Prize for the Best Poster at the BES Annual Meeting and Symposium
The Society awards a prize for the best poster by a research student at the Annual Meeting and Annual Symposium. Those eligible to enter must present a poster and should be a current graduate student, or one who has recently graduated and is presenting work that was completed when they were still a student. The entrant must be the first author of the poster and have undertaken the majority of the work being presented. A panel of judges chooses the winner and the prize is an honorarium of £250 (Annual Meeting) or £100 (Annual Symposium). Runner up prizes of £100 are also usually awarded at the Annual Meeting.
2012 Winner:
William Hentley – Hentley, W. T. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Hails, R. S. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Johnson, S. N. (University of Western Sydney), Jones, T. H. (Cardiff University), Vanbergen, A. J. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) – Trophic cascades in a changing environment: the impact of elevated CO2 on multi-trophic interactions (Annual Meeting)
2012 Runner up prize winner:
Louise Barwell – Barwell, L. J. (University of Leeds Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Isaac, N. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology), Kunin, B. (University of Leeds) – Can large-scale patterns in insect atlas data predict local occupancy? (Annual Meeting)
There wasn’t a Symposium poster prize in 2012.
2011 Winner:
Catherine Norris – Norris, C., (Writtle College) Hobson, P.R., Ibisch, P. (Centre for Econics and Ecosystem Management, Germany) – Vegetation functionality and microclimate as indicators of landscape thermodynamic efficiency (Annual Meeting)
There were no runners up prizes or Symposium poster prize in 2011.
2010 Winners:
Roswitha Ehnes – Lang, B., Brose, U., (Goettingen University, Germany) Ehnes, R., (Darmstadt University, Germany) – No energetic equivalence in forest soil food webs (Annual Meeting – Joint winner)
Odile Bruggisser – Bruggisser, O.T., Sandau, N., Blandenier.G., Bersier L.F. – Bottom-up and top-down control of Argiope spider in a diversity experiment (Annual Meeting – Joint winner)
Lynne Robinson – Robinson, L., Hartley, S., Hill, E. (University of Sussex) Vanbergen, A. (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) – Within plant differences between secondary plant compounds in Senecio jacobaea: a metabolomic approach (Symposium)
There were no runners up.
2009 Award winner:
Cheryl Mills – Mills, C.A. Hodson, D.J.Godley, B.J. – The influence of food availability pm hibernation behaviour of the hazel doormouse Muscardinus avellanarius in a captive population (Annual Meeting)
There were no runners up or Symposium winner for 2009.
2008 Award winner:
Scott Mckenzie – McKenzie, S. W., Thomas, R. J. and Jones, T.H. – Climate change effects on Northern Wheatear (Oenanthe oenanthe) – tipulid synchrony (Annual Meeting)
2008 Runner up prize winners:
Deborah Renz – Renz, D. R., Stoll, P. – Should I stay or should I go? Seed dispersal distance and plant population dynamics (Annual Meetng)
Katy Clark – Clark, K. E., Hartley,S. E., Koricheva, J., Johnson, S. N. – Oviposition behaviour of the vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus) in relation to different raspberry (Rubus spp.) cultivars (Annual Meeting)
Jane DeGabriel – DeGabriel, J.L., Moore, B.D., Lawler, I.R., Johnson, C.N., Foley, W. J. – The effects of climate change on nutrient availability in Eucalyptus and the implications for marsupial populations (Annual Meeting)