Awards

 

 

 

 

 

Honorary Lifetime Membership
Honorary lifetime membership in the American Society of Naturalists is intended to recognize scientists whose research careers epitomize the goals of the society, which is the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The society limits the number of honorary lifetime memberships to twelve.
  Joseph Connell
  Margaret Davis
  Peter Grant
  Rosemary Grant
  Daniel Janzen
  Robert Paine
  Ruth Patrick
  Robert Sokal
  Mary Willson
  E. O. Wilson
   
Sewall Wright Award
The Sewall Wright Award, established in 1991, is given annually and honors a senior but still active investigator who is making fundamental contributions to the Society's goals, namely, promoting the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The award includes an honorarium of $1,000.
1992 Russell Lande
1993 Joseph Felsenstein
1994 Richard C. Lewontin
1995 John Maynard Smith
1996 Robert T. Paine
1997 Douglas J. Futuyma
1998 William D. Hamilton
1999 Janis Antonovics
2000 Montgomery Slatkin
2001 Illkka A. Hanski
2002 Linda Partridge
2003 Mary Jane West-Eberhard
2004 Rudolf Raff
2005 Robert E. Ricklefs
2006 Brian Charlesworth
2007 Dolph Schluter
2008 Spencer Barrett
2009 Michael Wade
2010 William Rice
   
Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award
In recognition of the lifetime of outstanding contributions of Professor E. O. Wilson in the areas of ecology and evolutionary biology, including the study of social insects, biodiversity, and biophilia, this award was established in the year of Professor Wilson's retirement from Harvard University. The E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award is given to an active investigator in mid-career who has made significant contributions to the knowledge of a particular ecosystem or group of organisms. Individuals whose research and writing illuminate principles of evolutionary biology and an enhanced aesthetic appreciation of natural history will merit special consideration. The award consists of an especially appropriate work of art and an honorarium of $2,000, presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists.
1998 B. Rosemary Grant & Peter R. Grant
1999 May R. Berenbaum
2000 Rick Shine and Harry Greene (shared)
2001 Bernard J. Crespi
2002 Douglas Schemske
2003 Dave Reznick
2004 Paul Dayton
2005 Laurent Keller
2006 John Longino
2007 Trevor Price
2008 Ulrich Mueller
2009 Jonathan Losos
2010 Michael J. Ryan
   
Presidential Award
This award is for the best paper published in The American Naturalist during the calendar year preceding the President's term of office. The President of the American Society of Naturalists (ASN) makes this award.
1984 Murdoch, W. W., J. D. Reeve, C. B. Huffaker, and C. E. Kennett. Biological control of olive scale and its relevance to ecological theory. 123:371-392.
1985 Lenski, R., and B. Levin. Constraints on the coevolution of bacteria and virulent phage: a model, some experiments, and predictions for natural communities. 125:585-602.
1986 Mitchell-Olds, T., and J. Rutledge. Quantitative genetics in natural plant populations: a review of the theory. 127:379-402.
1987 Ritland, K., and M. Clegg. Evolutionary analyses of plant DNA sequences. 130:S74-S100.
1988 Moran, N. A. The evolution of host-plant alteration in aphids: evidence for specialization as a dead end. 132:681-706.
1989 Rabinowitz, D., J. K. Rapp, S. Cairns, and M. Mayer. The persistence of rare prarie grasses in Missouri: environmental variation buffered by reproductive output of sparse species. 134:525-544.
1990 Chai, P., and R. Srygley. Predation and the flight, morphology, and temperature of Neotropical rain-forest butterflies. 135:748-765.
Srygley, R., and P. Chai. Predation and the elevation of thoracic temperature in brightly colored Neotropical butterflies. 135:766-787.
1991 Lenski, R. E., M. R. Rose, S. C. Simpson, and S. C. Tadler. Long-term experimental evolution in Escheria coli. I. Adaptation and divergence during 2000 generations. 138:1315-1341.
1992 Herrera, C. M. Historical effects and sorting processes as explanations for contemporary ecological patterns: character syndromes in Mediterranean woody plants. 140:421-446.
1993 Ross, K. G. The breeding system of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta: effects on colony genetic structure. 141:554-576.
1994 Not awarded.
1995 Not awarded.
1996 Schluter, D. Ecological causes of adaptive radiation. 148:S40-S64.
1997 Kirkpatrick, M., and N. H. Barton. Evolution of a species' range. 150:1-23.
1998 Ricklefs, R. E. Rate of aging in birds and mammals: confirmation of a fundamental prediction, with implications for the genetic basis and evolution of life span. 152:24-44.
1999 Not awarded.
2000 Gavrilets, Sergey. A dynamical theory of speciation on holey adaptive landscapes. 154:1-22.
2001 Colwell, Robert K. Rensch's rule crosses the line: convergent allometry of sexual size dimorphism in hummingbirds and flower mites. 156:495-510.
2002 Agrawal, Aneil, E. D. Brodie, and M. J. Wade. On indirect genetic effects in structured populations. 158:308-323.
2003 Grotkopp, E., M. Rejmánek, and T.L. Root. Towards a causal explanation of plant invasiveness: seedling growth and life-history strategies of 29 Pine (Pinus) species. 159:396-419.
2004 Huey, Raymond B., Paul E. Hertz, and Barry Sinervo. 2003. Behavioral Drive versus Behavioral Inertia in Evolution: A Null Model Approach. 161:357-366.
2005 Luttbeg, Barney, and Tom Langen. 2004. Comparing alternative models to empirical data: cognitive models of Western scrub-jay foraging behavior. 163:263-276.
2006 Fagan, William F., Mark Lewis, Michael G. Neubert, Craig Aumann, Jennifer L. Apple, and John G. Bishop. 2005. When can herbivores reverse the spread of an invading plant? A test case from Mount St. Helens. 166:669-686.
2007 Solari, C. A., J. O. Kessler, and R. E. Michod 2006. A hydrodynamics approach to the evolution of multicellularity: flagellar motility and germ-soma differentiation in volvocalean green. 167:537-554.
2008 Kraft, Nathan J. B.,  William K. Cornwell, Campbell O. Webb, and David D. Ackerly. Trait evolution, community assembly, and the phylogenetic structure of ecological communities. 170:271–283.
2009 Shaw , Ruth, Charles Geyer, Stuart Wagenius, Helen Hangelbroek, and Julie Etterson. Unifying life-history analyses for inference of fitness and population growth 172:E35–E47.
2010 Evans, Margaret E. K., Stephen A. Smith, Rachel S. Flynn, and Michael J. Donoghue. Climate, niche evolution, and diversification of the ‘bird-cage’ evening primroses (Oenothera, sections Anogra and Kleinia) 173:225–240
   
Young Investigators Award
The Young Investigators Award recognize outstanding and promising work by investigators who received their doctorates in the three years preceding the application deadline or who are in their final year of graduate school. The prizes include presentation of a research paper at the annual meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, an award of $500, a travel allowance of $700, and a supplement of $500 in case of international travel.
1985 Gayle Muenchow, Mary Power, Trevor D. Price, David C. Queller, and Dolph Schluter
1986 Ary A. Hoffmann, Carl D. Schlichting, Brian A. Maurer, and Steve Orzack
1987 Steven A. Frank, C. Drew Harvell, Steven E. Kelley, and Mark Kirkpatrick
1988 David E. Cowley, Marlene Zuk, Carole L. Hom, and Kirk A. Moloney
1989 Anne Houde, Allen J. Moore, Barry Sinervo, and David F. Westneat
1990 Tamar Dayan, James Marden, Axel Meyer, and Sharon Strauss
1991 Alexandra Basolo, H. Lisle Gibbs, Andrew Read, and Ken Spitze
1992 Leticia Avilés, Edmund D. Brodie III, Eric D. Fajer, H. Allen Orr, and J. Timothy Wootton
1993 Joy Bergelson, Lee Dugatkin, Lock Rowe, and Geoff Hill
1994 Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla, Keith A. Crandall, Frederick J. Janzen, Douglas R. Taylor, and Peter H. Thrall
1995 Gsran Arnqvist, David Begun, Sally P. Otto, and Zhao Yang
1996 Rufus A. Johnstone, Christian P. Klingenberg, David L. Stern, and John P. Swaddle
1997 Hong-Wen Deng, Douglas J. Emlen, Sally Hacker, John Kelley, and Leslie Pray
1998 Hiroshi Akashi, Rodney Mauricio, Mohammed Noor, Kevin Omland, and Peter Waddell
1999 Anurag Agrawal, Johnathan Chase, Troy Day, P. Ingvarsson, and Lukas F. Keller
2000 Jef Huisman, Thomas Lenormand, Maria Servedio, Jennifer Thaler, Jason Wolf.
2001 Andrew Hendry, Ole Seehausen, Priyanga Amarasekare, Anna Qvarnström, George Weiblen
2002 Sylvain Gandon, Jean M. L. Richardson, Ophélie Ronce, and Howard D. Rundle
2003 Hopi Hoekstra and Jonathan Levine
2004 Aneil Agrawal, Doris Bachtrog, Armin Moczek, and Diego Vázquez
2005 Dan Bolnick, Alison Galvani, Jeff Townsend, Mark Vellend
2006 Rebecca Fuller, Ryan Gregory, Patrik Nosil, Brian Silliman
2007 Andy Gardner, Maurine Neiman, Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos, G. Sander van Doorn
2008 Jennifer Lau, Judith Mank, Volker Rudolf, and Mark Urban
2009 Brian Langerhans, Luke Harmon, Renee Duckworth, Jason Kolbe
2010 Stephanie M. Carlson, Marc Johnson, Joel W. McGlothlin, and Daniel L. Rabosky
   
American Naturalist Student Paper Award
The American Society of Naturalists created the American Naturalist Student Paper Award to honor student work published in the American Naturalist that best represents the goals of the society. To be eligible for the award, the work presented in the paper must have been performed primarily by the first author and primarily while she/he was an undergraduate or graduate student. The editors of the American Naturalist form the committee to consider the papers published in the year before.
2009 Thomas E. X. Miller for “Herbivore-mediated ecological costs of reproduction shape the life history of an iteroparous plant” (T. E. X. Miller, B. Tenhumberg, and S. M. Louda [2008] 171:141–149).
2010 Deepa Agashe for “The stabilizing effect of intraspecific genetic variation on population dynamics in novel and ancestral habitats” (D. Agashe [2009] 174:255-267)
   
 
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