adaptive radiation

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-000092",
  "term": "adaptive radiation",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Rapid divergent evolution of a more generalized ancestral species into a variety of more specialized species or subspecies which fill unoccupied ecological niches.",
  "synonyms": [
    "adaptive divergence"
  ],
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "evolutionary radiation",
    "species dispersal",
    "acquired characters",
    "geographical isolation",
    "ecomorphology",
    "niche conservatism"
  ],
  "references": [
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "radiación adaptativa"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/adaptive-radiation/"
}