We are delighted to announce that the 2022 New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science has been awarded jointly to Leander D.L. Anderegg and Moi Exposito-Alonso.
Leander is an Assistant Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara (USA) whose work is driven by his fascination of the landscape-scale consequences of plant physiology. In his Tansley insight ‘Why can't we predict traits from the environment?’ Leander reviews the eco-evolutionary processes that drive trait variation at various ecological scales and their implications both for how we look for trait–environment relationships and for how we interpret trait variation.
Moi is a Carnegie Staff Associate at the Departments of Plant Biology and Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science and Assistant Professor (by courtesy) of Biology at Stanford University (CA, USA). Moi’s expertise in plant evolutionary ecology, biology and genetics, combined with computational approaches, informs his research programme, which aims to forecast the evolutionary outcomes of populations under climate change, and to ultimately anticipate potential future biodiversity losses. These themes are explored in Moi’s Tansley insight ‘Understanding local plant extinctions before it’s too late: bridging evolutionary genomics with global ecology’.
We also congratulate two outstanding Tansley Medal runners-up:
Y. Anny Chung is a Haines Distinguished Assistant Professor in Field Botany (Belowground) in the Departments of Plant Biology and Plant Pathology at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. Anny’s Tansley insight is titled ‘The temporal and spatial dimensions of plant–soil feedbacks’.
J. Grey Monroe is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California Davis, USA. Grey’s Tansley insight is titled ‘Potential and limits of (mal)adaptive mutation rate plasticity in plants’.
The New Phytologist Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science is awarded annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to research by individuals in the early stages of their career. We offer our warmest congratulations to Leander, Moi and their fellow finalists, and wish them continued success in their future careers.
The judging panel for the 2022 Tansley Medal was comprised of New Phytologist Editors Amy Austin (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Ian Dickie (Canterbury, New Zealand) Liam Dolan (Vienna, Austria), Elena Kramer (Cambridge, MA, USA) and Shuhua Yang (Beijing, China).
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