Awards|Recognizing Excellence
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Distinguished Awards
Nominations for the three Distinguished awards and the Outstanding Paper award are solicited annually from the membership. The Awards Committee makes decisions based on a review of submitted nominations against the award criteria described below.
2024 Awards Committee: Jennifer Costanza (Chair), Caitlin Cunningham, Sarah Goslee, Dan Kashian, Emily Minor, and Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis
Nominations for the three Distinguished awards and the Outstanding Paper award are solicited annually from the membership. The Awards Committee makes decisions based on a review of submitted nominations against the award criteria described below.
2024 Awards Committee: Jennifer Costanza (Chair), Caitlin Cunningham, Sarah Goslee, Dan Kashian, Emily Minor, and Ilona Naujokaitis-Lewis
2024 Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award
The award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contributions and outstanding leadership in the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking, writing, leadership, and mentorship have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development and who have contributed positively to the professional and scholarly development of other landscape ecologists. This award is ordinarily given for outstanding contributions over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by our Chapter.
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.
2024 Distinguished Service Award
The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have contributed exceptionally to IALE–North America. Exceptional service represents a contribution to IALE–North America in terms of time, energy, and dedication that advanced the mission of IALE–North America in an extraordinary manner and thus deserves special recognition.
2024 Outstanding Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding paper published in the discipline of landscape ecology in the preceding two years that significantly advances the science or practice of landscape ecology.
The award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contributions and outstanding leadership in the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking, writing, leadership, and mentorship have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development and who have contributed positively to the professional and scholarly development of other landscape ecologists. This award is ordinarily given for outstanding contributions over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by our Chapter.
- Robert Fletcher, University of Florida and the University of Cambridge
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.
2024 Distinguished Service Award
The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have contributed exceptionally to IALE–North America. Exceptional service represents a contribution to IALE–North America in terms of time, energy, and dedication that advanced the mission of IALE–North America in an extraordinary manner and thus deserves special recognition.
- Dr. Anne Kuhn-Hines, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research & Development, Atlantic Coastal Environmental Sciences Division, Narragansett, RI
2024 Outstanding Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding paper published in the discipline of landscape ecology in the preceding two years that significantly advances the science or practice of landscape ecology.
- Frank A. La Sorte, Jeffrey A. G. Clark, Christopher A. Lepczyk, and Myla F. J. Aronson. 2023. Collections of small urban parks consistently support higher species richness but not higher phylogenetic or functional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20231424
Annual Meeting Awards
IALE–North America awards travel grants to students and foreign scholars to attend the Annual Meeting and additionally recognizes the best oral and best poster presentation given by a student at the meeting.
IALE–North America awards travel grants to students and foreign scholars to attend the Annual Meeting and additionally recognizes the best oral and best poster presentation given by a student at the meeting.
Best Student Presentation
The award for Best Student Presentation is given for the best oral and the best poster presentation delivered by a student at the Annual Meeting, based on presentation criteria scored by non-student participants at the meeting.
2024 Best Student Presentation Awardees
Best Poster Presentation:
- Chenchen Zhang, School of Biological Sciences, Center for Earth Observation and Modeling, University of Oklahoma
Mapping paddy rice with an enhanced knowledge-based algorithm and time series optical (Sentinel-2 and Landsat), microwave (Sentinel-1), and thermal (MODIS) imagery
Best Oral Presentation:
- Sean Sutor, Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University
Examining Landscape-Scale Connectivity and Habitat Use for the Sonoran Desert Tortoise
Student Travel Awards
In recognition that students are valuable current and future members of IALE–North America, the Student Travel Awards support student travel to the Annual Meetings. Each award recipient received a waiver of the conference registration fee and $500 to help cover travel expenses to attend the 2024 Annual Meeting in Oklahoma City, OK.
2024 Student Travel Award Recipients:
2024 Student Travel Award Recipients:
- Hammed Akande, Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada
- Rebeca Becdach, California Polytechnic State University–Humboldt
- Veronica Frans, Michigan State University
- Josh Gilman, Arizona State University
- Jianxing Guan, University of Michigan
- Venkatesh Kolluru, University of South Dakota
- Brit Laginhas, North Carolina State University
- Margaret Lawrimore, North Carolina State University
- Aiden Schore, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
- Harrison Smith, University of Arkansas
Foreign Scholar Travel Awards
IALE–North America supports attendance of landscape ecologists from foreign countries and fosters international exchange about advances in landscape ecology at each annual meeting. IALE–North America especially seeks to support more participants from non-G7 countries while also increasing connections and representation from other IALE–North America countries (Mexico, Central America, and The Caribbean). Awards are available to foreign scholars to offset costs associated with attending the IALE–North America meeting.
2024 Foreign Scholar Travel Award Recipients:
2024 Foreign Scholar Travel Award Recipients:
- Sharath Hulihalli Manjunatha (India), Bangalore University
- Manu Mohan (India), Wildlife Institute of India
- Delphine Mpayimana (Rwanda), University of Rwanda
- Giulia de Paula Silveira (Brazil), University of Lisbon
Past IALE–North America Award Recipients
Distinguished Landscape Ecologist
The award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contributions and outstanding leadership in the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking, writing, leadership, and mentorship have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development and who have contributed positively to the professional and scholarly development of other landscape ecologists. This award is ordinarily given for outstanding contributions over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by our Chapter.
The award for Distinguished Landscape Ecologist is given for distinguished scientific contributions and outstanding leadership in the field of landscape ecology. The intent of this award is to specifically recognize those unique individuals whose thinking, writing, leadership, and mentorship have helped to shape the field of landscape ecology. This award highlights those scholars whose scientific endeavors pervade our discipline and its continuing development and who have contributed positively to the professional and scholarly development of other landscape ecologists. This award is ordinarily given for outstanding contributions over a period of a decade or more, and it is the most prestigious honor bestowed by our Chapter.
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2024. Robert Fletcher
2023. Paul Hessburg 2022. Carol Johnston 2021. Janet Franklin 2020. Tom Spies 2019. Kurt Riitters 2018. Jianguo “Jack” Liu 2017. William Hargrove 2016. Kimberly A. With 2014. Dean Urban 2013. Virginia Dale 2013. Marie-Josée Fortin 2012. David Mladenoff 2011. Lenore Fahrig 2010. Joan Iverson Nassauer 2010. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu |
2009. Herman (Hank) Shugart Jr.
2007. Eric Gustafson 2006. Bruce T. Milne 2005. H. Ronald Pulliam 2004. Thomas Crow 2003. Simon Levin 2002. Louis Iverson 2001. Gary Barrett 2000. Paul Risser 1998. Monica G. Turner 1997. Gray Merriam 1996. John A. Wiens 1995. Robert O'Neill 1994. Robert Gardner 1992. Richard 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.
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.
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2024. Center for Large Landscape Conservation
2022. David Theobald 2021. Point Blue Conservation Science 2020. Sarah Gergel 2019. Michael Dombeck 2018. James “Jim” Wickam 2018. Sam Cushman 2017. The Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network 2016. Charles Convis, ESRI Conservation Program (ECP) 2014. Andrew Fall 2013. K. Bruce Jones 2012. United States National Park Service's Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program 2010. Wes H. Jackson |
2009. Kevin McGarigal
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 1998. Joan Iverson Nassauer 1997. Michael Hough 1996. Carl Steinitz, Harvard School of Design 1995. Wisconsin Chapter of the Nature Conservancy for the Baraboo Hills project 1994. Nancy Diaz 1994. Mt. Hood NF 1991. Andropogon Associates |
Distinguished Service Award
The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have contributed exceptionally to IALE–North America. Exceptional service represents a contribution to IALE–North America in terms of time, energy, and dedication that advanced the mission of IALE–North America in an extraordinary manner and thus deserves special recognition.
The award for Distinguished Service recognizes individuals who have contributed exceptionally to IALE–North America. Exceptional service represents a contribution to IALE–North America in terms of time, energy, and dedication that advanced the mission of IALE–North America in an extraordinary manner and thus deserves special recognition.
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2024. Anne Kuhn-Hines
2023. Yolanda Wiersma 2022. Kristin Byrd 2021. Jessica Price 2020. Steven Walters 2019. Todd Lookingbill 2019. Kathleen Vigness-Raposa 2018. Nancy E. McIntyre 2017. Anita Morzillo 2016. Robert Scheller 2014. Peter August |
2012. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu
2010. Monica G. Turner 2006. Garik Gutman 2006. William Taylor 2006. Jack Liu 2005. David Mladenoff 2001. Jerry Franklin 1998. Eugene Odum 1998. Frank Golley 1997. Richard Forman 1995. Forest Stearns |
Outstanding Paper Award
This award recognizes an outstanding paper published in the discipline of landscape ecology in the preceding two years that significantly advances the science or practice of landscape ecology.
This award recognizes an outstanding paper published in the discipline of landscape ecology in the preceding two years that significantly advances the science or practice of landscape ecology.
- 2024. La Sorte, F.A., J.A.G. Clark, C.A. Lepczyk, C.A., and M.F.J. Aronson. 2023. Collections of small urban parks consistently support higher species richness but not higher phylogenetic or functional diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290: 20231424
- 2023. DiFalco, S., A.T. Morzillo, and D. Ghosh (2023) Interpolating resident attitudes toward exurban roadside forest management. Landscape Ecology 38: 4211-4226
- 2022. Andrade, R., J. Franklin, K.L. Larson, C.M. Swan, S.B. Lerman, H.L. Bateman, P.S. Warren, and A. York (2021) Predicting the assembly of novel communities in urban ecosystems. Landscape Ecology 36: 1-15
- 2021. Halstead, K.E., J.D. Alexander, A. S. Hadley, J.L. Stephens, Z. Yang, and M.G. Betts (2019) Using a species-centered approach to predict bird community responses to habitat fragmentation. Landscape Ecology 34: 1919-1935
- 2020. McCullough, I.M., K.S. Cheruvelil, J.-F. Lapierre, N.R. Lottig, M.A. Moritz, J. Stachelek, and P.A. Soranno (2019) Do lakes feel the burn? Ecological consequences of increasing exposure of lakes to fire in the continental United States. Global Change Biology 25: 2841-2854
- 2019. Bürgi, M., C. Bieling, K. Hackwitz, T. Kizos, J. Lieskovský, M. Martín, S. McCarthy, M. Müller, H. Palang, T. Plieninger, and A. Printsmann (2017) Processes and driving forces in changing cultural landscapes across Europe. Landscape Ecology 32: 2097-2112
- 2018. McClure, M.L., A.J. Hansen, and R.M. Inman (2016) Connecting models to movements: testing connectivity model predictions against empirical migration and dispersal data. Landscape Ecology 31: 1419–1432
- 2017. Jenerette, G.D., S.L. Harlan, A. Buyantuev, W.L. Stefanov, J. Declet-Barreto, B.L. Ruddell, S.W. Myint, S. Kaplan, and X. Li (2016) Micro-scale urban surface temperatures are related to land-cover features and heat related health impacts in Phoenix, AZ USA. Landscape Ecology 31: 745-760
- 2016. Bruton, M. J., M. Maron, N. Levin, and C. A. McAlpine (2015) Testing the relevance of binary, mosaic and continuous landscape conceptualisations to reptiles in regenerating dryland landscapes. Landscape Ecology 30: 715-728
- 2014. Hoffman, F., J. Kumar, R. Mills, and W. Hargrove (2013) Representativeness-based sampling network design for the State of Alaska. Landscape Ecology 28: 1567-1586
- 2013. McKenzie, D., and M. Kennedy (2012) Power laws reveal phase transitions in landscape controls of fire regimes. Nature Communications 3: 726
- 2012. Uriarte, M., A. Marina, M.T.B. da Silva, P. Rubim, E. Johnson, and E.M. Bruna (2011) Disentangling the drivers of reduced long-distance seed dispersal by birds in an experimentally fragmented landscape. Ecology 92: 924-937
- 2011. Gilbert-Norton, L., R. Wilson, J.R. Stevens, and K.H. Beard (2010) A meta-analytic review of corridor effectiveness. Conservation Biology 24: 660-668
- 2010. Smith, A.C., N. Koper, C.M. Francis, and L. Fahrig (2009) Confronting collinearity: comparing methods for disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation. Landscape Ecology 24: 1271-1285
- 2009. Treml, E.A., P.N. Halpin, D.L. Urban, and L.F. Pratson (2008) Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation. Landscape Ecology 23: 19-36
- 2008. Falk, D.A., C. Miller, D. McKenzie, and A.E. Black (2007) Cross-scale analysis of fire regimes. Ecosystems 10: 809-823
- 2007. Laurance, W.F., H.E.M. Nascimento, S.G. Laurance, A. Andrade, J.E.L.S. Ribeiro, J.P. Giraldo, T.E. Lovejoy, R. Condit, J. Chave, K.E. Harms, and S. 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 103: 19010-19014
- 2006. An, L., M. Linderman, J. Qi, A. Shortridge, and J. Liu (2005) Exploring complexity in a human-environment system: an agent-based spatial model for multidisciplinary and multiscale integration. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95: 54-79
- 2005. Fahrig, L. (2003) Effects of habitat fragmentation on biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 34: 487-515
- 2004. Hargrove, W.H., F.M. Hoffman, and P.M. Schwartz (2002) A fractal landscape realizer for generating synthetic maps. Conservation Ecology 6: article 2 (online)
- 2003. Tewksbury, J.J., D.J. Levey, N.M. Haddad, J.L. Orrock, A. Weldon, B.J. Danielson, J. Brinkerhoff, E.I. Damschen, and P. Townsend (2002) Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 99: 12923-12926
- 2002. With, K.A. and A.W. King (2001) Analysis of landscape sources and sinks: the effect of spatial pattern on avian demography. Biological Conservation 100: 75-88
- 2001. Keymer, J.E., P. Marquet, J.V. Hernandez, and S. Levin (2000) Extinction thresholds and metapopulation persistence in dynamic landscapes. American Naturalist 156: 478-494
- 2000. Wear, D.N., and P. Bolstad (1998) Land-use changes in southern Appalachian landscapes: spatial analysis and forecast evaluation. Ecosystems 1: 575-594
- 1998. Flather, C.H., and J.R. Sauer (1996) Using landscape ecology to test hypotheses about large-scale abundance patterns in migratory birds. Ecology 77: 28-35
- 1997. Mladenoff, D.J., T.A. Sickley, R.G. Haight, and A.P. Wydeven (1995) A regional landscape analysis and prediction of favorable gray wolf habitat in the northern Great Lakes region. Conservation Biology 9: 279-294
- 1996. With, K.A., and T.O. Crist (1995) Critical thresholds in species' responses to landscape structure. Ecology 76: 2446-2459
- 1995. Johnson, C. (1994) Woodland expansion in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and cause. Ecological Monographs 64: 45-84
- 1994. Wiens, J.A., N.C. Stenseth, B. Van Horne, and R.A. Ims (1993) Ecological mechanisms and landscape ecology. Oikos 66: 369-380
- 1992. Milne, B. (1992) Spatial aggregation and neutral models in fractal landscapes. American Naturalist 139: 32-57
- 1991. Andow, D.A., P.M. Karieva, S.A. Levin, and A. Okubo (1990) Spread of invading organisms. Landscape Ecology 4: 177-188
Outstanding Paper Award—Honorable Mention
Papers nominated for the Outstanding Paper Award that merit special recognition for their contributions to the science or practice of landscape ecology.
Papers nominated for the Outstanding Paper Award that merit special recognition for their contributions to the science or practice of landscape ecology.
- 2023. Riva, F., and L. Fahrig (2023) Landscape-scale habitat fragmentation is positively related to biodiversity, despite patch-scale ecosystem decay. Ecology Letters 26: 268–277
- 2014. Jongsomjit, D., D. Stralberg, T. Gardali, L. Salas, and J. Wiens (2013) Between a rock and a hard place: the impact of climate change and housing development on breeding birds in California. Landscape Ecology 28: 187-200
- 2014. Wright, C., and M. Wimberly (2013) Recent land use change in the Western Corn Belt threatens grasslands and wetlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110: 4134–4139
- 2013. Costanza, J., A. Moody, and R. Peet. (2011) Multi-scale environmental heterogeneity as a predictor of plant species richness. Landscape Ecology 26: 851-864
- 2012. Svenning, J.-C. , M.C. Fitzpatrick, S. Normand, C.H. Graham, P.B. Pearman, L.R. Iverson, and F. Skov (2010) Geography, topography, and history affect realized-to-potential tree species richness patterns in Europe. Ecography 33: 1070-1080
- 2011. McGarigal, K., S. Tagil, and S.A. Cushman (2009) Surface metrics: an alternative to patch metrics for the quantification of landscape structure. Landscape Ecology 24: 443-450
- 2009. Nassauer, J.I., and P. Opdam (2008) Design in science: extending the landscape ecology paradigm. Landscape Ecology 23: 633-644
- 2008. Koper, N., F.K.A. Schmiegelow, and E.H. Merrill (2007) Residuals cannot distinguish between ecological effects of habitat amount and fragmentation: implications for the debate. Landscape Ecology 22: 811-820
- 2008. Gobster, P.H., J.I. Nassauer, T.C. Daniel, and G. Fry (2007) The shared landscape: what does aesthetics have to do with ecology? Landscape Ecology 22: 959-972
- 2005. Remmel, T.K., and F. Csillag (2003) When are two landscape pattern indices significantly different? Journal of Geographical Systems 5: 331-351
Award for Best Student Presentation
The Award for Best Student Presentation is given for the best oral and/or poster presentation given by a student at the previous Annual Meeting. Since 2022, two awards have been made and effective 2024 these are now intentionally given for the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation made by a student. The award consists of a $300 cash award, a certificate commemorating the award, and a waiver of one future meeting registration fee. Waiver of registration may be applied to one of the next two subsequent IALE–North America annual meetings.
The Award for Best Student Presentation is given for the best oral and/or poster presentation given by a student at the previous Annual Meeting. Since 2022, two awards have been made and effective 2024 these are now intentionally given for the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation made by a student. The award consists of a $300 cash award, a certificate commemorating the award, and a waiver of one future meeting registration fee. Waiver of registration may be applied to one of the next two subsequent IALE–North America annual meetings.
- 2024. Sean Sutor (Texas Tech University) Examining Landscape-Scale Connectivity and Habitat Use for the Sonoran Desert Tortoise (oral)
- 2024. Chenchen Zhang (University of Oklahoma) Mapping Paddy Rice with an Enhanced Knowledge-based Algorithm and Time Series Optical (Sentinel-2 and Landsat), Microwave (Sentinel-1), and Thermal (MODIS) Imagery (poster)
- 2023. Clara Woodie (University of California—Riverside) Spatial Heterogeneity in Resources Increases Long-Term Persistence of Intraguild Predation System (poster)
- 2023. Mahalia B. Clark (University of Vermont) Flocking to Fire: Where are Americans Moving Relative to Climate and Natural Hazards? (oral)
- 2022. Katherine Hayes (University of Colorado—Denver) Short-Interval Reburning Changes Fuel Structure and Fire Behavior of Boreal Forests
- 2022. Thomas Smith (University of Florida) Biodiversity Across Scales in a Fragmented World: Experimental Tests of How Habitat Loss, Fragmentation, Patch Size and Matrix Quality Impact Communities
- 2021. Tin Hang Hung (University of Oxford) GenDivRange: A Novel Database of Population Genetic Diversity and Dispersal Distance across a Wide Range of Taxa to Test the Evolutionary Determinants of Species Range Limits
- 2020. Dalal Hanna (McGill University) Assessing the Relationship Between Water Quality and Watershed Protection
- 2019. Courtney Larson (Colorado State University) Recreation and Wildlife Conservation in a Fragmented Urban Landscape
- 2018. Timothy Swartz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Integrating Historical, Ecological, and Social Data to Understand Patterns of Amphibian Occupancy and Habitat Availability in an Agroecosystem (oral)
- 2017. Mark Herse (Kansas State University) Habitat Fragment Shape and Landscape Matrix Composition Mediate Abundance of a Declining Grassland Songbird (oral)
- 2016. Erika Newman (University of California—Berkeley) Macroecology Meets Disturbance Ecology: Connecting Species Diversity Patterns to Disturbance Ecology through Information Entropy Statistics (oral)
- 2015. Theraesa Coyle (McGill University) Conserving God’s Own Country: Biodiversity in Agroforestry Landscapes of Kerala, India (oral)
- 2014. Amy Mui (University of Toronto) Seasonal Changes in Core Wetland Connectivity for a Threatened Freshwater Turtle in Southern Ontario (oral)
- 2013. Micah Hahn (University of Wisconsin--Madison) Roosting Behavior and Habitat Selection of Pteropus giganteus Reveals Potential Links to Nipah Virus Epidemiology (oral)
- 2012. Jenica Allen (University of Connecticut) Socio-Economics Drive Invasive Plants in New England Through Forest Fragmentation (oral)
- 2011. Mao-Ning Tuanmu (Michigan State University) Can the Giant Panda Survive Climate Change? (oral)
- 2010. Kathleen Vigness-Raposa (University of Rhode Island) Habitat of Humpback Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in the North Atlantic Ocean (oral)
- 2009. Alisa Wade (Colorado State University) Urban Encroachment on the US Protected Area Network (oral)
- 2008. Bronwyn Rayfield (University of Toronto) Identifying Potential Movement Pathways in Fragmented Landscapes: Incorporating Uncertainty in Landscape Resistance (oral)
- 2008. Sarah Olson (University of Wisconsin—Madison) Malaria Patterns and Hydrology in the Amazon - Will Land Use and Cover Changes Alter Risk? (poster)
- 2007. Cathy Collins (University of Kansas) 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 (West Virginia University) 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 (University of Michigan) 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)
- 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)
- 1991. Joseph Miller (Penn State University) Landscape Patterns and Biotic Communities Characteristics in Central Pennsylvania (poster)
Best Student Presentation—Honorable Mention (discontinued after 2021)
Honorable Mention for the Best Student Presentation Award was previously presented for an oral or poster presentation given by a student at the previous Annual Meeting. The award consisted of a $150 cash award, a certificate commemorating the award, and a waiver of the meeting registration fee at one of the next two Annual Meetings. Honorable Mention for Best Student Presentation was discontinued following the 2021 Annual Meeting in favor of presenting two awards to students giving the top-ranked presentations at the previous year's meeting.
Honorable Mention for the Best Student Presentation Award was previously presented for an oral or poster presentation given by a student at the previous Annual Meeting. The award consisted of a $150 cash award, a certificate commemorating the award, and a waiver of the meeting registration fee at one of the next two Annual Meetings. Honorable Mention for Best Student Presentation was discontinued following the 2021 Annual Meeting in favor of presenting two awards to students giving the top-ranked presentations at the previous year's meeting.
- 2021. April Martinig (University of Alberta) Temporal Clustering of Prey in Wildlife Passages Provides No Evidence of a Prey-Trap, Instead Vegetated Highway Medians Sct as Foraging Habitat
- 2020. Caitlin Cunningham (Dalhousie University) Developing a Method to Examine Changes in Effective Mesh Size Across a Landscape: A Case Study of Nova Scotia, Canada
- 2019. Michele Buonanduci (University of Washington) Individual Tree and Local Tree Neighborhood Factors Affecting Mountain Pine Beetle-Induced Lodgepole Pine Mortality
- 2018. Brooke Cassell (Portland State University) Under Extreme Weather Conditions, Dry Mixed-conifer Forests in the Western U.S. Benefit from Spatial Optimization of Fuel Treatments (oral)
- 2017. Samantha Hauser (University of Louisiana—Lafayette) Understanding Landscape Variables that Influence Gene Flow in a Highly Vagile Species, the Black-Capped Vireo (Vireo atricapilla) (oral)
- 2017. Carly Ziter (University of Wisconsin—Madison) Ecosystem Service Provision by Urban Greenspaces: Effects of Land Cover, Land-Use History, and Within-Land Cover Variability on Soil-Based Services (oral)
- 2016. Elsa Anderson (University of Illinois—Chicago) Evaluating Historic, Local, Social, and Landscape Drivers of Species Diversity in Vacant Lots in Chicago, IL, USA (oral)
- 2015. Jesse Miller (University of Wisconsin—Madison) Encroachment of Woody Vegetation Drives Rapid State Change in Insular Grasslands (oral)
- 2015. Kathy Zeller (University of Massachusetts—Amherst) Evaluating Resistance Surfaces for Wildlife (oral)
- 2014. Binbin Li (Duke University) Impacts and Solutions of Livestock Grazing in Protected Areas for the Giant Panda (oral)
- 2013. Camille Beasley (University of Georgia) Suspended Development: Disentangling Effects of Habitat Alteration and Human Habitation on Birds (oral)
- 2013. Katherine Renwick (Colorado State University) Interactive Effects of Climate and Disturbance on Landscape-scale Range Dynamics of Rocky Mountain Tree Species (oral)
- 2012. Steven Collins (Texas Tech University) Developing Species Distribution Models for Riverine Dragonflies with Multiscale Environmental Parameters (oral)
- 2011. Kristin Marshall (Colorado State University) Wolves, Elk, and Willows: Landscape Configurations on Yellowstone's Northern Range (oral)
- 2009. Niko Balkenhol (University of Idaho) Hierarchical Multi-Scale Analysis of Landscape-Genetic Relationships in Idaho Cougars (oral)
- 2009. Jennifer Litteral (Arizona State University) Effects of Urbanization on Avian Species Diversity in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Patterns in Vegetation Fragments (oral)
- 2005. Alicia Ellis (Dartmouth 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 (University of Kansas) 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 (University of Montreal) Scale-Space for Landscape Ecologists: A Novel Approach for Defining Multi-Scale Landscape Structure in High-Resolution Imagery (oral)
- 2000. Jennifer Fraterrigo (Colorado State University) Low Density Human Settlement in the Rocky Mountain West: Does it Matter to Bird Communities? (poster)
- 2000. Veronique St.Louis (University of Montreal) Does Vegetation Heterogeneity Have Any Effect on Territory Delimitation of Black-Throated Blue Warblers (Dendroica caerulescens) and Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)? (oral)
- 1998. Penny Flick (Duke University) A Multiple-Scale Approach to Reserve Site Selection (poster)
- 1997. Deborah Bishop (Baylor University) Topographic Effects on Avian Richness, Abundance, and Probability of Site Use During Spring Migration (poster)
- 1996. Sandra Luque (Rutgers University) The Impact of Management Practices on the Landscape of a Natural Reserve: The New Jersey Pine Barrens, A Case Study