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Poster Award
Young Scientist Poster Award

Each year IAVS recognizes the young scientist - a student, or holder of an advanced degree (undergrad/Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD) within three years of completion of his/her degree - who has presented the most outstanding poster at the annual meeting of the Association. The winner (first prize) is awarded 1000€ to be used to attend one of the subsequent two annual meetings of the Association. Winners of the first prize in the Young Scientist Poster Presentation Award in any of the previous years cannot compete for the award in this category again.

 

2024

First prize:

María Ravetta (Argentina): Experimental Drought Enhances Plant Invasions Along an Aridity Gradient

Second prize:

Verena Wutz (Germany): Faster than plants – Why lichens should receive more attention when assessing climate change effects

Honorable Mention:

Jonathan Obermaier (USA): Assessing the Effects of Historical Land Use and Environmental Variables on Rare Plant Distribution at Antietam National Battlefield

2024

First prize:

Raissa Jardim (Brazil):Unveiling above- and below-ground ecological strategies underlying woody plant encroachment in grasslands.

Second prize:

Adler R. Barboza (Brazil): Woody encroachment viewed through trait integration in forest-grassland mosaics from southern Brazil.

Third prize:

Bruno Paganeli (Tartu): Where current and future alien species might come from.

2023

First prize:

Zoe Xirocostas (Australia):Introduced species lose their enemies more often than their friends.

Second prize:

Léa Saby:Restoring a Mediterranean grassland by replacing the natural stone cover and sowing the dominant grass.

Honorable Mention:

Shu-I Lin (Taiwan): Patterns of intra/interspecific trait variation of trees along fog gradient in Taiwan.

2022

First prize:

Nina Fahs (Brno, Czech Republic): Ecological Niches of Nitrogen-Fixers and Parasitic Plants in Europe

Second prize:

Vagner Zanzarini (Pessac, France): The Effect of Fire Exclusion on Aboveground Biomass of Tropical Old-growth Grasslands

Honorable Mention:

Raquel Martins (Rio Claro, Brazil): Effects of Aerosol Smoke on the Germination of Cerrado Species

2021

First prize:

Mariana Dairel (Brazil): Fire effects on the seed bank of open savannas of the Cerrado (Co-author: Alessandra Fidelis)

Second prize:

Yu-Pei Tseng (Taiwan): Do subtropical montane cloud forests in Taiwan act as insular systems for woody species? (Co-author: David Zelený)

Honorable Mention:

Kacper Foremnik (Poland): Effects of forest stand structure on population of endangered orchid species Cypripedium calceolus L. (Co-authors: Krawczyk W., Surmacz B., Malicki M., Suchan T., Gazda A., Pielech R.)

2020

IAVS Annual Symposium did not take place in 2020 due to the pandemic. There was therefore no award in 2020.

2019

First prize (tie, in alphabetical order):

Nina Fahs (Germany): Ecological and agricultural evaluation of different grassland management strategies (Co-author: Petr Blazek)

Gabriel Walther (Germany): Patterns of functional rarity of mesophilic grassland species (Co-authors: Ute Jandt, Christine Römermann)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order, not by score):

Po-Yu Lin (Taiwan): Diversity pattern of woody species along elevation in Taiwan: does the sample standardisation matter? (Co-authors: David Zelený, Ching-Feng Li)

Carolin Plos (Germany): Relationships between flowering phenology and flower traits in herbaceous species (Co-authors: Isabell Hensen, Christine Römermann)

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2018

First prize: Martin Macek (Czech Republic): Can ecological rules survive in Himalaya? (Co-authors: Martin Kopecký, Miroslav Dvorský, Jan Wild, Jiří Doležal)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order, not by score):

Pavel Danek (Czech Republic): Four decades of beech-spruce interactions in a Central European old-growth mountain forest. Who succeeds on which soils and how? (Co-authors: Pavel Šamonil, Dušan Adam, Ivana Vašíčková)

Alice Stears (USA): Leaf osmotic potential affects survival probability in response to inter-annual climatic variation in a semi-arid short-grass steppe in northern Colorado (Co-authors: Dana Blumenthal, Kevin Wilcox, Julie Kray, Troy Ocheltree, Peter Adler, Daniel Laughlin)

2017

First prize: Malgorzata Radula (Poland): Topographic wetness index predicts soil moisture better than bioindication with Ellenberg’s indicator values (Co-authors: Tomasz Szymura, Magdalena Szymura)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order, not by score):

Liis Kasari (Estonia): Good dispersers disappear from European calcareous grasslands following the payment of extinction debt (Co-author: Aveliina Helm)

Francesca Jaroszynska (Norway): Shifts in biotic interactions with climate change in semi-natural grasslands in Western Norway (Co-authors: Vigdis Vandvik, Siri Lie Olsen, Kari Klanderud)

2016

First Prize: Nathalia Bonani (Brazil). How is fire affecting the germination of legume species? The study of Cerrado and forest species. (Co-authors: L.Felipe Daibes & Alessandra Fidelis)

Honorable Mention: Anaclara Guido (Brazil). Invasive species removal: assessing community impact and recovery from invasion (Co-author: Valério D. Pillar)

Honorable Mention: Joosep Sarapuu (Estonia). Cut evolution in cut forests? Changes in phylogenetic structure of tropical rainforests due to ecological release of leaf-cutting ants (Co-authors: Elâine Ribeiro, Bráulio A. Santos, Marcelo Tabarelli, Rainer Wirth, Inara R. Leal & Pille Gerhold)

2015

First Prize: Sonya Geange (Australia). Plasticity in water use traits in Australian alpine plants (Co-authors: Veronica Briceno Rodriguez, Nicola Aitken, Jose Alberto Ramirez-Valiente & Adrienne Nicotra)

Honorable mention: Gianmaria Bonari (Italy). Management effect on diversity of plants and insects in semi-natural grasslands: conflicts or reconciliation? (Co-authors: Karel Fajmon, David Zelený, Igor Malenovský, Jaroslav Holuša, Ivana Jongepierová, Petr Kočárek, Ondřej Konvička, Jan Uřičář & Milan Chytrý)

Honorable mention: Barbora Lepková (Czech Republic). Seed dispersal by free-ranging herbivores and its impact on vegetation (Co-authors: Eva Horčičková, Jaroslav Vojta & Tomáš Herben)

Honorable mention: Emma Shidola (Namibia). Assessment of vegetation diversity, structure, cover and the influence of fire in Alex Muranda research centre and Mutompo, Namibia using long-term data

2014

First prize: Guochen Kenny Png. Do N-fixing plants show higher root phosphatase activity on P-poor soils? (Co-authors: Etienne Laliberté, Patrick E. Hayes, Benjamin L. Turner and Hans Lambers)

Honorable Mention: Talita Zupo. Do different disturbance types affect resprouting patterns of shrub species in cerrado? (Co-authors: Elizabeth Gorgone-Barbosa, Mariana N. Rissi and Alessandra Fidelis)

Honorable Mention: Ilka Strubelt. Changes in species composition and richness in an alluvial hardwood forest over 52 years (Co-authors: Martin R. Diekmann and Dietmar Zacharias)

2013

First prize: Daniel Bernardo Montesinos. The mountain vegetation of the South Andes of Peru: Syntaxonomy, ecology, phytogeography and conservation (Co-authors: Antoine M. Cleef, Karlè V. Sýkora)

Honorable Mention: Stefanie Raabe. Effect of different cutting regimes on species diversity of rewetted fens (Co-authors: Florian Sievers, Michael Manthey)

Honorable Mention: Anaclara Guido. Shrub effects on grassland vegetation in Brazilian altitude grasslands (Co-authors: Elisa Salengue, André Dresseno)

2012

First prize: Rob Lewis. Identifying the multi-scale spatial relationship of plant community determinants on a national scale (Co-authors: R.J. Pakeman & R.H. Marrs)

Honorable Mention: Renaud Jaunatre. New synthetic indicators to assess community resilience and restoration success (Co-authors: E. Buisson & T. Dutoit)

Honorable Mention: Jeong Soo Park. Analysis of environmental factors that affect the distribution ofDeschampsia antarctica on King George island, Maritime Antarctica (Co-author: Eun Ju Lee)

2011

First prize: Hannes Feilhauer (Bonn, Germany). Combining ordination and remote sensing techniques to map ecotones in a heterogeneous landscape. (Co-authors: U. Faude, S. Schmidtlein)

Honorable mention: Marcos Carlucci (Porto Alegre, Brazil). Information from tree sapling individuals reveals trait convergence and trait divergence are related to gradients in forest patches. (Co-authors: H. Streit, L. Duarte, V. Pillar)

Honorable mention: Liisa Mannvilja (Helsinki, Finland). Restoration of diversity in boreal spruce swamp forests. (Co-authors: K. Aapala, T. Haapalehto, J. Kotiaho, E. Tuittila)

2010

First prize: Megan R. Wong (Victoria, Australia). Vegetation and soil food web responses to resource availability in a perennial tussock grassland, south-eastern Australia. (Co-authors: J.W. Morgan, T.R. Cavagnaro)

Honorable mention: A. Fidelis (São Paulo, Brazil.) Floristic similarities of wet-grasslands in the Brazilian cerrado biome. (Co-author: V. Pivello)

2009

First Prize: Jan Plue (Belgium). How to sample a forest soil seed bank? (Co-authors: G. Goyens, M. van Meirvenne, K. Verheyen, M. Hermy).

Honorable mention: Krista Takkis (Estonia). Contrasting responses of two grassland species to habitat fragmentation. (Co-authors: L. Saar, A. Helm, M. Partel)

Honorable mention: Takuya Furukawa (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

First Prize: Jeff Ott (North Carolina, USA). Sharpening the focus of community patterns by adjusting phylogenetic scale.

Honorable mention: Forbes Boyle (North Carolina, 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 (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 Africa). Impacts of fog and dew on soil moisture, respiration and nutrient cycling. (Co-authors: C.F. Musil, L. Raitt)

2007

First Prize: Flore Viard-Cretat (France). Does mowing increase allelopathic effects of dominants on recruitment in subalpine grasslands? (Co-authors: Christiane Gallet, Sandra Lavorel)

Second Prize: Gert Rosenthal (Germany). Restoration of wet meadow communities after sustained abandonment

Third Prize: Kai Rünk (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 (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

First Prize: Chie Itow (Japan). 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 (Japan). Impact of the native Sika deer (Cervus nippon) on the forest floor vegetation: the natural experiment. (Co-authors: Y. Hoshino, K. Oono)

2005

First prize: Ana Luisa Diogo (Lisbon, Portugal).

Second prize: Alessandra Fidelis (Freising, Germany).

Third prize: Ligia Carvalho (Funchal, Portugal).

2004

First Prize: Hiroko Kurokawa (Japan). Factors explaining plant defensive investments in tropical rainforests in Borneo. (Co-authors: H. Nagamasu, T. Nakashizuka)

Second Prize: Teresa Hollingsworth. (Alaska, USA). Environmental controls on floristic variability in Black spruce communities of interior Alaska. (Co-authors: M.D. Walker, A. Parsons)

Third Prize: Haruka Ohashi. (Tokyo, Japan). Effect of Shika deer (Cervus nippon) on species composition and plant species diversity of forest vegetation. (Co-author: Y. Hoshino)

2003

First prize: M. Ghobadnejhad (Teheran, Iran).

Second prize: Imelda Somodi (Budapest, Hungary).

Third prize: Roberto Costi (Italy).

2002

First prize: Diego Gurvich.

Second price: Gervasio Pineiro.

Third price: Fabina Pezzani.

2001

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 management regimes

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