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.[1]
At Princeton, MacArthur served as the general editor of the series Monographs in Population Biology, and helped to found the journal Theoretical Population Biology.[7] He also wrote Geographical Ecology: Patterns in the Distribution of Species (1972).[1] He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1969. Robert MacArthur died of renal cancer in 1972.[8]
^ abcWilson, Edward O.; Hutchinson, G . Evelyn (1 January 1989). "Robert Helmer MacArthur 1930—1972". Biographical Memoirs(PDF). Vol. 58. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
^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.). Philosophy of Ecology. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Vol. 11. Elsevier. ISBN978-0-444-51673-2.
^ abOdenbaugh, Jay (2013). "Searching for Patterns, Hunting for Causes: Robert MacArthur, the Mathemical Naturalist". In Harman, Oren; Dietrich, Michael R. (eds.). Outsider Scientists: Routes to Innovation in Biology. University of Chicago Press. pp. 181–189.
^Pianka, Eric; Horn, H.S. (2005). "Chapter 11, Ecology's Legacy from Robert MacArthur". In Cuddington, K.; Biesner, B. (eds.). Ecological paradigms lost : routes of theory change. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press. pp. 213–232. ISBN978-0120884599.
^Odenbaugh, Jay (2013). "Chapter 10: Searching for Patterns, Hunting for Causes: Robert MacArthur, the Mathematical Naturalist". In Harman, Oren Solomon; Dietrich, Michael R. (eds.). Outsider scientists : routes to innovation in biology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN978-0226078403.
