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Education and Human Resources Committee » Diversity Award

The Education and Human Resources Committee of the Ecological Society of America established the EHRC Diversity Award to be given annually in recognition of long-standing contributions of an individual towards increasing the diversity of future ecologists through mentoring, teaching, or outreach.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2010	Lawren Sack

Southeastern Chapter » Eugene P. Odum Award

The Southeastern Chapter of the Ecological Society of America established the Eugene P. Odum Award to encourage excellence in research by young ecologists. It is awarded to the undergraduate or graduate student judged to have presented the best paper on an ecological topic at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2010	Steven J. Price (co-authored with Michael E. Dorcas and Robert A. Browne)	Stage - and species-specific responses of stream salamanders to urbanization
2010	Wade Wall (co-authored by N. Douglas. Q. Xiang, W. Hoffman, T. Wentworth, J. Gray, and M. Hofmann)	No evidence for southern refugium during the latter Pleistocene in Pyxidanthera barbulata
2009	Marc A. Milne Honorable mention: Charlotte K. Steelman, Nathan V. Whelan.	The effectiveness of the attractionmechanisms of the purple pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea, at attracting prey and residents. Southeastern Biology 56(3)
2008	Tracey D. Tuberville (with Terry M. Norton, Travis C. Glenn and Bradley J. Waffa, co-authors). Honorable mention: Nicole M. Hughes, Shannon Pittman	Mating system in a gopher tortoise population established through multiple translocations: apparent advantage of prior residence.
2007	Sarah E. Marcinko Honorable mention: Bryan S. Marbert, Daniel B. Stover, Christopher T. Winne	Conservation implications of breeding systems, floral phenology, and sexual expression in the federally endangered Ptilimnium nodosum (Apiaceae).
2006	Daniel Johnson	Effects of cloud emersion on understory light environment and photosynthesis in the southern Appalachian Mountains
2005	Krista Noel	Intrinsic versus extrinsic causes of low hatching success of gopher tortoise ( Gopherus polyphemus ) eggs in south Mississippi. Southeastern Biologist 52(2).
2005	Sarah Johnson	The effects of competition on the threatened dune annual, Amaranthus pumilus Raf. (Amaranthaceae). Southeastern Biologist 52(2).
2004	Nicole M. Huges	Functional role of anthocyanins in high light winter leaves of the evergreen herb, Galax urceolata . Southeastern Biologist 51(2).
2004	Christiopher Winne	Daily activity patterns of whiptail lizards (Squamata: Teiidae: Aspidoscelis ): a proximate response to environmental conditions or an endogenous rhythm? Southeastern Biologist 51(2).
2003	Stephanie B. Jeffries	How do short rotations and intensive management affect plant communities in a loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda ) plantation? Southeastern Biologist 50(2):168.
2002	Jason S. Riddle	Short-term effects of wildfire on breeding bird communities in southern Appalachian old-growth/pre-settlement forests. Southeastern Biologist 49(2):222.
2001	Lynsey Rowland Peterson	Spread of metals through an invertebrate food chain as influenced by a nickel-hyperaccumulating plant, Alyssum pintodasilvae . Southeastern Biologist 48(2):136.
2000	Ken Fortino	Crayfish distributions and predatory fish: Is there a connection. ASB Bulletin 47(2):150.
2000	Karen Geissinger	Grazing influences on species diversity and net primary production in a southern Appalachian wet meadow. ASB Bulletin 47(2):211.
1999	Travis J. Ryan Honorable mention: Rebecca L. Brown	Growth, metamorphosis, and maturation in a salamander ( Ambystoma talpoideum ) with a life cycle polymorphism. ASB Bulletin 46:148.
1998	Andrew Bridges	Temporal variation in anuran calling behavior: implications for calling surveys and population assessment. ASB Bulletin 45:136.
1997	Samara I. Hamzé	The distribution of seedlings of the Great Lakes endemic Cirsium pitcheri. ASB Bulletin 44:126.
1996	Jonathan L. Horton.	The photosynthetic responses of Microstegium vimineum , a C4, shade-adapted grass, to variable light environments. ASB Bulletin 43:109.
1995	John N. Young	The genetic architecture and ecology of cliffside northern white cedar ( Thuja occidentalis L.) from its southern disjunct range. ASB Bulletin 42:120-121.
1994	Christine E. Conn Honorable mention: Anne Maglia	Nitrogen dynamics of root decomposition in response to nitrogen availability gradients. ASB Bulletin 41:95-96.
1993	C. Neal Stewart, Jr. Honorable mention: Rebecca Yeomans	Phylogeny of cranberry ( Vaccinium macrocarpon ) populations from random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) data. ASB Bulletin 40:149.
1992	Robert U. Fisher, Jr.	The effects of acute and chronic perturbation from a nuclear production reactor on bluegill morphology. ASB Bulletin 39:69-70.
1991	Scott Franklin	Ordination of compositionally stable communitites of Land Between the Lakes, KY and TN. ASB Bulletin 38:116.
1990	Anton D. Tucker	Natural selection for random nest distribution in leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea. ASB Bulletin 37:79-80.
1989	Steven B. Broyles	Inflorescence size and reproductive success in milkweeds: evidence against the pollen donation hypothesis. ASB Bulletin 36:123
1988	Carolyn J. Wilczynski	Small-scale disturbance and seedling dynamics of two species of Hieracium in an old field. ASB Bulletin 35:78.
1987	Robyne R. Lau	The effect of integration on the water relations and survivorship of a clonal understory herb. ASB Bulletin 34:106.
1986	Gary P. Shaffer	Extracting information from ecosystems containing high spatial and temporal variability: benthic microfloral productivity. ASB Bulletin 33:89.
1985	Marina C. Jonanovich	Effects of body lipids, carbohydrates and temperature on uptake and depuration of anthracene by the clam, Rangia cuneata, in Mobile Bay, Alabama. ASB Bulletin 32:50.

Southeastern Chapter » Quarterman-Keever Award [policies]

The Southeastern Chapter of ESA presents this award annually to encourage excellence in research by young ecologists. The award is given to the student (from those who have applied) judged to have presented the best poster on a clearly ecological topic at the annual meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2010	Whitney Ruppel (co-authored by John J Hutchens. Jr. and Vladislav Gills)	Relationship between macroinvertebrate assemblage structure and ecosystem function in two Coastal Plain blackwater streams
2009	Devynn A. Birx-Raybuck	Landscape-scale factors influence use of urban retention ponds by breeding anurans. Southeastern Biology 56(3).
2008	Nicole M. Hughes (with Kent Burkey, Keith Reinhardt and William Smith, co-authors)	Red and green coloration in winter leaves: why do some evergreen species synthesize anthocyanins while others don't?
2007	Harold W. Keller and Joseph S. Ely	Role of bark characteristics and epiphyte cover in the abundance, distribution, and succession of corticolous myxomycetes (true slime molds).
2006	Angela Scarborough	Tree canopy myxomycetes patterns and distributions
2005	Joy Hester	Effects of relocation on movements and home ranges of eastern box turtles ( Terrapene carolina ). Southeastern Biologist 52(2).
2005	Melinda D. Roberts	The influence of water relations on the response of cutleaf coneflower to ozone. Southeastern Biologist 52(2).

Agroecology Award » Student Presentation Awards

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2008	First place: Ben Werling Second place: Lei Cheng Third place: Megan O'Rourke Honorable mention: Hannah Gaines Honorable mention: Meagan Schipanski	Influence of off-crop natural areas on predation of crop pests in an annual crop at local and landscape scale Atmospheric CO2 enrichment facilitates cation losses from rice paddy soils Linking habitat heterogeneity and insect dynamics at multiple spatial scales Influence of non-crop habitat on weed seed predation within potato crops Managing biological nitrogen fixation in cash grain agroecosystems

Aquatic Section » Tom Frost Award

The Thomas M. Frost Award for Excellence in Graduate Research is presented by The Aquatic Section annually to a scientist in recognition of an outstanding paper resulting from research done as a graduate student. At the time of the nomination deadline, the paper must be published and the nominee must be a graduate student or have received the Ph.D. within two years. The nominee must be first author of the paper if there is more than one author. Nominated papers must be published in a peer-reviewed journal and be in the area of aquatic ecology. The nominee also must be a member in good standing of ESA's Aquatic Section at the time of nomination.

Thomas M. Frost was the director of the University of Wisconsin Trout Lake Station from 1981 until his death in 2000. His colleagues will remember him as a dedicated and creative scientist who brought a gentle, caring humanity to our endeavors. This award, founded in 2001, honors Tom's commitments to aquatic ecology and to graduate student education.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2008	Alison Derry	Adaptive reversals in acid tolerance in copepods from lakes recovering from historical stress.Ecological Applications 17: 1116-1126.
2007	Peter McIntyre	Fish extinctions alter nutrient recycling in tropical freshwaters. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., U.S.A. 104(11): 4461-4466
2006	Wendy Palen	Impact of UV-B exposure on amphibiam embryos: linking species physiology and oviposition behavior. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B 272: 1227-1234), (Co-authors Craig Williamson, Aaron Clauser, and Daniel Schindler).
2005	James Vonesh	Complex life cycles and density dependence: assessing the contribution of egg mortality to amphibian declines published in Oecologia (133: 325-333).
2004	Thomas A. Okey	Macrobenthic colonist guilds and renegades in Monterey Canyon drift algae: partitioning multidimensions (Ecological Monographs 73[3]: 415-440).
2003	Cynthia S. Kolar	Ecological predictions and risk assessment for alien fishes in North America. Science 298: 1233-1236.
2002	Jonathan B. Shurin	Dispersal limitation, invasion resistance, and the structure of pond zooplankton communities. 2000. Ecology 81: 3062-3086.

Aquatic Section » Student Paper Award

The Aquatic Ecology Section presents this award to recognize the best student presentation in Aquatic Ecology at the annual meeting of the Society.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2009	Kristine Grayson	Migrating versus residency in a pond-breeding amphibian: Sex-based trade-offs and environmental influences.
2006	Meghan Duffy	Is the enemy of my enemy really my friend? The combined effects of selective predators and virulent parasites on Daphnia populations
2004	Wendy Palen	UV impacts on alpine amphibians: Linking UV tolerance with field exposure and was co-authored by Daniel Schindler, Aaron Clauser, and Craig Williamson.
2003	Patrick Crumrine	Examining the role of size structure on intraguild predation in larval odonates
2002	Heather Vance-Chalcraft	Evaluating the prevalence of non-additivity for multiple predator species in aquatic systems
2001	Mark Scheurell	Effect of incident light on the diel vertical migration of juvenile sockeye salmon in Alaska lakes.

Biogeosciences Section » Elizabeth Sulzman Award

The Elizabeth Sulzman Award recognizes a current graduate student (must still be in graduate school in August of the current year)

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2010	Philip Taylor for Taylor, P. T. and A.R. Townsend	Stoichiometric controls over carbon-nitrate relationships from soils to the sea. Nature, 464:1178-1181.
2009	Michael S. Strickland for: Stickland, M.S, Lauber C., Fierer, N. and Bradford, M.A. 2009. Honorable mention: Jia Hu	Testing the functional significance of microbial community composition. Ecology 90: 441-451.
2008	Duncan Menge Honorable mention: Ben Colman
2007	Scott H. Ensign for: Ensign, S. H., and M. W. Doyle. 2006.	Nutrient spiraling in streams and river networks. Journal of Geophysical Research 111:G04009.

Biogeosciences Section » Gene E. Likens Award

The Gene E. Likens Award recognizes a postdoctoral scientist who received his or her degree in or after August three years prior.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2010	No award
2009	Stephen Porder for: Porder, S. and Chadwick O.A. 2009. Honorable mention: William Cornwell	Climate and soil-age constraints on nutrient uplift and retention by plants. Ecology 90: 623-636.
2008	Jennifer Funk Honorable mention: Kristina Anderson-Teixeira
2007	Ben Houlton for: Houlton, B. Z., D. M. Sigman, and L. O. Hedin. 2006.	Isotopic evidence for large gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests. Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:8745-8750.
2007	Katey Walter for: Walter, K. M., S. A. Zimov, J. P. Chanton, D. Verbyla, and F. S. Chapin. 2006.	Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate warming. Nature 443:71-75.

Microbial Ecology Section Award

The Microbial Ecology Section is sponsoring three ($250) travel awards to help support student travel to the 2009 ESA meeting. Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply. The student must be the presenting author on a poster or paper that has been accepted for presentation at the annual meeting. The study should deal with the ecology of bacteria, archaea, microeukarya, or viruses; studies that promote the integration of microbial ecology into the general study of ecology are especially welcome.

Year	Name	Title
2007	Casey ter Horst	Best student paper: Convergence of Ecological and Evolutionary Rates: Predator Driven Evolution of Population Growth Rates
2007	Natasha Hausmann	Best student poster: Plant Community Composition and Phenology Alter Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Networks 2008

Paleoecology Section » Edward S. Deevey Student Award in Paleoecology [policies]

The Edward S. Deevey Award is given by the Paleoecology Section of the ESA to honor Deevey's contributions through fostering the highest quality paleoecological research by graduate students. The award recognizes the best oral or poster presentation in paleoecology by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the Society.

Year	Name	Paper Title
2012	Ryan Kelly	"Pushing the limits of the boreal forest fire regime: recent changes in a 10,000 year context." Second place to Carolyn Barrett for "How many lake sediment cores do we need to characterize regional fire regime changes using macro-charcoal records."
2011
2010	Shelly D. Crausbay Co-authored by Sara Hotchkiss	Species assemblages and fire dynamics over the past ~3,300 years at an upper montane cloud forest in Hawaíi.
2009	Emily Coffey Co-authored by Katherine Willis and Cynthia Froy Honorable mention: Shawn Whiteman Co-authored by A. Boyer and Felisa Smith	Determination of baseline ecological conditions in the Galápagos Islands. A tale of two continents: ecology, phylogeny, and body size in the great American biotic interchange
2008	Larisa R.G. DeSantis Co-authored by Robert S. Ferenec and Bruce J. MacFadden.	Effects of global warming on ancient mammalian communities and their environments.
2007	Leila M. (Zajac) Gonzales Co-authored by Jack W. Williams and Rick Nordheim.	Modeling late-glacial no-analog climates with expanded response surfaces.
2006	Michael Tweite Co-author Sara Hotchkiss	Reconstructing historical patterns of jack pine budworm outbreaks in forest hollows from Wisconsin.
2005	Zoe V. Finkel	Climatically driven macro-evolutionary change in the size of marine planktonic diatoms.
2004	Jason McLachlan	The importance of small populations in the postglacial dynamics of eastern forests.
2003	Don Falk	The event-area relationship: Scale dependence in the fire regime of a New Mexico ponderosa pine forest.
2002	Lynn L. Anderson	A molecular-genetic approach to understanding the postglacial migration history of Picea in North America.
2001	Robert K. Booth Honorable mention: Philip Higuera	A high-resolution record of late Holocene surface-moisture changes from a Michigan raised bog. Identifying disturbance signatures in small-hollow sediments: the potential for long-term, high-resolution forest history records.
2000	Holly A. Ewing Honorable mention: Robert K. Booth Honorable mention: Bryan Shuman	The influence of substrate on long-term ecosystem development and its paleoecological record. Testate amoebae as wetland paleoenvironmental indicators: a modern study of testate amoeba assemblages in Lake Superior coastal wetlands. Vegetation response to late-glacial and early Holocene climate change in New England.
1999	Dan Gavin Honorable mention: Holly A. Ewing	Holocene fire history in a coastal temperate rainforest, Vancouver Island. A history of soil development in northern Wisconsin inferred from new geochemical techniques.
1998	Tim Parshall Honorable mention: Jason McLachlan	Variation in establishment of hemlock stands and their response to logging in northwestern Wisconsin. Delayed density-dependence in forest tree species inferred from high-resolution pollen data.
1997	Lisa Carlson Honorable mention: Wyatt Oswald Honorable mention: L. Luecking, R. Brugam Honorable mention: Tim Parshall, R. Calcote	Evidence for spruce migration and full glacial vegetation for Jan Lake, Alaska. W. Oswald, L. Brubaker, P. Anderson. Late Quaternary vegetation history of the Alaskan North Slope: an interpretation using indicator taxa. Presettlement vegetation of Macoupin County. Interpreting fossil pollen from forest hollows using modern analogs: The 'background' of the problem.
1996	Providence Sara Hotchkiss Honorable mention: Dirk Verschuren Honorable mention: Zicheng Yu	A 29,000 year record of vegetation and fire history from Kohala Mountain, Hawaii. Bulletin 77: Pattern and mechanism of change in the invertebrate community of fluctuating tropical lake basins (Lakes Naivasha and Sonachi, Kenya). Bulletin 78: Responses of vegetation and lake to late glacial climate changes in southern Ontario: a multi-proxy paleoecological investigation. Bulletin 78:
1995	Andrea Lloyd	Andrea Lloyd & L. Graumlich. Spatial & temporal patterns of change at treeline in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA. Bulletin 76:
1994	William H. Petty Honorable mention: Peter K. Van de Water	Holocene vegetation history and Lake Michigan lake-level fluctuations on the southern shore of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Abstract not published.
1993	Randy Calcote	Pollen from forest hollows as a stand-scale record of forest changes. Bulletin 74(Suppl):183.
1992	No award
1991	Shinya Sugita	Palynological records of forest disturbance and development on Mount Rainier, Washington. Bulletin 72(Suppl):261.lakes.

Physiological Ecology Section » The W. Dwight Billings Award

The W.D. and S.M. Billings award was established in August, 1998 and is made the Physiological Ecology Section of ESA to the graduate student whose oral presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America represents a significant advancement in physiological ecology (though the award in 1998 was made to the best published paper by a graduate student). The award will be given to a student whose paper is judged to offer the rigor, creativity, importance, and presentation that sets a new standard in the discipline. The award recognizes the lifetime contributions by its namesakes, Dwight and Shirley Billings, to physiological ecology. Dwight built the foundation for physiological ecology in North America and provided leadership for the field throughout his illustrious career. Together, Dwight and Shirley have shown a deep regard for the interests and training of graduate students in this dynamic component of ecology.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2009	Doug Aubrey Co-author R.O. Teskey Honorable mention: Greg Barron-Gafford, Dena Vallano	Root-derived CO2 efflux via xylem stream rivals soil CO2 efflux
2008	Marnie Rout Honorable mention: Rob Salguero-Gomez	Sorghum halepense and endophytic N-fixing bacteria: Ecosystem engineers altering soil biogeochemistry. First evidence for hydraulic fragmentation in an herbaceous aridland perennial: Cryptantha flava.
2007	Anna Jacobsen Co-authored by Brandon Pratt Honorable mention: Allyson Eller, Nicole Hughes.	Support for a fiber inclusive model of xylem cavitation resistance.
2006	Carmody McCalley Honorable mention: Mr. Paul Stoy	The role of water, nutrients, and temperature in regulating NO and NH3 efflux from Mojave Desert soils. Explaining the interannual variability of carbon exchange in successional ecosystems.
2005	Laura Scott-Denton (University of Colorado) Honorable mention: Catarina Moura (Duke University) and Rachel Spicer (Harvard University)
2004	Maggie Porter Honorable mention: Will Cornwell	Evapotranspiration and energy balance of postfire and native sagebrush communities in the Great Basin Desert.
2003	Katherine McCulloh Honorable mention: Jennifer Funk	The application of Murray's law to Psilotum nudum, an analogue of an ancestral vascular plant.
2002	Richard O. Musser	A suppression mechanism of induced plant defenses by an insect salivary enzyme (R.O. Musser & G. W. Felton).
2001	Amy Miller	Nutrient Uptake, Movement, Use. Preferential uptake of N by alpine tundra species: do all species tap the same N pool? (Miller A. & W. Bowman).
2000	Brent Helliker	Why is a grass blade like a tree ring? An isotopic model for recording environmental data in grass blades. (Helliker B. & J. R. Ehleringer)
1999	Jeanine Cavender-Bares	Correlated evolution in 15 co-occurring species of oaks (Quercus): A study of habitat and plant functional traits.
1998	Susan L. Bassow	Intra- and inter- specific variation in canopy photosynthesis in a mixed deciduous forest. (S.L. Bassow & F.A. Bazzaz. 1997. Oecologia 109: 507-515.)

Physiological Ecology Section » New Phytologist Poster Award

The Best Poster Award is made by the Physiological Ecology Section of ESA to recognize the best poster in physiological ecology presented by a graduate student at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2009	Allyson Eller Co-author J. Sparks	Influence of changing air chemistry on plant growth and reproduction: Effects of rising carbon dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and ozone on a model species.
2008	Ava Howard Honorable mention: Jessica Cruz de Osuna	Stomatal conductance responses to changing vapor pressure deficit: Do daytime patterns of regulation apply at night? Seasonal trends of mesophyll conductance and its importance in understand photosynthesis in a C.
2007	Kelly Hopping Co-authored by Elizabeth T. Miller, Elizabeth E. Crone, and Anna Sala.	Do these cones make me look fat? Unexpected patterns of resource allocation in whitebark pine.
2006	Mr. Justin Bichler Honorable mention: Anna Tyler	Quantifying the contribution of aquaporins to overall water transport in deep roots accessed via caves. Annual and ephemeral plants are important for shrub-island development and ecosystem processes in arid regions.
2004	Tracy Gartner Honorable mention: Catarina Moura	Arrangement of litter types can influence mass and N dynamics in mixed-species litter decomposition experiments.
2003	Patrick Herron Honorable mention: Will Bowman	Divining Rods: Pseudomonas putida as a microbiosensor of fine-scale osmotic potentials in soil.
2002	Jennifer L. Funk	The role of stored carbon in isoprene production in response to environmental stress in Populus deltoides (J.L. Funk, J. E. Mak & M. T. Lerdau).
2001	Laura Scott-Denton	Linking root and microbial biomass to soil respiration rate in a high-altitude coniferous forest (L. Scott-Denton, K. Sparks & R. Monson).
2001	Javier Espeleta	Fine root demography differs among xeric and mesic adult tree species in a sandhill habitat of southeastern US. (J. Espeleta & L. Donovan)
2000	Andrew J. McElrone	Interactive effects of drought stress and infection by Xylella fastidiosa on the ecophysiology of a common liana.
1999	David R. Bowling	Partitioning net ecosystem exchange in a Tennessee deciduous forest using stable isotopes of carbon dioxide.
1998	Louise Comas	Root efficiency in fast- and slow-growing species of maple and oak.
1998	Travis Huxman	Gas exchange and chlorophyll florescence responses of three southwestern Yucca species to elevated CO₂ and high temperature.
1997	Nate McDowell	Winter carbon dioxide uptake and release from an interior Pacific Northwest forest.
1996	James R. Cleverly	Modeling advective energy exchange between neighboring ecosystems with a special emphasis on the oasis effect.

Soil Ecology Section » Best Student Oral Presentation Award

The Soil Ecology Section presents this award to recognize the best student presentation in soil ecology at the annual meeting of the Society.

Year	Name	Paper Title
2008	Veer B.- Chaudhary Marnie Rout	Variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal abundance and diversity in semi-arid shrublands is scale-dependent Sorghum halepense and endophytic N-fixing bacteria: Ecosystem engineers altering soil biogeochemistry.
2007	Krista McGuire	Ectomycorrhizal fungi suppress saprotrophs in a tropical monodominant rain forest.
2006	Kristen DeAngelis	Quorum sensing as a control point in rhizosphere nitrogen transformations.
2004	Andrea Thorpe	Effects of Centaurea maculosa on nitrification in North America and Romania: Evidence for novel weapons.
2004	Sophie Parker	Nitrogen cycling in California grassland soils is influenced by soil texture and plant phenology.
2003	Evan Preisser	Climate affects predator control of herbivore outbreaks.
2002	Sara E. Leckie	Homogeneity of microbial communities in adjacent forests differing in nitrogen cycling.
2001	Elena Bennett	Human and natural impacts on soil phosphorus accumulation in an urbanizing agricultural watershed.
2000	Anne Pringle	Winners never cheat; cheaters never win: species' flexibility and the symmetry of benefit within a mutualism of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and plants.
2000	Nicole DeCrappeo	Abiotic and biotic controls on the abundance and distribution of entomopathogenic nematodes in tallgrass prairie.
1999	William Swenson	Multispecies communities as evolvable units: Artificial selection of soil communities for their effect on aboveground biomass of Arabidopsis thaliana
1999	Grizelle Gonzalez	Soil fauna and plant litter decomposition in tropical and subalpine forests.
1998	Esteban Jobaggy	Root and soil nutrient distributions: global patterns modified by local variability.
1998	Laurie J. Osher	Alteration of ecosystem carbon storage by change in vegetation and associated mycorrhizae in the Ecuadorian paramo.
1997	No award given
1996	Melody Brown Sharon Hall
1995	Carolyn Keiffer	The effect of competition and edaphic conditions on the growth and survival of five inland halophytes. Bulletin 76:138.

Soil Ecology Section » Best Student Poster Award

The Soil Ecology Section presents this award to recognize the best student presentation in soil ecology at the annual meeting of the Society.

Year	Name	Paper Title
2008	Israel del Toro	Terrestrial microarthropod biodiversity analysis of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands: With notes on mircoarthropod biotic and abiotic interactions.
2007	Michelle Haddix Honorable mention: Macy Johnson, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Loren Byrne	Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter fractions.
2006	Colleen Iverson	Changes in fine-root quantity and quality with elevated CO₂: Implications for decomposition and N cycling.

Statistical Ecology Section » E.C. Pielou Award [policies]

The purpose of the award is to recognize a student member of the Statistical Ecology Section of ESA for giving an outstanding oral presentation in the area of statistical ecology at the ESA Annual Meeting. The individual award is $200, together with a copy of a book written by pioneering statistical ecologist E. C. Pielou.

Year	Name	Paper Title
2008	No award presented
2007	Daniel Laughlin	Explaining gradients in plant community composition with a general multivariate model.
2006	Heather Lintz	Threshold strength and ‘diagonality’: response descriptors for comparison of empirical model type.
2005	David Delaney	Predicting discrete secondary spread of aquatic invasive species.
2004	No award presented
2003	Katia Koelle	Disentangling the roles of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in nonlinear disease dynamics.
2002	David Staples	Detecting population trends with joint indices from coupled time-series.

Student Section

2008 Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research in Ecology Award
2008 Outstanding Graduate Student Research in Ecology Award

(At the time of the nomination deadline the paper must be published in the previous two years in a peer reviewed journal (eg., 2006-2008 for 2008 award) and the nominee must be an undergraduate student, a graduate student, or have received a Ph.D. within the past two years. The nominee must be first author of the paper and be a member in good standing of ESA's Student Section at the time of nomination. Self-nominations and nominations by colleagues are welcomed.)

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2009	Daniel R. Scholes	Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation Award
2009	Alexander J. Forde	Best Undergraduate Poster Presentation Award
2009	Anna Maria Stewart	Outstanding Undergraduate Student Research in Ecology Award
2009	Alexander N. G. Kirschel	Outstanding Graduate Student Research in Ecology Award

Theoretical Ecology Section

The Theoretical Ecology Section presents this award to recognize the best student oral presentation in theoretical ecology at the annual meeting of the Society.

Outstanding Ecological Theory Paper Award

The Theory Section sponsors an annual award for an outstanding published paper in ecological theory. Papers with a print or electronic publication date in either of the two years preceding the year of the award are eligible. (For example, papers published in 2008 or 2009 are eligible for the 2010 award.)

Nominations (including self-nominations) may be made at any time, and will close on March 1 for each year's award. Nominations should be sent to the chair and vice-chair, and should include a short statement by the nominator discussing the paper's merits and suitability for the award.

Year	Name	Paper Title
2010	James O'Dwyer and Jessica Green	Field theory for biogeography: A spatially explicit model for predicting patterns of biodiversity. Ecology Letters 13: 87-95.

Alfred. J. Lotka Award

Year	Name	Paper Title
2009	Alex Perkins Co-author: Alan Hastings	Evolutionarily labile species interactions and spatial spread dynamics of invasions
2008	Clay Cressler Co-author: Aaron King	Foraging-predation risk tradeoff governs evolution of inducible defenses.
2007	Sharon Martinson Co-authored: Matthew P. Ayres.	A multiple equilibria model for Dendroctonus frontalis which includes predation and competition.
2006	Sean Michaletz	A heat transfer model of crown scorch in forest fires, co-authored by Edward Johnson.
2005	Karen Abbott	Food limitation and complex dynamics in herbivorous insects.
2004	Katia V. Koelle	Between-strain competition for susceptible hosts in host-pathogen systems with seasonal dynamics.
2003	Chad Brassil	The Similar Effect of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Cycles on Mean Population Densities.
2002	John Haskell	Home range scaling in fractal environments.
2000	Juan Manuel Morales	Scaling-up movements in heterogeneous landscapes: importance of behavior.

Vito Volterra Award

Year	Name	Paper Title
2009	Andres Baeza Co-author: Mercedes Pascual and Andy Dobson	On the emergence of conservation behavior in a simple model of land-use with ecosystem services.
2008	Vishwesha Guttal Co-author: C Jayaprakash	Spatial indicators of catastrophic regime shifts in ecological systems.
2007	Colin Kremer Co-authored: Chris C Leary, Gary W Towsley, and Gregg Hartvigsen.	Chaotic dynamics lost in small-world network meta-populations.
2006	Sean Michaletz Co-authored by Edward Johnson	A heat transfer model of crown scorch in forest fires.
2005	Karen Abbott	Food limitation and complex dynamics in herbivorous insects.
2004	Katia V. Koelle	Between-strain competition for susceptible hosts in host-pathogen systems with seasonal dynamics.
2003	Chad Brassil	The Similar Effect of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Cycles on Mean Population Densities.
2002	John Haskell	Home range scaling in fractal environments.
2000	Juan Manuel Morales	Scaling-up movements in heterogeneous landscapes: importance of behavior.

Vegetation Section » Ton Damman Award

The Vegetation Section presents this award to recognize the best student presentation in plant community ecology at the annual meeting of the Society.

Year	Full Name	Paper Title
2007	Charles Price Co-authored by Brian J. Enquist and Van Savage.	Allometric Covariation in botanical form and function.
2006	Jeff Lake	Community assembly in a temperate forest tree community: Testing limiting similarity, environmental filtering, and functional equivalence with leaf functional traits.
2005	Paul Henne	Spatial and temporal response of forests communities to variation in lake-effect snow in northern Lower Michigan.
2004	Jason McLachlan	The importance of small populations in the postglacial dynamics of eastern forests.
2003	Rachel J. Collins	Do succession models predict the right pattern for the wrong reason: shade vs. herbivore tolerance?

Ecological Society of America

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