Each year, with the help of sponsors, we are able to award prizes for the most outstanding presentations.
This year, the prizes for the BEST TALK will be a free publication opportunity in Nature Conservation journal from Pensoft, and the BEST POSTER will be a book (Scaling in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation) from Pensoft.
Further outstanding presentations will also be rewarded with valuable book prizes from Balázs Deák and Zsolt Molnár (HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research).
This year's winners:
Best Talk Awards
- Giulia De Luca: "Evaluating the Effect of Soil Tillage Intensity and Land-Cover Change on Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi"
- Małgorzata Śliż: "Urban Lawn Management for Insect Conservation: Effects of Different Mowing Regimes on Orthoptera and Bee Communities"
- Sarolta Szilágyi: "Comparison of the Effects of Continuous Cover Forestry and Rotation Forestry Management on Understorey Vegetation in Hungarian Native Forests"
- Sandra Abele: "Factors Influencing the Occurrence of the Red-backed Shrike (Lanius collurio) in Energy Wood Piles in the Vidzeme Region, Latvia"
- Bálint Pacsai: "Lessons of Patience – from a Geophyte"
Best Poster Awards
- Virág Németh: „Flower resources, urban cover, and nesting material drive the use of bee hotels in Budapest”
- Attila Bíró: „Transition from rotation to continuous cover forestry promotes structural and compositional diversity in European beech and oak-dominated forests”
- Emília Illés: "IUCN Green Status assessment of the endemic blind mole rat species of the Pannonian Basin"
Congratulations!