Elton Prize Early Career Researcher Shortlist Announced

The Elton Prize is awarded each year for the best paper in the Journal of Animal Ecology written by an early career author at the start of their research career. The overall winner is selected by the Senior Editors of the journal, and will be announced in the coming weeks. Watch this space! This year’s shortlisted candidates are announced below. The shortlisted candidates are: Santiago Agustín Parra, … Continue reading Elton Prize Early Career Researcher Shortlist Announced

Elton Prize 2021: winner announced

We are delighted to announce Kate P. Maia as the 2021 winner of our Elton Prize early career researcher award for the article Interaction generalisation and demographic feedbacks drive the resilience of plant–insect networks to extinctions. In this post, Kate shares her #StoryBehindThePaper. The research Ecological communities can be depicted as networks in which species are connected by interactions. These ecological networks have far-from-random structures, … Continue reading Elton Prize 2021: winner announced

Shortlist Announced for Elton Prize Early Career Researcher Award

Each year Journal of Animal Ecology awards the Elton Prize to the best Research Article in the journal by an early career researcher. Today we present the shortlisted papers for this year’s award, based on the 2021 (90th) volume of the journal. The winner will be selected in the coming weeks so follow the blog and watch this space for future announcements! This year’s shortlisted candidates are: … Continue reading Shortlist Announced for Elton Prize Early Career Researcher Award

Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists – Submit your proposals now!

We are excited to announce that the Sidnie Manton Award is open for proposals.  With this award, we aim to inspire early career researchers working on any aspect of animal ecology to publish review or synthesis papers that might either summarize their dissertation work, provide new insights into classic areas of animal ecology, or shed light on emerging fields. The British Ecological Society and Journal … Continue reading Sidnie Manton Award for early career ecologists – Submit your proposals now!