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Robert Helmer MacArthur (
April 7,
1930 –
November 1,
1972) was an
American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of
community and
population ecology.
MacArthur received his Bachelor's degree from
Marlboro College, a Master's degree in mathematics from
Brown University (1953). A student of
G. Evelyn Hutchinson, MacArthur earned his Ph.D. from
Yale University in 1958; his thesis was on the division of
ecological niches among five warbler species in the conifer forests of New York. He was a professor at the
University of Pennsylvania, 1958-65, and professor of biology at
Princeton University, 1965-72. He played an important role in the development of
niche partitioning, and with
E.O. Wilson he co-authored
The Theory of Island Biogeography, a work which changed the field of
biogeography, drove community ecology and led to the development of modern
landscape ecology. His emphasis on
hypothesis testing helped change ecology from a primarily descriptive field into an experimental field, and drove the development of
theoretical ecology.
At Princeton, MacArthur served as the general editor of the series Monographs in Population Biology, and helped to found the journal
Theoretical Population Biology. He also wrote
Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species (1972). He was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences in 1969. Robert MacArthur died of
renal cancer in 1972.
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