Per Brink Oikos Award

The Per Brink Oikos Award is a prize awarded annually from 2007 onwards to a world-leading ecologist. The awardee is nominated by the editoral board and subject editors of the journal "Oikos". The award consists of € 1500 and a statuette. The awardee is invited to give the annual "Per Brinck Lecture". The prize is named after the Swedish zooecologist Per Brinck, who was editor-in-chief of the journal Oikos 1965-1989. The award is sponsored by the Per Brinck Foundation and Wiley/Blackwell Publishing.

Recipients

* 2007 Hal Caswell, U.S.A.
*2008 John N Thompson, U.S.A

Per Brinck Lectures prior to the instatement of the Prize

*"1986" Richard Southwood, U.K. [ [http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3565974 Southwood, T.R.E. (1988) Tactics, Strategies and Templets. Oikos 52 (1): 3-18.] ]
*"1989" David Tilman, U.S.A. [ [http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3565355 Tilman, David (1990) Constraints and Tradeoffs: Toward a Predictive Theory of Competition and Succession. Oikos 58 (1): 3-15.] ]
*"1992" J. Philip Grime, U.K. [ [http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3544906 Grime, J. Philip (1993) Ecology Sans Frontieres. Oikos 68 (3): 385-392.] ]
*"1996" Stephen Russell Carpenter, U.S.A.
*"1999" Simon Asher Levin, U.S.A.

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