On December 9, 2019, members of Mordecai, Peay, and Fukami Labs met to talk about the papers published in 2019 that each of us liked the most. These papers, the best papers of 2019 according to us, are listed below. (If you are curious about the papers we picked before, check out our 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 lists.)

Best papers of 2019


Cohen JM, Civitello DJ, Venesky MD, McMahon TA, Rohr JR. 2019. An interaction between climate change and infectious disease drove widespread amphibian declines. Global Change Biology 25: 927-37. Link

Colchero F, Jones OR, Conde DA, Hodgson D, Zajitschek F, Schmidt BR, Malo AF, Alberts SC, Becker PH, Bouwhuis S, Bronikowski AM, de Vleeschouwer KM, Delahay RJ, Dummermuth S, Fernandez-Duque, E, Frisenvaenge J, Hesselsoe M, Larson S, Lemaitre J-F, McDonald J, Miller DAW, O'Donnell C, Packer C, Raboy BE, Reading CJ, Wapstra E, Weimerskirch H, While GM, Baudisch A, Flatt T, Coulson T, Gaillard JM. 2019. The diversity of population responses to environmental change. Ecology Letters 22: 342-353. Link

Cotrufo MF, Ranalli MG, Haddix ML, Six J, Lugato E. 2019. Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter. Nature Geoscience 18: 1-6. Link

Dupont C, Michiels A, Sochard C, Dardenne N, Meyer S, Brault V, Outreman Y, Sentis A. 2019. Virus mediated trophic interactions between aphids and their natural enemies. Oikos, published online early. Link

Grogan KE. 2019. How the entire scientific community can confront gender bias in the workplace. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 3-6. Link

Halliday FW, Rohr JR. 2019. Measuring the shape of the biodiversity-disease relationship across systems reveals new findings and key gaps. Nature Communications 10: 5032. Link

Hart SP, Turcotte MM, Levine JM. 2019. Effects of rapid evolution on species coexistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 2112-2117. Link

Hein AM, Martin BT. 2019. Information limitation and the dynamics of coupled ecological systems. Nature Ecology & Evolution 28: 1-9. Link

Ke PJ, Wan J. 2019. Effects of soil microbes on plant competition: a perspective from modern coexistence theory. Ecological Monographs, published online early. Link

Leibold MA, Urban MC, De Meester L, Klausmeier CA, Vanoverbeke J. 2019. Regional neutrality evolves through local adaptive niche evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116: 2612-2617. Link

Malik AA, Martiny JB, Brodie EL, Martiny AC, Treseder KK, Allison SD. 2019. Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change. The ISME Journal 25: 1-9. Link

Northrup JM, Rivers JW, Yang Z, Betts MG. 2019. Synergistic effects of climate and land-use change influence broad-scale avian population declines. Global Change Biology 25: 1561-1575. Link

Ramirez KS, Snoek LB, Koorem K, Geisen S, Bloem LJ, Ten Hooven F, Kostenko O, Krigas N, Manrubia M, Cakovic D, van Raaij D, Tsiafouli MA, Vres B, Celik T, Weser C, Wilschut RA, van der Putten WH. 2019. Range-expansion effects on the belowground plant microbiome. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 604-611. Link

Rillig MC, Ryo M, Lehmann A, Aguilar-Trigueros CA, Buchert S, Wulf A, Iwasaki A, Roy J, Yang G. 2019. The role of multiple global change factors in driving soil functions and microbial biodiversity. Science 366: 886-890. Link

Roddy A, Theroux-Rancourt G, Abbo T, Benedetti JW, Brodersen CR, Castro M, Castro S, Gilbride AB, Jensen B, Jiang GF, Perkins JA, Perkins SD, Loureiro J, Syed Z, Thompson RA, Kuebbing SE, Simonin KA. 2019. The scaling of genome size and cell size limits maximum rates of photosynthesis with implications for ecological strategies. International Journal of Plant Sciences, published online early. Link

Ward TL, Weber BP, Mendoza KM, Danzeisen JL, Llop K, Lang K, Clayton JB, Grace E, Brannon J, Radovic I, Beauclaire M, Heisel TJ, Knights D, Cardona C, Kogut M, Johnson C, Noll SL, Arsenault R, Reed KM, Jounson TJ. 2019. Antibiotics and host-tailored probiotics similarly modulate effects on the developing avian microbiome, mycobiome, and host gene expression. mBio 10: e02171-19. Link

Weeks BC, Willard DE, Zimova M, Ellis AA, Witynski ML, Hennen M, Winger BM. 2019. Shared morphological consequences of global warming in North American migratory birds. Ecology Letters, published onine early. Link

Wetzel WC, Whitehead SR. 2019. The many dimensions of phytochemical diversity: linking theory to practice. Ecology Letters, published online early. Link

White EP, Yenni GM, Taylor SD, Christensen EM, Bledsoe EK, Simonis JL, Ernest SM. 2019. Developing an automated iterative near-term forecasting system for an ecological study. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10: 332-344. Link

Whiteside MD, Werner GD, Caldas VE, van't Padje A, Dupin SE, Elbers B, Bakker M, Wyatt GAK, Klein M, Hink MA, Postma M, Vaitla B, Noe R, Shimizu TS, West SA, Kiers ET. 2019. Mycorrhizal fungi respond to resource inequality by moving phosphorus from rich to poor patches across networks. Current Biology 29: 2043-2050. Link