(Tucson, Arizona, EEUU, 1941)
Professor i investigador de la Universitat de Califòrnia a San Diego (EEUU) i guanyador del I Premi Ramon Margalef d'Ecologia.
Paul Dayton és una personalitat cabdal en l'ecologia a nivell internacional, tant que les seves indagacions han marcat cada dècada la línia de treball mundial en recerca. Aquesta rellevància com a pioner en el camp de 'l'ecologia de poblacions i comunitats' entre els investigadors marins, terrestres i aquàtics, l'ha fet mereixedor del I Premi Ramon Margalef.
Dayton, P.K. Competition, disturbance and community organization: The provision and subsequent utilization of space in a rocky intertidal community. Ecological Monograph, 41:351-389. (1971)
Dayton, P.K., G.A. Robilliard, R.T. Paine and L.B. Dayton. Biological accommodation in the benthic community at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Ecological Monographs, 44: 105-128. (1974)
Dayton, P.K., V. Currie, T. Gerodette, B.D. Keller, R. Rosenthal and D. Ven Tresca. Patch dynamics and stability of some California kelp communities. Ecological Monographs, 54(3): 253-289. (1984)
Dayton, P.K., M.J. Tegner, P.E. Parnell, P.B. Edwards. Temporal and spatial patterns of disturbance and recovery in a kelp forest community. Ecological Monograph, 62: 421-445. (1992)
Dayton, P. K., M. J. Tegner, P. B. Edwards, K. L. Riser. Temporal and spatial scales of kelp demography: The role of oceanographic climate. Ecological Monographs, 69(2): 219-250. (1999)
Parnell, P.E., P.K. Dayton, C. E. Lennert-Cody, Linda L. Rasmussen, James J. Leichter. 2006. Marine reserve Design: optimal size,fine-scale habitats, species affinities, diversity and ocean microclimate. Ecological Applications. 16 (3): 945-962.
Thrush, S, P. Dayton, R. Cattaneo-Vietti, M. Chiantore, V. Cummings, N. Andrew. I. Hawes, S. Kim, R. Kvitek, A-M. Schwarz. 2006. Broad-scale factors influencing the biodiversity of coastal benthic communities of the Ross Sea Deep-Sea Research II 53: 959-971
J.S. Gray, P. Dayton, S. Thrush, M.J. Kaiser. 2006. On effects of trawling, benthos, and sampling design. Marine Pollution Bulletin 52:840-843.
J.E. Hewitt, S.F. Thrush, P.K. Dayton, E. Bonsdorff. 2007. The effect of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on the design and analysis of empirical studies of scale-dependent systems. The American Naturalist, 169 (3)
Parnell, P.E., P.K.Dayton, and F. Margiotta. 2007. Spatial and temporal patterns of lobster trap fishing: a survey of fishing effort and habitat structure. Bull. Southern California Acad. Sci. 106 (1): 27-37.