r/K selection theory

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A theory regarding the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that represent a trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring. uncountable

词源

Coined by the American ecologists Robert H. MacArthur and E. O. Wilson in 1967. The choice of the letter K came from the German Kapazitätsgrenze (“capacity limit”), while r came from rate.
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