Awards

Plant Population Ecology Student Travel/Registration Awards – Due April 30, 2025 

The ESA Plant Population Ecology section plans to award 3-4 travel awards of $200 – 300 each to graduate student members of the section to attend the 2025 annual meeting in person.  Applications are due April 30, 2025  before midnight (PDT).  

Instructions:

To apply, please complete the following form: https://forms.gle/D4jJwhDbzwAkc3pt9

Selection process:

Applications will be evaluated based on relevance of research interests and goals, financial need, and the potential for attendance to advance research and professional goals.  These criteria will be used to rank 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 – Due May 30, 2025

The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America (ESA) is pleased to offer the Postdoctoral Excellence Award in Plant Population Ecology again in 2025.

This award is generously sponsored by the journal AoB PLANTS, and recognizes a distinguished journal contribution to plant population ecology within the past year by a postdoctoral member of the PPE section. 

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 2023 Impact Factor score of 2.60.

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 between January 2024 and May 2025. Manuscripts that were accepted for publication by May 2025 may also be submitted for consideration. Only one publication will be considered per applicant. Prior winners of the award are not eligible.

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 Gordon Fitch (gmfitch@yorku.ca) by May 30, 2025 using “ESA PPE – AoBP Postdoc Award” as the subject line. Both self nominations and nominations by mentors/collaborators are welcome!

 

Past Postdoctoral Excellence Award recipients

2024	Jacob K. Moutouama, for the paper “Effects of range and niche position on the population dynamics of a tropical plant“
2023	Gregor Siegmund, for the paper “Statistical inference for seed mortality and germination with seed bank experiments“
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