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Presentation Award

Young Scientist Oral Presentation Award

Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist (a student, or a graduate within three years of completion of a degree) who has made the most outstanding oral presentation at the annual meeting of the Association. Thee winner is awarded 1000€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meeting of the Association.

2011
First prize: Renaud Jaunautre. Université d'Avignon, d'Avignon, France.  Impacts of a multi-treatment restoration experiment on the vegetation, soil and seed bank of a mediterranean steppe. (Co-authors: E. Buisson, T. Dutoit)
Honorable Mention: Maud Bernard-Verdier,Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolution, Montpellier, France. Detecting community assembly patterns along a soil depth gradient in a mediterranean rangeland. (Co-Authors: M. Vellend, M. Navas, E. Garnier)
Honorable mention: Neema Mogha, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Impact of land-use on vegetation communities and their floristic composition in the small wetlands of East Africa.  (Co-authors: C. Honda, B. M. Moeseler, M. Alvarez, M. Langensiepen)

2010
First prize: S. Vanderplank. The perennial vegetation of greater San Quintin, Baja California, Mexico. (Co-authors: E. Ezcurra, J. Delgadillo)
Honorable mention: A. Fidelis.Short-term changes caused by fire and mowing in Brazilian Campos grasslands. (Co-authors: C. Blanco, S.C. Müller, V.D. Pillar, J. Pfadenhauer)
Honorable mention: A. Lumbreras.Ecology of aquatic Ranunculus communities in the west of the Iberian Peninsula: a center of water crowfoot biodiversity. (Co-author: J.A. Molina)

2009
First prize: Miquel De Cáceres Ainsa. University of Montreal, Canada. Improving diagnostic species analyses by considering combinations of groups. (Co-authors: M. Moretti, P. Legendre)
Honorable mention: Carly Stevens. The Open University, Milton Keynes, England. Impacts of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on European calcifuge grasslands.
Honorable mention:Vanessa Minden. University of Oldenburg, Germany.Plant functional traits in relation to disturbance in salt marshes of NW Germany. (Co-author: M. Kleyer)

2008
First Prize: Gerald Jurasinski . University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany.  Upward shift of alpine plants increases floristic similarity of mountain summits. (Co-authors: J. Kreyling, C. Beierkuhnlein)
Honorable mention:Marina Semchenko. University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia. Foraging for space by plant roots: a comparative study of grasses from contrasting habitats. (Co-authors: K. Zobel, M.J. Hutchings)
Honorable mention:Kuo-Jung Chao. National Taiwan University, Taiwan.  Vegetation of the lowland tropical rainforests in Taiwan. (Co-authors: W.-C. Chao, C.-F. Hsieh)
South African Development Community Prize: Peter le Roux. Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. Rapid altitudinal range expansion and the formation of no-analog communities in response to warming. (Co-author: M.A. McGeoch)

2007
No award was given

2006
Joint First Prize: Jonathon Lenoir. French Institute of Agricultural, Forest and Environmental Engineering, AgroParisTech – ENGREF, France. Western European forest plant species move up in response to climate change. (Co-authors: J.C. Gegout, P.A. Marquet, P. De Ruffray, H. Brisse)
Joint First Prize: Michael Forster. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Sclerophyllous response to complex environments in the heterophyllous species Acacia implexa (Benth.). (Co-author: S.P. Bonser)