marceniuk et al. · Ecology Letters · 2012 · 107 citations

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  1. RA
    Ryan A. Martin

    Case Western Reserve University, United States

    2 publications · 96 citations

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  2. DW
    David W. Pfennig

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    2 publications · 96 citations

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  3. CA
    Carrie A. Sims

    The University of Queensland, Australia

    1 publications · 142 citations

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  4. JW
    James W. Valentine

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    1 publications · 140 citations

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  5. MS
    Matthew S. Rogan

    University of Cape Town, South Africa

    1 publications · 52 citations

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  1. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    9.7K citations

  2. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    226 citations

  3. American Museum of Natural History

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    74 citations

  4. University of Basel

    Basel, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    288 citations

  5. Cornell Lab of Ornithology

    Ithaca, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    848 citations

  6. Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

    Palo Alto, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    1.6K citations

  7. University of the Western Cape

    Cape Town, South Africa

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    56 citations

  8. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

    Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    426 citations

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  2. Evolution

    3 publications · 132 citations

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  3. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

    1 publications · 62 citations

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  4. BMC Evolutionary Biology

    1 publications · 142 citations

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  5. Journal of Animal Ecology

    1 publications · 52 citations

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