The Marsh Ecology Award is a prize awarded annually from 1996 onwards to recognise outstanding recent discovery or development which has had a significant impact on the development of the science of ecology

Ecology

Ecology is the scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. Variables of interest to ecologists include the composition, distribution, amount , number, and changing states of organisms within and among ecosystems...

 or its application. The Award is an honorarium of £

Pound sterling

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 1,000 and is open to ecologists from anywhere in the world. The award is given by the Marsh Christian Trust and the British Ecological Society

British Ecological Society

The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913. It was the first ecological society in the world. The society's original objective was "to promote and foster the study of Ecology in its widest sense" and this remains the central theme guiding...

 in cooperation.

Marsh Ecology Award Laureates

• 1996 John Lawton
  John Lawton (scientist)
  Professor Sir John Hartley Lawton, FRS is a British ecologist and RSPB Vice President and Chair of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust....
  
    
• 1997 J. Philip Grime
  J. Philip Grime
  John Philip Grime is a prominent British ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield. He is best known for his CSR theory on plant strategies, for the unimodal relationship between species richness and site productivity , for the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis, for the DST...
  
    
• 1998 Tim H. Clutton-Brock  
• 1999 John L. Harper
  John L. Harper
  John Lander Harper CBE FRS was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology.He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in and his MA and MPhil from Oxford...
  
    
• 2000 William J. Sutherland  
• 2001 Sam Berry  
• 2002 James H. Brown
  James Brown (ecologist)
  James Hemphill Brown , is an American biologist and academic.He is an ecologist, and a Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico...
  
    
• 2003 Andrew Watkinson  
• 2004 Stephen P. Hubbell
  Stephen P. Hubbell
  Stephen P. Hubbell is an American ecologist on the faculty of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author and proponent of the unified neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography , which seeks to explain the diversity and relative abundance of species in ecological communities. Dr...
  
    
• 2005 Ilkka Hanski
  Ilkka Hanski
  Ilkka A. Hanski FRS is a Finnish scientist, working in the field of ecology, at Helsinki University, Finland. The Metapopulation Research Group led by Hanski has been nominated as a Center of Excellence by the Academy of Finland...
  
    
• 2006 Phil Ineson
  Phil Ineson
  Professor Phil Ineson is a Chair in Global Change Ecology at the University of York. Ineson is particularly noted for his work with stable isotopes ....
  
    
• 2007 Christian Körner  
• 2008 (not running)
• 2009 Michael Begon  

External links

Marsh Christian Trust