Awards

Plant Population Ecology Student Travel/Registration Awards – due May 31, 2024

The ESA Plant Population Ecology section plans to award 3-5 travel awards of $200-$300 each to graduate student members of the section to attend the 2024 annual meeting in person.  Applications are due May 31, 2024 before midnight (PDT).  

Instructions:

To apply, please complete and submit this form: https://forms.gle/oxk1jpoSGmASZvwG8

Selection process:

Applications will be evaluated based on relevance of research interests and goals, need, and the potential for attendance to advance research and professional goals.  These criteria will be used to sort applications into priority funding groups (high/medium/low) and then names will be randomly selected from within funding groups to select awardees.  

Past Student Travel Award recipients

 

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Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology – Coming soon

2023 call:

The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to announce the 2023 Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology, sponsored by the journal AoB PLANTS. This honor is presented at ESA’s annual meeting each August and recognizes a distinguished journal contribution to plant population ecology within the past three years by a postdoctoral member of the PPE section. The winner will receive an award of $500 from AoB PLANTS. Established in 2010 and published by Oxford University Press, AoB PLANTS is a non-profit, open-access journal specializing in environmental and evolutionary plant biology. The journal has distinguished Advisory and Editorial Boards, renders first decisions on manuscripts in an average of 30-40 days, and has a 2019 Impact Factor score of 2.18.

Eligibility

Applicants must currently be a postdoc and a member of the PPE section (if applicants are not a member of ESA or the PPE section, they can join prior to applying). Applicants must be first author on the publication, which may result from either dissertation or postdoctoral research. We also welcome applications from postdocs who were the primary mentors for undergraduate student first authors (please explain in the statement). Publications in any journal are eligible, provided they were published within the past calendar year (January – December 2022). Manuscripts that were accepted for publication by December 2022 may also be submitted for consideration. Only one publication will be considered per applicant.

Application

– To apply, submit as a single, merged pdf file with both a qualifying manuscript and a brief (~200 word) statement describing how the paper advances the field of plant population ecology. Applications should be emailed to the PPE Secretary Gaurav Kandlikar (gkandlikar@nullmissouri.edu) by June 3, 2023 using “ESA PPE – AoBP Postdoc Award” as the subject line. Self nominations are welcome!

Applications will be assessed by the PPE Executive Board.

Past Postdoctoral Excellence Award recipients

2022 Eric Scott, for the paper “Delayed effects of climate on vital rates lead to demographic divergence in Amazonian forest fragments“
2021 Aubrie James, for the paper “Species-specific variation in germination rates contributes to spatial coexistence more than adult plant water use in four closely related annual flowering plants”
2020 Po-Ju Ke
2019 Susana Wadgymar
2018 Robert Shriver
2017 William Petry
2016 Jenni McDonald
2015 Eugenio Larios
2014 Jennifer Gremer
2013 Rupesh Kariyat; Roberto Salguero-Gomez (Honorable Mention)
2012 Jennifer Williams

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