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Ecology and Evolution

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83
Citations
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701
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257

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Temporal and spatial scales of kelp demography: the role of oceanographic climate. Ecological Monographs 69:219–250.
  • 1985 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1974 - George Mercer Award, The Ecological Society of America

Overview

Paul K. Dayton is affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the United States. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions in the subfields of Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work focuses extensively on marine and coastal plant biology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, and fish ecology and management studies.

Paul K. Dayton has contributed to a range of publications including the following papers:

  • Kelp forests at the end of the earth: 45 years later, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • One of the least disturbed marine coastal ecosystems on Earth: Spatial and temporal persistence of Darwin's sub-Antarctic giant kelp forests, 2021, Journal of Biogeography
  • Persistence of southern California giant kelp beds and alongshore variation in nutrient exposure driven by seasonal upwelling and internal waves, 2023, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Adventures scaling the realized niche, saving the world, and searching for values, 2020, ICES Journal of Marine Science

Frequent co-authors of Paul K. Dayton include:

  • Alan M. Friedlander
  • Whitney Goodell
  • Enric Ballesteros
  • Tom W. Bell
  • Jennifer E. Caselle

Their work has been published in venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Biogeography
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • ICES Journal of Marine Science

Paul K. Dayton has been recognized with several awards, including the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2000 for research on temporal and spatial scales of kelp demography and the role of oceanographic climate. They were named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1985. Earlier in their career, they received the George Mercer Award from The Ecological Society of America in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Competition, Disturbance, and Community Organization: The Provision and Subsequent Utilization of Space in a Rocky Intertidal Community

    Paul K. Dayton

  • Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management

    E. K. Pikitch;C. Santora;E. A. Babcock;A. Bakun

  • Ecology of Kelp Communities

    Paul K. Dayton

  • Environmental effects of marine fishing

    Paul K. Dayton;Simon F. Thrush;M. Tundi Agardy;Robert J. Hofman

  • Disturbance to Marine Benthic Habitats by Trawling and Dredging: Implications for Marine Biodiversity

    Simon F. Thrush;Paul K. Dayton

  • Experimental Evaluation of Ecological Dominance in a Rocky Intertidal Algal Community

    Paul K. Dayton

  • Biological Accommodation in the Benthic Community at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

    Paul K. Dayton;Gordon A. Robilliard;Robert T. Paine;Linnea B. Dayton

  • Dangerous targets? Unresolved issues and ideological clashes around marine protected areas

    Tundi Agardy;Peter Bridgewater;Michael P. Crosby;Paul K. Dayton

  • SLIDING BASELINES, GHOSTS, AND REDUCED EXPECTATIONS IN KELP FOREST COMMUNITIES

    Paul K. Dayton;Mia J. Tegner;Peter B. Edwards;Kristin L. Riser

  • Patch Dynamics and Stability of Some California Kelp Communities

    Paul K. Dayton;Vickie Currie;Tim Gerrodette;Brian D. Keller

  • The importance in fishery management of leaving the big ones

    Charles Birkeland;Paul K. Dayton

  • Role of biological disturbance in maintaining diversity in the deep sea

    P.K. Dayton;R.R. Hessler

  • Temporal and Spatial Patterns of Disturbance and Recovery in a Kelp Forest Community

    Paul K. Dayton;Mia J. Tegner;Paul E. Parnell;Peter B. Edwards

  • A general model for designing networks of marine reserves

    Enric Sala;Octavio Aburto-Oropeza;Gustavo Paredes;Ivan Parra

  • Marine protected areas and ocean basin management

    K. David Hyrenbach;Karin A. Forney;Paul K. Dayton

  • Corals on seamount peaks provide evidence of current acceleration over deep-sea topography

    Amatzia Genin;Paul K. Dayton;Peter F. Lonsdale;Fred N. Spiess

  • Catastrophic Storms, El Niño, and Patch Stability in a Southern California Kelp Community

    Paul K. Dayton;Mia J. Tegner

  • DISTURBANCE OF THE MARINE BENTHIC HABITAT BY COMMERCIAL FISHING: IMPACTS AT THE SCALE OF THE FISHERY

    S. F. Thrush;J. E. Hewitt;V. J. Cummings;P. K. Dayton

  • No‐take Reserve Networks: Sustaining Fishery Populations and Marine Ecosystems

    Steven N. Murray;Richard F. Ambrose;James A. Bohnsack;Louis W. Botsford

  • Feeding Behavior of Asteroids and Escape Responses of their Prey in the Puget Sound Region

    Karl P. Mauzey;Charles Birkeland;Paul K. Dayton

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon F. Thrush
Simon F. Thrush University of Auckland
Katherine W. Ferrara
Katherine W. Ferrara Stanford University
Vonda J. Cummings
Vonda J. Cummings National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Judi E. Hewitt
Judi E. Hewitt University of Auckland
Enric Sala
Enric Sala National Geographic Society
Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre University of Montreal
Anson H. Hines
Anson H. Hines Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
David G. Ainley
David G. Ainley H.T. Harvey & Associates
Marc Mangel
Marc Mangel University of Bergen
Robert B. Whitlatch
Robert B. Whitlatch University of Connecticut

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