The r/K selection theory is an evolutionary hypothesis examining the selection of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of...
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descendants. He hypothesized that r/K selection theory explains these differences. Rushton's application of r/K selection theory to explain differences among...
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K theory is a debunked hypothesis first proposed by Canadian psychologist J. Philippe Rushton in 1985, which attempts to apply r/K selection theory to...
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Theoretical ecology (redirect from Ecological theory)
is r/K selection theory, one of the first predictive models in ecology used to explain life-history evolution. The premise behind the r/K selection model...
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is modelled by r/K selection theory, which is based on Robert MacArthur and E. O. Wilson's work on island biogeography. In this theory, selective pressures...
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The book also popularized the concepts and terminology of r/K selection theory. The Theory of Island Biogeography has its roots in Wilson's work on the...
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Perspectives in Ecological Theory. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Rosenberg, R; Agrenius, S; Hellman, B; Nilsson, Hc; Norling, K (2002). "Recovery of...
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r/K selection theory. The central trade-off to life history theory is the number of offspring vs. the timing of reproduction. Organisms that are r-selected...
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Welfare economics Agricultural economics Nutritional anthropology r/K selection theory Socialism and famine Malthusian catastrophe Encyclopædia Britannica...
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Earth's Depths". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 September 2016. Dobrinski, K. P. (2005). "The Carbon-Concentrating Mechanism of the Hydrothermal Vent Chemolithoautotroph...
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1111/oik.01977. Stier, A. C.; Samhouri, J. F.; Novak, M.; Marshall, K. N.; Ward, E. J.; Holt, R. D.; Levin, P. S. (May 2016). "Ecosystem context and historical...
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grass?". petMD. Platt, S. G.; Elsey, R. M.; Liu, H.; Rainwater, T. R.; Nifong, J. C.; Rosenblatt, A. E.; Heithaus, M. R.; Mazzotti, F. J. (2013). "Frugivory...
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Population ecology (section r/K selection)
resource.: 222 An important concept in population ecology is the r/K selection theory. For example, if an animal has the choice of producing one or a few...
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Liebig's law of the minimum (category Ecological theories)
Random walk Rate determining step Sustainability Theory of Constraints Sinclair, Thomas R.; Park, Wayne R. (1993). "Inadequacy of the Liebig limiting-factor...
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r/K selection theory, selective pressures are hypothesized to drive evolution in one of two stereotyped directions: r- or K-selection. These terms, r...
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Ţura, D. (2014). "Wood-inhabiting Fungi" (PDF). In Misra, J. K.; Tewari, J. P.; Deshmukh, S. K.; Vágvölgyi, C. (eds.). Fungi from Different Substrates. New...
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Williams, E. H.; Mignucci-Giannoni, A. A.; Bunkley-Williams, L.; Bonde, R. K.; Self-Sullivan, C.; Preen, A.; Cockcroft, V. G. (2003). "Echeneid-sirenian...
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Ecology (section r/K selection theory)
r/K selection theory is one of the first predictive models in ecology used to explain life-history evolution. Its premise is that natural selection varies...
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to predict community dynamics; food chains are often the base level for theory development of trophic levels and community/ecosystem investigations. The...
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the original on 10 September 2008. Stanley, S. M. (1973). "An ecological theory for the sudden origin of multicellular life in the Late Precambrian". PNAS...
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diurnality, a hypothesis in evolutionary biology, the nocturnal bottleneck theory, postulates that in the Mesozoic, many ancestors of modern-day mammals evolved...
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r-strategy to allow far lower MVPs than average. Conversely, taxa easily affected by inbreeding depression –having high MVPs – are often decidedly K-strategists...
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2014-08-12. Retrieved 2014-08-10. Suedel, B.C., Boraczek, J.A., Peddicord, R.K., Clifford, P.A. and Dillon, T.M., 1994. Trophic transfer and biomagnification...
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the number of individuals in a population r/K selection theory – Ecological theory concerning the selection of life history traits Kin, Cheng Sok, et...
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Coverdale, Tyler C.; Kartzinel, Tyler R.; Grabowski, Kathryn L.; Shriver, Robert K.; Hassan, Abdikadir A.; Goheen, Jacob R.; Palmer, Todd M.; Pringle, Robert...
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altruism). Several mid-level evolutionary theories inform evolutionary psychology. The R/K selection theory proposes that some species prosper by having...
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Kindness Day – A day to celebrate kindlness r/K selection theory – Ecological theory concerning the selection of life history traits The Kindness Offensive –...
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NY, pp. 302–303, [1]. Schneider, С. K. 1917. Illustriertes Handwörterbuch der Botanik. 2. Aufl., herausgeg. von K. Linsbauer. Leipzig: Engelmann, [2]...
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Index of evolutionary biology articles (section R)
isolation – r/K selection theory selection – selective breeding – selfish DNA – The Selfish Gene – sexual selection – signalling theory – sociobiology...
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