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2007 STUDENT AWARDS

The Student Awards Program was highly successful this year. Twelve finalists gave presentations at the annual meeting. Special thanks to Blackwell Publishing, Oxford University Press, and Sinauer Associates for their support. Thanks to the Zoological Society of London and to the South Africa Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs for sponsoring the poster award and awards reception, respectively. We also thank the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for supporting the Young Women in Conservation Biology award.

First Place (Tie) -- Toby Gardner
The cost-effectiveness of biodiversity research in tropical forests

First Place (Tie) -- Sanjay Gubbi
Attitudes to development and conservation in an Indian ICDP

Third Place -- Archana Bali and Jignasu Dolia
Private lands around protected areas -- the role of coffee plantations in mammal and butterfly conservation in the Western Ghats, India

Fourth Place -- Mao Angua Amis
Do freshwater and terrestrial priorities overlap in conservation assessments?

FINALISTS

Kathryn Fiorella -- Reserve site selection for Malagasy lemurs: extinction risk and methodological questions

Llewellyn Foxcroft -- Risk assessment of riparian alien plant invasion into protected areas

Philipp Henschel -- Leopard Panthera pardus conservation in Africa's rainforests -- their status and threats, and the role of reintroduction

Allison Leidner -- Tropical forest fragmentation increases volatility of butterfly communities

Elizabeth Madin -- Behavioral effects of fishing on coral reefs

Theron Morgan-Brown -- The conservation impact of butterfly farming in the east Usambara Mountains of Tanzania

Matthew Sommerville -- An analysis of deforestation trends across Madagascar's protected area system (1980-2000) and implications for future management

Andrea White -- Using habitat models to predict the impact of climate change on the distribution of alpine peatlands in Victoria, Australia

Young Women Conservation Biologists' Award

Margaret Aanyu

POSTERS

First Place -- Cheryl Chetkevitch
Designing corridors for carnivore conservation in the Canadian Rocky Mountains: marrying pattern and process

Second Place -- Lourens Swanepoel
If it pays, it stays: implications for wide-ranging leopards

Third Place -- Stephaine Sell
Investigating population structure and philopatry in ringed seals

Fourth Place -- Wilfred Odadi
The effects of wildlife on cattle in Laikipia Rangeland, Kenya

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