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David A. Spiller is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Ecological Modeling, Genetics, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of Spiller's research include plant and animal studies, isotope analysis in ecology, species distribution and climate change, animal ecology and behavior studies, evolution and genetic dynamics, amphibian and reptile biology, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Spiller has contributed research published mainly in The American Naturalist and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Notable recent papers include:

  • Consumer Responses to Experimental Pulsed Subsidies in Isolated versus Connected Habitats, 2020, The American Naturalist
  • The Difficulty of Predicting Evolutionary Change in Response to Novel Ecological Interactions: A Field Experiment with Anolis Lizards, 2022, The American Naturalist
  • Experimentally simulating the evolution-to-ecology connection: Divergent predator morphologies alter natural food webs, 2023, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Spiller include Thomas W. Schoener, Jonah Piovia-Scott, Jason J. Kolbe, Oriol Lapiedra, and Jonathan B. Losos. Their collaborative work shows an interdisciplinary approach across evolutionary biology, ecology, and behavioral science.

Best Publications

  • The Role of Indirect Effects in Food Webs

    Peter A. Abrams;Bruce A. Menge;Gary G. Mittelbach;David A. Spiller

  • High population persistence in a system with high turnover

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

  • Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populations

    Jonathan B. Losos;Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

  • Marine subsidies have multiple effects on coastal food webs

    David A. Spiller;Jonah Piovia-Scott;Amber N. Wright;Louie H. Yang

  • EFFECTS OF TOP AND INTERMEDIATE PREDATORS IN A TERRESTRIAL FOOD WEB

    David A. Spiller;Thomas W. Schoener

  • A terrestrial field experiment showing the impact of eliminating top predators on foliage damage

    David A. Spiller;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Impact of a catastrophic hurricane on Island populations

    David A. Spiller;Jonathan B. Losos;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selection.

    Jonathan B. Losos;Thomas W. Schoener;R. Brian Langerhans;David A. Spiller

  • Founder Effects Persist Despite Adaptive Differentiation: A Field Experiment with Lizards

    Jason J. Kolbe;Manuel Leal;Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

  • Devastation of prey diversity by experimentally introduced predators in the field

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

  • IS EXTINCTION RATE RELATED TO TEMPORAL VARIABILITY IN POPULATION SIZE? AN EMPIRICAL ANSWER FOR ORB SPIDERS

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

  • Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence

    Robert M Pringle;Tyler R Kartzinel;Tyler R Kartzinel;Todd M Palmer;Timothy J Thurman;Timothy J Thurman

  • An experimental study of the effect of lizards on web-spider communities

    David A. Spiller;Thomas W. Schoener

  • LIZARDS REDUCE SPIDER SPECIES RICHNESS BY EXCLUDING RARE SPECIES

    David A. Spiller;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Predators increase the risk of catastrophic extinction of prey populations

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Effect of lizards on spider populations: manipulative reconstruction of a natural experiment.

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

  • Natural restoration of the species-area relation for a lizard after a hurricane.

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller;Jonathan B. Losos

  • PREDATION ON A COMMON ANOLIS LIZARD: CAN THE FOOD-WEB EFFECTS OF A DEVASTATING PREDATOR BE REVERSED?

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller;Jonathan B. Losos

  • Lizards reduce food consumption by spiders: mechanisms and consequences

    David A. Spiller;Thomas W. Schoener

  • Indirect Effects in an Experimentally Staged Invasion by a Major Predator.

    Thomas W. Schoener;David A. Spiller

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas W. Schoener
Thomas W. Schoener University of California, Davis
Jonathan B. Losos
Jonathan B. Losos Washington University in St. Louis
Louie H. Yang
Louie H. Yang University of California, Davis
Jason J. Kolbe
Jason J. Kolbe University of Rhode Island
Anurag A. Agrawal
Anurag A. Agrawal Cornell University
David M. Post
David M. Post Yale University
Jean Clobert
Jean Clobert Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gary G. Mittelbach
Gary G. Mittelbach Michigan State University
R. Brian Langerhans
R. Brian Langerhans North Carolina State University
Peter A. Abrams
Peter A. Abrams University of Toronto

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