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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • | U.S. Geological Survey". www.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2024-06-14. Krebs, J. R.; Davies, N. B. (1993). An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology. Wiley-Blackwell...
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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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    Foraging (redirect from Foraging theory)
    while eating and minimising the search interval between prey. Patch selection theory, which describes the behavior of a forager whose prey is concentrated...
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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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    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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    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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  • RK (redirect from R K)
    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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    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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    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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  • phenomena. Ecography, 33, 23-45. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2009.06148.x Colwell, R. K. and Coddington, J. A. (1994) Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through...
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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 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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