Each year, Journal of Applied Ecology awards the Southwood Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their research career. The following 10 papers, published in the 61st volume of the journal, have been shortlisted.

Janina Heinen with ‘Diversified cropping strengthens herbivore regulation by providing seasonal resource continuity to predators’

Agostina Torres with ‘Inverse priority effects: The order and timing of removal of invasive species influence community reassembly’

Josef Knott with ‘Habitat quality and biological community responses to innovative hydropower plant installations at transverse in-stream structures’

Kylie Soanes with ‘Do wildlife crossing structures mitigate the barrier effect of roads on animal movement? A global assessment’

Maja Bradarić with ‘Forecasting nocturnal bird migration for dynamic aeroconservation: The value of short-term datasets’

Kaixuan Pan with ‘Dutch landscapes have lost insect-pollinated plants over the past 87 years’

Natália Medeiros with ‘Systematic review of field research reveals critical shortfalls for restoration of tropical grassy biomes’

Ying Ki Law with ‘Unveiling the role of forests in landslide occurrence, recurrence and recovery’

Lijun Chen with ‘Integrating variation in bacterial-fungal co-occurrence network with soil carbon dynamics’

Nanyika Kingazi with ‘Tropical agroforestry supports insect pollinators and improves bean yield’

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The overall winner will be announced soon, so stay tuned for more!