BES Facebook pageArchives of the winners of the Best Paper by a Young Author Award.
2008 Award winners:
Lucía Vivanco - Harper Prize for her paper entitled 'Tree species identity alters forest litter decomposition through long-term plant and soil interactions in Patagonia, Argentina' (Journal of Ecology, 96, 727-736) by L.Vivanco, & A.T. Austin, (2008)
Meggan Craft - Elton Prize for her article 'Dynamics of a multihost pathogen in a carnivore community' (Journal of Animal Ecology 77, 1257-1264) by M. E. Craft, P. L. Hawthorne, C. Packer and A. P. Dobson (2008)
The 2008 Southwood Prize was jointly awarded to Tiziana Lembo and Katie Hampson for their paper 'Exploring reservoir dynamics: a case study of rabies in the Serengeti ecosystem' (Journal of Applied Ecology, 45, 1246-1257) by Tiziana Lembo, Katie Hampson, Daniel T. Haydon, Meggan Craft, Andy Dobson, Jonathan Dushoff, Eblate Ernest, Richard Hoare, Magai
Carol Sparling - Haldane Prize for her paper 'Estimating field metabolic rates of pinnipeds: doubly labelled water gets the seal of approval' (Functional Ecology, 22, 245-254) by C. E. Sparling, D. Thompson, M. A. Fedak, S. L. Gallon and J. R. Speakman
2007 Award winners:
Sylvain Pincebourde - Elton Young Investigators Prize for the paper 'Regional climatic conditions modulate the within-tree mosaic of favourable and risky microclimates for insects.' which was published in Volume 76, Issue 3, pages 424-438 of the Journal of Animal Ecology.
Rajenda Whitlock - John Harper Young Investigators Prize. For a paper published in the Journal of Ecology September issue (V95 – I5 – pp. 895-907).
Jonathan Pauli - Southwood prize for the paper 'Risk-disturbance overrides density dependence in a hunted colonial rodent, the black-tailed prairie dog Cynomys ludovicianus' . Jonathan N. Pauli, Steven W. Buskirk (2007). Journal of Applied Ecology 44 (6), 1219–1230.
Edward Ayres - The Haldane Prize for the paper 'The influence of below-ground herbivory and defoliation of a legume on nitrogen transfer to neighbouring plants' E.Ayres, K.M. Dromph, R.Cook, N.Ostle & R.D. Bardgett, Functional Ecology 21 (2), pages 256-263
2006 Award Winners
Jian-Ming Deng - John Harper Young Investigators Prize for the paper 'Plant mass-density relationship along a moisture gradient in north-west China' (Volume 94, pp 953-958).
Dr Ross Thompson - Elton Young Investigators Prize for the paper 'A truce with neutral theory: local deterministic factors, species traits and dispersal limitation together determine patterns of diversity in stream invertebrates.' - (R Thompson and C Townsend) Vol 75 Issue 2 pages 476 - 484)
Dr Carlos Rodriguez - Southwood prize for the paper 'How do crop types influence breeding success in lesser kestrels through prey quality and availability? A modelling approach.'Journal of Applied Ecology 43 (3), 587-597.CARLOS RODRÍGUEZ, KARIN JOHST, JAVIER BUSTAMANTE (2006)
Jennifer Krumins - The Haldane Prize for the paper 'Indirect effects of food web diversity and productivity on bacterial community function and composition.' Functional Ecology 20 (3), 514-521. J. A. KRUMINS, Z. T. LONG, C. F. STEINER, P. J. MORIN (2006)
