E4 award papers over the years
The E4 Award is given every year to an early-career research scientist who writes an exceptional Review manuscript. The winner receives a €1000 cash prize and the runner-up receives €500. The topic of the paper should focus on spatial and/or temporal patterns, particularly studies of population and community ecology, macroecology, biogeography, ecological genetics, historical ecology, evolution, macroevolution, and conservation.
Our early-career E4 award papers are more downloaded and cited than the average research paper for Ecography. In addition, they tend to have high altmetrics scores. Learn more and find out how to apply: https://nso-journals.org/all-news/award-announcing-the-2026-e4-award-competition.
Virtual issues of all E4 award papers:
Video abstracts of E4 Award winners/runner-ups:
2022 winner: How and why species are rare: towards an understanding of the ecological causes of rarity
2022 runner-up: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of temporal variation in dispersal
2021 winner: Coupling eco-evolutionary mechanisms with deep-time environmental dynamics to understand biodiversity patterns
2020 winner: Using multi-scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness
2019 winner: The challenge of novel abiotic conditions for species undergoing climate‐induced range shifts
2018 winner: Understanding extinction debts: spatio–temporal scales & a future roadmap
2017 winner: Understanding ecological change across spatial, temporal & taxonomic scales
2016 winner: Biogeography of human infectious diseases for global health management
2021 runner-up: The predictive performance of process-explicit range change models remains largely untested
2020 runner-up: Species distribution models rarely predict the biology of real populations
2019 runner-up: The Moran effect revisited: spatial population synchrony under global warming
2018 runner-up: Inference of biogeography history with distinct lines of evidence
2017 runner-up: Incorporating microclimate into species distribution models
2016 runner-up: Spatial & temporal variation in climate change limits species dispersal
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ECOGRAPHY: A Journal of Space and Time in Ecology is an Open Access journal owned by the Nordic Society Oikos.
Our journal strives to understand ecological or biodiversity patterns through space and time. We encourage papers to advance the field of macroecology and biogeography through the development and testing of theory or modern methodology (remote sensing, molecular techniques, AI) or by proposing new tools for analysis or interpretation of ecological phenomena. There are no biases with regard to taxon, biome, or biogeographical area.
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