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Award winners 2025​​​

Oral presentation:

  • 1st prize: Malika Gottstein (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany) “How much time until extinction? An agent-based model assessing the impact of logging on an endangered primate in the Ecuadorian Choco”

  • Joint 2nd prize: Kasper Coppieters (University of Ghent) “Lianas cool down tropical forest understories by increasing evapotranspiration”

  • Joint 2nd prize: Timo Metz (Technical University of Darmstadt) “How biodiversity recovers from perturbation: Resistance and resilience of a tropical rainforest”

Photo taken by Jelle Kraak: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jellekraak/

Poster presentation:

  • 1st prize: Kaare Christophersen (Aalborg University, Denmark) “Using AI to uncover “hidden” species interactions: using incomplete data on tropical seed-dispersal networks underestimates robustness to extinctions”

  • 2nd prize: Gabriela Escaliente (iDiv / Fridrich Schiller University Jena) “Biodiversity effects on leaf and litter volatiles composition”

  • 3rd prize: Evangelia Linda Chronopoulou (iDiv / Fridrich Schiller University Jena) “The dark side of bananas: A novel method for quantifying climacteric fruit ripening in tropical ecosystems”

Photo taken by Jelle Kraak: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jellekraak/

Pensoft prize winner

  • Bezawit Mekonnen (Jimma University, Ethiopia / Ghent University, Belgium) “Smallholder farmers’ knowledge on management of Cinchonain the Democratic Republic of the Congo” (oral presentation)

Photo taken by Jelle Kraak: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jellekraak/

Find out more about the research of our prize winners by reading the abstracts in the conference abstract booklet.