Poster Award
Young Scientist Poster Award
Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist who has presentedthe most outstanding poster at the annual meeting of the Association. Starting with the 2008 competition, the winner is awarded 1000€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meeting of the Association.
2009 (Less than 35 years old)
First Prize: Jan Plue. Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. How to sample a forest soil seed bank? (Co-authors: G. Goyens, M. van Meirvenne, K. Verheyen, M. Hermy).
Honorable mention: Krista Takkis. University of Tartu, Estonia. Contrasting responses of two grassland species to habitat fragmentation. (Co-authors: L. Saar, A. Helm, M. Partel)
Honorable mention: Takuya Furukawa.Yokohama National University, Japan. Abrupt vegetation change along human disturbance gradient in an urban tropical dry forest, Nairobi, Kenya. (Co-authors: K. Fujiwara, S. Kiboi, S.G. Mathenge, P.B.C. Mutiso)
2008 (Less than 35 years old)
First Prize: Jeff Ott. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC , USA. Sharpening the focus of community patterns by adjusting phylogenetic scale.
Honorable mention: Forbes Boyle. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC , USA. Using high-quality vegetation plot datasets to restore ecosystems: an example from the Coastal Plain of the Southeastern US. (Co-authors: R.K. Peet, T.R. Wentworth)
Honorable mention: Desale Okubamichael. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville, South Africa. Host specificity and bird dispersal in the parasitic mistletoe Tapinanthus natalitius (Loranthaceae).
(Co-authors: D. Ward, M. Griffiths-Ward, M.Z. Rasheed)
South African Development Community Prize: Justine Nyaga. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa. Impacts of fog and dew on soil moisture, respiration and nutrient cycling. (Co-authors: C.F. Musil, L. Raitt)
2007 (Student)
First Prize: Flore Viard-Cretat. Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, CNRS, Grenoble, France. Does mowing increase allelopathic effects of dominants on recruitment in subalpine grasslands? (Co-authors: Christiane Gallet, Sandra Lavorel)
Second Prize: Gert Rosenthal. Institute of Landscape Planning and Ecology, University of Stuttgart, Germany. Restoration of wet meadow communities after sustained abandonment
Third Prize: Kai Rünk. Institute of Botany and Ecology, University of Tartu, Estonia. What are the key factors for three congeneric (Dryopteris) forest ferns with contrasting regional abundance: soil, illumination or something else? (Co-authors: Martin Zobel, Kristjan Zobel)
Honorable mention: Loek Kuiters.Alterra, Wageningen, The Netherlands. Endozoochorous seed dispersal by sheep in limestone grasslands in South Limburg, the Netherlands. (Co-authors: H.P.J. Huiskes, W.A. Ozinga, & J.H.J. Schaminée)
2006 (Student)
First Prize: Chie Itow. Yokohama National University. A study of comparison of ecological and habitat differences between alien Ligustrum lucidum Ait. and native Ligustrum japonicum Thunb. in Japan. (Co-author: K. Fujiwara)
Second Prize: Haruka Ohashi. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. Impact of the native Sika deer (Cervus nippon) on the forest floor vegetation: the natural experiment. (Co-authors: Y. Hoshino, K. Oono)
2005 (Student)
First prize: Ana Luisa Diogo. Musea Nacional de Historia e Jardim Botanico, Lisbon, Portugal.
Second prize: Alessandra Fidelis. Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Third prize: Ligia Carvalho. University of Madeira, Funchal, Portugal.
2004 (Student)
First Prize: Hiroko Kurokawa. Kyoto University. Factors explaining plant defensive investments in tropical rainforests in Borneo. (Co-authors: H. Nagamasu, T. Nakashizuka)
Second Prize: Teresa Hollingsworth. University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska. Environmental controls on floristic variability in Black spruce communities of interior Alaska. (Co-authors: M.D. Walker, A. Parsons)
Third Prize: Haruka Ohashi. Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan. Effect of Shika deer (Cervus nippon) on species composition and plant species diversity of forest vegetation. (Co-author: Y. Hoshino)
2003 (Student)
First prize: M. Ghobadnejhad. University of Teheran, Teheran, Iran.
Second prize: Imelda Somodi. Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary.
Third prize: Roberto Costi. Roma.
2002 (Student)
First prize: Diego Gurvich.
Second price: Gervasio Pineiro.
Third price: Fabina Pezzani.
2001 (Student)
First prize: Silke Werth. Germany. Are epiphytic macrolichens faithful indicators of hemeroby in deciduous forests?
Second prize: Stephanie Clauss. Germany. Assessment of vegetation cover as a tool for environmental planning of Utila Island, Honduras.(Co-author: C. Wild)
Second prize: Astrid Søe. Germany. The effect of forest structure on soil respiration in beech forests under different managent regimes
