Box 1: Box 1 | The 100 selected articles
58. Vitousek, P. M. & Reiners, W. A. Ecosystem succession and nutrient retention: a hypothesis. BioScience25, 376–381 (1975).
总之，作者Franck Courchamp & Corey J. A. Bradshaw也还是费力不少心思在揣摩推荐列表的。在他们的分析中，有一点很有意思，论文被推荐的程度与所发表的期刊、以及引用次数关系不大，说明了原创性的、开拓性研究工作才是最值得尊重的。下面我将列出作者推荐的100篇生态学论文，希望与大家共勉（有不少我没有读过！）。
57. Kunin, W. E. & Gaston, K. J. The biology of rarity: patterns, causes and consequences. Trends Ecol. Evol.8, 298–301 (1993).
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6*. MacArthur, R. H. & Wilson, E. O. An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography. Evolution 17, 373–387 (1963).
82. Grant, P. R & Grant, B. R. The founding of a new population of Darwin’s finches. Evolution 49, 229–240 (1995).
32. May R. M. Will a large complex system be stable?Nature238, 413–414 (1972).
89. Krebs, C. J. et al. Impact of food and predation on the snowshoe hare cycle. Science 269, 1112–1115 (1995).
68. Hanski, I. A practical model of metapopulation dynamics. J. Anim. Ecol. 63, 151–162 (1994).
94. Levins, R. The strategy of model building in population biology. Am. Sci. 54, 421–431 (1966).
46. Lawton, J. H. Are there general laws in ecology?Oikos84, 177–192 (1999).
14. Carpenter, S. R., Kitchell, J. F. & Hodgson, J. R. Cascading trophic interactions and lake productivity. BioScience35, 634–639 (1985).
59. Tilman, D. Resources: a graphical–mechanistic approach to competition and predation. Am. Nat. 116, 362–393 (1980).
48. Kimura, M. Evolutionary rate at the molecular level. Nature 217, 624–626 (1968).
21. Tilman, D. Biodiversity: population versus ecosystem stability. Ecology 77, 350–363 (1996).
25. Hardin, G. J. The tragedy of the commons. Science 162, 1243–1248 (1968).
44. Clements, F. E. Nature and structure of the climax. J. Ecol. 24, 252–284 (1936).
5*. Hutchinson, G. E. Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why are there so many kinds of animals? Am. Nat. 93, 145–159 (1959).
29. Holling, C. S. Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst.4, 1–23 (1973).
7. Hutchinson, G. E. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harb. Symp. Quant. Biol. 22, 415–427 (1957).
11. May, R. M. Biological populations with non-overlapping generations: stable points, stable cycles, and chaos. Science186, 645–647 (1974).
55. Simberloff, D. Experimental zoogeography of islands: effects of island size. Ecology 57, 629–648 (1976).
12. Gause, G. F. Experimental analysis of Vito Volterra’s mathematical theory of the struggle for existence. Science 79,16–17 (1934).
18. Tilman, D. Resource competition between plankton algae: an experimental and theoretical approach. Ecology58, 338–348 (1977).
65. Tilman, D. et al. The influence of functional diversity and composition on ecosystem processes. Science277, 1300–1302 (1997).
51. Paine, R. T. Food webs: linkage, interaction strength and community infrastructure. J. Anim. Ecol. 49, 666–685 (1980).
73. Grinnell, B. Y. The niche-relationships of the California thrasher. Auk 34, 427–433 (1917).
81. Gould, S. J. & Lewontin, R. C. The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm: a critique of the adaptionist programme. Proc. R. Soc. B Biol. Sci. 205, 581–598 (1979).
42. Anderson, R. M. & May, R. M. Population biology of infectious diseases: part I. Nature 280, 361–367 (1979).
76. May, R. M. & MacArthur, R. H. Niche overlap as a function of environmental variability. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 69,1109–1113 (1972).
95. Anderson, R. M & May, R. M. The population dynamics of microparasites and their invertebrate hosts. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 291, 451–524 (1981).
13*. Chesson, P. Mechanisms of maintenance of species diversity. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 31, 343–366 (2000).
45. Pulliam, D. W. Sources, sinks, and population regulation. Am. Nat. 132, 652–661 (1988).
3*. Paine, R. T. Food web complexity and species diversity. Am. Nat. 100, 65–75 (1966).
85. Janzen D. H. Why mountain passes are higher in the tropics. Am. Nat. 101, 233–249 (1967).
