On December 12, 2024, members of Guzman, Peay, and Fukami Labs met to talk about the papers published in 2024 that we liked the most. 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, 2021, 2022, and 2023, lists.)

Best papers of 2024


Buche, Lisa, Ignasi Bartomeus, and Oscar Godoy. 2024. Multitrophic Higher-Order Interactions Modulate Species Persistence. The American Naturalist 203: 458-72.
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Di Francesco, Alessandra, Erica Moret, Rudy Cignola, Luca Garagozzo, Emanuela Torelli, and Michele Di Foggia. 2024. Yeasts Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) as Potential Growth Enhancers and Molds Biocontrol Agents of Mushrooms Mycelia. Fungal Biology 128: 1859-1867.
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Estien, Cesar O., Mason Fidino, Christine E. Wilkinson, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Christopher J. Schell. 2024. Historical Redlining Is Associated with Disparities in Wildlife Biodiversity in Four California Cities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121: e2321441121.
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Garcia, Gabriela M., Elizabeth E. Crone, Laura Kuhl, and Colin M. Orians. 2024. Intrinsic Yield Fluctuations Interact with Environmental Shocks to Threaten the Socio-Ecological Resilience of Perennial Crop Systems. One Earth 7: 1362-1372.
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Golawski, Artur, Cezary Mitrus, and Łukasz Jankowiak. 2025. Increased Bird Diversity around Small-Scale Solar Energy Plants in Agricultural Landscape. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 379: 109361.
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Hankins, Don L. 2024. Climate Resilience through Ecocultural Stewardship. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121: e2310072121.
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Herrera, Carlos M. 2024. Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen's Beans Revisited. The American Naturalist 203 (2): 219-229.
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Ishizawa, Hidehiro, Yosuke Tashiro, Daisuke Inoue, Michihiko Ike, and Hiroyuki Futamata. 2024. Learning Beyond-Pairwise Interactions Enables the Bottom-up Prediction of Microbial Community Structure. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121: e2312396121.
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Korolenko, Alexandra, and Michael K. Skinner. 2024. Generational Stability of Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance Facilitates Adaptation and Evolution. Epigenetics 19: 2380929.
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Koziol, Liz, Terra Lubin, and James D. Bever. 2024. An Assessment of Twenty-Three Mycorrhizal Inoculants Reveals Limited Viability of AM Fungi, Pathogen Contamination, and Negative Microbial Effect on Crop Growth for Commercial Products. Applied Soil Ecology 202: 105559.
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Netherway, Tarquin, Jan Bengtsson, Franz Buegger, Joachim Fritscher, Jane Oja, Karin Pritsch, Falk Hildebrand, Eveline J. Krab, and Mohammad Bahram. 2024. Pervasive Associations between Dark Septate Endophytic Fungi with Tree Root and Soil Microbiomes across Europe. Nature Communications 15: 159.
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Piccardi, Philippe, Eric Ulrich, Marc Garcia-Garcerà, Rita Di Martino, Samuele E. A. Testa, and Sara Mitri. 2024. The Evolution of Reduced Facilitation in a Four-Species Bacterial Community. Evolution Letters 8: 828-840.
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Rillig, Matthias C., India Mansour, Stefan Hempel, Mohan Bi, Birgitta König-Ries, and Atoosa Kasirzadeh. 2024. How Widespread Use of Generative AI for Images and Video Can Affect the Environment and the Science of Ecology. Ecology Letters 27: e14397.
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Taylor, Annalise, Alexii Sigona, and Maggi Kelly. 2023. Modeling Spatial Distributions of Amah Mutsun Priority Cultural Plants to Support Indigenous Cultural Revitalization. Ecosphere 14: e4374.
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Zwyssig, Maria, Anna Spescha, Tabea Patt, Adrian Belosevic, Ricardo A. R. Machado, Alice Regaiolo, Christoph Keel, and Monika Maurhofer. 2024. Entomopathogenic Pseudomonads Can Share an Insect Host with Entomopathogenic Nematodes and Their Mutualistic Bacteria. The ISME Journal 18: wrae028.
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