English Explanatory Dictionary

r-selection

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theory involving natural selection based on quantity.

Word forms

r-selection

Etymology

Coined by the American ecologists Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson in 1967. The choice of the letter r came from rate.

Related words

K-selection r/K selection theory
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