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Paul K. Dayton

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Paul Kuykendall Dayton(born April 8, 1941 inTucson, Arizona) is a biologicaloceanographerand marineecologistat theScripps Institution of Oceanography.Dayton works inbenthicecology, marine conservation, evolution, natural history, and general ecology.

During a 35-year career at Scripps, Dayton has researched coastalAntarctichabitats and the rocky shore habitats ofWashingtonin order to better understand marineecosystems.He has also documented the environmental impacts of overfishing, and phenomena such asEl Niñoon coastal ecology.[1]

Dayton is the only person to win both the George Mercer Award (1974) and the WS Cooper Award (2000) from theEcological Society of America.[citation needed]In 2002, he received the Scientific Diving Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Academy of Underwater Sciences; in 2004 he was honored with theEdward O. Wilson Naturalist Awardfrom theAmerican Society of Naturalists,and in 2006 was the first recipient of theRamon Margalef Prize in Ecology.[2]Dayton has been director ofThe Ocean Conservancyand the National Research Council Panel on Marine Protected Areas.[1]He has been a frequent contributor toSciencemagazine.[3]

Dayton's 1971 paper titled "Competition, disturbance and community organization: The provision and subsequent utilization of space in a rocky intertidal community" inEcological Monographs[4]has been cited over 1800 times as of April 2012.[5]

Education

Dayton received aBachelor of Sciencefrom theUniversity of Arizona,Tucson,in 1963. He then earned a doctorate inzoologyat theUniversity of WashingtonunderRobert T. Paine,known for theKeystone speciesconcept.[6]

References

  1. ^ab"News".Scripps Institution of Oceanography.Retrieved2021-03-28.
  2. ^"2005. Paul Dayton".Ministry of the Presidency.Retrieved2021-03-28.
  3. ^"Search Science".search.sciencemag.org.Retrieved2021-03-28.
  4. ^Dayton, P. K. (1971). "Competition, Disturbance, and Community Organization: The Provision and Subsequent Utilization of Space in a Rocky Intertidal Community".Ecological Monographs.41(4): 351–389.doi:10.2307/1948498.JSTOR1948498.
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  6. ^"Dayton | Curriculum Vitae".daytonlab.ucsd.edu.Retrieved2021-03-28.
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