生态学博士生“必读”的100篇文献

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之所以加上引号，是因为，作者推荐的100篇文献较为陈旧，且较少，根本无法代表博大精深之生态学全貌。不过，在近期Nature Ecology & Evolution的这篇分析性文章中（研究论文“100 articles every PhD student should read”，链接：https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0370-9?WT.mc_id=COM_NEcoEvo_1711_Courchamp），作者列出的100篇他们认为“必读”的文献有一定的参考价值，我大致浏览了一下，涵盖了生态学的不少方面，有理论分析的，有模型研究的和概念性的论文。

重要的是，被推荐论文的作者基本上都是生态学领域的“大牛”（神一样存在的人物），如Connell，Janzen，MacArthur，Tilman和Odum等，这些响当当的名字如雷贯耳。

作者也承认他们推荐的“必读”论文不是一成不变的、更不是最终版，我个人也觉得，推荐的100篇论文过于“陈旧”（或许也说明较为“经典”？），快速发展中的生态学近几年也“蹦出”不少经典之作，如关于物候的、生态记忆的和节律的，以及土壤和植物生理生态的研究。

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！）。

100篇生态学论文

Box 1: Box 1 | The 100 selected articles

An asterisk indicates articles that were proposed more than ten times before the vote.

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6*. MacArthur, R. H. & Wilson, E. O. An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography. Evolution 17, 373–387 (1963).

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