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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]
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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 ...
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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).
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Kyle Sherwood, 28, came to Los Angeles for a drug treatment program. He ended up in MacArthur Park, where he was found dead, face down in a lake, according to officials. Two people have been ...
Rita Ellis was a 19-year-old Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) [note 1] servicewoman who was serving at RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire, England, when she was murdered on 11 November 1967. Ellis' murder has remained unsolved after 50 years despite periodic cold case inquiries and the availability of the offender's DNA sample, which has been tested ...