Extinction leads to open ecological niches that facilitate rapid speciation and adaptive radiation, as seen with mammals after the extinction of dinosaurs.
A extinção leva a nichos ecológicos abertos que facilitam a especiação rápida e a radiação adaptativa, como aconteceu com os mamíferos após a extinção dos dinossauros.
| Text | Extinction leads to open ecological niches which facilitate rapid speciation and adaptive radiation. For instance, after the dinosaurs went extinct, ancestral mammals came to occupy the vacated niche and experience adaptive radiation. |
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