David A. Spiller

TL;DR: Under this scenario where affects are attenuated by distance in the food web, it would expect either prey or predators of the focal species to be most affected by a change in the rate of harvest of the focus species.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that lizards alter their habitat use in the presence of an introduced predator, but that these behavioural shifts do not prevent patterns of natural selection from changing in experimental populations.

TL;DR: Two causal pathways for the effects of marine subsidies on terrestrial plants are suggested: the "fertilization effect" in which seaweed adds nutrients to plants, increasing their growth rate, and the "predator diet shift effect", in which lizards shift from eating local prey (including terrestrial herbivores) to eating mostly marine detritivores.

TL;DR: It is shown that a system of island orb spiders has consistently high turnover during a five-year period, which might seem to imply that most populations are ephemeral, but 50% of the populations present in the system at any one time are persistent over at least the moderately long term.

TL;DR: Lizard and spider populations were censused immediately before and after Hurricane Lili on islands differentially affected by the storm surge to support three general propositions: the larger organisms, lizards, are more resistant to the immediate impact of moderate disturbance, whereas the more prolific spiders recover faster.