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    In ecology, r/K selection theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring...
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  • Rushton's book Race, Evolution, and Behavior (1995) attempted to use r/K selection theory to explain what he described as an evolutionary scale of characteristics...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    mammals such as elephants. These are also known as K-selected species (see: r/K selection theory) Type II or diagonal curves are an intermediate between...
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    keratotomy, a surgical procedure on the eye Rhodopsin kinase, an enzyme r/K selection theory, in biology, relating to the trade-off between quantity and quality...
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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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    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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    ISSN 1573-5036. S2CID 24926892. Talbot, J. M.; Allison, S. D.; Treseder, K. K. (2008). "Decomposers in disguise: mycorrhizal fungi as regulators of soil...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    PMID 37869651. Chacón L, Barrantes K, Santamaría-Ulloa C, Solano MReyes L, Taylor LValiente C, Symonds EM, Achí R. 2020. A Somatic Coliphage Threshold...
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    2017-03-29 at the Wayback Machine. Trebilco, Rowan; Baum, Julia K.; Salomon, Anne K.; Dulvy, Nicholas K. (2013). "Ecosystem ecology: size-based constraints on...
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  • the theories of natural selection and sexual selection, fecundity selection is a fundamental component of the modern theory of Darwinian selection. Fecundity...
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    coevolution in Ficus – r/K selection theory selection – selective breeding – selfish DNA – The Selfish Gene – sexual selection – signalling theory – sociobiology...
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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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  • “genotypic programme” (i.e., strategy). Around this same time, the r/K selection theory was introduced, which classifies plants by life history strategies...
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    umbrella species selection". Biological Conservation. 223: 112–119. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2018.04.026. ISSN 0006-3207. Dunk, Jeffrey R., William J. Zielinkski...
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    to Ecology. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 257–263. Colwell, R. K. and Coddington, J. A. (1994) Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through...
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  • the Malthusian parameter of population growth in The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, and Alfred J. Lotka called the intrinsic rate of increase, t...
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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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    for well over a century. According to Charles Darwin's 1859 theory of natural selection, features such as camouflage evolved by providing individual...
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    similar proteins in the photosynthetic reaction center. The endosymbiotic theory suggests that photosynthetic bacteria were acquired (by endocytosis) by...
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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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