Ecological Solutions and Evidence awards the annual Georgina Mace Prize to the best paper in the journal by an author at the start of their research career. We are excited to share the following 7 papers which have been shortlisted for the 2025 award following their publication in the 6th volume of the journal.

Emily Warner with Integrated above- and below-ground ecological monitoring for nature-based solutions

Noelia del Carmen Valderrama Bhraunxs with Great minds map alike: Citizen and expert distribution models of schistosome snail hosts in rural west Uganda

Jessica Gauld with Towards a process of translational palaeoecology: A practical guide to research co-production

Juliano Zardetto with Widespread negative effects of Leucaena leucocephala (white-popinac) invasion on regenerating areas of the Atlantic Forest‘

Paula Schatte with Playback attracts prospecting individuals, but habitat quality is key for settlement in the Wryneck Jynx torquilla

Sylvia Ascher with Misplaced fears? What the evidence reveals of the ecological effects of tidal power generation

Munib Khanyari with Finding the ghosts: Snow leopard density and distribution in the multi-use region of Jammu and Kashmir, India

We will be announcing our winner soon!