Robert MacArthur

Robert H. MacArthur (Robert Helmer MacArthur ;) ( born April 7, 1930; † November 1, 1972 ) was an American ecologist who made ​​significant achievements in the areas of Community Ecology, population ecology and theoretical biology has provided. As a student of George Evelyn Hutchinson, he played a significant role in the development of theories of ecological niches. Together with Edward O. Wilson, he wrote The Theory of Biogeography Iceland ( cf. island biogeography ), a work that significantly influenced the field of biogeography, ecology of communities in advancing greatly and eventually led to the development of modern landscape ecology. The emphasis on statistical tests as a method within his work helped to develop the ecology of a primarily ideographic to nomothetic science, what the development of theoretical ecology gave important impulses.

Publications

  • With Edward O. Wilson: An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography. In: Evolution. 17, 1963, pp. 373-387
  • Joseph H. Connell: The Biology of Populations. Wiley, 1966 Biology of populations. BLV Verlagsgesellschaft, Munich / Basel / Wien 1970, ISBN 3-405-10883-7
  • Biogeography of the islands. Goldmann, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-442-55014-9
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