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The Theory of Island Biogeography has its roots in Wilson's work on the ants of Melanesia.MacArthur synthesized Wilson's ideas about competition, colonization and equilibrium into a simple graphical representation of immigration and extinction curves, from which one can determine the equilibrial species number on an island. [3]
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.
MacArthur and Levins examine this system applied to three populations, also visualized as resource utilization curves, depicted below. In this model, at some upper limit of competition α, between two species x 1 and x 3, the survival of a third species x 2 between the other two is not possible. This phenomenon is termed limiting similarity.
Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson – The Theory of Island Biogeography; Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore – The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects; William Manchester – The Death of a President; Robert K. Massie – Nicholas and Alexandra; Desmond Morris – The Naked Ape [16] Anaïs Nin – The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Two ...
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.
Recurring sporting events established in 1967 (3 C, 80 P) Pages in category "Recurring events established in 1967" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.