Southwood Prize 2025: Shortlist announced for early career researcher award

Journal of Applied Ecology awards the annual Southwood 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 14 papers which have been shortlisted for the 2025 award following their publication in the 62nd volume of the journal.

Taylor Craft with ‘Remote sensing and GPS tracking reveal temporal shifts in habitat use in nonbreeding Black-tailed Godwits’

Qing Cao with ‘Coexistence between Przewalski’s horse and Asiatic wild ass in the desert: The importance of people’

Abigail Keller with ‘The transition from resistance to acceptance: Managing a marine invasive species in a changing world’

Leia Navarro-Herrero with ‘Seabird-vessel interactions in industrial fisheries of Northwest Africa: Implications for international bycatch management’

Hudson Fontenele with ‘Doubled density and increased resilience: Consequences of seven consecutive annual dry-season fires to the unburned Cerrado grass layer’

Amanda Hsiung with ‘Effectiveness of novel hybrid mangrove living shorelines is context dependent’

Lovasoa Manuelle Sylviane Rakotozafy with ‘Lurking in the leaves: How large native trees and leaf litter promote amphibian diversity in Malagasy agroforests’

Akshay Bharadwaj with ‘Microclimatic niche shifts predict long-term survival and body mass declines in a warmer and more degraded world’

Anna-Lena Hendel with ‘Disentangling direct and indirect effects of forest structure on biodiversity: Bottom-up and top-down effects between forestry, bats and their insect prey’

Skjold Alsted Søndergaard with ‘From Grasslands to Forblands: Year-round grazing as a driver of plant diversity’

Jangho Lee with ‘Native seed density and non-native invasive species arrival order independently affect biotic resistance to invasion’

Luuk Croijmans with ‘Herbivore prevalence poorly predicts yield in diverse cropping systems’