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

Sidnie Manton Award: submit your proposal now

Early career ecologist? If you have an idea for a Review or Long-term Studies in Animal Ecology paper, we invite you to submit a short abstract and be in with a chance of winning our next Sidnie Manton Award. Proposals will be assessed by the journal Editors and successful applicants will be invited to submit a manuscript to Journal of Animal Ecology. Submitted manuscripts will … Continue reading Sidnie Manton Award: submit your proposal now

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

2019 Elton Prize Winner: Uriah Daugaard

The Elton Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology by an Early Career Researcher. We’re delighted to announce that the 2019 winner is Uriah Daugaard, for his article ‘Warming can destabilize predator–prey interactions by shifting the functional response from Type III to Type II’. A topical challenge in ecology is to understand how temperature affects the complex ways … Continue reading 2019 Elton Prize Winner: Uriah Daugaard