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 (bī′ō-dĭ-vûr′sə-fĭ-kā′shən, -dī-)
The process by which biodiversity develops or is increased within a region or a group of organisms.

bi′o·di·ver′si·fied adj.
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The article is a contribution to IGCP projects 519 'The Early to Middle Paleozoic Revolution' and 653 'The onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event'.
That bump in oxygen coincided with an evolutionary time known as the Ordovician radiation, or the great Ordovician biodiversification event, when there was suddenly a lot more variety in the types of creatures that swam the Earth.
The Ordovician is an important time of biodiversification in shallow marine environments, which is also recorded in trace fossils (Mangano and Droser, 2004).
Our understanding of the Cambrian biodiversification event, as well as relevant biological events prior to the Cambrian period, has been greatly clarified since 1859 by the development of radiometric dating techniques.
The Cambrian period, known for the "Cambrian Explosion" that saw the sudden appearance of all the major animal groups and the establishment of complex ecosystems, was followed by the "Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event," when the number of marine animal genera increased exponentially over a period of 25 million years.
Thus, biodiversification of the nearby orchard community tends to enhance the over-all species diversity and contributes also to the pest control by the antagonists which interfer between both the systems.
It is interesting to note that, based on molecular analyses of other groups of organisms, taxa of the high Andes and Patagonia have also been suggested as prime candidates for the impact of Pleistocene effects on biodiversification (Chesser, 2000).
His interest on rugosans has continued ever since, with the latest publications devoted to the diversification of the group during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (Kaljo 2004).
2013), more specifically, in studies of the Ordovician biodiversification (Harper 2006) and faunal turnovers (Zhan et al.
This paper is a contribution to IGCP project 653 'The onset of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event'.
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