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List of works by David A. Spiller

A Multigenerational Field Experiment on Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of the Influential LizardAnolis sagrei: A Mid-term Report

scientific article published in September 2017

A terrestrial field experiment showing the impact of eliminating top predators on foliage damage

scientific article published in Nature

Alteration of island food-web dynamics following major disturbance by hurricanes

scientific article published on January 2007

An Experimental Study of the Effect of Lizards on Web‐Spider Communities

scientific article published on 26 April 2006

Climatic control of trophic interaction strength: the effect of lizards on spiders

scientific article published on 31 October 2007

Consumer Responses to Experimental Pulsed Subsidies in Isolated versus Connected Habitats

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Devastation of prey diversity by experimentally introduced predators in the field

scientific article published in Nature

ECOSYSTEM SIZE, BUT NOT DISTURBANCE, DETERMINES FOOD-CHAIN LENGTH ON ISLANDS OF THE BAHAMAS

scientific article published on 01 November 2008

Effect of a Major Predator on Grouping of an Orb-Weaving Spider

scientific article published in 1989

Effect of immersion in seawater on egg survival in the lizard Anolis sagrei

scientific article published on 9 August 2003

Effects of Top and Intermediate Predators in a Terrestrial Food Web

scientific article published in 1994

Effects of experimental seaweed deposition on lizard and ant predation in an island food web.

scientific article published on January 2011

Effects of productivity, disturbance, and ecosystem size on food-chain length: insights from a metacommunity model of intraguild predation

scientific article published in 2012

Founder Effects Persist Despite Adaptive Differentiation: A Field Experiment with Lizards

scientific article published on February 2, 2012

High population persistence in a system with high turnover

scientific article published in Nature

How is extinction risk related to population-size variability over time? A family of models for species with repeated extinction and immigration

scientific article published in August 2008

Indirect Effects in an Experimentally Staged Invasion by a Major Predator

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Interspecific Competition Between Spiders and Its Relevance to Biological Control by General Predators

scientific article published in 1986

Island biogeography of populations: an introduced species transforms survival patterns

scientific article published in December 2005

Land hermit crab (<i>Coenobita clypeatus</i>) densities and patterns of gastropod shell use on small Bahamian islands

scientific article published in 2006

Life‐History Models of Extinction: A Test with Island Spiders

scientific article published on November 6, 2003

Long-term variation in the effect of lizards on spider density is linked to rainfall.

scientific article published in August 1995

Marine subsidies change short-term foraging activity and habitat utilization of terrestrial lizards

scientific article published on 7 November 2017

Marine subsidies have multiple effects on coastal food webs.

scientific article published on May 2010

Nonsynchronous recovery of community characteristics in island spiders after a catastrophic hurricane

scholarly article

Numerical Response to Prey Abundance by Zygiella x-notata (Araneae, Araneidae)

scientific article published in 1992

Polymorphic buttonwood: effects of disturbance on resistance to herbivores in green and silver morphs of a Bahamian shrub

scientific article published on December 1, 2004

Predation-associated modulation of movement-based signals by a Bahamian lizard

scientific article

Predator-induced behaviour shifts and natural selection in field-experimental lizard populations

scientific article published in Nature

Predator-induced collapse of niche structure and species coexistence

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Predators determine how weather affects the spatial niche of lizard prey: exploring niche dynamics at a fine scale

scientific article published in December 2012

Predators suppress herbivore outbreaks and enhance plant recovery following hurricanes

scientific article published on October 2016

Pulsed seaweed subsidies drive sequential shifts in the effects of lizard predators on island food webs

scientific article published on 14 August 2019

Pulses of marine subsidies amplify reproductive potential of lizards by increasing individual growth rate

scientific article published in 2013

Rapid temporal reversal in predator-driven natural selection

scientific article published on 01 November 2006

Recovery of food webs following natural physical disturbances

scientific article published on 29 July 2018

Relationship between prey consumption and colony size in an orb spider

scientific article

Seasonal reversal of competitive advantage between two spider species

scientific article published in November 1984

The difficulty of predicting evolutionary change in response to novel ecological interactions: a field experiment with Anolis lizards

scientific article published in 2022

The effect of chronic seaweed subsidies on herbivory: plant-mediated fertilization pathway overshadows lizard-mediated predator pathways

scientific article

Variable ecological effects of hurricanes: the importance of seasonal timing for survival of lizards on Bahamian islands

scholarly article