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US-IALE 2007 Awards Update
Big congratulations to the following 2007 Award
winners, announced at the annual banquet in Tucson
this past April.
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology (2005-06)
The committee looks for papers published within the
last two years that make an outstanding contribution
to the literature of the field of landscape ecology.
This year we selected Laurance et al.’s study
on loss of tree community composition in the long
term Amazon fragmentation experiment:
William F. Laurance, Henrique E. M. Nascimento,
Susan G. Laurance, Ana Andrade, José E.
L. S. Ribeiro, Juan Pablo Giraldo, Thomas E. Lovejoy,
Richard Condit, Jerome Chave, Kyle E. Harms, and
Sammya D'Angelo. 2006.
Rapid decay of tree-community composition in
Amazonian forest fragments. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States
of America (PNAS) 103: 19010-19014
Co-author Susan Laurance was at the Awards banquet
to receive their award.
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist - Dr.
Eric J. Gustafson
Project
Leader, Principles of Landscape Ecology for Managing
Temperate Ecosystems,
USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station,
Rhinelander, WI
This award is a prestigious honor given to recognize distinguished
scientific contributions to the field of landscape ecology. We elected
to recognize Dr. Gustafson for his outstanding contributions to landscape spatial
and simulation models, and for his work in bringing landscape ecology to applied
and natural resource management.
2007 Student Award
This year 15 students
registered to have their papers considered for this award
and 21 judges evaluated the student presentations (at
least 3 reviews per student) during the Annual Symposium
in Tucson. The Awards
committee is pleased to announce two winner of the
2007 Best Student Paper Award as:
Cathy Collins, Kansas University
Patch size affects plant extinction rates in
an experimentally fragmented grassland, (oral);
Benjamin Zuckerberg, State University of
New York
Implications of the abundance-occupancy rule:
Can atlas data be used to monitor avian population
change? (oral)
Credits
Many thanks to all the student participants and
especially to the judges who make the student award
program possible: Rob Corry, Ashton Drew, Sarah
Goslee, Eric Gustafson, Hong He, Geoff Henebry, Falk
Huettmann, Louis Iverson, Bob Keane, Richard Lathrop,
Ed Laurent, Todd Lookingbill, Matt Luck, Carol Miller,
Bruce Milne, Anita Morzillo, Rob Scheller, Lisa Schulte,
Peter Weisberg, Kim With, and Pat Zollner.
Members of the 2007 US-IALE Awards Committee are
Janet Silbernagel (chair),
Jack Ahern, Geoff Henebry, Margaret Livingston and
Anita Morzillo.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON THE AWARD SELECTION
PROCESS
Each year the awards committee sends out calls for
nomination of candidates for each of the US-IALE awards.
These calls are circulated in the newsletter and to
the US IALE list server. Nominations should contain
more than simple assertions of a candidate's worthiness.
For example, elaborations such as statistics on the
number of times a particular paper by a candidate has
been cited in the ISI database are preferable to statements
about the candidate authoring a citation classic. Similarly,
a list of specific accomplishments and contributions
to US IALE is much more meaningful than stating that
someone is an important leader.
Typically the Awards Committee will present only one
of the 'Distinguished' awards each year. The committee
will review nominations of candidates for all three
awards annually and select the single candidate most
deserving across all the nominations. In exceptional
years we might present 2 or even 3 of these awards,
but the standard practice will be to present only the
single most deserving candidate each year. The intent
is to maintain the stature of all of the awards by
making them more competitive.
Once a candidate is nominated, the awards committee
considers the nomination annually, so it is not necessary
for nominations to be resubmitted in subsequent years.
If multiple nominations are received for a candidate,
all nomination materials are considered together.
Student Presentation Award winners are selected based
on the evaluations of the judges assigned to critique
each presentation. At least 3 judges evaluate each
student. Evaluation criteria are equally weighted by
1) significance of ideas, 2) creativity, 3) quality
of methodology, 4) validity of conclusions drawn for
results and 5) clarity of presentation.
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist
The Award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist
is given for distinguished scientific contribution
to the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this
award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals
whose thinking and writing have helped to shape the
field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those
scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline
and its continuing development. This award is ordinarily
given for outstanding scientific achievement over a
period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious
honor bestowed by our Chapter.
| 2007 |
Eric
J. Gustafson |
| 2006 |
Bruce
T. Milne |
| 2005 |
H.
Ronald Pulliam |
| 2004 |
Thomas
Crow |
| 2003 |
Simon
Levin |
| 2002 |
Louis
Iverson |
| 2001 |
Gary Barrett |
| 2000 |
Paul
Risser |
| 1999 |
No
awards made to avoid conflict with World Congress
at Snowmass |
| 1998 |
Monica
G. Turner |
| 1997 |
Gray
Merriam |
| 1996 |
John
Wiens |
| 1995 |
Robert
O'Neill |
| 1994 |
Robert
Gardner |
|
1993 |
none
awarded |
|
1992 |
Richard
T.T. Forman |
| 1991 |
Frank
Golley |
Distinguished Landscape Practitioner
The award for Distinguished Landscape Practitioner
is given for distinguished contributions in the application
of the principles of landscape ecology to real-world
problems. The intent is to recognize unusual contributions
to landscape ecology through the creative applications
of this science to the resolution of practical dilemmas.
This award is given for outstanding applications over
a period of years.
| 2005 |
David Hulse |
| 2004 |
Frederick Steiner, University
of Texas |
| 2003 |
USGS GAP Program |
| 2002 |
The Great Plains Restoration
Council for The Buffalo Commons |
| 2001 |
The Nature Conservancy |
| 2000 |
Larry Harris |
| 1999 |
No awards made to avoid conflict
with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 |
Joan Iverson Nassauer |
| 1997 |
Michael Hough, Hough, Woodland,
Naylor, Dance, Etobicole, Ontario |
| 1996 |
Carl Steinitz, Harvard School
of Design |
| 1995 |
Wisconsin Chapter of the Nature
Conservancy for the Baraboo Hills project |
| 1994 |
Nancy Diaz, Mt. Hood NF |
|
1993 |
none awarded |
|
1992 |
none awarded |
| 1991 |
Andropogon Associates |
Distinguished Service Award
The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals
who have contributed exceptionally to US-IALE. Exceptional
service represents a contribution to US-IALE in terms
of time, energy and dedication that advanced the mission
of US-IALE in an extraordinary manner and thus deserves
special recognition.
| 2006 |
Distinguished Service Award
- Garik Gutman, William Taylor and Jack Liu |
| 2005 |
Distinguished Service Award
- David J. Mladenoff |
| 2001 |
Leadership in Action Award -
Jerry F. Franklin |
| 1998 |
Distinguished Service Award
- Eugene P. Odum |
| 1998 |
Distinguished Service Award
- Frank B. Golley |
| 1997 |
Outstanding Book Published
in Landscape Ecology - Richard T. Forman (Land
Mosaics, Cambridge Press, 1995) |
| 1995 |
Distinguished Service Award
- Forest Stearns |
Outstanding Paper in Landscape
Ecology
The award for Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology
is given for an outstanding contribution to the literature
of the field of landscape
ecology. The paper must have been published in a scientific
journal in the
past 2 years.
| 2007 |
William F. Laurance, Henrique
E. M. Nascimento, Susan G. Laurance, Ana Andrade,
José E. L. S. Ribeiro, Juan Pablo Giraldo,
Thomas E. Lovejoy, Richard Condit, Jerome Chave,
Kyle E. Harms, and Sammya D'Angelo. 2006. Rapid
decay of tree-community composition in Amazonian
forest fragments. Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
103: 19010-19014 |
| 2006 |
An, Li, Linderman, Marc, Qi,
Jiaguo, Shortridge, Ashton, and Jianguo Liu. 2005.
Exploring Complexity in a Human-Environment System:
An Agent-Based Spatial Model for Multidisciplinary
and Multiscale Integration. Annals of American
Association of Geographers 95(1): 54–79. |
| 2005 |
Farhig, Lenore. 2003. Effects
of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annual
Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (2003,
vol. 34: 487-515). |
| 2004 |
Hargrove, WH, FM Hoffman, and
PM Schwartz. A fractal landscape realizer for generating
synthetic maps. Conservation Ecology 6(1) |
| 2003 |
Tewksbury, JJ, DJ Levey, NM
Haddad, JL Orrock, A Weldon, BJ Danielson, J Brinkerhoff,
EI Damschen, and P Townsend. 2002. Corridors affect
plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented
landscapes. - Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences 99: 12923-12926 |
| 2002 |
With and King. Analysis of
landscape sources and sinks: the effect of spatial
pattern on avian demography. Biological Conservation,
100:75-88. |
| 2001 |
Keymer, Juan E., Pablo Marquet,
Jorge Velasco Hernandez, and Simon Levin. 2000.
Extinction thresholds and metapopulation persistence
in dynamic landscapes. Am Nat 156:478-494 |
| 2000 |
Wear and Bolstad. Land-use
changes in southern Appalachian landscapes: spatial
analysis and forecast evaluation. Ecosystems 1:575-594. |
| 1999 |
No awards made to avoid conflict
with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 |
Flather and Sauer. Using landscape
ecology to test hypotheses about large-scale abundance
patterns in migratory birds. Ecology 77:28-35. |
| 1997 |
Mladenoff, Sickley, Haight
and Wydeven. A regional landscape analysis and
prediction of favorable gray wolf habitat in the
northern Great Lakes region. Conservation Biology
9:279-294 (1995). |
| 1996 |
With and Crist. Critical thresholds
in species' responses to landscape structure. Ecology
76:2446-2459 (1995) |
| 1995 |
Carter Johnson. Woodland expansion
in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and causes.
Ecol Monogr 64:45-84 (1994) |
| 1994 |
Wiens, Stenseth, Van Horne and
Ims. Ecological mechanisms and landscape ecology.
Oikos 66:369-380 (1993) |
|
1993 |
none awarded |
|
1992 |
Bruce Milne. Spatial aggregation
and neutral models in fractal landscapes. American
Naturalist 139:32-57 (1992) |
| 1991 |
Andow, Karieva, Levin and Okubo.
Spread of invading organisms. Landscape Ecology
4:177-188. |
Outstanding Paper in Landscape Ecology -
Honorable Mention
| 2005 |
Remmel, T.K. and F. Csillag.
2003. When are two landscape pattern indices significantly
different? J Geograph Syst 5:331–351 |
Best Student Presentation
The award for Best Student Presentation is given for
the best oral or poster presentation given by a student
at the previous Annual Meeting. The award consists
of a certificate commemorating the award, and a travel
grant of $500 toward attendance at the next Annual
Meeting.
| 2007 |
Cathy Collins, Kansas
University.
Patch size affects plant extinction rates in
an experimentally fragmented grassland. (oral) |
| 2007 |
Benjamin Zuckerberg,
State University of New York. Implications
of the abundance-occupancy rule: Can atlas data
be used to monitor avian population change? (oral) |
| 2006 |
Patrick James, University of
Toronto. Simulating the effects of shifting harvest
policies on long term spatial patterns of forest
age structure. (oral) |
| 2005 |
Yolanda Wiersma, University
of Guelph. Beta-diversity and reserve design in
Canada. (oral) |
| 2004 |
Brad McRae, Northern Arizona
University. Integrating landscape ecology and population
genetics: new tools from circuit theory. (oral) |
| 2003 |
Jennifer Miller. A comparison
of methods for incorporating spatial dependence
in predictive vegetation models. (oral) |
| 2002 |
Tenley Conway, Rutgers University.
The impact of future development on the water and
terrestrial resources in the Barnegat Bay Watershed
NJ. (oral) |
| 2001 |
Matthew Baker. Predicting spatial
variation in riparian hydrology and forest composition
across lower Michigan. (oral) |
| 2000 |
Edward Laurent, Purdue University.
Modeling habitat context for the endangered copperbelly
water snake (oral) |
| 1999 |
No awards made to avoid conflict
with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 |
Patrick Zollner, Indiana State
University. Search strategies for landscape-level
inter-patch movements (oral) |
| 1997 |
Jing Huang, Oregon State University.
Characterizing forest spatial pattern using digitized
aerial photographs (oral) |
| 1996 |
Nancy McIntyre, Colorado State
University. Effects of internal and external motivational
factors on animal movements in experimental landscapes
(oral) |
| 1995 |
Timothy Keitt, University of
New Mexico. Detecting critical scales in fragmented
landscapes (oral) |
| 1994 |
George Hess, North Carolina
State University. Could increased connectivity
be more than we bargained for? (poster) |
| 1993 |
none awarded |
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1992 |
none awarded |
|
1991 |
Joseph Miller, Pennsylvania
State University. Landscape patterns and biotic
communities characteristics in central Pennsylvania
(poster)
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Best Student Presentation - Honorable
Mention
| 2005 |
Alicia Ellis, Darmouth College.
Linking individual movement to population level
processes in tree hole mosquito systems. (oral) |
| 2004 |
Don Falk, University of Arizona.
Event-area relationships: scaling rules for fire
regimes. (oral) |
| 2003 |
Monika Moskal. Harmonic analysis
of natural and man made disturbances in the Yellowstone
region. (oral) |
| 2002 |
Kenneth Pierce, Duke University.
Detecting scale-specific
interactions between seed dispersal and environment.
(oral) |
| 2001 |
Geoffrey Hay. Scale-space for
landscape ecologists: a novel approach for defining
multi-scale landscape structure in high-resolution
imagery. (oral) |
| 2000 |
Jennifer Fraterrigo. Low density
human settlement in the Rocky Mountain west: does
it matter to bird communities? (poster) |
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2000 |
Veronique St. Louis. Does vegetation
heterogeneity have any effect on territory delimitation
of black-throated blue warblers (Dendroica caurulescens)
and ovenbird (Sierus aurocapillus)? (oral) |
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1999 |
No awards made to avoid conflict
with World Congress at Snowmass |
| 1998 |
Penny Flick. A multiple-scale
approach to reserve site selection. (poster) |
| 1997 |
Deborah J. Bishop. Topographic
effects on avian richness, abundance, and probability
of site use during spring migration. (poster) |
| 1996 |
Sandra Luque. The impact of
management practices on the landscape of a natural
reserve: The New Jersey Pine Barrens, a case study.
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