Prizes were awarded at the 2011 Conference for the best three student talks and best three student posters. The prizes consisted of journal subscriptions kindly donated by the Society for Conservation Biology and Elsevier and books donated by Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press and Wiley-Blackwell.
REDD and the indigenous question: a case study from Ecuador
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Science, 195 Prospect St.Yale FES, New Haven, CT 06511 United States of America
Email: pablo.reed@yale.edu
Second Prize: Emily Woodhouse
Tibetan sacred sites and conservation
Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK
Email:emily.woodhouse@imperial.ac.ukm
Third Prize: Shivani Jadeja
Blackbuck social behaviour influences dispersal of an invasive plant
Wildlife Conservation Society - India Programme, National Centre for Biological Sciences, GKVK Campus, Bangalore 560 065, India
Email:shivanivj@gmail.com
Conservation genetics of the endangered Malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Email:t.cope@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Second Prize: Tharsila Carranza
Measuring conservation effects in Brazil: lessons from a megadiverse region
Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing St, Cambridge, CB2 3EJ
Email:tharsilat@gmail.com
Third Prize: Hector Mario Serna-Chavez
Threatened fisheries: assessing loss of ecosystem services in the Mekong River Basin using a causal effect framework
University of Coimbra,Faculty of Science and Technology 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal
Email:hectorhidrico@yahoo.com.mx
We were delighted to welcome Giselle Perdomo to SCCS 2011.Giselle was funded to attend the conference in Cambridge as the prize for the top oral presentation at the Australian Centre for Biodiversity Talkfest in 2010.
Giselle's talk at the Cambridge conference, "Experimental foodwebs under habitat fragmentation and climate change", was Highly Commended by the panel of judges.
