Young Investigator Prizewinners 2010
Each year the BES awards a prize for the best paper, in each of its journals, by an author at the start of their research career. This virtual issue brings together the winning papers and those selected by the editors as worthy of special mention as runners up. Congratulations to all concerned!
Functional Ecology | Journal of Animal of Ecology | Journal of Applied of Ecology | Journal of Ecology | Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Winner of the Haldane Prize 2010
A multi-trait approach reveals the structure and the relative importance of intra- vs. interspecific variability in plant traits
Cécile Hélène Albert, Wilfried Thuiller, Nigel Gilles Yoccoz, Rolland Douzet, Serge Aubert and Sandra Lavorel
Runners up
Turning northern peatlands upside down: disentangling microclimate and substrate quality effects on vertical distribution of Collembola
Eveline J. Krab, Hilde Oorsprong, Matty P. Berg and Johannes H.C. Cornelissen
Do leaves of plants on phosphorus-impoverished soils contain high concentrations of phenolic defence compounds?
David M. Wright, Greg J. Jordan, William G. Lee, Richard P. Duncan, David M. Forsyth and David A. Coomes
Context-dependent running speed in funnel-web spiders from divergent populations
Jonathan N. Pruitt and Jerry F. Husak
Winner of the Elton Prize 2010
Interacting effects of predation risk and signal patchiness on activity and communication in house mice
Nelika K. Hughes and Peter B. Banks
Runners up
The phenology mismatch hypothesis: are declines of migrant birds linked to uneven global climate change?
Tim Jones and Will Cresswell
Paternally derived immune priming for offspring in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum
Olivia Roth, Gerrit Joop, Hendrik Eggert, Jonas Hilbert, Jens Daniel, Paul Schmid-Hempel and Joachim Kurtz
Winner of the Southwood Prize 2010
Conditioned taste aversion enhances the survival of an endangered predator imperilled by a toxic invader
Stephanie O'Donnell, Jonathan K. Webb and Richard Shine
Runners up
Estimation of immigration rate using integrated population models
Fitsum Abadi, Olivier Gimenez, Bruno Ullrich, Raphaël Arlettaz and Michael Schaub
Cadmium pollution triggers a positive biodiversity-productivity relationship: evidence from a laboratory microcosm experiment
Jin-Tian Li, Hong-Nan Duan, Shao-Peng Li, Jia-Liang Kuang, Yi Zeng and Wen-Sheng Shu
Spontaneous succession in limestone quarries as an effective restoration tool for endangered arthropods and plants
Robert Tropek, Tomas Kadlec, Petra Karesova, Lukas Spitzer, Petr Kocarek, Igor Malenovsky, Petr Banar, Ivan H. Tuf, Martin Hejda and Martin Konvicka
Winner of the Harper Prize 2010
Modelling the growth of parasitic plants
Yann Hautier, Andy Hector, Eva Vojtech, Drew Purves and Lindsay A. Turnbull
Runners up
Functional traits of alien plants across contrasting climatic and land-use regimes: do aliens join the locals or try harder than them?
Paula A. Tecco, Sandra Díaz, Marcelo Cabido and Carlos Urcelay
Do linear landscape elements in farmland act as biological corridors for pollen dispersal?
Anja Van Geert, Fabienne Van Rossum and Ludwig Triest
Variation in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonization modifies the expression of tolerance to above-ground defoliation
Etzel Garrido, Alison E. Bennett, Juan Fornoni and Sharon Y. Strauss
Evidence of the 'plant economics spectrum' in a subarctic flora
Grégoire T. Freschet, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Richard S. P. Van Logtestijn and Rien Aerts
The effects of plant pathogens on tree recruitment in the Western Amazon under a projected future climate: a dynamical systems analysis
Sally Thompson, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, John Terborgh and Gabriel Katul
Winner of the Robert May Prize 2010
On reducibility and ergodicity of population projection matrix models
Iain Stott, Stuart Townley, David Carslake and David J. Hodgson
Runners up
Phylogenetic signal and linear regression on species data
Liam J. Revell
Accounting for recorder effort in the detection of range shifts from historical data
Christopher Hassall and David J. Thompson
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