Best papers of 2014
Dirzo R, Young HS, Galetti M, Ceballos G, Isaac NJB, Collen B. 2014. Defaunation in the Anthropocene. Science 345: 401-406. Link
Ellison AM, Gotelli NJ, Inouye BD, Strong DR. 2014. P values, hypothesis testing, and model selection: it's deja vu all over again. Ecology 95: 609-610. Link
Emery NC, Ackerly DD. 2014. Ecological release exposes genetically based niche variation. Ecology Letters 17: 1149-1157. Link
Giovannoni SJ, Thrash JC, Temperton B. 2014. Implications of streamlining theory for microbial ecology. ISME Journal 8: 1553-1565. Link
Hillesland KL, Lim S, Flowers JJ, Turkarslan S, Pinel N, Zane GM, Elliott N, Qin Y, Wu L, Baliga NS, Zhou J, Wall JD, Stahl DA. 2014. Erosion of functional independence early in the evolution of a microbial mutualism. PNAS 111: 14822-14827. Link
Hom EFY, Murray AW. 2014. Niche engineering demonstrates a latent capacity for fungal-algal mutualism. Science 345: 94-98. Link
Kulmatiski A, Anderson-Smith A, Beard KH, Doucette-Riise S, Mazzacavallo M, Nolan NE, Ramirez RA, Stevens JR. 2014. Most soil trophic guilds increase plant growth: a meta-analytical review. Oikos 123: 1409-1419. Link
Lundberg DS, Yourstone S, Mieczkowski P, Jones CD, Dangl JL. 2013. Practical innovations for high-throughput amplicon sequencing. Nature Methods 10: 999-1002. Link
Morlon H, Kefi, S, Martinez ND. 2014. Effects of trophic similarity on community composition. Ecology Letters 17: 1495-1506. Link
Sachs JL, Skophammer RG, Bansal N, Stajich JE. 2014. Evolutionary origins and diversification of proteobacterial mutualists. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20132146. Link
Tedersoo L, Bahram M, Polme S, Koljalg U, Yorou NS, Wijesundera R, Villarreal Ruiz L, Vasco-Palacios AM, Thu PQ, Suija A, Smith ME, Sharp C, Saluveer E, Saitta A, Rosas M, Riit T, Ratkowsky D, Pritsch K, Poldmaa K, Piepenbring M, Phosri C, Peterson M, Parts K, Partel K, Otsing E, Nouhra E, Njouonkou AL, Nilsson RH, Morgado LN, Mayor J, May TW, Majuakim L, Lodge DJ, Lee SS, Larsson KH, Kohout P, Hosaka K, Hiiesalu I, Henkel TW, Harend H, Guo LD, Greslebin A, Grelet G, Geml J, Gates G, Dunstan W, Dunk C, Drenkhan R, Dearnaley J, De Kesel A, Dang T, Chen X, Buegger F, Brearley F, Bonito G, Anslan S, Abell S, Abarenkov K. 2014. Global diversity and geography of soil fungi. Science 346: 1256688. Link
Tellier A, Moreno-Gamez S, Stephan W. 2014. Speed of adaptation and genomic footprints of host-parasite coevolution under arms race and trench warfare dynamics. Evolution 68: 2211-2224. Link
Vellend M, Srivastava DS, Anderson KM, Brown CD, Jankowski JE, Kleynhans EJ, Kraft NJB, Letaw AD, Macdonald AAM, Maclean JE, Myers-Smith IH, Norris AR, Xue X. 2014. Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities. Oikos 123: 1420-1430. Link
Runner-up
Botero CA, Gardner B, Kirby KR, Bulbulia J, Gavin MC, Gray RD. 2014. The ecology of religious beliefs. PNAS 111: 16784-16789. Link