Convergence versus nonconvergence in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems

ML Cody, HA Mooney - Annual Review of Ecology and …, 1978 - annualreviews.org
The forms and functions of unrelated organisms that occupy similar but disjunct habitats
often show parallels and similarities. Such comparability has been used as evidence of the
strong role the environment plays in the evolutionary process and of the limited number of
optimal adaptive solutions to a given environmental complex.