Recommended Reads

Behavior
STARTER BOOK: de Waal F. 2016. Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?

• Schoener TW. 1971. Theory of feeding strategies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 2: 369–404.

 
Ecology
STARTER BOOKS:

• Quamman D. 1996. The song of the dodo.
• Brown JH. 1995. Macroecology.
• Hurlbert S. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments. Ecological Monographs 54: 187-211.
• Connell J, Slatyer R. 1977. Mechanisms of Succession in Natural Communities and Their Role in Community Stability and Organization. The American Naturalist 111: 1119-1144. (pdf)
• Platt J. 1964. Strong Inference. Science 146(3642): 347-353 (pdf)
• Hardin G. 1968. The tragedy of the commons. Science 162: 1243-1248.
• Whitham TG, Young WP, Martinsen GD, Gehring CA, Schweitzer JA, Shuster SM, Wimp GM, Fischer DG, Bailey JK, Lindroth RL, Woolbright S, Kuske CR. 2003. Community and ecosystem genetics: a consequence of the extended phenotype. Ecology 84: 559–573. (website)
• Grinnell J. 1917. The niche-relationships of the California Thrasher. Auk 34:427–433.
• Hairston NG, Smith FE, Slobodkin LB. 1960. Community structure, population control, and competition. American Naturalist 94: 421–425.
• Janzen DH. Why are mountain passes higher in the tropics. American Naturalist 101: 233–249.
• Paine RT. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. American Naturalist 100: 65–75.
• Park T. 1948. Experimental studies of interspecies competition I. Competition between populations of the flour beetles, Tribolium confusum Duvall and Tribolium castaneum Herbst. Ecological Monographs 18: 267–307.
• Simberloff DS, Wilson EO. 1969. Experimental zoogeography of islands: The colonization of empty islands. Ecology 50: 278–296.
• Hutchinson GE. 1957. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22: 415–427.

 
Evolutionary Process
STARTER BOOKS:

• Dawkins R. The selfish gene.
• Judson O. Dr. Tatiana's sex advice to all creation: The definitive guide to the evolutionary biology of sex.

• Darwin C. On the origin of species by means of natural selection. (pdf)
• Slatkin M. 1987. Gene flow and the geographic structure of natural populations. Science 236: 787–792. (website)
• West-Eberhard MJ. 1983. Sexual selection, social competition, and speciation. Quarterly Review of Biology 58: 155-183. (pdf)
• Lande R, Arnold S. 1983. The Measurement of Selection on Correlated Characters. Evolution 37: 1210-1226. (pdf)
• Miller T, Travis J. 1996. The Evolutionary Role of Indirect Effects in communities. Ecology 77: 1329-1335 (website)
• Kettlewell HBD. 1955. Selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera. Heredity 9: 323–342.
• Avise JC. Phylogeography: the history and formation of species.

 
Systematics & Comparative Biology
STARTER BOOK: Baum D, Smith S. 2013. Tree thinking.

• Felsenstein J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. American Naturalist 125: 1-15.
• Charnov EL. 1993. Life history invariants: some explorations of symmetry in evolutionary ecology. 
• Whittall JB, Hodges SA. 2007. Pollinator shifts drive increasingly long nectar spurs in columbine flowers. Nature 447: 706-709. (website)

 
Grad Advice

• Carson WP. 1999 A primer on how to apply to and get admitted to graduate school in ecology and evolutionary biology. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 80: 246-250
• Stearns SC. 1987. Some modest advice for graduate students. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 68: 145-150.