Paul K. Dayton

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Paul K. Dayton is a biological oceanographer and marine ecologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Dayton works in Benthic Ecology, Marine Conservation & Policy, Evolution & Natural History, and General Ecology.

During a 35 year career at Scripps, Dayton has researched coastal Antarctic habitats and the rocky shore habitats of Washington in order to better understand marine ecosystems. He has also documented the environmental impacts of overfishing and phenomena such as El Niño on coastal ecology.1

Dayton is the only person to win both the George Mercer Award (1974) and the WS Cooper Award (2000) from the Ecological Society of America. In 2002 he received the Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Underwater Sciences; in 2004 he was honored with the E. O. Wilson Naturalists Award from the American Society of Naturalists, and in 2006 was the first recipient of the Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology and Environmental Sciences, awarded by a jury of scientists representing Catalonia, the European Union, and the international ecology community. Dayton has been director of The Ocean Conservancy and the National Research Council Panel on Marine Protected Areas.1 He has been a frequent contributor to Science magazine.2

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Important Papers

Dayton's 1971 paper titled Competition, disturbance and community organization: The provision and subsequent utilization of space in a rocky intertidal community published in Ecological Monograph has been cited 1433 times as of 8/25/2008, an impressive number considering that most ecology papers only get cited 2-3 times per year.3

Education

Dayton received his B.S. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in 1963. He then earned a doctorate in Zoology at the University of Washington under Robert T. Paine, known for the Keystone species concept. 4

References

  1. ^ a b Scripps' Paul Dayton Honored with New Ecology Prize
  2. ^ Science Magazine Search Results (322 mentions found)
  3. ^ http://apps.isiknowledge.com/full_record.do?product=UA&search_mode=GeneralSearch&qid=5&SID=4E@FJpCeEhk4Neeog@3&page=1&doc=1&colname=WOS
  4. ^ PAUL K. DAYTON: Curriculum Vitae

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