{"id":50,"date":"2014-04-23T14:32:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T12:55:29","slug":"archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/about\/archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Archives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postdoctoral Excellence Award ESA 2014<\/h2>\n

The 2014 recipient ESA PPE Post-doctoral Excellence Award winner is\u00a0Jennifer Gremer for her paper, \u201cBet hedging in desert winter annual\u00a0plants: optimal germination strategies in a variable environment\u201d\u00a0 [Ecol.Lett. 17: 380-387]<\/a>.\u00a0 In this work, Gremer and Venable studied the adaptive\u00a0nature of delayed seed germination as a bet hedging strategy in 12 Sonoran\u00a0desert winter annuals. In this elegant work, they utilize a 30-year\u00a0demographic data set to parameterize the relationship between delayed\u00a0germination and fitness in a variable environment. They predicted the\u00a0evolutionary stable germination strategy for these winter annuals and\u00a0compared this prediction to their field observations.\u00a0 By combining\u00a0extensive field studies with modeling, their work provides a very rigorous\u00a0test of bet hedging as an adaptive strategy and their findings provide\u00a0concrete evidence of the adaptive value of delayed germination in the\u00a0variable desert environment.<\/p>\n

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Student Travel Award Winners ESA 2014<\/h2>\n

Zak Gezon (Dartmouth College)
\nJeremy Johnson (Texas A&M)
\nBrittany West Marsden (University of Maryland)
\nNana Zhang (University of Pittsburgh)<\/p>\n

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Postdoctoral Excellence Award ESA 2013<\/h2>\n

\"rupesh_1\"The PPE Postdoctoral Excellence Award\u00a0recognizes an outstanding recent paper in the field of plant\u00a0population ecology written by a postdoctoral researcher. \u00a0The 2013 award recipient was Rupesh Kariyat for his paper, \u201cInbreeding alters volatile signalling phenotypes and influences tri-trophic interactions in horsenettle\u201d \u00a0(Ecol. Lett. 15:301-309).<\/p>\n

Honorable mention was awarded to Rob Salguero-Gomez for his paper, \u201cA demographic approach to study effects of climate change in desert plants\u201d (Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. 367:3100-3114).<\/p>\n

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Student Travel Award Winners ESA 2013<\/h2>\n
The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) Section of the ESA is proud to announce the 2013 PPE student\u00a0travel awardees. This recognition highlights the advancements made by young members of our section in the field of plant population ecology. The awards help defray the cost of attending the annual ESA meeting.<\/div>\n
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Kelsey Yule (University of Arizona)<\/div>\n
Megan Sebasky (University of Virginia)<\/div>\n
Miranda Redmond (University of Colorado)<\/div>\n
Will Petry (University of California Irvine)<\/div>\n
Kane Keller (Michigan State University)<\/div>\n
Jessica Pratt (University of California Irvine).<\/div>\n
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Postdoctoral Excellence Award 2012<\/h2>\n

The Plant Population Ecology (PPE) section of the Ecological Society of America and Journal of Ecology was pleased to award the Plant Population Ecology Postdoctoral Excellence Award, sponsored by Journal of Ecology, to Jennifer Williams at this year\u2019s ESA meeting in Portland, Oregon. This award recognizes an outstanding contribution to plant population ecology published in Journal of Ecology within the past three years by a postdoctoral member of the PPE section. Jennifer was recognized for her 2011 paper, \u201cDistance to stable stage distribution in plant populations and implications for near-term population projections,\u201d co-authored by Jennifer L. Williams, Martha M. Ellis, Mary C. Bricker, Jedediah F. Brodie, and Elliot W. Parsons. (Journal of Ecology 99: 1171-1178). This exceptional paper represents a robust test of a fundamental assumption of population projection matrices\u2014a widely used tool in plant population ecology\u2014and successfully bridges the gap between theory and application in this field. Congratulations, Jennifer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postdoctoral Excellence Award ESA 2014 The 2014 recipient ESA PPE Post-doctoral Excellence Award winner is\u00a0Jennifer Gremer for her paper, \u201cBet hedging in desert winter annual\u00a0plants: optimal germination strategies in a variable environment\u201d\u00a0 [Ecol.Lett. 17: 380-387].\u00a0 In this work, Gremer and Venable studied the adaptive\u00a0nature of delayed seed germination as a bet hedging strategy in 12 Sonoran\u00a0desert winter annuals. In this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1013,"featured_media":0,"parent":69,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/50\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/plantpopulation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}