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The Theory of Island Biogeography is a 1967 book by the ecologist Robert MacArthur and the biologist Edward O. Wilson. [1] It is widely regarded as a seminal work in island biogeography and ecology.
MacArthur was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 1958–65, and professor of biology at Princeton University, 1965–72.He played an important role in the development of niche partitioning, and with E.O. Wilson he co-authored The Theory of Island Biogeography (1967), a work which changed the field of biogeography, drove community ecology and led to the development of modern ...
The terminology of r/K-selection was coined by the ecologists Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson in 1967 [2] based on their work on island biogeography; [3] although the concept of the evolution of life history strategies has a longer history [4] (see e.g. plant strategies).
The field was started in the 1960s by the ecologists Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson, [3] who coined the term island biogeography in their inaugural contribution to Princeton's Monograph in Population Biology series, which attempted to predict the number of species that would exist on a newly created island.
This linear model, first introduced by MacArthur and Wilson (1967), [3] has been commonly applied to both plants and animals to describe reproductive strategies.
Daniel Simberloff was the student of E.O. Wilson, with whom MacArthur collaborated on The Theory of Island Biogeography, a seminal work in the development of theoretical ecology. [ 69 ] Simberloff added statistical rigour to experimental ecology and was a key figure in the SLOSS debate , about whether it is preferable to protect a single large ...
In 1975, Jared Diamond suggested some "rules" for the design of protected areas, based on Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's book The Theory of Island Biogeography.One of his suggestions was that a single large reserve was preferable to several smaller reserves whose total areas were equal to the larger.
In 1967, he developed the theory of island biogeography with Robert MacArthur. Wilson was the Pellegrino University Research Professor Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University , a lecturer at Duke University , [ 2 ] and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry .