William S. Cooper Award
The William Skinner Cooper Award, initiated in 1985, is given to honor an outstanding contributor to the fields of geobotany, physiographic ecology, plant succession, or the distribution of plants along environmental gradients, these being the fields in which W. S. Cooper worked. The award is for a single contribution in a scientific publication (single or multiple authored). Nominees need not be ESA members and can be of any nationality.
| Year | ESA Bulletin | Citation | Authors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Link | Seabird establishment during regional cooling drove a terrestrial ecosystem shift 5000 years ago. Science Advances, 6(43). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb2788 | Dulcinea V. Groff, Kit Hamley, Trevor J. R. Lessard, Kayla E. Greenawalt, Moriaki Yasuhara, Paul Brickle, Jacquelyn Gill |
| 2021 | Link | Climate and competition affect growth and survival of transplanted sugar maple seedlings along a 1700‐km gradient. Ecological Monographs, 87(1), 130-157. DOI: 10.1002/ecm.1237 | Rachel C. Putnam, Peter B. Reich |
| 2020 | Link | Persistent effects of pre-Columbian plant domestication on Amazonian forest composition. Science 355(6328): 925-931. DOI: 10.1126/science.aal0157 | Carolina Levis, Flavia R. C. Costa, Frans Bongers, Marielos Peña-Claros, Charles R. Clement, André B. Junqueira, Eduardo G. Neves, Eduardo K. Tamanaha, Fernando O. G. Figueiredo, Hans ter Steege |
| 2019 | Link | Divergence of species responses to climate change. Sciences Advances, Vol. 3, no. 5; DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.160305 | Songlin Fei, Johanna M. Desprez, Kevin M. Potter, Insu Jo, Jonathan A. Knott, Christopher M. Oswalt |
| 2018 | Link | Disturbance is the key to plant invasions in cold environments. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 113:14061–14066. | Jonas J. Lembrechts, Aníbal Pauchard, Jonathan Lenoir, Martin A. Nuñez, Charly Géron, Arne Ven, Pablo Bravo‐Monasterio, Ernesto Teneb, Ivan Nijs, and Ann Milbau |
| 2017 | Link | Intertidal resource use over millennia enhances forest productivity. Nature Communications 7, Article number: 12491. doi:10.1038/ncomms12491 | Andrew. J. Trant, Wiebe Nijland, Kira M. Hoffman, Darcy L. Mathews, Duncan McLaren, Trisalyn A. Nelson, Brian M. Starzomski |
| 2016 | Link | Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science 345: 1602–1605 (2014) | Etienne Laliberté, Graham Zemunik, Benjamin L. Turner |
| 2015 | Link | Non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change. Proc. Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281:20141779 | Carissa D. Brown, Mark Vellend |
| 2014 | Link | Floral and environmental gradients on a Late Cretaceous landscape. Ecological Monographs 82:23-47. | Scott L. Wing, Caroline A. E. Strömberg; Leo J. Hickey; Fleur Tiver; Brian Willis; Robyn J. Burnham; Anna K. Behrensmeyer |
| 2013 | Link | Evolution of a genetic polymorphism with climate change in a Mediterranean landscape. PNAS 110:2893–2897 | John Thompson, Anne Charpentier, Guillaume Bouguet, Faustine Charmasson, Stephanie Roset, Bruno Buatois, Philippe Vernet, Pierre-Henri Gouyon |
| 2012 | Link | Angiosperms helped put the rain in the rainforests: The impact of plant physiological evolution on tropical biodiversity. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 97:527-540 | C. Kevin Boyce; Jung-Eun Lee; Taylor S. Feild; Tim J. Brodribb; Maciej A. Zwieniecki |
| 2011 | Link | Evolutionary responses to changing climate. Ecology 86:1704–1714 | Margaret Bryan Davis, Ruth G. Shaw, Julie R. Etterson |
| 2010 | Link | Pleistocene megafaunal collapse, novel plant communities, and enhanced fire regimes. Science 326:1100–1103. | Jacquelyn L. Gill; John W. Williams*; Stephen T. Jackson; Katherine B. Lininger; Guy S. Robinson |
| 2009 | Link | Harvard Forest flora: an inventory, analysis and ecological history. Harvard Forest Paper 28, 2008. | Jerry Jenkins; Glenn Motzkin; Kirsten Ward |
| 2008 | Link | Phylogenies and community ecology. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:475–505. | Campbell Webb; David Ackerly; Mark A. McPeek; Michael Donaghue |
| 2007 | Link | Herbivores promote habitat specialization by trees in Amazonian forests. Science 305:663–665. | Paul Fine; Italo Mesones; Phyllis D. Coley |
| 2006 | Link | The Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity and Biogeography. Princeton University Press, 2001 | Stephen Philip Hubbell |
| 2005 | Link | Holocene fire history of a coastal temperate rain forest based on soil charcoal radiocarbon dates. Ecology 84:186–201. | Daniel Gavin; Linda Brubaker; Kenneth Lertzman |
| 2004 | Link | Dissimilarity analyses of Late-Quaternary vegetation and climate in eastern North America. Ecology 82:3346-3362. | John W. Williams; Bryan N. Shuman; Thompson Webb III |
| 2003 | Link | Land-use history as long-term broad-scale disturbance: regional forest dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1:96–119. | David R. Foster; Glenn Motzkin; Benjamin Slater |
| 2002 | Link | Dominance and distribution of tree species in upper Amazonian terra firme forests. Ecology 82:2101–2117. | Nigel C. A. Pitman; J. W. Terborgh; M. R. Silman; P. V. Núñez; D. A. Neill; C. E. Cerón; W. E Palacios; M. Aulestia |
| 2001 | Link | Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal climate variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11:3128–3147. | Thomas Swetnam; Julio Betancourt |
| 2000 | Link | Temporal and spatial scales of kelp demography: the role of oceanographic climate. Ecological Monographs 69:219–250. | Paul K. Dayton; Mia Tegner; Peter Edwards; Kristin Riser |
| 1999 | Link | Landscape change following deforestation at the arctic tree line in Québec, Canada. Ecology 78:693–706. | Dominique Arseneault; Serge Payette |
| 1998 | Link | Holocene dynamics of treeline forests in the Sierra Nevada. Ecology 78:1199–1210. | Andrea H. Lloyd; Lisa J. Graumlich |
| 1997 | Link | Causes and ecosystem consequences of multiple pathways of primary succession at Glacier Bay, Alaska. Ecology 76:1899–1916. | Christopher C. Fastie |
| 1996 | Link | Woodland expansion in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and causes. Ecological Monographs 64:45–84. | W. Carter Johnson |
| 1995 | Link | Landscape evolution, soil formation, and ecological patterns and processes in Sonoran Desert bajadas. Ecological Monographs 64:111–247. | Joseph R. McAuliffe |
| 1994 | Link | Diversity and floristic composition of lowland tropical forest in Africa and South America. In P. Goldblatt (ed.). Biological relationships between Africa and South America . Chapter 17, pp. 500-547. Yale University Press, 1993. | Alwyn H. Gentry |
| 1993 | Link | Riparian vegetation recovery patterns following stream channelization: a geomorphic perspective. Ecology 73:1209–1226. | Cliff R. Hupp |
| 1992 | Link | Biological invasion by Myrica faya in Hawaii: plant demography, nitrogen fixation, ecosystem effects. Ecological Monographs 59:247–265. | Peter Morrison Vitousek |
| 1991 | Link | Climate and plant distribution. Cambridge University Press, 1987 | F. Ian Woodward |
| 1990 | Link | Postglacial vegetation of Canada. Cambridge University Press, 1987 | James C. Ritchie |
| 1989 | Link | Plant strategies and the dynamics and structure of plant communities . Princeton University Press, 1988 | David Tilman |
| 1988 | Link | Dynamism in the barrier-beach vegetation of Great South Beach, New York. Ecological Monographs 56:97–126. | James Samuel Clark |
| 1987 | Link | Biogeography of two southwest American oaks in relation to atmospheric dynamics. Journal of Biogeography 10:275–297. | Ronald P. Neilson; Leroy H. Wullstein |
| 1986 | Link | Vegetation organization and dynamics of lichen woodland communities in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Ecology 62:200–215. | Edward A. Johnson |
| 1985 | Link | Fire and landscape diversity in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park. Ecological Monographs 52:199–221. | William H. Romme |