BES Facebook pageThe Anne Keymer Prize
The prize is named in the memory of Anne Keymer for the best oral presentation by a postgraduate student at the Annual Meeting. Anne herself was one of the first winners of this previously unnamed prize, in 1981. She went on to a career of great distinction, before dying of cancer early in 1993, at the age of 36. Anne was a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Animal Ecology, and more generally was an exemplary scholar, teacher and citizen of her discipline. In naming this prize after Anne Keymer, the BES is recognising a younger ecologist who embodied, to a remarkable degree, the qualities and values we stand for.
Those eligible to enter must present a paper at the BES Annual Meeting and should normally be a current graduate student, or one who has recently graduated and is presenting work that was completed when they were still a student. Competition for the prize is fierce. A panel of judges chooses the winner and the prize is an honorarium of £250. There are two runner up prizes of £100 each. Details of the criteria used to judge the prize are available.
2010 Award winner:
Thomas Crowther - Crowther, T.W., Jones, T.H., Boddy, L. (University of Cardiff, UK) Fungus-invertebrate interactions determine mycelial distribution and wood decay rates.
2010 Runner up prize winners:
Sharon Zytynska- Zytynska, S.E. Presziosi, R.F. (University of Manchester, UK) Aphic Choice behaviour is influenced by host plant genotype and intraspecific competition among aphid genotypes.
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher - Yvon-Drocher, G.1, Montoya, J.M2, Trimmer, M.1, Woodward, G.1 (1 Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2 Marine Sciences Institute, Barcelona) Warming alters the size spectrum and the distribution of biomass in aquatic ecosystems
2009 Award winner:
Ailsa Mclean -Mclean, A.H.C.1, Van Asch, M.1, Godfray, H.C.J.1, Ferrari, J.2 (1 University of Oxford, UK, 2 University of York) Fitness influences of facultative symbionts in the pea aphid (Acyrthosiphon pisum)
2009 Runner up prize winners:
Dr. Mary Oconnor - O'Conor, M.I.1, Piehler, M.P.2, Leech,D. M.3, Anton, A.4, Bruno, J.F.4 (1 National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), US, 2 Institute of Marine Sciences, UNC, US, 3 DePauw University, US, 4 University of North Carolina, US) Implications of metabolic temperature scaling for marine food web structures.
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher - Yvon-Drocher, G., Montoya, J., Trimmer, M., Woodward, G. (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Methane and NPP: a New Positive Feedback, between Global Warming and the Carbon Cycle
