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2006 STUDENT AWARDS

• FINALISTS

The Student Awards Program was highly successful this year. Twelve finalists gave presentations at SCB's 2006 annual meeting. Special thanks to Blackwell Publishing, Oxford University Press, and Sinauer Associates for their support.

First Place - Carolyn Kurle

Introduced rats indirectly transform island intertidal communities

Second Place - Mya Thompson

Applied acoustic monitoring: African forest elephant population estimates from Kakum National Park, Ghana

Third Place - Jeffrey Milder

Assessing the conservation benefits of sensitive land development

Fourth Place - Jennifer Solomon

Polling for poachers: testing a unique method for estimating illegal resource use in protected areas

FINALISTS

Jami Barnes - Linking population viability analysis and habitat suitability for the conservation of Audubon's Crested Caracara (Caracara cheriway) in Florida

Megan Gahl - Amphibian disease: can landscape features of breeding pools distinguish wetlands at risk?

Elizabeth Harper - Demographic consequences of buffer zone diameter for pond-breeding amphibian populations

Wendy Kuntz - Identifying non-breeding habitat in mobile species: seasonal elevational movement in a Hawaiian honeycreeper

Daniel McGarvey - The "power" of science: confronting Type II error under the Endangered Species Act

David Patrick - Effects of forest harvesting on juvenile amphibian dispersal

Ryan Sensenig - Spatial ecology of fire in an East African savannah: effects of burn size and patchiness on the foraging ecology of grazers of varying body size

Christopher Stallings - Indirect effects of fishing on coral-reef fish communities

Thanks to the Judges of Oral Presentations: Delali Dovie (Africa), Karl Flessa (Marine), Jaime Jiminez (Austral and Neotropical America), Margaret Kinnaird (Asia), Nicola Nelson (Australasia), Julianne Newton (Europe), Oliver Pergams (North America)

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