Biogeography Specialty Group Award Recipients
 

Henry C. Cowles Award for Best Publication

The Cowles Award was established in 1998 in honor of Henry Cowles, who published the first paper to appear in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers: “The Causes of Vegetation Cycles” (1911).  The award is to be given annually in recognition of the best biogeographical publication of the year, honoring either books or papers.
 

1998

Karl Zimmerer

Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes

University of California Press (1997)

1999

Glen McDonald, Julian Szeicz, Jane Claricoates and Kursti Dale

“Response of the central Canadian treeline to recent climatic changes”

Annals of the Association of American Geographers 88: 183-208 (1998)

2000

Thomas Veblen, Thomas Kitzberger,  Ricardo Villalba and Joseph Donnegan

“Fire history in northern Patagonia: The roles of humans and climatic variation”

Ecological Monographs 69: 47-67 (1999)

2002

James Speer, Tom Swetnam, Boyd Wickman and Andrew Youngblood

“Changes in pandora moth outbreak dynamics during the past 622 years”

Ecology 82: 679-697 (2001)

2003

Mark Cowell and James Dyer

“Vegetation development in a modified riparian environment: Human imprints on an
Allegheny River wilderness”

Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92: 189-202 (2002)

2004

Glen McDonald

Biogeography: Space, Time and Life

John Wiley and Sons (2003)

2005

Lori Daniels and Tom Veblen

“Spatiotemporal influences of climate on altitudinal treeline in northern Patagonia”

Ecology 85: 1284-1296 (2004)

2006

Kate Alftine and George Malanson

“Directional positive feedback and pattern at an alpine tree line”

Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 3-12 (2004)

2007
John Kupfer, George Malanson, and Scott Franklin
“Not seeing the ocean for the islands: the mediating influence of matrix-based processes on forest fragmentation effects”
Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 8-20 (2006)
2008
Kim Diver
“Not as the crow flies: assessing effective isolation for island biogeographical analysis”
Journal of Biogeography 35: 1040-1048 (2008)
2009
 David Cairns, Charles Lafon, John Waldron, Maria Tchakerian, Robert Coulson, Kier Klepzig, Andrew Birt and Weimin Xi
 “Simulating the reciprocal interaction of forest landscape structure and southern pine beetle herbivory using LANDIS”
 Landscape Ecology 23: 403-415. (2008)
2010 Bryan Shuman, Anna Henderson, Colin Plank, Ivana Stefanova and Susy Ziegler Woodland-to-forest transition during a prolonged drought in Minnesota after AD 1300
Ecology
90: 2782-2807. (2009)
2011
James Speer
Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research
Univ. of Arizona Press

  

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