Awards and Prizes

The Editorial Advisory Committee of the Australian Journal of Botany is pleased to offer an annual Student Prize for the best student-authored paper published in the Journal.

The Prize is a one-year personal print/online subscription to the Journal, and a AU$250 book voucher from CSIRO PUBLISHING.

To be eligible for the Prize, the student must be the lead author of the paper, and the paper must be submitted for publication while the student is enrolled for a higher degree, or within two years of graduating for a higher degree. Appropriate certification is required from the student´s supervisor.

Papers eligible for the Prize will be judged by the Editorial Advisory Committee.

The winner of the annual Prize will be announced each year in the first issue of the Journal.

Winners

Student Prize 2008: Katy E. Sommerville
Contrasting water-use strategies in two sympatric cool-temperate rainforest species, Nothofagus cunninghamii (Nothofagaceae) and Atherosperma moschatum (Atherospermataceae)
Katy E. Sommerville and Jennifer Read
pp. 109-118
PDF (746 KB)

Student Prize 2007: Kitt G. Payn
Chloroplast DNA phylogeography reveals the island colonisation route of Eucalyptus urophylla (Myrtaceae)
Kitt G. Payn, William S. Dvorak and Alexander A. Myburg
pp. 673-683
PDF (560 KB)

Student Prize 2006: Mariela C. Núñez-Ávila
Relict islands of the temperate rainforest tree Aextoxicon punctatum (Aextoxicaceae) in semi-arid Chile: genetic diversity and biogeographic history
Mariela C. Núñez-Ávila and Juan J. Armesto
pp. 733-743
PDF (239 KB)

Student Prize 2005: Wesley J. Bancroft
Burrowing seabirds drive decreased diversity and structural complexity, and increased productivity in insular-vegetation communities
Wesley J. Bancroft, J. Dale Roberts and Mark J. Garkaklis
pp. 231-241
PDF (238 KB)

Student Prize 2004: John A. Hall
Pollination ecology of the Australian cycad Lepidozamia peroffskyana (Zamiaceae)
John A. Hall, Gimme H. Walter, Dana M. Bergstrom and Peter Machin
pp. 333-343
PDF (328 KB)

Student Prize 2003: Robert C. Barbour
Gene flow between introduced and native Eucalyptus species: exotic hybrids are establishing in the wild
R. C. Barbour, B. M. Potts and R. E. Vaillancourt
pp. 429-439
PDF (460 KB)

Student Prize 2002: Yvonne Davila
Reproductive ecology of the Australian herb Trachymene incisa subsp. incisa (Apiaceae)
Yvonne C. Davila and Glenda M. Wardle
pp. 619-626
PDF (679 KB)