The New Phytologist Foundation was pleased to support the Merian Awards for the best contributions given by young scientists during the European Conference of Tropical Ecology meeting.
Awards were presented to:
Oral presentation:
1st prize: Malika Gottstein (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) “How much time until extinction? An agent-based model assessing the impact of logging on an endangered primate in the Ecuadorian Choco”
Joint 2nd prize: Kasper Coppieters (University of Ghent) “Lianas cool down tropical forest understories by increasing evapotranspiration”
Joint 2nd prize: Timo Metz (Technical University of Darmstadt) “How biodiversity recovers from perturbation: Resistance and resilience of a tropical rainforest”
Poster presentation:
1st prize: Kaare Christophersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) “Using AI to uncover “hidden” species interactions: using incomplete data on tropical seed-dispersal networks underestimates robustness to extinctions”
2nd prize: Gabriela Escaliente (iDiv / Fridrich Schiller University Jena) “Biodiversity effects on leaf and litter volatiles composition”
3rd prize: Evangelia Linda Chronopoulou (iDiv / Fridrich Schiller University Jena) “The dark side of bananas: A novel method for quantifying climacteric fruit ripening in tropical ecosystems”
