incumbent replacement
incumbent replacement An evolutionary mechanism, proposed in 1991 by M. L. Rosenzweig and R. D McCord, according to which a well-adapted species (the incumbent) becomes extinct, due to a chance combination of adverse factors, and its vacated niche is occupied by an invading species population.
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