The story
- German · derived fromKapazitätsgrenze“capacity limit”
- English todayK-selection
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”).
Words from the same roots
GermanKapazitätsgrenze all →
r/K selection theory
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.