On December 12, 2022, members of Mordecai, Peay, and Fukami Labs met to talk about the papers published in 2022 that we liked the most. This year we had the pleasure of having some members of Klausmeier-Litchman and Dukes labs join us for this annual tri-lab tradition of ours. The papers we selected are listed below. (If you are curious about the papers we picked in previous years, check out our 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021 lists.)

Best papers of 2022


Alexander, J. M., Atwater, D. Z., Colautti, R. I., & Hargreaves, A. L. (2022). Effects of species interactions on the potential for evolution at species' range limits. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 377(1848), 20210020. Link

Ali, H. N., Sheffield, S. L., Bauer, J. E., Caballero-Gill, R. P., Gasparini, N. M., Libarkin, J., Gonzales, K. K., Willenbring, J., Amir-Lin, E., Cisneros, J., Desai, D., Erwin, M., Gallant, E., Gomez, K. J., Keisling, B. A., Mahon, R., Marín-Spiotta, E., Welcome, L., & Schneider, B. (2021). An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations. Nature Communications, 12(1), 3794. Link

Arcila Hernández, L. M., Mittan-Moreau, C. S., Lamb, T., Holmes, K. D., McDonald, C. A., Zamudio, K. R., & Ballen, C. J. (2022). A half century of student data reveals the professional impacts of a biology field course. BioScience, biac103. Link

Backus, G. A., Huang, Y., & Baskett, M. L. (2022). Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 377(1857), 20210380. Link

Barbour, M. A., Kliebenstein, D. J., & Bascompte, J. (2022). A keystone gene underlies the persistence of an experimental food web. Science, 376(6588), 70-73. Link

Bergin, S. A., Allen, S., Hession, C., Ó Cinnéide, E., Ryan, A., Byrne, K. P., Ó Cróinín, T., Wolfe, K. H., & Butler, G. (2022). Identification of European isolates of the lager yeast parent Saccharomyces eubayanus. FEMS Yeast Research, 22(1), 1-9. Link

Brans, K. I., Tüzün, N., Sentis, A., De Meester, L., & Stoks, R. (2022). Cryptic eco-evolutionary feedback in the city: urban evolution of prey dampens the effect of urban evolution of the predator. Journal of Animal Ecology, 91(3), 514-526. Link

Chaudhary, V. B., Aguilar-Trigueros, C. A., Mansour, I., & Rillig, M. C. (2022). Fungal dispersal across spatial scales. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 53(1), 69-85. Link

Collins, S., Whittaker, H., & Thomas, M. K. (2022). The need for unrealistic experiments in global change biology. Current Opinion in Microbiology, 68, 102151. Link

Eby, P., Peel, A. J., Hoegh, A., Madden, W., Giles, J. R., Hudson, P. J., & Plowright, R. K. (2022). Pathogen spillover driven by rapid changes in bat ecology. Nature Link

Fischer, M. S., Patel, N. J., de Lorimier, P. J., & Traxler, M. F. (2022). Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil subcommunity in a northern California mixed conifer forest. bioRxiv Link

Frémont, P., Gehlen, M., Vrac, M., Leconte, J., Delmont, T. O., Wincker, P., Iudicone, D., & Jaillon, O. (2022). Restructuring of plankton genomic biogeography in the surface ocean under climate change. Nature Climate Change, 12(4), 393-401. Link

Hu, J., Amor, D. R., Barbier, M., Bunin, G., & Gore, J. (2022). Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms. Science, 378(6615), 85-89. Link

Kakouridis, A., Hagen, J. A., Kan, M. P., Mambelli, S., Feldman, L. J., Herman, D. J., Weber, P. K., Pett-Ridge, J., & Firestone, M. K. (2022). Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants. New Phytologist, 236(1), 210-221. Link

Le Provost, G., Schenk, N. V., Penone, C., Thiele, J., Westphal, C., Allan, E., Ayasse, M., Blüthgen, N., Boeddinghaus, R. S., Boesing, A. L., Bolliger, R., Busch, V., Fischer, M., Gossner, M. M., Hölzel, N., Jung, K., Kandeler, E., Klaus, V. H., Kleinebecker, T., ... Manning, P. (2022). The supply of multiple ecosystem services requires biodiversity across spatial scales. Nature Ecology & Evolution Link

Leibold, M. A., Govaert, L., Loeuille, N., De Meester, L., & Urban, M. C. (2022). Evolution and community assembly across spatial scales. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 53(1), 299-326. Link

Medeiros, L. P., Allesina, S., Dakos, V., Sugihara, G., & Saavedra, S. (2022). Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non-equilibrium community dynamics. Ecology Letters Link

Mora, C., McKenzie, T., Gaw, I. M., Dean, J. M., von Hammerstein, H., Knudson, T. A., Setter, R. O., Smith, C. Z., Webster, K. M., Patz, J. A., & Franklin, E. C. (2022). Over half of known human pathogenic diseases can be aggravated by climate change. Nature Climate Change, 12(9), 869-875. Link

Nishizawa, K., Shinohara, N., Cadotte, M. W., & Mori, A. S. (2022). The latitudinal gradient in plant community assembly processes: a meta-analysis. Ecology Letters, 25(7), 1711-1724. Link

Raaijmakers, J. M., & Kiers, E. T. (2022). Rewilding plant microbiomes. Science, 378(6620), 599-600. Link

Sangbakembi-Ngounou, C., Costantini, C., Longo-Pendy, N. M., Ngoagouni, C., Akone-Ella, O., Rahola, N., Cornelie, S., Kengne, P., Nakouné, E. R., Komas, N. P., & Ayala, D. (2022). Diurnal biting of malaria mosquitoes in the Central African Republic indicates residual transmission may be "out of control." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(21), e2104282119. Link

Simha, A., Pardo-De la Hoz, C. J., & Carley, L. N. (2022). Moving beyond the "diversity paradox": the limitations of competition-based frameworks in understanding species diversity. American Naturalist, 200(1), 89-100. Link

Smercina, D., Zambare, N., Hofmockel, K., Sadler, N., Bredeweg, E. L., Nicora, C., Markillie, L. M., & Aufrecht, J. (2022). Synthetic soil aggregates: bioprinted habitats for high-throughput microbial metaphenomics. Microorganisms, 10(5), 944. Link

Springborn, M. R., Weill, J. A., Lips, K. R., Ibáñez, R., & Ghosh, A. (2022). Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America. Environmental Research Letters, 17(10), 104012. Link

Sugimoto, N., Fukasawa, K., Asahara, A., Kasada, M., Matsuba, M., & Miyashita, T. (2022). Positive and negative effects of land abandonment on butterfly communities revealed by a hierarchical sampling design across climatic regions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1971), 20212222. Link

Thompson, H. A., Hogan, A. B., Walker, P. G. T., Winskill, P., Zongo, I., Sagara, I., Tinto, H., Ouedraogo, J.-B., Dicko, A., Chandramohan, D., Greenwood, B., Cairns, M., & Ghani, A. C. (2022). Seasonal use case for the RTS,S/AS01 malaria vaccine: a mathematical modelling study. The Lancet Global Health, 10(12), e1782-e1792. Link

Tian, L., Li, H., Song, X., Ma, L., & Li, Z.-J. (2022). Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates by a novel strain of Photobacterium using soybean oil and corn starch. Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 10(5), 108342. Link