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.
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1998 |
Karl Zimmerer |
Changing Fortunes: Biodiversity and Peasant Livelihood in the Peruvian Andes |
University of California Press (1997) |
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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) |
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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) |
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2001 |
Not Awarded |
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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) |
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2003 |
Mark Cowell
and James M. Dyer |
“Vegetation
development in a modified riparian environment: Human imprints on an
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Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92: 189-202 (2002) |
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2004 |
Glen McDonald |
Biogeography: Space, Time and Life |
John
Wiley and Sons (2003) |
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2005 |
Lori Daniels and
Tom Veblen |
“Spatiotemporal influences of climate on altitudinal treeline in northern Patagonia” |
Ecology 85: 1284-1296 (2004) |
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2006 |
Kate Alftine
and George Malanson |
“Directional
Positive Feedback and Pattern at an Alpine Tree Line” |
Journal of Vegetation Science 15: 3-12 (2004) |
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2007
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John Kupfer, George Malanson, and
Scott Franklin
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"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)
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If you have information to fill in the gaps in this history of awards,
please contact John Kupfer
last update: July 26, 2007