Here are the best papers of 2020, according to the UC Davis Insect Ecology group and Vannette lab:
Lonsdorf, E.V., Koh, I. and Ricketts, T., 2020. Partitioning private and external benefits of crop pollination services. People and Nature, 2(3), pp.811-820. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/pan3.10138
Nichols, Bethany S., Gerhard Leubner‐Metzger, and Vincent AA Jansen. “Between a rock and a hard place: adaptive sensing and site‐specific dispersal.” Ecology Letters 23.9 (2020): 1370-1379. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.13564
Eberl, F., Fernandez de Bobadilla, M., Reichelt, M., Hammerbacher, A., Gershenzon, J. and Unsicker, S.B. (2020), Herbivory meets fungivory: insect herbivores feed on plant pathogenic fungi for their own benefit. Ecol Lett, 23: 1073-1084. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13506
Larsen, C.D. and Hargreaves, A.L., 2020. Miniaturizing landscapes to understand species distributions. Ecography. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecog.04959
Koski, M.H., MacQueen, D. and Ashman, T.L., 2020. Floral pigmentation has responded rapidly to global change in ozone and temperature. Current Biology, 30(22), pp.4425-4431. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220312677
Lundgren, E. J., Ramp, D., Rowan, J., Middleton, O., Schowanek, S. D., Sanisidro, O., … & Wallach, A. D. (2020). Introduced herbivores restore Late Pleistocene ecological functions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(14), 7871-7878.https://www.pnas.org/content/117/14/7871.short
Pashalidou, F.G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M.C. and De Moraes, C.M., 2020. Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science, 368(6493), pp.881-884. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/881
Losapio, G., & Schöb, C. (2020). Pollination interactions reveal direct costs and indirect benefits of plant–plant facilitation for ecosystem engineers. Journal of Plant Ecology, 13(1), 107-113. https://academic.oup.com/jpe/article/13/1/107/5613800?login=true
LeCroy, K.A., Savoy-Burke, G., Carr, D.E., Delaney, D.A. and T’ai, H.R., 2020. Decline of six native mason bee species following the arrival of an exotic congener. Scientific reports, 10(1), pp.1-9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-75566-9
Milet-Pinheiro, P., Domingos-Melo, A., Olivera, J.B., Albuquerque, N.S., Costa, A.C.G., Albuquerque-Lima, S., Silva, M.F., Navarro, D.M., Maia, A.C., Gundersen, L.L. and Schubert, M., 2020. A Semivolatile Floral Scent Marks the Shift to a Novel Pollination System in Bromeliads. Current Biology. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960982220316870
Adams, J.V. and Jones, M.L., 2020. Evidence of host switching: Sea lampreys disproportionately attack Chinook salmon when lake trout abundance is low in Lake Ontario. Journal of Great Lakes Research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0380133020300502#:~:text=Preference%20%3D%20attacks%20on%20hosts%20disproportionate,%3C1%2F8%20lake%20trout.&text=Chinook%20salmon%20may%20contribute%20to,lake%20trout%20in%20Lake%20Ontario.
Twardochleb, L.A., Treakle, T.C. and Zarnetske, P.L., 2020. Foraging strategy mediates ectotherm predator–prey responses to climate warming. Ecology, 101(11), p.e03146. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3146
Menke, A. S. 2020. The Ammophila of North & Central America (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae). Allen Press, Lawrence, KS. (No link available. Can order from the Bohart Museum of Entomology!)
Luttbeg et al. 2020 Safety cues give prey more valuable information than danger cues. Am Nat. 195:636-648 . https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/707544?casa_token=3RT7Y2Bz0LkAAAAA%3AWcwgZ203lR25RoQi3D-k-3bXidAMfaL64zMzOAL9lWxUdigHFQZ_pvyz8uvJ_acJHC3hrRqvY8yL&
Mathis, K.A. and Bronstein, J.L., 2020. Our Current Understanding of Commensalism. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 51, pp.167-189. https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-011720-040844
Simmonds, E. G., E. F. Cole, B. C. Sheldon, and T. Coulson. 2020. Phenological asynchrony: a ticking time-bomb for seemingly stable populations? Ecology Letters 23:1766–1775. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13603
Vannette lab picks:
Trunz, V., Lucchetti, M. A., Bénon, D., Dorchin, A., Desurmont, G. A., Kast, C., … & Praz, C. J. (2020). To bee or not to bee: The ‘raison d’être’of toxic secondary compounds in the pollen of Boraginaceae. Functional Ecology, 34(7), 1345-1357. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.13581
Malone, S.C., Weaver, D.K., Seipel, T.F. et al. Herbivore-induced volatile emissions are altered by soil legacy effects in cereal cropping systems. Plant Soil 455, 171–186 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-020-04674-2
Derek W Dunn, Stability in fig tree–fig wasp mutualisms: how to be a cooperative fig wasp, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, Volume 130, Issue 1, May 2020, Pages 1–17, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa027
Goelen, T., Sobhy, I. S., Vanderaa, C., Wäckers, F., Rediers, H., Wenseleers, T., et al. 2020. Bacterial phylogeny predicts volatile organic compound composition and olfactory response of an aphid parasitoid. Oikos.https: https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.07301
Imachi H, Nobu MK, Nakahara N, Morono Y, Ogawara M, Takaki Y, et al. Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface. Nature. 2020 Jan 23;577(7791):519–25. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1916-6
Prado A, Marolleau B, Vaissière BE, Barret M, Torres-Cortes G. Insect pollination: an ecological process involved in the assembly of the seed microbiota. Sci Rep. 2020;10(1):1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60591-5
Pashalidou, F.G., Lambert, H., Peybernes, T., Mescher, M.C. and De Moraes, C.M., 2020. Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce. Science, 368(6493), pp.881-884. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6493/881
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