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Odenbaugh, Jay (2011). "Philosophical themes in the work of Robert H. Macarthur". In Gabbay, Dov M.; Brown, Bryson; Thagard, Paul; De Laplante, Kevin; Peacock, Kent; Woods, John (eds.).
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Odenbaugh, Jay (2013). "Chapter 10: Searching for Patterns, Hunting for Causes: Robert MacArthur, the Mathematical Naturalist". In Harman, Oren Solomon; Dietrich, Michael R. (eds.).
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Odenbaugh, Jay (2013). "Searching for Patterns, Hunting for Causes: Robert MacArthur, the Mathemical Naturalist". In Harman, Oren; Dietrich, Michael R. (eds.).
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At Princeton, MacArthur served as the general editor of the series Monographs in Population Biology, and helped to found the journal
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Pianka, Eric; Horn, H.S. (2005). "Chapter 11, Ecology's Legacy from Robert MacArthur". In Cuddington, K.; Biesner, B. (eds.).
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helped change ecology from a primarily descriptive field into an experimental field, and drove the development of
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among five warbler species in the conifer forests of Maine and Vermont. From 1957 to 1958, MacArthur worked as a
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MacArthur was born in Toronto, Ontario, to John Wood MacArthur and Olive Turner in 1930. He later moved to
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Wilson, Edward O.; Hutchinson, G . Evelyn (1 January 1989). "Robert Helmer MacArthur 1930—1972".
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Population Ecology of Some Warblers of Northeastern Coniferous Forests
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Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species
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Ecological paradigms lost : routes of theory change
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Robert MacArthur
Robert Stuart MacArthur

Toronto
Ontario
Marlboro College
BA
Brown University
AM
Yale University
PhD
Island biogeography
National Academy of Sciences
Community ecology
Population ecology
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
Thesis
Population Ecology of Some Warblers of Northeastern Coniferous Forests
Doctoral advisor
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
David Lack
ecologist
community
population ecology
Marlboro, Vermont
University of Toronto
Marlboro College
Marlboro College
Brown University

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