Classic papers in Ecology and Evolution

Here is my selection of classic papers in ecology and evolution!
[the one with a question mark in the field "Student presenting" have not yet been chosen]

Title (click to download)	Authors	Year	Topic	Citations (Google Scholar 10/2015)	Student presenting	Day of the presentation
Optimal foraging, the marginal value theorem	Charnov	1976	Behaviour	3761	Alia	30/10/2015
Mechanisms of succession in natural communities and their role in community stability and organization	Connell & Slatyer	1977	Community	3635
Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs	Connell	1978	Diversity	7958	Juliane	10/12/2015
Patterns of speciation in Drosophila	Coyne & Orr	1989	Speciation	958
Arms races between and within species	Dawkins & Krebs	1979	Co-evolution	1442	Martin	27/11/2015?
Ecology, sexual selection, and the evolution of mating systems	Emlen & Oring	1977	Mating systems	3500
The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme	Gould & Lewontin	1979	Adaptation	5956	Wanja	20/11/2015
Evidence for the existence of three primary strategies in plants and its relevance to ecological and evolutionary theory	Grime	1977	Lifestyle	2211
Extraordinary sex ratios	Hamilton	1967	Sex ratio	2726
Geometry for the selfish herd	Hamilton	1971	Behaviour	2743
The tragedy of the commons	Hardin	1968	Society	27474
The components of predation as revealed by a study of small-mammal predation of the European pine sawfly	Holling	1959	Community	2130
Community structure, population control, and competition	Hairston, Smith & Slobodkin	1960	Community	2720
Homage to Santa Rosalia or why are there so many kinds of animals?	Hutchinson	1959	Biodiversity	3056	Leonie	13/11/2015
Dynamics of adaptation and diversification: a 10,000-generation experiment with bacterial populations	Lenski & Travisano	1994	ExpeEvo	678
The problem of pattern and scale in ecology	Levin	1992	Patterns	5141
The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology	Lindeman	1942	Food web	2619
On optimal use of a patchy environment	MacArthur & Pianka	1966	Behaviour	3075
An equilibrium theory of insular zoogeography	MacArthur & Wilson	1963	Island	1948
Biological populations with nonoverlapping generations: stable points, stable cycles, and chaos	May	1974	Chaos	1423
The Logic of Animal Conflict	MaynardSmith & Price	1973	Game Theory	4332	Anita	13/11/2015
Food web complexity and species diversity	Paine	1966	Food web	4245	Christina B	20/11/2015
On r- and K-Selection	Pianka	1970	Lifestyle	2741	Σάρα	06/11/2015
Experimental zoogeography of islands: the colonization of empty islands	Simberloff Wilson	1969	Community	565 (but much more in EO Wilson's book on the topic)
Parent-offspring conflict	Trivers	1974	Evolutionary conflicts	3182
A new evolutionary law	van Valen	1973	Extinction, Coevolution	2717
Pleiotropy, natural selection, and the evolution of senescence	Williams	1957	Ageing	3135	Sita	06/11/2015
Mate selection—a selection for a handicap	Zahavi	1975	Sexual selection	3783