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2005 Photographic Competition
Celebrating Ecology, Hertfordshire University, UK
The BES is pleased that this competition is increasingly well subscribed and we hope that it maintains the exceptional standard and grows substantially in the coming years. We would like to thank the Science Photo Library for kindly sponsoring £500 of the prize money.
Overall Winner and Winner of the Whole Organism Category
Title of photograph: Swallowtail butterfly - newly emerged. Papilio machaon
Background:
"I took the picture whilst on holiday in August on Cyprus last year. We had found the Chrysalis on fennel and took it back to the villa. One Morning a few days later, the butterfly emerged. I quickly set up my camera on a tripod and took a few photographs before it flew away."
Mrs Fiona Lea - United Kingdom
Runner up of the Whole Organisms Category
Title of photograph: Cheetah
Dr Gordon Miller - United Kingdom
Overall Runner Up and Winner of Ecosystems and Communities Category
Title of photograph: Oblique aerial photograph of Pink Lake, near Quairading, approximately 200 km east of Perth in the Western Australian wheatbelt.
Taken with a Nikon Coolpix 5700.
Background Information:
"Pink Lake is one of the many secondarily saline lakes that occur throughout the wheatbelt region of Western Australia. Shallow salt lakes occur naturally in arid and semi-arid regions of inland Australia as a result of high evaporation rates and atmospheric accession of oceanic salts. However, widespread land clearing and the replacement of deep-rooted perennial species with shallow-rooted annual cropping species, particularly wheat, has reduced evapotranspiration and resulted in rising watertables and the mobilisation of salt previously stored deep within the soil profile. Nearly all Western Australian wheatbelt rivers and lakes have been affected by secondary salinisation. Permanent inundation over a prolonged time period has resulted in the death of once extensive thickets of littoral or riparian trees and previously diverse freshwater plant and animal communities have been replaced by a smaller suite of salt tolerant forms. Benthic microbial communities are often visible as pink or purple mats on lakebeds and algal blooms dominate where salinities and nutrients are too high to enable aquatic plants to germinate and persist.
The dead trees scattered across the bed of Pink Lake are visible evidence of secondary salinisation. The construction of a road across the lake is evidence of a lower water table in the past and a low regard for the environmental values of these ecosystems. The road has divided the lake into two separate hydrological systems with an algal bloom evident in the southern section."
Dr Jennifer Davis - Australia
Runner up of the Ecosystems and Communities Category
Title of photograph: Rhitral ecosystem
Background Information:
Typical for Latvia's small streams dominated by water mosses, especially by Fontinalis antipyretica.River Pededze, Latvia.
Dr Ivars Druvietis - Latvia
Winner up of the Student Category
Title of photograph: Altantic Puffin.
Mr Matthew J Doggett - United Kingdom
Runner up of the Student Category
Title of photograph: Birds. Lake Luzern
Mr Yu Bai - United Kingdom
Winner of the Teaching Ecology Category
Title of photograph: Teaching Ecology
Dr Sheila J Pankhurst - United Kingdom
Runner up of the Teaching Ecology Category
Title of photograph: Experienced conservation biologist, teaching a fledgling conservation biologist how to handle almost fledgling-ripe Echo parakeet chicks.
Dr. Dennis Hansen - Switzerland
Winner of the Ecology in Miniature Category
Title of photograph: Intra-guild predation (belonging to mini series: "Ecology in contra light")
Dr Ferenc Samu - Hungary
Background Information:
Linyphia triangularis preying on another spider, in its usual upside-down position under its sheet web.
Runner up of the Ecology in Miniature Category
Title of photograph: Snug as a bug in a ...
Mr Peter Howsam - United Kingdom
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