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Robert Helmer MacArthur (April 7, 1930 – November 1, 1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. He is considered to be one of the founders of ecology.
In his short life (b. 1930–d. 1972), Robert MacArthur was a highly influential architect of modern ecology. He was, as much as anyone, responsible for bringing theoretical population biology into mainstream ecology at a time when many empirical ecologists were openly hostile to theory.
1972. Articles 1–20. Professor of Biology, Princeton University - Cited by 83,041 - Biogeography - Complexity - Community Ecology - Island Biogeography - Theoretical...
In 1955 Canadian-born American ecologist Robert MacArthur proposed a measure of community stability that was related to the complexity of an ecosystem’s food web. He stated that ecosystem stability increased as the number of interactions (complexity) between the different species within the ecosystem also increased.
Despite his tragically short life (1930-1972) and brief career, Robert MacArthur was haps the most influential ecologist of the 20th Century. With the possible exceptions. Charles Elton and Eugene Odum, no other ecologist had as much influence during. lifetime or left such an enduring legacy.
Canadian biologist and ecologist. Few scientists have combined the skills of mathematics and biology to open new fields of knowledge the way Robert H. MacArthur did in his pioneering work in evolutionary ecology .
Biogeography was stuck in a "natural history phase" dominated by the collection of data, the young Princeton biologists Robert H. MacArthur and Edward O. Wilson argued in 1967. In this book, the authors developed a general theory to...
Robert H. MacArthur. First published in 1972 and now available for the first time in paperback, this book is the summation of the life work of one of the most influential scientists of our time.
Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species. Robert H. MacArthur. Princeton University Press, Jul 21, 1984 - Science - 269 pages. First published in 1972 and now available for...
Robert H. MacArthur. Master's degree, Brown University, 1953. Doctoral student, Yale University, 1953-1957. Ph. D., Yale University, 1958. Postdoctoral researcher, Oxford University, 1957-1958. Professor, University of Pennsylvania, 1958-1965. Professor, Princeton University, 1965-1972.
