Some populations of forest-restricted species may be pre-adapted to life in open formations.If, during the dry part of a climatic cycle, they happen to be confined to a refuge that eventually vanishes, they may, in the process, become completely adapted to open formation conditions and constitute a full ecological vicariant.
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Vanzolini et al. (1980) studied this question.
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